AIO vs Air Cooling temps

[DevilsHand676]

I just made a pc for my friend using the air cooler included with the ryzen processor and noticed that his temps were about 40 idle while mine, with an H60 aio, idle temps are in the 50s. Why is this?

[airdeano]

prolly a bad installation mount. the CPU idle should be 5-8° above ambient if at stock speeds. overclocked voltages can make a warmer idle if c-states are reduced or removed.

[DevilsHand676]

Just now, airdeano said:

prolly a bad installation mount. the CPU idle should be 5-8° above ambient if at stock speeds. overclocked voltages can make a warmer idle if c-states are reduced or removed.

Thank you, I asked this on reddit and I got like 10 replies just saying that it sucks and I need to get a knew one. I'll make sure to reset it and i'll put some new thermal paste because why not 

[EsaT]

12 hours ago, DevilsHand676 said:

Thank you, I asked this on reddit and I got like 10 replies just saying that it sucks and I need to get a knew one.

For actual cooling ability per noise such small water pipe coolers are notably worser than "water cooler" marketing hype.

Having water pipe in place of heat pipe doesn't make heat energy magically disappear and it still needs to be dissipated into air.

And such tiny radiator simply doesn't have especially much of surface area, while pump is additional noise source.

Many better heat pipe coolers would beat it in cooling performance per noise performance

 

But idle CPU state temperatures should be low.

Also might be worth of checking of BIOS settings for CPU voltage are at default.

C-state settings and Windows power management options could also prevent CPU from going to actual idle.

[Origami Cactus]

Well the h60 is worse than a good aircooler under load, but at idle it should be lower.

Try to remount it, and reapply thermal paste.

[LogicalDrm]

It might also be fan speeds. Higher fan speeds result in lower temps. It might be that your mobo is set to silent mode where it doesn't really spin fans when idle.