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Hi I just built a custom watercooled rig I'm pretty happy with it i was just wondering since I have maxed out the amount of radiator space my case has on offer 2x 280mm radiators weather there is anything I can do for 50$ or under to improve my temps I'm getting about 66 to 70c at full load with a 2600k 14.5v at 4.8ghz 20c ambient. I was thinking of getting some EK indigo extreme thermal paste but I would like a second opinion. thx

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Your temps are amazing dude. I can only think of new thermal paste or underclocking. 

 

Edit: What case do you have?

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Hi I just built a custom watercooled rig I'm pretty happy with it i was just wondering since I have maxed out the amount of radiator space my case has on offer 2x 280mm radiators weather there is anything I can do for 50$ or under to improve my temps I'm getting about 66 to 70c at full load with a 2600k 14.5v at 4.8ghz 20c ambient. I was thinking of getting some EK indigo extreme thermal paste but I would like a second opinion. thx

 

for just a CPU loop or a CPU/GPU loop?

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Put a thermometer into the water of your loop after you have been running full load for about 30 minutes. Look at the temperature and compare that to your ambient temperature. If you double the radiator space then you will be able to halve the difference to ambient, so lets say it reads 30C and your room is at 20C. If you were to add another 2x280mm radiators then you would likely get around 25C water temperature and full load and the CPU would drop 5C.

 

The bigger the difference from ambient temperature the great the potential gains of more radiators, but it becomes extremely difficult to get useful differences once you get within the +10C or so range because the gains get to be quite small.

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either you are running your fans really slow, running thin 30mm radiators or your

pump speed may be slow, too. mid 60°-70° on a high capactity loop to me sounds

kinda high. acceptable with a GPU included. how much CPU temperature drop do

you have say at 1.35vCore? admittedly, 1.45vCore is stout, but with your setup (to

me) temp is high especially a 20° ambient.

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Are those core temps or the CPU socket? Just curious...

CPU: Intel i7 3970X @ 4.7 GHz  (custom loop)   RAM: Kingston 1866 MHz 32GB DDR3   GPU(s): 2x Gigabyte R9 290OC (custom loop)   Motherboard: Asus P9X79   

Case: Fractal Design R3    Cooling loop:  360 mm + 480 mm + 1080 mm,  tripple 5D Vario pump   Storage: 500 GB + 240 GB + 120 GB SSD,  Seagate 4 TB HDD

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Hi I just built a custom watercooled rig I'm pretty happy with it i was just wondering since I have maxed out the amount of radiator space my case has on offer 2x 280mm radiators weather there is anything I can do for 50$ or under to improve my temps I'm getting about 66 to 70c at full load with a 2600k 14.5v at 4.8ghz 20c ambient. I was thinking of getting some EK indigo extreme thermal paste but I would like a second opinion. thx

Good lawd!!!!!!! 14.5v = typo i hope. If you mean 1.45v then you could try using offset voltage for the CPU, costs nothing but spare time and reduces the temperature. The Indigo Extreme would be a good addition as you have a low ambient, if you can't find the Indigo Extreme you can use MAINGEAR's EPIC T1000, it is the same thing. You could see a drop in temperature but by about 3-5C if applied correctly and let me tell you applying it is scary and must be done precisely.

 

Move to a colder place.

 

 

Oh... $50 only...

:lol:

 

I'm using Akasa Apache's 

Those are great fans, keep them.

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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Are those core temps or the CPU socket? Just curious...

They are my average core temps but only when I run things like prime 95 also i use offset not fixed voltage. idle temps varies from about 29c to 40c depending on ambient and load, during normal things it goes between 50 and 65

Good lawd!!!!!!! 14.5v = typo i hope. If you mean 1.45v then you could try using offset voltage for the CPU, costs nothing but spare time and reduces the temperature. The Indigo Extreme would be a good addition as you have a low ambient, if you can't find the Indigo Extreme you can use MAINGEAR's EPIC T1000, it is the same thing. You could see a drop in temperature but by about 3-5C if applied correctly and let me tell you applying it is scary and must be done precisely.

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Those are great fans, keep them.

Yeah I think that is prob my best bet getting the indigo extreme I'm also gonna get a water temp sensor. Thanks for the feedback.

either you are running your fans really slow, running thin 30mm radiators or your

pump speed may be slow, too. mid 60°-70° on a high capactity loop to me sounds

kinda high. acceptable with a GPU included. how much CPU temperature drop do

you have say at 1.35vCore? admittedly, 1.45vCore is stout, but with your setup (to

me) temp is high especially a 20° ambient.

I run my fans at max 1300rpm I have a 45mm rad and a 30mm rad and pump speed is at max as well. its a D5. Since I use offset voltage it varies between 1.48 and 1.43v.

Put a thermometer into the water of your loop after you have been running full load for about 30 minutes. Look at the temperature and compare that to your ambient temperature. If you double the radiator space then you will be able to halve the difference to ambient, so lets say it reads 30C and your room is at 20C. If you were to add another 2x280mm radiators then you would likely get around 25C water temperature and full load and the CPU would drop 5C.

The bigger the difference from ambient temperature the great the potential gains of more radiators, but it becomes extremely difficult to get useful differences once you get within the +10C or so range because the gains get to be quite small.

Yeah I was planning to get a water temp sensor for my next upgrade. But yeah i think for a single loop iv kind of maxed out the amount of radiator space i can use to cool it down any more. The only way I can improve my temps seems to be with better thermal paste or lowering my ambient temps.

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They are my average core temps but only when I run things like prime 95 also i use offset not fixed voltage. idle temps varies from about 29c to 40c depending on ambient and load, during normal things it goes between 50 and 65

Yeah I think that is prob my best bet getting the indigo extreme I'm also gonna get a water temp sensor. Thanks for the feedback.

I run my fans at max 1300rpm I have a 45mm rad and a 30mm rad and pump speed is at max as well. its a D5. Since I use offset voltage it varies between 1.48 and 1.43v.

Yeah I was planning to get a water temp sensor for my next upgrade. But yeah i think for a single loop iv kind of maxed out the amount of radiator space i can use to cool it down any more. The only way I can improve my temps seems to be with better thermal paste or lowering my ambient temps.

 

what happens when you drop the voltage to sub 1.4 to 4.7/4.6GHz? should be a

drastic temp fall-off.

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Its a well specced loop I doubt you have a water cooling problem. The main watercooling options produce minor improvements, more radiator space, maybe a better CPU block with lower thermal resistence and the best thermal paste. All of that probably wont get you 10C maximum. To get more you need to go past watercooling, you could chill the water or start to consider moving to phase change cooling and going sub zero.

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you could try liquidmetal pro TIM, that might get you 3-5C better. my 2600k at 1.47v @5.1Ghz is around 70-75C  with a 19C ambient and 33C coolant @2.9 LPM.  But I don't like having the vcore that high, so run it at 1.35 @ 4.8Ghz  at 45-60C as my coolant heats up under gpu and cpu load.  ive got a 2600k with a koolance 380i block on it, 2 780s with koolance vid-nxttn blocks, a RX-360 and RX-480 rads.  (i'm using artic mx-2 TIM on my cpu)

 

im very glad I switched out my 4770k to my HTPC and put the 2600k in my gaming rig, not only am I gonna use less power but my HTPC is essentially silent now that it doesn't have a gtx 590 as its only video out option.

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