entik Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I've been a bit disappointed with the performance of my H80i so far, so I'm trying to troubleshoot to see if it's the cooler itself that is underperforming...or just my fan configuration. When I first installed the cooler, it ran rather well and resulted in a big drop in CPU temps. But now it seems that my stock Intel cooler could be doing a better job. Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI3 CPU: i7 970 @ 3.85 GPU : 2 x GTX 670 FTW (Main card on PCIE 16x, 2nd on PCIE 8x) RAM: 12GB Corsair Dominator @ 1623 (3 x 4GB) PSU: XFX Black 750w SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 60GB & Kingston 120GB HDD: 2 x Seagate 1TB & WD Green 2TB I am in a push/pull set up, exhausting from the back of the case. The rest of the rig on air: 1 x 120mm Front Intake 1 x 120mm Side Intake 1 x 140mm Bottom Intake 2 x 140mm Top Exhaust Right now it is about 75F/23C in my room and my idle temps are: 37-44 C for CPU 40-43 C for PCIE 16x GPU 38-41 C for PCIE 8x GPU I was considering changing the liquid cooler to Push/Pull intake instead of exhaust because the 2 GTX 670s are putting off a lot of heat inside the case and the radiator is using that air. I wanted to also change the side fan to exhaust. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Have you cleaned the radiator lately? Dust bunny's will clog it an reduce performance. Also what is the pump running at in the BIOS. If your config hasn't changed but temps have then there is a reason for it. Just need to find it. An H80 ma y not be large enough with both of those cards. I run a single 670 on mine and have a 240 rad . And it's just barely keeping up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entik Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share Posted June 27, 2013 I've only had the Cooler for about a month, I don't think it will be clogged yet. Besides, I noticed the increase in temps only a couple days after installing it. I'm not sure I know what you mean by what the pump is running at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonsamus Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Open the Corsair Link software and see how fast the pump is running. It should be around 2200 RPM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmecca1975 Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 The gpu temps are about the same as mine I have I5 3570k with 4.2 overclock your idle temps are the same as mine so is ambient is yours overclocked what temp does it go to with Intel burn test or prime 95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entik Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share Posted June 27, 2013 With a 'divider' of 2, the pump RPM is at 2132. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Thats where it should be. It might be worth trying to remount with new thermal paste and see if things change any. But with two 670's that might be more heat than the h80 can hadle while still trying to keep the CPU cool. Even in a P/P config it's not going to give you much more than 3-5c at most . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entik Posted June 29, 2013 Author Share Posted June 29, 2013 Is it normal for the temperature to fluctuate so frequently though? Mine will jump 5-6 degrees at time while monitoring it, non-stop. It just goes back and forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Is it normal for the temperature to fluctuate so frequently though? Mine will jump 5-6 degrees at time while monitoring it, non-stop. It just goes back and forth. If your referring to individual core temps, yes! One or more cores will always be doing some task in the background so the temps will fluctuate. 1-10degrees is not out of the norm. Also what were your ambient temps like a month ago? they will have a huge impact on cooler temps. The x58 platform runs hot to begin with and mine is always a few degrees hotter in the summer. I don't know if this is applicable to you, but figured i would throw that out there just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snfo Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Try using all of your fans as intake fans and the H80i fans as exhaust fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuccessPasta Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Yeah, I just installed the cooler today and I'm having a similar problem, but I really can't call it a problem yet. I'm thinking the thermal paste needs to cure first, but I'm getting about 40 to 45 idle at 4 ghz. I have about 3 fans excluding the radiator ones in my HAF 912. I have two in the front as intakes and one on the top as exhaust. The radiator fans are intakes, which I'm thinking might be a mistake. I keep the side off my case though, but didn't notice much difference. What do you guys think? Wait for the 200 hour cure point to pass or take action now? I've got a 780 coming on Tuesday, so I'd probably wait till then anyway. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryman Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Yeah, I just installed the cooler today and I'm having a similar problem, but I really can't call it a problem yet. I'm thinking the thermal paste needs to cure first, but I'm getting about 40 to 45 idle at 4 ghz. I have about 3 fans excluding the radiator ones in my HAF 912. I have two in the front as intakes and one on the top as exhaust. The radiator fans are intakes, which I'm thinking might be a mistake. I keep the side off my case though, but didn't notice much difference. What do you guys think? Wait for the 200 hour cure point to pass or take action now? I've got a 780 coming on Tuesday, so I'd probably wait till then anyway. Thanks in advance. I'm just gonna say I used arctic silver 5 to begin with but then I used mx-4 and I was getting stock small fft prime load temps of 78-80C then I redid it and I was getting 65C... It looked like the exact same amount of paste! Anyway my point is you might of put on too much/little... Just putting that out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuccessPasta Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 I actually just used the stock thermal cooler on the copper pad. I got my card, but had to go through a huge hassle updating the BIOS in order to get the card to be recognized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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