Water cooling (first time loop) bad temps

What are your volts at your overclock?

What are you using to load?

As an idea my 3770k at 4.5 with 1.23 volts (loaded with vdroop around 1.2) with prime runs to about 65-70c with my loop without the gpus loaded hit folding with the 670s dumping heat in and it increases about 10c
 
HI again again, looking at your small rad bottom front you could have air trapped at the top. Either rotate it 90 outlet at the top or 180 degrees plus the fan should be pushing air out if not your heating everything up in the case.
 
I have that bottom rad the same in my case, its is a pain to get the air of of it, but it works fine. I fitted a filling port on the exit of that rad, and then i just turn my case upside down when i fill it.
 
BluD said:
I have that bottom rad the same in my case, its is a pain to get the air of of it, but it works fine. I fitted a filling port on the exit of that rad, and then i just turn my case upside down when i fill it.
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Nothing like doing things the hard way.lol:)
 
Hi all, I've re-assembled the loop and fitted the gpu. Unfortunately GPU temps are still woeful. 45C idle and overheat to impractical levels once load is generated. I think I can still hear air in the loop but could this be causing such dramatic temperature increases? Surely getting air out of the loop is fine tuning?

The temperature of the liquid feels cool to me but the gpu block is very hot (when I placed under load. I dont think it's anything to do with my fan configuration since the liquid is still cool. Could the amount of various connectors/fittings I have reduce the flow? I have my pump set to 5 (max speed).

There were warnings on my gpu block instructions not to over tighten the block to the card so I tried not to over tighten whilst maintaining decent contact. Both GPU's seem roughly the same temperature so probably not that... Seems to be pointing to a loop problem?

Let me know your thoughts... :( Thanks guys.







 
Oh and with regard to cleaning the rads... I filled them 2-3 times each with water and swished around. Then on the final one I used mayhems water to rinse out.
 
Yeah its gotta be either air in the blocks still, preventing the heat from transferring from teh copper to the water, or your pump isnt moving the water around. The GPU blocks have lots of fins over the core area which is great for adding surface area to remove more heat, but also great at trapping big air bubbles.
 
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Let me know your thoughts... :( Thanks guys.
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Unfortunately you done it wrong again

The inlet and outlet of the gpu blocks need to be on the opposite side. Check back on the picture I posted.

The way it is now (and before) has the water bypassing the gpu blocks. It needs to go in the left and out the right side or vice versa.
 
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Sorry to hear this. Frustrating to say the least. For reference, my 3930k with gtx 780 in a corsair 650d with a 240mm xspc rad, 200mm phobya rad, d5 pump/res combo is at around 24 C idle on the gpu (32 C load), 29 idle cpu (71/72 on LinX at 5GHz at load).

I'd agree with the gpu connector comment but it also sounds as though there may be a pump/air pocket in rad issue.

GL
 
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Yep the way you have it set up at the moment is causing the liquid to pass straight through the bridge. You need to create a path in/out in/out so the liquid is forced through each block.
 
It;s actually funny that your GPUs are connected wrong (thus not being cooled) but it's your CPU having heating issues :D

And yeah it seems you connected them wrong the second time too :D

Here are some pictures showing how things should really look http://www.dazmode.com/_Reviews/2010/FLOWTESTi7.htm

There is one more thing I want to stress out. My Heatkiller CPU block has a ONE WAY flow in and flow out port. What I mean is that there is one hole for water to come in and the other for it to come out. Reversing the flow causes bad performance. Can you look in the manual for your waterblock to see if there is such a thing for yours? But anyway since you are saying now you got 30c on the CPU at idle, you are ok with that. Now go fix that gpu link fail :D
 
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Lol ignore my post i didnt see the pic, i see you have the plexi gpu blocks you can see if theres air stuck in there. Keep trying im sure you'll get that link in the right place eventually :)
 
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