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H100I cooling problems

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Hi guys, i want to thank everybody for the support for my problem :D , and the solution was to change with a new one. The problem probably was the lack of liquid in the cooler. Because it was in guarantee i send it back,open it to refill it yourself invalidate the guarantee(and i don't know how to open it and on the internet i didn't found nothing). I installed the new one and the min temps (in idle) are around 26 °C and max temp. (mesured on a 5 minutes stress test) for now is 43 °C. I've attached the image of CPU-Z and RealTemp 3.7

 

i also put the rubber o-rings on the backplate because there was to much play for the block and i used the stock thermal paste, probably with better paste the temps could go lower, but for now it's ok ;) .

 

 

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while it SHOULD be running at stock i wouldn't take that for granted, i have seen motherboards messing with the voltage in the past, might be worth atleast checking even if the chances are 99,5% that it's running at it should, you changing out the fans should be perfectly fine as long as you made sure you got the fans in the right orientation and not fighting to blow air on eachother :P.

 

im not sure how big the haswell cpus are.. as for me i just put a tiny dot in the middle, the 3770k is very small, having a line might be abit excessive, but it's probably fine as long as it's thin, i prefer a dot as the paste spreads evenly, might not spread as well as it would with a regular tower heatsink though.

 

Well thank you for the support :D i'll try and see what happens!

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Uhh...did you take off the plastic film that is protecting the bottom of the CPU block that you are suppose to remove?

 

Also, how are you tightening the mounting screws? Are you slowly tightening them in a "X" pattern?

 

You sure you clean of the thermal paste on BOTH the CPU and the bottom of the H100i every time you remove the cooler. This should be done for any CPU cooler anyways.

 

Take a picture of the thermal paste spread after you remove the H100i, please. What I'm saying is, take the picture with the paste still on.

Take a picture of the "line in the middle of the CPU."

The reason I am asking this is I want to see how the thermal paste is spreading, and if you are putting too much / little paste on.

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Uhh...did you take off the plastic film that is protecting the bottom of the CPU block that you are suppose to remove?

 

Also, how are you tightening the mounting screws? Are you slowly tightening them in a "X" pattern?

 

You sure you clean of the thermal paste on BOTH the CPU and the bottom of the H100i every time you remove the cooler. This should be done for any CPU cooler anyways.

 

Take a picture of the thermal paste spread after you remove the H100i, please. What I'm saying is, take the picture with the paste still on.

Take a picture of the "line in the middle of the CPU."

The reason I am asking this is I want to see how the thermal paste is spreading, and if you are putting too much / little paste on.

 

Later i'm going to do it and i'll take photo of everything ;)

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Hi guys, i want to thank everybody for the support for my problem :D , and the solution was to change with a new one. The problem probably was the lack of liquid in the cooler. Because it was in guarantee i send it back,open it to refill it yourself invalidate the guarantee(and i don't know how to open it and on the internet i didn't found nothing). I installed the new one and the min temps (in idle) are around 26 °C and max temp. (mesured on a 5 minutes stress test) for now is 43 °C. I've attached the image of CPU-Z and RealTemp 3.7

 

i also put the rubber o-rings on the backplate because there was to much play for the block and i used the stock thermal paste, probably with better paste the temps could go lower, but for now it's ok ;) .

 

 

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