Tylerspyler

Had a chance to mess with the cpu voltages and apparently it does not like voltage one bit... anything over 1.223 on the OC Voltage and I get a blue screen. its at 1.125 and at just shy of 5ghz and the most I have seen is 84c. (only had time to run smaller tests for now). Does this mean anything to anyone?

Here are the temps I get with 15 minutes of FAH at full. (I have my gpu run this when I am not around)

I have not had it delided only because I do not want to void the warranty if something goes wrong. (as much as I really want to) The rad is warm on the in side and cold on the out. My original plan was to have the pump out of sight, but I needed the space for my 4tb storage hdd. Where it is now is basicly the only location it can go. The system has not shut off for about 2 weeks straight except 1 time when AI reran my tubing to see if it would help any. I am new to overclocking (am well versed in electronics and have researched quite a bit) but if I made a mistake, I made a mistake.

There were no air gaps when i redid the paste, nor did i see any noticeable change in temps. I just used a pea sized amount on the center. All the cores are fairly equal in temps, so i don't think application is my issue. I am starting to think it may be the factory paste on the die itself, but I do not want to void my warranty at this point to find out.

its actually Reservoir-> pump-> CPU-> Radiator-> Reservoir. I read quite a bit before doing it myself, and it seemed best to have the reservoir before the pump for startups, and initial bleeding of the system. Everyone also said it was best t have the cpu block right after the pump for optimal flow like you stated, for better pressure and flow.

The pump is running, AI reports it as 4450 rpm. When i took off the cpu block to retry the thermal paste, it was spread very evenly, so I am assuming it has proper contact.

Just built a new setup mostly for myself. I got the EK extreme 360 water cooling kit with IC Diamond 8k thermal paste. (first water kit of my own) I made sure everything was proper before starting the pc, ie. no air, no kinks, and so on. Everything is working wonerfully except my 8700k cores will fluctuate between 43-65c at less than 10% load, stock clock or slight OC to 4.7ghz. under full load (85-99%) it gets past 90c very quick and will stay there. All the fans are functional (6x 120mm, 1x blower fan for extra gpu cooling), the rad does have temp on top and is cool on the bottom, I even re-ran my tubing so it is almost as smooth of flow as possible, and yet my temps seem quite high. Are these temps too high? or am I being paranoid. My old setup was a dual 5650x Z600 setup that ran a max of 70c at ful load. So to see temps at 90c kinda freaks me out.

I have an Asus GTX 1070 stryx. I managed to get a stable OC of around 2126mhz on the gpu, and around 8500mhz on the memory. I verified the stability by running it at max for a whole day. My question is, can you even get the temps of the memory and other components? The gpu stays around 55-60 at full load, which from what I have read is very cool. But I purposely down locked my memory as I don't know what it's temps are. If the gpu is that low, would it be safer to assume the rest is ok?

As much as I would love to be able to fit a rad that huge, there is simply not enough room in the case. At least without cutting it up. I do have 2 astek AIO Intel water coolers. But again, the really won't fit in my case. But, which style would work better? Having the two blocks in series or parallel?

Oh, and I plan to just keep my gpu air cooled. Not enough room for that much water cooling. Lol

So, as long as the pump has sufficient flow, it should not have cooling issues with splitting the system in this way. Correct? I was planning to use my 2 drive bays to house the pump/res combo. No real need for optical drives anymore. The setup is nearly for the "because I can" reason and to keep out as much heat inside as I can. No plans to overclock, or really to do much else other than to have "bolt-ons. I appreciate the info.

The title says it all. I have a Z600 case and motherboard. I want to build a water cooling system into it, but only if it will work as well as, or better than the base air coolers. My question is, will a 60mm dual rad work to cool 2 x5650 CPUs? And if so, how would you make a loop to dissipate the heat evenly? Conventionalism says to just use 2 Y fittings and branch the pump output to both CPU blocks, then branch it back to the radiator.

Just an update on the project. I scored a full 100% stock Z600 Workstation off craigslist. I was originally going to try and put the z800 board into the chassis and make it work but, The chassis is very modular and the mobo is just as good as my z800. (albeit very strangely shaped) So now begins the process of transfering all the neccessary hardware into the new case. only drawback, I cannot use my Astek Intel AIO watercoolers as they will not fit into the case without cutting it up. So if anyone knows of a reliable small AIO water cooler, let me know! This thing is very very heavy for its size. I am guessing around 35-40lbs with all my hardware in it. My puppy decided to help with the part transfer process. On a side note, are the Quadro 4000 cards good for much these days? It also came with 32gb of some really nice looking ram The Asus 1070 fits like a glove! The cpus that came with it are 2 xeon x5650 6 cores (24 with HT) @ 2.67Ghz. I might swap them for my x5570 for higher clock speed of 3.33Ghz, but I need to upgrade the coolers first.

I have looked into both. I keep.looking on Craigslist, recycling places and so on. But they either want far too much or are in bad disrepair. The 900D would be awesome! It's just very expensive. I have not spent very much on the whole system, maybe $800 in total? So, spending $300 on a case is more of a last resort. edit* I also am not a fan of ordering something used without seeing it first. So eBay is not what I "want" to do.

Unfortunately no, Its HPTX. The board is almost as big as 2 ATX boards. (banana for scale)