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I already changed my top fans to exhaust. The paste isn´t the problem because there´s almost no difference between the pre-applied thermal paste and the Arctic MX-4 which is one of the most common thermal pastes I could find with 99% of happy customers so I think that this paste is enough. I already bought the tools for delidding my cpu but I have to wait till the 15. July untill it arrives. My pump is set to 100% at all times and the cables are definetly plugged in all the way and I can always see my pump speed in CAM. My rad, as well as the whole pc, is as clean as a new pc. If there´s any dust build up on/in the case I will instantly remove it. Just love that clean look. I also see a little improvement, but I don´t know if that´s just the lower ambient temperature because it kinda was a hot periode of days as I started testing all of that

I just received my new thermal paste (Arctic MX-4) and reinstalled the pump block. I took some pictures of the already applied thermal paste: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRPnN6vgT12XmopIgvnorQzGoMW-SV2u/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eNzzopZXx2T2AL9InpeJI3Gx-RhM1JGa/view?usp=sharing What do you think about the distribution of that? After I was done I did a stress test without putting the glass panels back on. Here is the result: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iqYPGqA6ImFDC7tnEcZqgigKGIrKul4Z/view?usp=sharing Then I closed all panels and did another one. This is the result: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13hgl1MnLFSEFJHkMg_i07LqsqxwrXNAg/view?usp=sharing The temps are still way too high for my opinion. May you have some other ideas now?

Hmm, I think just delidding and applying some liquid metal will do the trick

What do you mean by "lap"? never heard of this.

I just found a post that said not to use Prime 95 - 29.8 with intel prozessors, because it puts a really unrealistic load onto the FPU of these prozessors. I installed Prime 95 - 26.6 and run the tests again with lower temps, but the ambient temperature has gone down a few degrees as well. You can see the temps recorded by several programs in the picture below. I also tried to run the Aida64 tests seperately and found out that my temps only go that high when I stress test the FPU. Stress testing the CPU + System Memory + Cache leads to about 10°C cooler temps or even more. I also mounted my top fans to be exhaust but it didn´t change anything tbh. Yesterday I ordered the delid die mate 2 from der 8auer and some thermal grizzly conductonaut for the die/IHS and some S+L Arctic mx-4 edition 2019 for the IHS/pump block. Let´s hope that I get some results off of that.

I know that these stress tests put a cpu under unrealistic loads, but there are many people out there claiming that they have WAY BETTER temps than me even though they are only running a kraken x52/X62 or some sort of different smaller cooler and having their cpu`s at a higher clock rate. It just doesn´t make any sense, because I got the biggest AiO cooler with 6 very good fans and I don´t get a single benefit out of that. It doesn´t make any sense at so many levels. I think I will have to delid my cpu, so I will get a delidding tool as fast as I can to hopefully see some difference. No other solution in sight.

The hot air is getting pushed put of the back as said. There are 7 fans pushing air from front to back so 2 fans blowing fresh air into the stream from above won´t make a big difference as much as I know but I could be wrong. But I really don´t think that it´s the issue here. The i7 starts to thermal throttle at 100°C and I can see some thermal throttling when running aida64, so these temps should be right and it didn´t shutdown because it throttles itself I think. But I still don´t understand the huge temperature difference between the programs. If I only rely on Asus AiSuite, then I would think that my temps are about 70-80°C. WIth NZXT Cam I think they are about 80-90°C when they actually are at 100°C. I have read so many posts about the 7700k and nobody reported such temperature differences. It´s not only spikes at 90-100°C. At 100% load the cpu heats up and is in that temperature range for a longer period of time. I let aida64 run for about 30 mins and the temps were at 85-100°C all the time at that is concerning af to me. I know that there is a error of margin in everything, but it just can´t be that everyone has max temps of 50-60°C with overclocked 7700k´s in the same test that I use and sometimes even with the same Motherboard and/or cooler as mine, while I´m at the limit all the time. When I play Overwatch for example (not a very demanding game) I get temps of around 60°C at 4,6Ghz at around 30-70% load. When I start playing Apex Legends for example the temps go as high as 70-80°C sometimes. Thats just ridiculous in comparison to 50-60°C at 100% load. Even at idle my CPU is between 36 (very, very rare and almost exclusively seen in Asus AiSuite or inside the BIOS) and 46°C. That´s not normal as well. I tried the 5Ghz OC Setting once, but I think that windows didn´t even boot so I turned it off.

First of all: Thank you for the quick respond I don´t think that mounting the top fans as intake or exhaust does make a big difference or is related to my problems. I just did it that way because of the esthetics. I didn´t want to buy such nice fans just to mount them the wrong way. I uploaded some pictures of my monitoring results, so maybe you can see something there. It doesn´t seem like my case is restricting my front airflow at all. I did the same test with aida64 with the front cover removed and it didn´t change anything. Every fan works as intended and blows air from the front through the back of the case. I checked everything at least twice. So what in the f am I doing wrong? This really feels surreal as hell

Hello everyone, this is my first post and I will try to present my problem as good as I can. My Specs: Intel i7 7700k @4,6/4,8 Ghz // 1,25/1,3V NZXT Kraken X72 Push/Pull 32Gb G.Skill RipJaws V @ 3200Mhz // 1,353V MSI Geforce Gtx 1060 Gaming X 6Gb Asus ROG Strix Z270E Gaming 500Gb SanDisk Extreme Pro 500Gb Samsung 850 Evo 256Gb Samsung 850 Evo 4Tb Seagate Barracuda 650 Watt be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 Creative Soundblaster Z Corsair Crystal 570X Fans: 1x Corsair LL120 @ the back of the case 2x Corsair LL120 @ the top of the case 3x Corsair LL120 @ the front of the case, pushing air into the radiator 3x NZXT Aer P120 behind the radiator, pulling air out of the radiator The air is getting pulled from the front, through the radiator and the top and is getting exhausted out of the back. So my main problem is about thermals and how they interact with my fan speed. I can only run aida64 or prime95 @4,2Ghz all the time without a boost clock if I want the temps to stay lower than 80°C or if I want prime95 to work at all. I wanted to overclock my i7 to at least 4,8Ghz, but I'm getting temps of 100°C max on all cores after running aida64 for a few minutes. I can't even use prime95 because it always gives out that a Fatal Error has occured where a 0,4 was expected, but a 0,5 or someting came out. I just don't understand why. I tried paying around with the CPU voltage settings, but it didn't change anything. After I saw this high temps I decided to reduce the clockspeed to 4,6 Ghz at 1,25 Volts but the temps were still above 90°C max at all cores. A small improvent, but not enough. There's actually a pretty big difference between the temps shown by NZXT CAM and HWMonitor. I use both at the same time and the difference is more than 10°C sometimes. Could it be some sort of sensor problem? Now the strangest thing: It almost doesnt't matter at all at which fan speeds I run my system. When I stress tested my CPU with Aida64 at around 40% fan speed and at 100% fan speed, the results were more or less the same. I also ran a Cinebench R20 Benchmark and got a Singecore score of 489 and a Multicore score of 2419 with about 40% fan speed. But when I ran the same test with 100% fan speed both scores were a little bit worse instead of getting better. I don't get it. EDIT: I tried monitoring everything with AiSuite from Asus as well and the highest recorded cpu temps are about 73°C and there are no big spikes recorded as with HWMonitor or Aida64. Now I´m even more confused because the temperature difference between 2 programms is almost 15-20°C. Which is the real temperature now??? I´m just confused.