Ophanim

At least a couple years, I assume I would upgrade before then?

7600k, delidded, liquid metal, rockitcool copper ihs, 240mm AIO DeepCool. simple question, 5.4Ghz at 1.475v, Hottest core is 76c under synthetic load, average temp is 71c. Bad for the cpu? or leave it alone?

Weather update, turns out the 1080 has an aluminum base that is copper plated, so im not really gonna take the risk, ill go with the kryonaut instead for the 1080.

I will double check that it is copper before applying. Thanks for the quick replies

I have the EVGA 1080 ACX 3.0 that had thermal issues back when, I have the thermal pads on it and still hover around 80-82c on max load. I figure it will help somewhat while I am doing the 7600k

the 1080 is copper. not using it on the outside of my ihs, only the inside.

Delidding my 7600k due to one core being about 13-15c hotter than the other cores. I am going to order the 1g version of the Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut. is it enough for the cpu dye and a gtx 1080 dye? never got my hands on this stuff, i know less is more but is 1g enough for both?

considering i just hit 5.2Ghz at 1.35v I would call it a success! Temps are around 75c, I think I could go a little further, but unsure. Running realbench stress test in the background as I type.

Gonna watch this config for the next couple of days and make sure nothing is getting wet, its still very hot where I live and still need ac until mid-late october

Weather Update: This config seems more efficient and less likely to blow up from water condensation Getting 18-19c idle

Edit: Moved the radiator slightly further away from the AC unit and still getting ballin temps and no condensation.

7600k on a DeepCool Captain 240EX. With very little effort I was able to take my fans off and mount the radiator= in front of the main output of the window cooling unit. while it still has a lot of breathing room, I'm getting some seriously low cpu temps. at 4.9Ghz and 1.31v Cinebench CPU temps are 53c, Idle is 12c The radiator itself is catching very little amounts of water (see the old shirt I put under it incase something did drip), Is this safe? none of the internals are getting the cold air from the Air Conditioner, and I have seen no condensation buildup on the motherboard or around the pump, only a minor amount on the radiator which is completely separated from the PC. Also, Could I push my 7600k any further? Is more than 1.3v safe?

So build currently is I7-6700k (Currently not overclocked) DeepCool Captain 240mm AIO Cooler Asus Z-170A Motherboard (with most recent UEFI BIOS Version) 1x16GB Corsair Vengence 3000Mhz (Underclocked to 2133 for VR reasons.) EVGA GTX 1080 650w EVGA Platinum Power Supply 120gb PNY boot SSD 525Gb Crucial SSD Three 1TB HDD One 600GB 2.5" HDD (pulled from laptop that was being scrapped.) It all started a week ago, 7 days to be exact. I was playing fallout new vegas, I had disabled two of my processor cores to make the game run on two cores for stability reasons, and yes it does help. And I had left my previous overclock of 4.5 Ghz on the two cores. My temps actually got lower when I dropped the two cores, so I didn't adjust the voltage any, (1.375v, 68c temps) That night after I dropped the two cores and New Vegas was running great, I turned my pc off normally with windows shutdown, next day comes and I'm ready to play New Vegas again, BAM I load into a black screen. my PC resets itself 5 times and then it finally boots into a screen telling me my windows files have become corrupted. I do all kinds of things, all my troubleshooting knowledge I put toward fixing my boot drive, Windows doesn't even detect my actual recovery file, in the end and 5 hours of phone calls from ASUS and Microsoft later. I have to wipe the drive and fresh install. Lost everything. However everything was working great until today. Same thing happens again, except instead of booting into a blue screen I boot into a black screen that says (Loading Windows Core Files). It too is telling me that I have some form of corrupted files in windows, However I could now esc out of this screen and boot into windows, but directly into a blue screen that says "Boot Device Failure" Now with a windows media creation tool, I booted into my pc and did a system reset, and kept my files (it took about 10 times of booting before this option became available), This worked and I am typing this right now on my PC, but I need to know, What do I do now to stop this from happening? All the smart checks I have run on my boot drive have been very fast, and show no errors. Do I move my windows boot drive to my Crucial SSD, which will definitely be a headache, or do I continue with my main drive? Any help will be much appreciated. -Kyle

Weather update. After hours of trying because I honestly did not want to RMA the board, I decided to just uninstall all the USB drivers and restart the computer. This actually worked. All of my USB ports seem to be working with whatever I use in them now. I will still remain cautious in the future. I believe it could have been a bad sync cord to my phone, but I am not attempting that again.

It has a 3 year limited warranty on the back, but I am not sure if it covers this. Checking for a motherboard warranty manual online somewhere.