H80i idle temps too high?

[ChairMao]

Hi peeps i have a new h80i cooling a 3770k at stock in a R3 i have idle temps of 40 degrees.

I am using Arctic Silver.

should i be worried?

[Aersol]

How long ago did you apply the Artcic Silver? Usually that thermal paste has a cure time of around 200 hours, so if you applied it within the last 200 hours, then expect your temps to decrease soon

[crispy345]

Anyhow, if it's not degrading, you should not worry, if not your load temps are in the 65-70 area, then I'd see if the thermal compound was applied correctly.

[LimeDk]

looks abit high but notthing to worry about just look at your max load temps are

[DavePC]

Did you apply the thermal paste correctly? Clean it off correctly as well?

[mingrong9757]

Try to remount correctly and make sure you cleaned off your existing thermal paste using Isopropyl alcohol. After that apply a thin layer amount of thermal paste. Using realtemps to check your temperatures with either running prime 95 or Intel burn test to stress test your CPU. It should take around 10 to 15mins for the water to get heat up and after that you should be able to see reasonable temperatures.

Note* Watercooling only shines during load.

Idle temperatures are pretty much the same based on your ambient temps

[Caravetta]

Is the fan pulling air from the case out or from out side the case in?

[Metallurgico]

Idle temps of liquid coolers are higher than air coolers.

My i5-750 has an idle temp of 40-45 °C when OC to 3.6 GHz (2.6 stock) with an H60 because I have an high room temperature (~25 °C).

[123Lars]

How is the water pump in the H80i? can you hear it working?

[ChairMao]

Hey people.

I am using push pull with the hot air blowing out of the case.

I cleaned both surfaces with the 1-2 Arctic Clean thermal paste remover / purifier.

Under load (at stock 3.6Ghz) I'm getting maximum temps of 69 (bust mostly 66-67) (Crispy345 Your were spot on hahah!)

This pump seems to be working, i have already returned two for the infamous grinding noise

[Chap]

I have had similar numbers using that config with a h80 and a i7-2700K, If you switch to using it in push pull but with pulling your air from the outside I found my temps drop to around 30-35 degrees (depending on room temp) Note that this works best if you have a top fan to remove the hot air the h80 will be blowing into the case.

[jerppepepe]

My i5 3570k is idling at 44 degrees with 4.2ghz OC... but with p95 i get 66 degrees max.