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Press play for music, then read.

 

 

 

It did have a AIO watercooler, and it had been solid for 3 years. (CoolIt ECO ALC)

 

So one day i fire up CSGO, then all of a sudden the game crashes. (PC locked up)

 

Then i heard a noise kind of like something caught in a fan, but there was this weird smell too like burnt plastic, so i immediately held the power button down on the chassis and turn it off.

I originally thought it was the power supply (Corsair TX650) 

I opened the case, touched the cooler... it was MEGA HOT!, but i could not fathom how it got so hot... there was no trace of fluid near the actual block or anything.

 

So i moved the PC.... huge puddle under the case, and this blue/green stinking mess of fluid :(

 

At this point i removed the cooler altogether, stripped the PC down and dried out the MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard.

 

What seems to have happened is as i was using the PC, it was enough time for it to leak the entire amount of fluid from the cooler also heating up the CPU to where it froze the PC (safety shut off and throttling) until i heard the pump screaming like a bastard.

 

I was kinda scared.... as water does not mix at all with anything electronic!

 

Anyway, i checked all parts thoroughly and could not find any burn marks, any kind of water damage visibly or anything, so i decided to order a new CPU cooler (coolermaster Hyper TX3)

 

Put the PC back together... it booted first time without a hint of giving up!

 

I am damn proud of my PC, now that is what i call a SOLID PC!

 

However... after switching it off, it would hang at post code 78 on boot up.... i removed the 500GB HDD... turns out the HDD got damaged, but that's fine... more than happy and really a massive stroke of luck for me.

 

This PC is back to it's original 4GHZ OC with 2 extra cores unlocked under the TX3 and have yet to see it rise higher than 43c in anything!

 

This is my PC running like nothing happened with the new cooler.

 

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Even sadder music:
VOLUME WARNING:

 

My PC suddenly turned off 3 years ago. Brought it back to the store and apparently the motherboard was RIP as the southbridge became very hot.

My PC is AMD based too. Coincidence? I think so. 

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43c with an OC'd and unlocked amd cpu and dat tiny cooler.

I think something is wrong.

If you want my attention, quote meh! D: or just stick an @samcool55 in your post :3

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43c with an OC'd and unlocked amd cpu and dat tiny cooler.

I think something is wrong.

This chip does more than 4.0ghz... 500mhz more in fact... would need custom loop for it though.

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43c with an OC'd and unlocked amd cpu and dat tiny cooler.

I think something is wrong.

AMD CPU's run quite cool actually, i think we have a fanboy here.

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Even sadder music:

VOLUME WARNING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0NCe-l8NVA

 

My PC suddenly turned off 3 years ago. Brought it back to the store and apparently the motherboard was RIP as the southbridge became very hot.

My PC is AMD based too. Coincidence? I think so. 

 

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43c with an OC'd and unlocked amd cpu and dat tiny cooler.

I think something is wrong.

The reaction when a fanboy finds out AMD cpu's max temp is 55c. The FX line of cpu's literally get unstable when going higher than like 53c and amd recommends 51c for the fx line.

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RIP HEADPHONE USERS

Well I did warn

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AMD CPU's run quite cool actually, i think we have a fanboy here.

Umm no, i have an amd based system and i can't keep it even close to temps like that.

It's an athlon X4 645 stock at 3.1, OC'd to 3.5 and it goes during gaming all the time over 60°C

65°C isn't an exeption, 70°C is, but still.

And it's not the coolers fault, that's a scythe mugen 2 Rev.B so that's fine.

It just gets really hot, tried different things to fix it, but that didn't help.

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aio water cooler leaks and dies

 

owner gets non liquid cooler to replace

 

lulz

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Even sadder music:

VOLUME WARNING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0NCe-l8NVA

 

My PC suddenly turned off 3 years ago. Brought it back to the store and apparently the motherboard was RIP as the southbridge became very hot.

My PC is AMD based too. Coincidence? I think so. 

That cooler leaks like crayZ

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One makes you broke, the other you can get more of and have a midnight snack from the fridge when hungry again. Once you go Nvidia, you go broked, turn into an Elitist, or get the incorrect amount of VRAM.


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Well I did warn

 

WELL I'M LAZY AS FCK AND DIDN'T READ, JUST PRESSED PLAY. 

 

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-snip-

Tyrone is genius man

 

WELL I'M LAZY AS FCK AND DIDN'T READ, JUST PRESSED PLAY. 

 

 

;'(

 

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AMD CPU's run quite cool actually, i think we have a fanboy here.

They run cooler as far as temps go, but because the voltage used is higher, that means more W that the cooler has to dissipate.

 

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I have a Coolit ECO on an older system... running 6 years now.

 

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Ticking time bomb.

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The reaction when a fanboy finds out AMD cpu's max temp is 55c. The FX line of cpu's literally get unstable when going higher than like 53c and amd recommends 51c for the fx line.

 

And you have no idea what you're talking about, apparently. Citation needed. I've gotten my FX up toward the 70C mark and never had a lick of instability. The only problem I've had with the FX CPU is just the stock cooler -- which is absolutely horrible compare to aftermarket options (not to mention, sounds like a jet engine when the fan's maxed out), but not incapable of keeping the system stable.

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And you have no idea what you're talking about, apparently. Citation needed. I've gotten my FX up toward the 70C mark and never had a lick of instability. The only problem I've had with the FX CPU is just the stock cooler -- which is absolutely horrible compare to aftermarket options (not to mention, sounds like a jet engine when the fan's maxed out), but not incapable of keeping the system stable.

I DO know what I'm talking about because that damn chip has been out for years and everyone who has actually researched their chip has been through this. You can get individual cores up around 70c but all 8 cores under %100 load will be unstable past 55ish degrees. Go ahead and test it, run prime 95 small fft and bring up HWmonitor or whatever you use to test temps and cpuz to monitor any throttling.

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I DO know what I'm talking about because that damn chip has been out for years and everyone who has actually researched their chip has been through this. You can get individual cores up around 70c but all 8 cores under %100 load will be unstable past 55ish degrees. Go ahead and test it, run prime 95 small fft and bring up HWmonitor or whatever you use to test temps and cpuz to monitor any throttling.

 

I have. I undervolted the fans in my system -- all of them -- down to 7V to see how well my loop would stand up to that under load, and saw the CPU temperatures climb into the 60s relatively quickly when running Pime95. Didn't see the CPU throttle itself, though, as I was watching it with CPU-Z as I also had the system overclocked at the time. No stability issues at all, no throttling on the CPU, and in the temperature testing I was running Prime95 and a bfgminer in its benchmark mode. The GPUs had an easier time staying cool compared to the CPU, and the CPU got up near 70C during that testing.

 

Needless to say I don't run my fans at 7V because of what I saw in that testing. Instead I have them undervolted to about 9V.

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AMD cpu's run cooler than Intel because the heat spreader is soldered directly to the chip. the downside is all that heat gets pumped into your room a lot faster. Plus, Intel cpu's can handle much higher temps, while AMD are limited to a much lower TJ Max. I have two office computers using AMD APU's running at 4.4Ghz, both cooled with a Hyper 212+, and rarely do core temps get much higher than 40-45C under load (according to GPU-Z). Nothing unbelievable about your temps really.

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