4790k AIO liquid cooled overheating and causing crashes.

[WORM]

Hello! I have a i7-4790k liquid cooled, and not overclocked chip, with a corsair H100i in a push pull config (which i just changed today from pull pull). Recently it has been reaching very high temperatures and has caused blue screens and occasionally a black screen which has a lot of information on it and talking about something.. shell.. I'm not really sure. Unfortunately i am not really sure what would be making my computer crash, usually 15 mins into a more graphically instense game, or 30-60 min in a less graphically intense game like CSGO. It usually crashes at about 70 degrees Celsius, according to what my motherboard is reading (it has a temp reading on the bottom of the board). I am basically always running games maxed at 1080p. Also, even though Luke pretty much proved that this was not really a worry, there is not really a cable in site so cable management is not a worry. Here's the full list of specs for my build:

 

Case NZXT H440, stock fan config - 1 of the three fans in the front, which was the bottom one

Power supply: EVGA supernova semi modular 750 watt 80+ bronze 

Drives: Kingston SSDNOW300 120GB and Western digital blue 1 TB

Motherboard: MSI z97 gaming 5

GPU: Zotac 980ti AMP extreme edition

CPU: Intel core i7-4790k (non-overclocked)

RAM: 16GB 4x4GB ddr3 Corsair Vengeance

Cooler: Corsair H100i AIO liquid cooler

Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 

 

          Any help would be greatly appreciated as id like to get back to playing games, thank you!

[Sportiva]

Have you tried to reseat the cooler?

[WORM]

Just now, Sportiva said:

Have you tried to reseat the cooler?

Yes, I think if i remember correctly, the problems started after i rebuild my pc to clean it, including remounting the cooler, in which i put on too much thermal paste so i remounted it afterwards to fix it, im pretty sure it is correctly mounted now.

[Sportiva]

1 minute ago, WORM said:

Yes, I think if i remember correctly, the problems started after i rebuild my pc to clean it, including remounting the cooler, in which i put on too much thermal paste so i remounted it afterwards to fix it, im pretty sure it is correctly mounted now.

Do you know what the temps of your GPU are when it crashes?

[WORM]

Just now, Sportiva said:

Do you know what the temps of your GPU are when it crashes?

I'm not 100%sure but i think its around the 60 degrees mark

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, WORM said:

Yes, I think if i remember correctly, the problems started after i rebuild my pc to clean it, including remounting the cooler, in which i put on too much thermal paste so i remounted it afterwards to fix it, im pretty sure it is correctly mounted now.

Clean up the thermal paste on both the CPU and Cooler block with isopropyl alcohol. 70 degrees way too high for a liquid cooler with a CPU running stock. 

[Sportiva]

Just now, WORM said:

I'm not 100%sure but i think its around the 60 degrees mark

How tight is the CPU cooler?

[WORM]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Clean up the thermal paste on both the CPU and Cooler block with isopropyl alcohol. 70 degrees way too high for a liquid cooler with a CPU running stock. 

I did do this with rubbing alchohol when i rebuilt my PC, ill do it again though if this is likely the problem

 

[WORM]

1 minute ago, Sportiva said:

How tight is the CPU cooler?

Tight, but not like bending the board or anything.

 

[Sportiva]

1 minute ago, WORM said:

Tight, but not like bending the board or anything.

 

When the computer crashes does the cooler block or radiator feel warm?

[S1lent_5am]

going out on a limb here but when you install the cooler do any of the hoses get kinked or pinched restricting the flow of water? 

[WORM]

Just now, S1lent_5am said:

going out on a limb here but when you install the cooler do any of the hoses get kinked or pinched restricting the flow of water? 

Nope, they seem pretty resistant and not kinked, I can feel water rushing through it when i put my hand around the hose.

[WORM]

2 minutes ago, Sportiva said:

When the computer crashes does the cooler block or radiator feel warm?

The cooler block is general not super hot on top but around it it is and the radiator is pretty damn warm, the exhaust area from just the cpu is hot too.

[Sportiva]

2 minutes ago, WORM said:

The cooler block is general not super hot on top but around it it is and the radiator is pretty damn warm, the exhaust area from just the cpu is hot too.

Try and go into the bios and make sure all the cpu settings like voltage and core ratio are stock. (I know you didn't overclock)

[WORM]

1 minute ago, Sportiva said:

Try and go into the bios and make sure all the cpu settings like voltage and core ratio are stock. (I know you didn't overclock)

That too, everything is stock, i just checked.

[Sportiva]

1 minute ago, WORM said:

That too, everything is stock, i just checked.

I'd try to remount the cooler again making sure not to over do the thermal compound and if that doesn't work i'd RMA the cooler.

[WORM]

Just now, Sportiva said:

I'd try to remount the cooler again making sure not to over do the thermal compound and if that doesn't work i'd RMA the cooler.

Alright thanks I'm going to try that, i thought that must be the case but i was just worried because i just remounted it, thank you for your help, marking this as solved.

[Sportiva]

Just now, WORM said:

Alright thanks I'm going to try that, i thought that must be the case but i was just worried because i just remounted it, thank you for your help, marking this as solved.

No problem 

[PlayCrackTheSky]

6 minutes ago, WORM said:

Alright thanks I'm going to try that, i thought that must be the case but i was just worried because i just remounted it, thank you for your help, marking this as solved.

What are the fan speeds on the h100i and are you using corsair link?