help guys water cooling not working properly

[matty87]

hey guys i bought an all in one  water cooler from amazon a while ago and im not happy with the temps at all.id just like to confirm that i have set it up correctly,its the deep captain 240x and i read many reviews before buying it.all positive aswell.im getting 90 degrees to 100 degrees while performing stress tests which dosent look right at all.i have the i5 6600k cpu and id like to overclock,do i need to replace the thermal compound from the stock that it came with?any help would be appreciated thank you.ive attached a few pictures of installation if it helps 

[MilitantCro]

Sadly you didnt install it properly, thats the only reason temperatures can get so high on a core i5 6600k. Also change the thermal compound when reinstalling it with some quality artic cooling or coolermaster one.

[paddy-stone]

11 minutes ago, matty87 said:

hey guys i bought an all in one  water cooler from amazon a while ago and im not happy with the temps at all.id just like to confirm that i have set it up correctly,its the deep captain 240x and i read many reviews before buying it.all positive aswell.im getting 90 degrees to 100 degrees while performing stress tests which dosent look right at all.i have the i5 6600k cpu and id like to overclock,do i need to replace the thermal compound from the stock that it came with?any help would be appreciated thank you.ive attached a few pictures of installation if it helps 

Those front fans look like to me they are set in exhaust config. If you also have fans the other side they might be conflicting and so the air is "bouncing" off each other. It's hard to make out from the pictures, but that's what it looks like to me.

[matty87]

I didn't install it correctly?could you tell me what I did wrong?any help would be appreciated.the only place to mount the radiator on the s340 was the right sided panel.

[Simon771]

You must have done something wrong with that cooler.

Remove it, and see if there are any marks of TIM on the CPU and the AIO. I'm pretty sire AIO isn't touching your CPU as it should.

[RoroTheDeer]

Flip your fans around; they're set to exhaust when they should be intake. They're starved for air when set as they are. If that doesn't help, make sure that there is TIM between the block and CPU and if that doesn't work, make sure that the pump is set to a high enough RPM if it's plugged into a PWM header on your motherboard. It might just be that the liquid isn't being circulated quickly enough.

[GlassBomb]

First thing I would do is to flip the fans around. It looks as if all of your fans are trying to push all of air out. Including the ones at the front (that normally should provide the case with air).

 

So try and flip the ones in the front around.

[SeanAngelo]

16 minutes ago, matty87 said:

I didn't install it correctly?could you tell me what I did wrong?any help would be appreciated.the only place to mount the radiator on the s340 was the right sided panel.

just re-install it and see what happens. there could be a lot of "wrongs" so just start off with the basic first. re-install and see if its solved. 

[matty87]

Thanks for all the help guys,so do I need to flip the fans or is there a way that I can change the fan direction in the bios?also the power connector for the pump is plugged into an extension,does that matter?what slot do I plug the power into?ill take some photos and attach them.thanks

[Mick Naughty]

You have to physically flip the fans around, they cant just run backwards.

 

The extension wont matter.

 

Clean both surfaces and apply new paste and try again.

[matty87]

Hey thanks for the reply ?I've flipped the fans around,is this right before I power everything up?

[Mick Naughty]

Yes...