Tuniq tower problems

ajbird

ajbird

ajbird

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Hi all

I have a good old fashioned tuniq tower 120 sat on a q9550 in an asus rampage mobo @ 2.8

I am having real problems with this thing

Idle:
Fan full blast:34-39 (across cores)
Fan turned right down 34 - 39

100% load
Fan full blast: 44-51 (across cores)
Fan turned right down 46-54

The CPU block is cool to the touch at all times

I have just resat the thing with IC Diamond paste. Tightened the screws till they pretty much could go no further.

When I over clock the thing the temps jump up to 70 - 75 and again the fan speed does not seem to make any real differencing and the cpu block never seems to get warm.

What is going on here?
 
ajbird said:
Hi all

I have a good old fashioned tuniq tower 120 sat on a q9550 in an asus rampage mobo @ 2.8

I am having real problems with this thing

Idle:
Fan full blast:34-39 (across cores)
Fan turned right down 34 - 39

100% load
Fan full blast: 44-51 (across cores)
Fan turned right down 46-54

The CPU block is cool to the touch at all times

I have just resat the thing with IC Diamond paste. Tightened the screws till they pretty much could go no further.

When I over clock the thing the temps jump up to 70 - 75 and again the fan speed does not seem to make any real differencing and the cpu block never seems to get warm.

What is going on here?
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Thats a big no, only hand tight thena half turn if that!..

how much is your vcore upto?
 
I get same temps as you with my 9450 but at 3.4 i have a tuniq tower with mx4 just have a look at the bottom of your cooler first one i bought was horribly bowed i sent it back and bought the next one from Ocuk and that one was a lot better.
 
agreed dont tighten it up so much or u can actually cause it to lift on a side slightly, take it off and reseat it but be gentle doing the screws up
 
Just tighten by hand as tight as they will go the temps look good and normal to me though.
Obviously best way to install is to cellotape the backplate to the back install the cooler wih the motherboard outside the case.
 
Another reason not to go nuts on the tightening is some of the early bolts have a problem where if you put too much pressure doing them up the heads come off i know they sorted it later but better safe then sorry :).
 
thanks guys..

I am starting to wonder if the cooler is actually in complete contact with the cpu.. I am sure that if I took the fan off the thing would not actually get any warmer..

in fact... that is tonights experiment...

i washed the thing a few weeks back and dried it with a hair dryer and that thing got so hot in about 30 seconds that i dropped it!

so why is that that a 70 degree CPU cant even make it slightly warm to the touch.

as soon as I can persuade my damned raid 5 array to rebuild (eta 3 days!!!) I will do some experiments.

thanks for the suggestions.
 
ajbird said:
i washed the thing a few weeks back and dried it with a hair dryer and that thing got so hot in about 30 seconds that i dropped it!

so why is that that a 70 degree CPU cant even make it slightly warm to the touch.
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The CPU is only rated to 95W (tho people push it a bit higher ;) ), a hairdryer will be outputting anything from 300W to 2000W. Also, if the CPU isn't in good contact (which I'm 99% convinced is the case here), there won't be much heat transfer.
 
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