Watercooling Temps, Question

5h1n3 · January 17, 2014

Hi there,

this is my first custom build watercooling loop, and im wondering about the temperatures.

My system lineup is:

Case: Corsair 750D

MB: Asus Maximus VI Formula

CPU: I5 4670K @ 4GHZ

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 4x4 GB @ 2133 MHZ

GPU: Asus Radeon R9 290 (Reference) - Koolance Waterblock @ 1130 MHZ and 1.250 MV

Fan Control: Lamptron FC2

PSU: Coolermaster V700

HD / SSD: System Drive: Samsung EVO 120gb // Storage: 2TB WD Red & 3 old drives from previous builds (hey theyre still doing theyre job )

Watercooling:

1x Alphacool NexXxoS XP³ Light - Acetal Edition - Intel/AMD
1x Alphacool Repack - Laing DDC - 5,25 Single Bay Station
1x Alphacool DDc pump 12V DDC-1T (Laing)
1x Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper 240mm + 3 Corsair SP 120 (2 pull + 1 Push due to clearance of the Motherboard)

Alphacool tubing AlphaTube HF 13/10 (3/8"ID) - red

1x Alphacool NexXxos Monsta 280mm + 4 Corsair AF 140 Push / Pull

Coolant: Aquacomputer Double Protect Ultra

Also too, i know its not important but the loop direction is:

Reservoir / Pump - Radiator - CPU Block - Motherboard - GPU - Radiator - Reservoir

So i'm getting idle temps about 37°C and under load about 55°C - Intel Burntest is going Nuts within 100°C.

My question is, are these temps alright? Im really wondering, also to because its my first loop.

Attached some Pictures aswell, sorry for the Bad Cable Management Still on working on that to get red sleeved ones and i just wanted to have a working system

Hope i didn't forget something

If anyone has some advise how i can improve my cooling solution, i would be very happy with tips!

Thanks!

airdeano · January 17, 2014

Hi there,

this is my first custom build watercooling loop, and im wondering about the temperatures.

So i'm getting idle temps about 37°C and under load about 55°C - Intel Burntest is going Nuts within 100°C.

My question is, are these temps alright? Im really wondering, also to because its my first loop.

Thanks!

great first-time rig.

temp-wise, looks fine, but have some questions on your setup.

overclocked, but using what voltage? are you using adaptive mode?

55° loaded with what?

what version of burntest? what level used to test?

got any cooling temperatures when it was stock both CPU/GPU?

because it should be close to those unless the overclock is jacking

some auto voltages.

understand that there is no SP140 fan, but using poo-poo flow case

fans on a thick (super thick) radiator is not helping your cooling cause

nor missing fans.

Prophet of Entropy · January 17, 2014

was wondering why you build is so birds nesty, then I noticed your running water though your MB, no need to since no 1150 cpu is gonna draw enough power to really need watercooled mofsets with any case airflow.

your temps are fine, specially since you didn't delid your haswell. as for burn temps? the only use i've had for artificial stress programs is for them is to heat up my loop faster, but I've since switched to simply turning off rad fans until I got the temps I wanted (heated my coolant to 65C, thermal probe in my res, to expand the air bubles and help bleed out all the air). try folding to load your gpu and cpu at the same time, it will load your system as much as any real world application will, without putting odd loads on specific parts of the cpu die.