Are these Temps normal?

[GauntletV2]

So I just finished up my liquid loop and I have been doing some temperature testing, and while my gpu (R9 Nano) sits at 45C at most, my cpu (4790k) will heat up to 60C while playing league of legends, and 65C in games like GW2, BO3, and DS3.  In the intel extreme tuning application, under stress it hits 70C max.  Now, I get thats under an artificial load, but in LOL for example, is it normal for it to sit so high?

[Billy_Mays]

That's nice temps nothing to worry about

[Princess Luna]

it's pretty fine temps still

[H0R53]

20 minutes ago, GauntletV2 said:

So I just finished up my liquid loop and I have been doing some temperature testing, and while my gpu (R9 Nano) sits at 45C at most, my cpu (4790k) will heat up to 60C while playing league of legends, and 65C in games like GW2, BO3, and DS3.  In the intel extreme tuning application, under stress it hits 70C max.  Now, I get thats under an artificial load, but in LOL for example, is it normal for it to sit so high?

Yes, my Xeon E3 1240 gets to 70C on a CM d92. You're fine.

[Mick Naughty]

Mine sits at 50-55c while gaming unless it's bf1. Then mid 60's. 

 

Seems fine. 

[FrankV]

I think they are fine tests but I think this is relevant too: What radiator size do you have on your custom loop? 

[GauntletV2]

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[GauntletV2]

3 hours ago, FrankV said:

I think they are fine tests but I think this is relevant too: What radiator size do you have on your custom loop? 

A single 240, the fans are intakes, should i maybe have them pull instead?

[Limecat86]

1 hour ago, GauntletV2 said:

A single 240, the fans are intakes, should i maybe have them pull instead?

Push or pull won't make much difference in temps. With pull you would have an easier time cleaning the dust from your rad.

Cooling a CPU + GPU on a 240 rad is tight but even though those temps are not bad at all. On what speed do your fans run? 

[GauntletV2]

3 hours ago, Limecat86 said:

Push or pull won't make much difference in temps. With pull you would have an easier time cleaning the dust from your rad.

Cooling a CPU + GPU on a 240 rad is tight but even though those temps are not bad at all. On what speed do your fans run? 

35% browsing the web and for league, and 50% for "harder" games to run

[PrimeSonic]

Yeah, a single 240 for two components is less than the minimum rad space you'd want.

As a rule of thumb, you want 240mm of rad space for each heat generating component at a minimum.

 

If you want lower temps, you'll need more radiator space.

 

The temps you're getting are okay. They're similar to the temps you'd get on some air coolers.

They aren't dangerous temps by any stretch.

 

You can try adding fans in push/pull and raising the fan speeds to compensate.

[FrankV]

11 hours ago, GauntletV2 said:

35% browsing the web and for league, and 50% for "harder" games to run

For my information (for my loop) how do you trigger an increase in those speeds? 

[PrimeSonic]

1 hour ago, FrankV said:

For my information (for my loop) how do you trigger an increase in those speeds? 

You can use something like SpeedFan to control the fan speeds on given motherboard headers based on the temps the components you want to monitor.

 

 

[FrankV]

3 minutes ago, PrimeSonic said:

You can use something like SpeedFan to control the fan speeds on given motherboard headers based on the temps the components you want to monitor.

--snip--

 

 

I've tried SpeedFan prior to installing the water cooling and I've not had much luck with it. Upon installing the water cooling, I realized none of my case fans are PWM (I thought they were for some reason). So, on the MB I set my fan controls to the relevant fans to DC. Speedfan might work now. Regardless, I can and do control my fans' speed through my motherboard and it works well. 

 

However, that doesn't actually answer my question unless SpeedFan can see & respond to the temperature of my GPU and CPU combined....  

[Mick Naughty]

18 minutes ago, FrankV said:

I've tried SpeedFan prior to installing the water cooling and I've not had much luck with it. Upon installing the water cooling, I realized none of my case fans are PWM (I thought they were for some reason). So, on the MB I set my fan controls to the relevant fans to DC. Speedfan might work now. Regardless, I can and do control my fans' speed through my motherboard and it works well. 

 

However, that doesn't actually answer my question unless SpeedFan can see & respond to the temperature of my GPU and CPU combined....  

Each head can be adjusted per a device. No reason to set the fans for a combined or average temp of multiple devices. Wouldn't work  well if it did. 

[FrankV]

4 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Each head can be adjusted per a device. No reason to set the fans for a combined or average temp of multiple devices. Wouldn't work  well if it did. 

Given we're talking about cooling GPU and CPU on a single loop/radiator, I believe factoring in both devices is relevant. If the GPU is hot, and the CPU is cool, I still need the radiator fans to increase to keep the temps down. Likewise, if the GPU is cool/idle and the CPU is handling a workload, the fans need to increase. 

[PrimeSonic]

24 minutes ago, FrankV said:

However, that doesn't actually answer my question unless SpeedFan can see & respond to the temperature of my GPU and CPU combined....  

Yes, it can do that.

You can set up a fan curve for the GPU, another for the CPU, both affecting the same fan, and have the fan response with either the max or sum of the temps.

 

Since I also have my CPU and GPU in the same loop, that's how I have my SpeedFan setup. My fans will slowly ramp up if either my GPU or CPU start getting warm.

[FrankV]

1 minute ago, PrimeSonic said:

Yes, it can do that.

You can set up a fan curve for the GPU, another for the CPU, both affecting the same fan, and have the fan response with either the max or sum of the temps.

 

Since I also have my CPU and GPU in the same loop, that's how I have my SpeedFan setup. My fans will slowly ramp up if either my GPU or CPU start getting warm.

Thank you very much. I'll try to get SpeedFan working on my system. 

[GauntletV2]

On 6/9/2017 at 10:08 AM, PrimeSonic said:

Yeah, a single 240 for two components is less than the minimum rad space you'd want.

As a rule of thumb, you want 240mm of rad space for each heat generating component at a minimum.

 

If you want lower temps, you'll need more radiator space.

 

The temps you're getting are okay. They're similar to the temps you'd get on some air coolers.

They aren't dangerous temps by any stretch.

 

You can try adding fans in push/pull and raising the fan speeds to compensate.

Thats honestly a thought I never understood.  Throw a single 120 AIO on a cpu, persay get a fury x which has a 120 AIO, and thats fine. But throw them in a 240 custom loop and its not enough?

[PrimeSonic]

Well, a single 120mm radiator isn't going to perform much better in terms of cooling compared to a high end air cooler.

 

I don't think I'm remotely qualified to get into the math and physics behind why it takes more than the sum of radiators to cool the same components sharing a loop.

But the short of it is, you're dumping more heat into the loop when you have a second component and to keep cooling on the same level, you'll need to spread that out over a greater area/mass.

 

Again, your temps are fine. They just could be better if you had a bit more radiator space.

If that's not in the budget/plans right now, don't worry about it. 

But if you do get the chance to expand your loop some day, take it. You'll be glad you did.