- Jul 17, 2003
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I recently upgraded from an i5-3570k system cooled by an Antec Kuhler 920 (in a Refine R4 case)
I had decent temps with that setup. Around 25-28 idle, near 60 when encoding with handbrake, but that was with a very silent custom profile.
The upgrade was to a 5820k and in the process, I swapped over to a Nepton 140XL cooler system. Should be able to keep it nice and cool, right?
To my surprise, when I first got the new system up with the 5820k, I was seeing low-mid 30s idle and up to 70-72 when running handbrake. Of course, the JefFlo fans were screaming.
I thought, well, it is a 130W CPU.
A few weeks passed and it was still bothering me. Perhaps I didn't get a good interface? I remember being a little clumsy when I was mounting the pump.
So, last night I took off the pump to clean and re-apply the paste. When I took off the pump, I almost immediately realized that I made one of the most boneheaded mistakes ever in my near 20 year computer building history. I left the stupid protective film on the bottom of the pump block! Doh! I remember being overly worried about damaging the copper face. Won't happen again.
Bottom line, after reinstalling (without the film), my idle temps went down to 28C (in a 22C room). Load temps are now around 45-49 on a normal profile. I haven't tried Gigabytes silent profile yet. It wasn't too loud at the 'under 50' fan speeds, so I think I'll leave it.
That's more like it!
I had decent temps with that setup. Around 25-28 idle, near 60 when encoding with handbrake, but that was with a very silent custom profile.
The upgrade was to a 5820k and in the process, I swapped over to a Nepton 140XL cooler system. Should be able to keep it nice and cool, right?
To my surprise, when I first got the new system up with the 5820k, I was seeing low-mid 30s idle and up to 70-72 when running handbrake. Of course, the JefFlo fans were screaming.
I thought, well, it is a 130W CPU.
A few weeks passed and it was still bothering me. Perhaps I didn't get a good interface? I remember being a little clumsy when I was mounting the pump.
So, last night I took off the pump to clean and re-apply the paste. When I took off the pump, I almost immediately realized that I made one of the most boneheaded mistakes ever in my near 20 year computer building history. I left the stupid protective film on the bottom of the pump block! Doh! I remember being overly worried about damaging the copper face. Won't happen again.
Bottom line, after reinstalling (without the film), my idle temps went down to 28C (in a 22C room). Load temps are now around 45-49 on a normal profile. I haven't tried Gigabytes silent profile yet. It wasn't too loud at the 'under 50' fan speeds, so I think I'll leave it.
That's more like it!
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