New to watercooling.

[Atraxium1993]

I have recently built my first water cooling loop and was wondering why my CPU temperature is so high. I have attached pictures of my temperatures and system.

 

System Info:

Asus Rampage IV BE

Intel 4930k @4.4ghz

GTX Titan Black SLI @Stock

Kinston Hyper X Beast 32gb 2400mhz

 

Water block - EK supreme LTX UNI CSQ 2013

Pump Res - EK-DCP 2.2 X-RES 12V DC PUMP

 

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

P.S I know the tubing is a bit criss crossed.

[jameshumphries47]

reseat your cpu block

[Atraxium1993]

I have already tried that and it seemed to make no difference.

[SpyRosL]

What program are you running and get those temps?

[Atraxium1993]

At idle it is 30 C in a 25 C room but under load it shoots up to 70 C

[Enderman]

Because your voltage is so high.

[Atraxium1993]

Prime 95 small ffts, So if it is the voltage there is nothing I can do about it except lower the overclock?

[Luckris]

Everything is fine. Only reason is gets to 70c is eaither the program maxes out your CPU, or your overclock has a high voltage. 

 

You can eaither try to town down the voltage, or just dealwith the temp. If it's 70c under gaming id suggest pulling down voltage, but yeah.. I don't think 70c is your gaming temp.. Unless it is, then well.. You did something wrong!  

[airdeano]

Prime 95 small ffts, So if it is the voltage there is nothing I can do about it except lower the overclock?

 

correct. the heat is coming form the voltage.

[Atraxium1993]

While in BF4 it hits 65-66 C so I guess I'll play with the voltage

Thank you the temp is much lower now I put the voltage down.

[airdeano]

While in BF4 it hits 65-66 C so I guess I'll play with the voltage

Thank you the temp is much lower now I put the voltage down.

great, the heat is heavily dependent on voltage.

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P.S I know the tubing is a bit criss crossed.

res/pump>bottom GPU>top GPU>top RAD>CPU>front RAD>res/pump

move CPU tube back fitting on front RAD

move nearest tube front RAD to res/pump

bottom GPU tube to res/pump shortens runs and no crossings lines

[Leonard]

I do now intend to sound like i am insulting your intelligence or anything but are you sure you have all the air out of your system and that you have the coolant flow to the proper inlets and outlets? I also suspect it could be generated from the pump not being strong enough. Most GPU SLI blocks are restrictive. The pump you are using is not a strong one the flow is 400lph if i remember correctly which is ok for a CPU only but not really for SLI. For SLI you want a flow of 900lph or higher and pressure of 2m or higher. 

 

About the voltage....do you have LLC at regular or higher? This will also contribute to the heat as it will increase the voltage more than needed so too would the voltage to the CPU if you have it set to Auto or manual. You want to use offset voltage to combat heat.

[Atraxium1993]

Yes it is 400l/hr I assumed this would be enough as the temperatures are not that high now.

 

Voltages are in the picture as all I did was lower the vcore.

[Leonard]

Yes it is 400l/hr I assumed this would be enough as the temperatures are not that high now.

 

Voltages are in the picture as all I did was lower the vcore.

While it is ok for just a CPU it will degrade in performance fast once you add a restrictive block/s. Restrictive blocks are SLI bridges and motherboard mostfet blocks. 

 

When purchasing a pump you want as much flow rate and pressure head as possible, this way you can add other blocks and radiators without worrying if the pump is strong enough.

 

Looks like you are using manual voltage. If you want to reduce the temperatures you want to use offset voltage and keep the LLC at regular.