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Dramatic Temp Drop??? IC Diamond (TIM)
thxone replied to thxone's topic in Custom Loop and Exotic Cooling
Just replaced the paste. Loxa, that was my thought as well. I think this can be a learning experience... If you get an All in one cooling system Like the Corsair H100, H115i or whatever... step one, replace the thermal paste. I continued to torture the cpu and got it to hit 40 degrees C. I am pleased. -
Dramatic Temp Drop??? IC Diamond (TIM)
thxone replied to thxone's topic in Custom Loop and Exotic Cooling
I didn't delid though... just confused to see that much of a temp drop. There wasn't that much of the corsair stuff on the cpu either. -
Has anyone experienced an almost 30 degree C temp drop just by removing factory TIM and using IC Diamond? Using Prime 95 and the stock TIM on the Corsair H115i my cpu would top out in the low to mid 60 degree C range after 30 minutes of torture testing or small FFT's. I have been running this test now after applying a pea sized amount of IC Diamond to my CPU and surfing the web, playing with PhotoShop CS and my temp will not go over 38 degrees C. Is this normal? Is the factory corsair TIM just that bad???
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I have been taking this in to account as well. I may have to remove parts of the water block to clear some things but the GPU and Memory modules are all in the same place from reference board to the STRIX board. The 4 mounting screws around the GPU should be more than enough to hold the water block in place so I am not too worried about other mounting holes either. It's not like the copper block will sag. Engineering in my head is frustrating but I have modified things to work together that should have never been together to begin with and they worked fine. It's all about making it happen.
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Well "fit" may not be a direct fit... I have been doing overlays, transparencies and other ways to measure. I viewed a few universal waterblocks. Looking at the water jackets of the EK and Aqua Computer blocks I think the EK might be the way to go but it will have to be modified. The XSPC also has a good candidate. I don't mind cutting and grinding a waterblock to make it fit the GPU and other parts needing to be cooled. I will be researching and thinking for a bit.
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It's not about better cooling performance perse, I am going to be doing a custom water cooling loop with hard tubes. It/they, the RX 470's may be a budget card but it works well. I am not trying to boost my ego by saying I have a pair of 1080's or anything more powerful than I really need. For what I do, the 470 is very capable and a pair would be aesthetically pleasing with a decent performance gain. This is a mild gaming machine and movie player. My next build is going to be a Ryzen build... that one will be the balls out build. But as far as this one... I am confident BOTH blocks will fit the aftermarket STRIX board with minimal modding of the blocks only. I am guessing by the responses that the 470 card is an afterthought to most. I thought I might run into naysayers... ok, I will grab the other STRIX RX 470 and I am going to go with the Aqua Computer blocks as I don't think I will have to mod them at all. It's about customizing... best bang for your buck... or just not being a lemming. If nobody has watercooled the 470 then I will post about it... and run them in crossfire.
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I know EK makes whole card water blocks for the RX 480 and so does Aqua Computer. I have been doing some research for MY card in particular, the ASUS ROG RX 470 STRIX O.C. 4gb card. What it looks like to me is that the EX would work on my card but the acrylic would have to be cut and shaped to fit closest to the video connections whereas the Aqua Computer version should drop right on my card as it does not extend all the way to the video connections. Has anyone out there dropped a whole card solution onto the STRIX RX 470? I know they use the same board as far as the reference cards but I think they will drop onto the STRIX.
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It's been a few days since I got the computer to 4Ghz and have had ZERO issues. So, on that note... I won't be upgrading the CPU anytime soon. 4Ghz was my goal from the beginning for this CPU. now it is on to other things like a custom hard line cooling loop, a second gpu and a bigger Samsung monitor (C27FG70).
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That link makes more sense now. I have reviewed it before but it became confusing which is probably why my last overclock attempt failed.
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Since the CPU didn't crash with prime95 I decided to do a 30min test with AIDA64 and I think I can say I am happy.
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Ok, so I got it to 4.0Ghz!!!!!!! Ran Prime95 for a little bit just to see if it would screw up like last time and it passed with flying colors!! Thanks SpaceGhostC2C
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Hey there... I am also running the ASUS RX470 STRIX. Have you done anything with ASUS GPU TweakII? If not, use it if you have it or download it... either way, use it. Go into professional mode and change the Power Target (%) from 100% to 125%. Or if you use MSI Afterburner Power Limit (%) +25. Here is Splinter Cell Blacklist Maxed out video settings at 1920x1080. No Vsync
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Ok... Here is what my BIOS looks like... suggestions or explanations for the settings?
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Ok... a questions. Lowering the HT... what amount?
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One of my ideas was to literally just swap out my 8320E 95w 3.2Ghz (4.0Ghz Turbo) cpu with an 8320 125w 3.5Ghz (4.0Ghz Turbo) cpu. But as you mentioned... there is the 8350 125w 4.0Ghz (4.2Ghz Turbo) cpu. I have ZERO worries about using an 125w cpu with this Corsair H115i. What are your thoughts on just swapping out to the 8350? It can be had locally for me at $139. Is the CPU swappable without having to redo anything like the operating system? It is literally the same socket.. just higher thermals and clock speed.
