Gordo Gato81

I am definitely going to try that, tomorrow once the shops open.

Fans are spinning at max, the pump is at max, CPU hasn't been unmounted since the change. The fans are pushing hella air so airflow is not the issue.

No

Corsair linked shows a readout of ~3000rpm and one tube is really warm while the other is cool. If the pump was not working, both tubes would likely be warm.

As far as I know, no. It was working perfectly yesterday and I have discovered no leaks. When moving the radiator, you can hear water splooshing around.

Today, cleaned out 3 years worth of dust out of my Corsair H100i GTX water cooler, and also switch the fans to pull air into the case so that there is overall positive pressure within my case. As a result of this, my CPU temps have skyrocketed from 35-40 to 80-100c. While cleaning the radiator I did not remove the cooler from the CPU. The thermal paste is unchanged, all conditions should be identical. I don't know what is causing this, I have increased the fan speed and pump speed to maximum to avoid bsod. Any suggestions? PC: i5 4690k (currently not overclocked obviously) 8gb 1600mhz Corsair Vengeance GTX 970 MSI Asrock Fatality Killer Z97 550w Corsair power supply

Yeah for some reason i though they had 150ohms. Dunno why. HD6XX definitely need an amp as they have an impedence of 300ohms.

There is definitely a point in buying an AMP/DAC/combo/Sound card/interface. The hd598s have a relatively high impedance of 150 ohms with high sensitivity of 102db, which means they are relatively difficult to drive. If you are using your computers motherboard/case audio out as your audio source then you are definitely not getting the full potential of your HD598s. I would invest in AMP/DAC/combo/Sound card/interface before investing in a new pair of headphones as anything "better" than HD598s definitely will need an amp to drive them properly. That being said, probably the best headphones you can get for 200$ would be HD6XX from Massdrop. Another, great option would be the Hifiman HE4XX. In terms of AMPs/DACs/Combos/interfaces, a popular combo would be the Schiit stack consisting of modi/magni. I would personally invest in an interface like the Presonus Studio 26. However, there are plenty of other options out there and I highly recommend doing some research before buying something new.

There is no good reason to do that TBH, I haven't touched it since I first installed it and it was working fine up until these issues occurred

No, I built the system 4 years ago, this has been happening for the last couple of months, no bent pins I am aware of.

Might be worth a shot, but honestly, I think my mobo is dying as my LAN port doesn't work anymore for some odd reason despite showing up as working properly in device manager.

DId you read my OP? I have done these things...

I have tried that a couple times as well as switching to the other two dim slots and reversing them.

I have run a drive diagnostic tool on it and it was fine.

That doesn't make sense tbh. The games I play are on the SSD so when I am playing games, the HDD isn't even in use.