H100i help.

[VoidHopper]

So after about an hour of fumbling with wires, I installed the corsair H100i in my bitfenix prodigy.

so when I turned on my PC and had everything back inside I checked my temps, they were still 60 celcius on idle. I knew the h100i was on for its LEDs were glowing. The two fans I used with it are nocuta NF 120mms that were about 28$ each. I also had an additional bitfenix case fan near the HDD. So I'm wondering why my temps are still high. Thanks.

[Moredeath]

Did you check if you installed the pump correctly?

[Langdon]

Try remounting it. You might've used too much thermal paste and/or there's air trapped between the paste and the CPU.

[MegaDave91]

Probably a bad mount. Thermal paste is pre applied on the H100i, so no issue there.

[airdeano]

sounds like the mounting is not complete or not perfect.

 

orientation is necessary:

 

 

some have gone as far to use a rubber washer 1mm thick to "shim" the backplate

for more pressure, but i haven't had to go that far.

 

are you overclocking or is this purely stock?

[VoidHopper]

Regards to the back plates, I did have a relatively difficult time with installing them. They fit perfectly in my gigabyte-z87n mobo but if I let go of holding them then it would fall off. I guess I'll try reinstalling it again.

CPU is clocked to 3.9 GHz atm

[airdeano]

Regards to the back plates, I did have a relatively difficult time with installing them. They fit perfectly in my gigabyte-z87n mobo but if I let go of holding them then it would fall off. I guess I'll try reinstalling it again.

CPU is clocked to 3.9 GHz atm

 

stock clocked, yeah, if you have a difficult time on that procedure, then it could

be the root of the issue. for time being, i wouldn't sweat the TIM application, unless

you have some spare TIM.