unable to overclock as well after case change and w/c

graylinghunter

graylinghunter

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After having my old rig running at see below I purchased a new case and added a swiftech apex ultra plus to keep things running smooth Ha I wished my dogs bullocks dream case and w/c have currupted my oc and its doing my head in!
:mad:
ps this stacker 830 case anint as good as the reviews I have read. I had to slighly mod the mobo mounts to get my graphics card etc to sit square. You expect better from a case that costs over £150
 
graylinghunter said:
After having my old rig running at see below I purchased a new case and added a swiftech apex ultra plus to keep things running smooth Ha I wished my dogs bullocks dream case and w/c have currupted my oc and its doing my head in!
:mad:
ps this stacker 830 case anint as good as the reviews I have read. I had to slighly mod the mobo mounts to get my graphics card etc to sit square. You expect better from a case that costs over £150
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The first thing that leaps out is that our CPU cooler may not be macking decent contact with the CPU.
How are temps different from Air to Water. Need a little more info to tell the truth.
 
current idle cpu temp 32 mobo 34 oc @ 3500 I am only able to get 3500 prime stable, and i am unable to boot if i set the mch at 1.65.
I have re attached the stock heatpipe to northbridge as the swiftech tube and the two pin clip system wasnt very sturdy. The tight curves on the thick 1/2 inch tube pulled the swiftech northbridge block off the chip not this also cause a slight amount of artic silver to hit the chip solder mounts which has now been cleaned up.
I think my problem is mobo northbridge heat?

Has anyone else had problems mounting a waterblock on this board?
I dont feel the barbs help on the swiftech blocks. I am thinking of attaching a reducer to the northbridge water loop.
if anyone had already done this please post mobo shots
thanks :p
 
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Whats the airflow like in the case?

Reason I ask is decent aircooling has a lot of air 'splashing' onto the motherboard from the cpu fan, and usually has decent intake/exhaust setup.
The lack of airflow can lead to other components on the motherboard heating up more than they used to, inturn leading to LESS stability.

Easy way of testing this is by taking the side off the case and sitting a desk fan about a foot away blowing into the side of the case, see if that helps at all.. If it does then you know the problem.

Cheers,
SAm C
 
By 12inch I am guessing you mean 120mm (about 4 and 3/4 inches).

Is the pump mains powered or PSU powered?

What are the voltages like compared to before? Better or worse or same?

Have you tried reseating the cpu block?
Is the block flat (might be spot heat causing the troubles).

Cheers
Sam C
 
Yep sorry about the slight slip into imperial I have installed 3 120 mm fans current and two 120 mm fan on the wc rad mobo temp is 33 deg c, although still cant push the mch over 1.60 v!
I will re seat the main cpu block in the morning would this problem stop me upping the mch v?
 
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graylinghunter said:
I have installed 3 12inch fans current and two 12 inch fan on the wc rad mobo temp is 33 deg c, although still cant push the mch over 1.60 v!
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Wow, this I gotta see... by my maths thats gotta move a LOAD of air... 3 fans at 1 foot each! Any pictures? (may actually help us see the problem if you have pictures)

Still havent answered my previous questions though.

33oC mobo temp is ok, At load whats the CPU temp? NB temp? Mosfet temp?

Sam C
 
graylinghunter said:
After having my old rig running at see below I purchased a new case and added a swiftech apex ultra plus to keep things running smooth Ha I wished my dogs bullocks dream case and w/c have currupted my oc and its doing my head in!
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Just checked and that kit DOESNT use 12" fans (300mm), it uses 120mm fans (2 of them).

Sam C
 
Sorry I posted the reply twice check out above post again! I have edited it all fans are 12cm or 120mm :)
cpu load 48 deg c
I cant get any other temps without a probe my asus tool only gives mb and cpu temps no mofsets sorry
 
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graylinghunter said:
I cant get any other temps without a probe my asus tool only gives mb and cpu temps no mofsets sorry
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Dont use the standard tool, the one with my board only reported 2 temperatures too... Download and install Everest, currently I have a list of 9 temperatures (some graphics and some hard disk, rest motherboard).

When you take the block off in the morning for a reseat give the paste an eyeball, can reveal a lot about how flat the block is. How much paste did you use? What paste? CLEAN the paste off thoroughly with a lint free cloth and some paste cleaner/denaturalised alcohol before reinstalling the block, might be some oils on the block/cpu from your hands or surfaces you were working with.

Cheers,
SAm C
 
I have used artic silver on the block and used industrial alchol (isopro) to clean all surfaces prior to last rebuild. but i will remount in the morning
Everest? where can I download it from?
ps I ran memtest from dos the rams Ok
thanks again
 
loaded the Everest program it does not give any other temp settings or readings for mofsets or individual chipset temps just the above quoted.
idel cpu now at 29 deg mb 32 although this 3500 oc does blast all the benchmarks on the everest program maybe i should be happy with the 42% for increase with this cpu. My 7900gtx is running at 698 mhz and the ram 896mhs I am sure I can push these up a touch to round them off Smile
I am running my system in normal sata mode can I swap this to raid 0 without a complete re install ?
I have a second sata hd on the sytem?
one is 300gb and the other 160 although my 300gb has a 160gb partition which has xp ihome installed.
Just for the record I re seated my nothbridge with artic silver.
 
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