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4 minutes ago, alvez said:

After this post I went to check y VRM'S temperature and I guess they are just fine, they in 45º C while gaming so yeah, I think its fine no?
Thanks for you help!

Nothing to worry about. 

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Hello everyone,

 

I just had a friend pointing out that my AIO pump was upside down as the VRM fan should be UP to do its job.

 

Honestly I never noticed bad temps on the CPU and since the cooler doesn't fit on the upper part of the case it had to go on like this.

 

This has been like this for years now.

 

I am fine I guess?

 

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Yes, it's upside down but it shouldn't matter... Except the VRM cooling is worse but not required

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well I guess not?

Only thin I read is that the AMD chips would need the plate of the cooler to be in a certain way?

| Case: Cooler Master Elite 371 | Cpu: i5 4690K @ 4.20 GHz | Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 3 |

 | Gpu: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 | SSD: Crucial MX100 256 GB | HDD: Samsung 128GB | Ram: Kingston 8GB DDR3 1333MHz | 

| Screen: Benq XL2411Z | Mouse: Logitech G 403 | Mousepad: SteelSeries QcK+ NiP Edition | Keyboard: Steelseries 6GV2 | Headset: Kingston Hyper X Cloud |

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20 hours ago, alvez said:

Hello everyone,

 

I just had a friend pointing out that my AIO pump was upside down as the VRM fan should be UP to do its job.

 

Honestly I never noticed bad temps on the CPU and since the cooler doesn't fit on the upper part of the case it had to go on like this.

 

This has been like this for years now.

 

I am fine I guess?

 

1d848d1b-cb13-4f3a-a31a-f63294af3eff.thumb.png.92ecdc331c8e37128d6f730fb4ecc3b3.png

 

 

In my testing, I noticed very little temperature variance of the VRM, max 3 C degrees. If you're not having problems, you're not going to. 🙂 

I've been using computers since around 1978, started learning programming in 1980 on Apple IIs, started learning about hardware in 1990, ran a BBS from 1990-95, built my first Windows PC around 2000, taught myself malware removal starting in 2005 (also learned on Bleeping Computer), learned web dev starting in 2017, and I think I can fill a thimble with all that knowledge. 😉 I'm not an expert, which is why I keep investigating the answers that others give to try and improve my knowledge, so feel free to double-check the advice I give.

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45 minutes ago, RevGAM said:

In my testing, I noticed very little temperature variance of the VRM, max 3 C degrees. If you're not having problems, you're not going to. 🙂 

After this post I went to check y VRM'S temperature and I guess they are just fine, they in 45º C while gaming so yeah, I think its fine no?
Thanks for you help!

| Case: Cooler Master Elite 371 | Cpu: i5 4690K @ 4.20 GHz | Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 3 |

 | Gpu: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 | SSD: Crucial MX100 256 GB | HDD: Samsung 128GB | Ram: Kingston 8GB DDR3 1333MHz | 

| Screen: Benq XL2411Z | Mouse: Logitech G 403 | Mousepad: SteelSeries QcK+ NiP Edition | Keyboard: Steelseries 6GV2 | Headset: Kingston Hyper X Cloud |

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4 minutes ago, alvez said:

After this post I went to check y VRM'S temperature and I guess they are just fine, they in 45º C while gaming so yeah, I think its fine no?
Thanks for you help!

Nothing to worry about. 

I've been using computers since around 1978, started learning programming in 1980 on Apple IIs, started learning about hardware in 1990, ran a BBS from 1990-95, built my first Windows PC around 2000, taught myself malware removal starting in 2005 (also learned on Bleeping Computer), learned web dev starting in 2017, and I think I can fill a thimble with all that knowledge. 😉 I'm not an expert, which is why I keep investigating the answers that others give to try and improve my knowledge, so feel free to double-check the advice I give.

My phone's auto-correct is named Otto Rong.🤪😂

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3 hours ago, RevGAM said:

Nothing to worry about. 

thanks man!

| Case: Cooler Master Elite 371 | Cpu: i5 4690K @ 4.20 GHz | Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 3 |

 | Gpu: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 | SSD: Crucial MX100 256 GB | HDD: Samsung 128GB | Ram: Kingston 8GB DDR3 1333MHz | 

| Screen: Benq XL2411Z | Mouse: Logitech G 403 | Mousepad: SteelSeries QcK+ NiP Edition | Keyboard: Steelseries 6GV2 | Headset: Kingston Hyper X Cloud |

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Yeah I have the exact same cooler and mine is the other way around. But like others said I don't think it matters, except perhaps a couple cs on the vrm since the little fan is on the wrong side. But I mean all other aios dont have vrm cooling at all so I mean, negligible, I'm sure.

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