Decca

I've repasted and it seems ok now. The paste was dry out of the box (received from Amazon two days ago). Max cpu temp now 68 instead of throttling at 95. Liquid temp only gone up about 4 or 5 degrees, settling at 33 with pump at balanced setting of 2070 rpm. Panic over. It's a thumbs up from me at this point :-) Incidentally, there was no pump vibration detected, but clearly it is working!

Temp was measured with HWiNFO64 and AMD Ryzen Master. They matched. I might try repasting it. If no improvement, I'll send it back. My previous Intel 8700 system had a Noctua D15 which was amazing, but it won't fit in my new case. I might try it with tha case open, however...:-)

I've just built a new Ryzen 3700x system on the ASRock X570 motherboard. This is my first AIO system and I'm shocked to find that the CPU temps rise to the throttling limit of 95 degrees within 30 seconds of running a CPU stress test, with iCue settings of Balanced. If I set it to Extreme, it drops to 93 degrees. This can't be right. How can I tell if the pump is even working?