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First Custom Loop - Appreciate Feedback on Temps

Bouncewasp
By Bouncewasp
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Hi All,

 

Completed my first custom loop a couple of weeks back and have been playing with fan/pump curves and have got it to a place where I'm fairly happy, but being new to this I just wondered if I could get some feedback on my temps/performance and if this is about right?

 

Component specs as follows:

EK CPU waterblock - Ryzen2600 OC to 4.2GHz @ 1.4v

EK GPU waterblock - RX5700XT Strix 8GB OC to 2150MHz core & 1850MHz memory (draws about 200-210W max)

EK 360SE radiator with 3x120mm deepcool fans

EK DDC pump

 

System is mainly used for gaming so I've been focussing on using Unigine Heaven to run loops and benchmarks to get system nice and heat soaked. When everything settles down I get the following:

  • Coolant temp maxes out at 38C (ambient estimated at low 20's but have no way of measuring atm)
    • Idle coolant temp is 30deg
  • CPU hovers around 50C
    • Idle CPU temp hovers around 35C
  • GPU maxes out at 55C plus/minus 1C fluctuation
    • Idle GPU temp is 33C
  • Based on the fan/pump curves I've set the rad fans run at 1200rpm and pump at 2800rpm (~50%)

I did run a few test cases and running fans and/or pump at max didn't seem to make that much difference and I wouldn't want to run at high rpm due to noise levels anyway. Playing a couple of FPS games the GPU only really hits the low 40's.

 

Appreciate any thoughts/feedback? Cheers!

 

 

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Sounds good to me.

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Just now, For Science! said:

Sounds good to me.

Agreed. All looks pretty good.

 

You'll probably find the CPU will be the likely contender for running hotter, at least that's what I tend to find.

 

I would run a couple of different CPU stress test just to make sure. Cinebench is a good all rounder but if you want to push things harder, give Prime95 a go but make sure you disable AVX/AVX2 or use an older version that doesn't support it like 26.6.

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@For Science! and @ChrisLoudon thank you for your replies! Like I say I was happy enough but had no frame of reference so good to hear back from some more experienced folk!

 

Will have a go at some Cinebench runs and see how that goes.

 

Thanks again!

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