Dingleberrez

I'm looking to do that soon. I work at a University so my pay is on and off as the year goes on, haha.

I'm hesitant to OC too hard, but I'm slowly working my way up just to test the waters! I'll try and see what a decent middle ground is for my OC

IMO the Kraken x62. I've got mine adapted to fit on my GPU and it has been working wonders with my heat dissipation

Hey guys! I've been getting help from the forums with a few heat issues and such, but I finally finished rebuilding my PC. Specs: i7 6700k Asus AR-z170 MoBo 64 GB DDR4 Ballistix RAM (changed heat spreaders to match color) EK 240mm Rad with starter kit Mayhems Pastel White Coolant Asus 1070 turbo NZXT G12 and Kraken x62 CableMod's UV+RGB LED kit+add-on Thermaltake 750w PSU In Win 303 case 270 GB SSD 1 TB Barracuda HDD x 2 It might not be as clean or beautiful as some of the computers on here, but I gave it my best shot! I promised to share a few of the pictures, and here they are:

Interesting. I've seen numbers range from 1.2 to 1.4 volts on the 6700k. I'm honestly wondering what kind of voltage I should be running at, at this point. I can't even find the LLC setting to help the drop, and there's just a whole slew of issues with this processor. I think my CPU might be borked.

I have tried setting the voltage lower, but I'm having trouble finding out how to adjust the LLC. The CPU tends to crash when the voltage is set lower.

This seemed to be the issue. I thought I had changed that, but it might've gotten back to default on my BIOS update. It was sitting at a toasty 1.37 V from AUTO, so I knocked it down to 1.355. On start-up the temps were 60 C-70 C across all cores. I'll take it! Thanks for the help guys!

Hey everyone! I know this seems like a thread that happens over and over and over, but I think my case might be a little bit different... I purchased an Intel 6700k a while back, disregarding the issues with temperatures spikes people were having, and I think I may have come across a fairly awful unit compared to others. I can't even run most CPU benchmarks without worrying about whether or not my CPU will fry. I've tried everything from air cooled, AIO, and custom loop cooling. Even with my EK custom loop with FOUR total fans on a 240 mm radiator, I'm getting temperatures spikes up to 95 C.. on startup. My average temperatures both under load and idle don't really worry me. They typically sit around 36 C idle, and under "some" load (Battlefield 1, music, and one Chrome tab open), I'll get an average of about 65 C. What worries me is the constant spikes up to 85-95 C. I've checked the thermal application 4 times, I changed out my ENTIRE custom loop, and really ran through the whole shebang on this one. Everything leads right back to the CPU itself. Any other thoughts that might save me a call to Intel customer service? P.S. The following was a look at the Heaven Benchmark, and doesn't show the crazy start-up 95 C spike.

Oh yes, you're right. Have pastel solutions improved recently to reduce gunking and color change?

I'm also curious about using Pastels as a coolant. After reading some reviews online, I'm wondering if it might just be better to go with the good old opaque fluid that doesn't gunk up or change colors.

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll post pics of my sloppy build once I get the shroud in.

Hi! So I have an custom loop system cooling only my CPU in my Rig right now. I decided to go ahead and add an AIO just to have a second radiator, add some flare and fun, and to liquid cool my GPU using the handy Kraken G12 shroud. That's beside the point. I opened up my Kraken X62 and all of the components are awesome, except when I turned the radiator around to inspect it I heard a bit of a slosh. I was under the assumption that AIOs were 100% filled with liquid, as a custom loop would be. I'm unfamiliar with AIOs... so is this common, or am I being a little too paranoid with my computer parts?