cpu cooling gone wrong

[MathiasVO053]

 

11 minutes ago, For Science! said:

In the simplest terms, it is to replace all the air in the loop with water. You must switch your pump on, and make sure the air accumulates in the reservoir (it helps to have the reservoir in a high point of the system). I would recommend to unmount your pump and hold it vertical because I think in the horizontal orientation it has a tendency to suck air back in (and if you put the case on its side, the pump is in the low point)

 

After a good amount of air has accumulated, open the reservoir and fill it with more coolant. then Repeat the process until there is no air in the system.

ok, im not slowly but surely getting better temps, with my gpu sitting at ~47° celcius and cpu sitting at ~65° celcius(both at idle)

[For Science!]

Just now, MathiasVO053 said:

 

ok, im not slowly but surely getting better temps, with my gpu sitting at ~47° celcius and cpu sitting at ~65° celcius(both at idle)

Not familiar with the aluminium kits, but assuming your ambients are about 25 celcius, I would expect your GPU to idle in the 35's and CPU in the 35~40s.

[MathiasVO053]

10 minutes ago, For Science! said:

Not familiar with the aluminium kits, but assuming your ambients are about 25 celcius, I would expect your GPU to idle in the 35's and CPU in the 35~40s.

my ambiants'll probably be around the ~20° celcius(living in denmark and such) but yeah, i get it

 

UPDATE: i just restarted my pc a few times and everytime i booted my cpu temps'd start at 100° celcius, but then slowly decrease down to ~40° celcius(right now after running for 5 mins)

[MathiasVO053]

1 minute ago, MathiasVO053 said:

my ambiants'll probably be around the ~20° celcius(living in denmark and such) but yeah, i get it

 

UPDATE: i just restarted my pc a few times and everytime i booted my cpu temps'd start at 100° celcius, but then slowly decrease down to ~40° celcius(right now after running for 5 mins)

also when running a video on youtube 1280x720 @ 60Hz(on a 1440p @ 165Hz monitor) my cpu temps rise all the way to ~65° celcius

[For Science!]

3 minutes ago, MathiasVO053 said:

also when running a video on youtube 1280x720 @ 60Hz(on a 1440p @ 165Hz monitor) my cpu temps rise all the way to ~65° celcius

What kind of pump curve do you have for the SPC? Have you tried just running it 100% all the time?

[MathiasVO053]

4 minutes ago, For Science! said:

What kind of pump curve do you have for the SPC? Have you tried just running it 100% all the time?

pump curve? idk(im a total water cooling noob if you havn't noticed yet)

i've just plugged it into my psu with the adaptor which came in the box(ie: using hdd/ssd power plug to fan pin power idfk what its called)

[Mick Naughty]

If it has a 4 pin connection on the pump, you need to set it to max on the mobo assuming you took the adapter off. Then tilt the case in every direction.  Seems like a lot of air in the loop, or bad mount. Assuming the correct port order was used on the CPU block.  Also a 240 is quite small for those components. 

[Echo259]

On 8/10/2017 at 4:05 PM, MathiasVO053 said:

wait, is there a specific way the water has to flow through the rad?

I think he meant to say CPU block. Cpu blocks have a directional flow.

[Tam3n]

Well first of all, a 240 mm for 1080ti + 4790K barely cuts it in my opinion. But your idle temps & load temps (assuming only the cpu is loaded) are still way too high, especially for no overclocks.

 

First thing that looks suspicious, is that have you really got all the air out of the loop? It's hard to tell from the pictures, but it seems there is a lot of bubbles and whatnot in the tubes. When it's completely bled you should only see clear water filled all the way.

 

Somethings I would check/try are:

• Turn the pump upright, I think it's not really meant to be mounted like that. I would unmount it and place it on a box next to the computer for testing.
• Rock the case back and forth while running the pump 100%, or maybe even remove the radiator and twist and turn it in your hands to get the air moving (though this should not be necessary)
• Check that you got the pump pressure port right, it should generally be the lower one in the middle. Looking at the picture it looks like ok.

*Upon reading this thread, I noticed that I actually have the flow through my Alphacool cpu block reversed. Looks like I didn't pay enough attention when I reorganized my loop... Well, with my cooling, the temps are still fine. Maybe I should try swapping the pump ports and see if there's any measurable effect