Ok, so I got an Exos2 the other day and installed it all, but it seems only marginally better than my old Alpha HSF.
Heres my setup:
Athlon 64 3000+
nvidia 6800
MSI K8N Neo Plat.
1GB OCZ DDR433
Exos 2
CPU-300-V10 waterblock.
Now, at stock speeds with JUST the cpu cooled I run about 96f on the cpu, with the alpha 8xxx heatsink and a decent but not terribly high powered 80mm fan I could run stock around 96-98.
Now, color me wierd here but I would have assumed that $425 would have bought me a better cooling solution that that.
I used all the tubing they provided in two runs so I DO have a bit too much tubing but nothing insane. there are no air bubbles in the waterblock and there is only one or two pockets of very small bubbles in the hose that wont budge no matter wat I do.
Also running the fans at lvl1 yields a temp of 100f, running them at lvl10 yields 86f, so running them at lvl5 yields 98f and at lvl5 its not only no BETTER than the air cooler its also at LEAST as noisy....
So I've come to the conclusion that something HAS to be wrong. I have a friend with an older koolance case and his runs an athlon 2500+ at 600Mhz overclock with the CPU AND NB cooled at 96f so something is wrong if I cant get that same temp at idle and stock speed.
A video of the resvoir showing the water activity, not sure if thats the normal amount of movement I should be seeing.
Anyone got any tips tricks or suggestions? I'm tapped.
About to try hassling koolance to see wtf the deal is.
Heres my setup:
Athlon 64 3000+
nvidia 6800
MSI K8N Neo Plat.
1GB OCZ DDR433
Exos 2
CPU-300-V10 waterblock.
Now, at stock speeds with JUST the cpu cooled I run about 96f on the cpu, with the alpha 8xxx heatsink and a decent but not terribly high powered 80mm fan I could run stock around 96-98.
Now, color me wierd here but I would have assumed that $425 would have bought me a better cooling solution that that.
I used all the tubing they provided in two runs so I DO have a bit too much tubing but nothing insane. there are no air bubbles in the waterblock and there is only one or two pockets of very small bubbles in the hose that wont budge no matter wat I do.
Also running the fans at lvl1 yields a temp of 100f, running them at lvl10 yields 86f, so running them at lvl5 yields 98f and at lvl5 its not only no BETTER than the air cooler its also at LEAST as noisy....
So I've come to the conclusion that something HAS to be wrong. I have a friend with an older koolance case and his runs an athlon 2500+ at 600Mhz overclock with the CPU AND NB cooled at 96f so something is wrong if I cant get that same temp at idle and stock speed.
A video of the resvoir showing the water activity, not sure if thats the normal amount of movement I should be seeing.
Anyone got any tips tricks or suggestions? I'm tapped.
About to try hassling koolance to see wtf the deal is.