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Whats the trick to the tuniq tower 120?

mrbios

mrbios

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i see so many people with temps idling around the 30s and very low 40s with this thing but i cant seem to go an idle temp of anything lower than 50oC

what could i be doing wrong? ive refitted it about 6 times, i find it difficult to screw one of the screws without taking a lot of time over it because of the crazy cooling system that gigabyte P35 DS4 has, if i fit it wrong the heatsink sits slightly on a little row of capacitors (which i noticed about the 4th time of trying to reseat it)

i just ont seem to get good contact at all, when i left it off it looks as though i either A. have half the base touching or B. have little bits all over it touching (like lines where the paste has gone on it in little bits)

this is incredibly frustrating, whats the trick to it low temp folks?
 
Not sure mate,
I had to use the AM2 lever thing and somehow managed to do it without being able to see anything at all!
I did cheat though, I bent the lever so it would go on more easily. But in the meantime i'm sure my thermal paste was going allover the show. Still my temps seem nice even with the scruffy attachment I made :confused:
 
i just wonder if the heatsinks stupidly curved or something, as its really not sitting how it should

i read a comment on some review saying something about how gigabyte boards might need a different backplate? it didnt have any information and i havent found anyone else having any problems with it so im not sure what they meant :S

EDIT: oh poo why didnt i post this into overclocking and cooling, bah
 
Not so great unfortunately, got a piddly fan at the front which came with the case, Corsair 520 (with standard fans in) just above the Tuniq, and an Akasa 'Amber' 12cm fan just behind the tuniq drawing air out the CPU.

My case WAS meant to have a giant 23cm Jeantech fan on the side panel, which I'd hoped was going to be great for airflow and cooling the case in general, but due to the height of the Tuniq, it just wouldnt fit whilst the panel is on, so theres effectively a 23cm sized grill above the motherboard.

As I say though, was hoping for a bit more from the Tuniq, not sure if mines not fitted well, or my case is holding it back (using the TX-1 paste which it came with right now), but its not quite as low as I'd have hoped for, might try reseating the cooler in a few weeks to let the CPU bed/burn itself in.
 
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at least your idling at a temperature id be happy with, im idling at 52oC right now, with 67oC at load, the sides off my case and a crappy no name cooler i bought from a local shop was doing a better job than this is, ive reseated it 3 times this evening and im getting increasingly ****** off, especially as my neighbours are taking the **** with the amount of noise there making for the 3rd day in a row
 
I reseated the CPU, first time I was getting temperatures closer to what you're getting, after cleaning the CPU and reseating I got where I am now. Perhaps yours is tightened on at a slight angle and isn't making full contact, given that you have to screw the Tuniq tight yourself, rather than springs controlling the levelling of 'tight' between the CPU and cooler.
 
hmm i just tightened all screws all the way, is that wrong? also using enough force (though it doesnt require loads) i can still move the heatsinks angle slightly
 
Mines pretty much the same right now so I'm not sure, perhaps try cleaning the cpu and heatsink base and reapplying thermal material (I went for the line accross the cores method). Not sure if either of us has tightened it on too much, the instructions are a little bit lacking in that regard.

Did you tighten the screws in an alternate pattern, or just clockwise/anticlockwise style?

The other thing to check is if you have a fan drawing hot air out the case behind the tuniq, is your tuniq drawing air the right way? Originally mine was drawing air from the back of the case and pushing out the front rather than the other way round, as I'd seated it the wrong way round.
I checked which way air was flowing with a thin piece of paper and thats how I realised I'd seated the wrong way round, so might be worth checking all the airflow in your case is in the right direction.
 
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now got temps of 57/56oC maximum load (at 2.8ghz 400x7)

just stoped P95 and waiting for temps to lower, lowest they have gone so far is a bit more respectable: 45oC/45oC

you know why? because i had set the overclock on and hadnt set the voltage staticly, it was auto adjusting itself and it was set to 1.4v (as it shown in speedfan, now at 1.30v)

im still not too impressed as im sure it should be lower, but i can certainly live with those temps until my fingers have healed up from the red raw pain there in after unscrewing and rescrewing them in 20+ times >_<
 
Not doing too badly now then, as I'm idling around 35-42, but then at load I head upwards into the early 60s, with 1.35V set in bios (about 1.25 under load according to CPUz), which seems like a bit of a jump (20 degrees :/) but I know how you feel, given the size of this thing I was hoping for a little more, would be nice to know if Im doing something wrong (making a guy lose a 23cm fan means it'd better cool well and make up!).

Makes me wonder if Im cack at fitting this thing or its just not performing as well as some of them, the TX-1 thermal paste isnt up to the job, my CPU is just a hot one, or my case cooling really sucks :/
 
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ok its balanced out at 45-46oC on both cores idle, i didnt run prime95 for long so im not sure thats the maximum temperature yet, im 99% sure theres not proper contact with the cpu but im not sure whats causing it to not sit on the chip properly, it has to be that the corners arent balanced, ill try loosening one corner at a time until i find one that might be unbalanced

afterall that bracket that goes on the back is quite crap, when i tighten them i tend to do 2 corners at the same time (2 opposite each other) then the other 2 at the same time
 
haha im too stressed out to reseat mine again, think ill wait till the weakend to try and get some more umph out of it, i wish there was a tool for turning those screws!
 
It bends the motherboard. Mine is dished now. But cooling is excellent on mine. Doesnt flicker much, what sort of speed have you got the fan on? Are the copper pipes or the base getting hot when its running at load? If not, it shows a poor contact.
 
You need to raise the fan slightly so it clears the mobo heatsink then the Tower itself will seat properly. I put a small spacer on each screw under the top of the fan-mounting plate. That mounting screw in the corner is a right bar-steward to get down fully. I was just able to get my fingertips to it while the mobo was out of the case.
 
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