Bad temps?

[goldengheco]

So I have been having this cpu cooling issue, just got the i7 10700k with the cooler master masterliquid ml240l V2 RGB and when idle I sit at 35-45 Celsius, under load I run 55-70 depending on the game, on cinebench I run as high as 100. I have the radiator mounted on the front of the case as pulling cool air from the outside into my case and 2 exhaust fans on the top and 1 exhaust fan on the back. I have my fans for my radiator in front of my radiator so they can pull the freshest air in and into the radiator, am I doing something wrong?

 

Thanks

 

Sorry, second pic is kinda bad due to taking it through the glass

 

Case: Phanteks P400

Motherboard: MSI MPG Z490 Gaming plus

GPU: MSI 2070 Tri Frozr

 

 

[SupaKomputa]

What you did is throwing the hot air inside straight to the GPU.

[narrdarr]

seems about right.

But whats your pump speed? you should max it out so long the pump noise noise its bad

[probablydumb]

38 minutes ago, goldengheco said:

So I have been having this cpu cooling issue, just got the i7 10700k with the cooler master masterliquid ml240l V2 RGB and when idle I sit at 35-45 Celsius, under load I run 55-70 depending on the game, on cinebench I run as high as 100. I have the radiator mounted on the front of the case as pulling cool air from the outside into my case and 2 exhaust fans on the top and 1 exhaust fan on the back. I have my fans for my radiator in front of my radiator so they can pull the freshest air in and into the radiator, am I doing something wrong?

 

Thanks

 

Sorry, second pic is kinda bad due to taking it through the glass

 

Case: Phanteks P400

Motherboard: MSI MPG Z490 Gaming plus

GPU: MSI 2070 Tri Frozr

 

 

I've never seen someone mount their radiator like this.I really hope the fans are not taking the hot air and instead of throwing it outside the case, it's throwing it back in.If it isn't doing that try to reapply the thermal paste and make sure that the CPU Cooler is sitting down with pressure making contact with your CPU.

[rtyall]

Hard to tell from the pictures, it looks like your hoses run parallel from the top of the CPU block to the top of the rad, you might be getting air pockets messing up the flow like that. Ideally you'd want the rad the other way up (hoses at the bottom) and have the rad higher than the cpu block -

 

[goldengheco]

16 hours ago, probablydumb said:

I've never seen someone mount their radiator like this.I really hope the fans are not taking the hot air and instead of throwing it outside the case, it's throwing it back in.If it isn't doing that try to reapply the thermal paste and make sure that the CPU Cooler is sitting down with pressure making contact with your CPU.

I had my radiator as exhaust with fans inside the case but I was getting worse temps then I am with how it's set up in the pictures

[narrdarr]

16 hours ago, probablydumb said:

I've never seen someone mount their radiator like this.I really hope the fans are not taking the hot air and instead of throwing it outside the case, it's throwing it back in.If it isn't doing that try to reapply the thermal paste and make sure that the CPU Cooler is sitting down with pressure making contact with your CPU.

Not sure what your talking about it a standard front mount aio with the fans in a push config as intake. It fine as it is.

 

15 minutes ago, goldengheco said:

I had my radiator as exhaust with fans inside the case but I was getting worse temps then I am with how it's set up in the pictures

The only thing is the tubes look a bit stretched. Does your front panel still go on? You may want to move the fans to the inside of chassis. You can keep the same config.  This will allow the tube to be not so tight and still get the rgb lighting throw the front panel. 

 

[goldengheco]

2 hours ago, narrdarr said:

Not sure what your talking about it a standard front mount aio with the fans in a push config as intake. It fine as it is.

 

The only thing is the tubes look a bit stretched. Does your front panel still go on? You may want to move the fans to the inside of chassis. You can keep the same config.  This will allow the tube to be not so tight and still get the rgb lighting throw the front panel. 

 

I will try that, I had the radiator fans on the inside of the case exhausting hot air out the front but the temps were way worse, maybe if I put them directly in the chassis in front of the radiator pulling air in with my rear fan as intake and top 2 fans as exhaust?

[narrdarr]

1 hour ago, goldengheco said:

I will try that, I had the radiator fans on the inside of the case exhausting hot air out the front but the temps were way worse, maybe if I put them directly in the chassis in front of the radiator pulling air in with my rear fan as intake and top 2 fans as exhaust?

rear should be exhaust aswell. i wouldn't try to worry about positive or negative pressure as the case is pretty closed off in the front as you dont have the p400a just the p400

 

[goldengheco]

1 hour ago, narrdarr said:

rear should be exhaust aswell. i wouldn't try to worry about positive or negative pressure as the case is pretty closed off in the front as you dont have the p400a just the p400

 

So I tried having the rear be intake just out of curiosity and it actually improved my temps by like 5 degrees.

[goldengheco]

Just now, goldengheco said:

So I tried having the rear be intake just out of curiosity and it actually improved my temps by like 5 degrees.

I also have the front panel off to help with airflow, it doesn't look the best but it makes airflow better so that's a plus

[goldengheco]

I also realized that my cpu is running at 4.7 GHz and not 3.8 which is weird, is that normal or do I have to change something?

[goldengheco]

23 hours ago, narrdarr said:

seems about right.

But whats your pump speed? you should max it out so long the pump noise noise its bad

How would I go about doing this?

[narrdarr]

32 minutes ago, goldengheco said:

How would I go about doing this?

the pump is connected to a fan header so just set the header in the bios to 100%

[dc284]

I have the same CPU and Cooler and my temps are near the same I have my rad on the top inside of the case with fans pushing air out the top and 2 more large fans on top of the case pulling air out, one side panel large input fan one rear panel output fan and 2 large front panel intake fans. Honest to god I think this CPU just runs too damn hot. I can stay 80-85 using 3dmark but the very second I OC even a little bit I'm hitting 100 and thermal throttling. After much playing with the setup and OC settings I came to the conclusion that 240mm is just not enough for this CPU. I personally recommend replacing it with the sadly overpriced 360mm aio solutions. I myself am waiting to be able to afford one. Realistically though your gaming temps are just fine for this cpu just stay away from stress tests an overclocking and you should be fine. Always remember when placing your fans, heat rises so try to use that to your advantage.

 

Also I set all fan headers to 100% all the time and it made 0 difference for me as the curve brings them to 100% before my temps got too high anyhow. Oh yeah and if possible flip that rad so your hoses are at the bottom, below the cpu cooler or better yet mount it on the ceiling of the case (top inside). (and a bit of cable management couldn't hurt either lol)