Hello everyone,
I'm experiencing what I assume are unusually high temperatures using the H100i v2 water cooling system.
The setup is as follows:
This is an older picture, these days there's no HDD anymore (only M.2 SSD) and I moved the soundcard lower and I changed the fans from blow to suck (but still exhaust up out of the case).
Settings:
Pump: Quiet
Fans: Quiet Preset
While idle with a room temperature of 24.3 °C the CPU reaches temperatures of up to 55-60 °C and water temperatures of 40+ °C.
Using a thermometer I measure 24.5 °C at Sys Fan #1 and about the same directly below the radiator. (I use a thermistor thermometer which is very accurate).
I use a giant 220mm side-fan that sits directly below the radiator, which is why the intake air temperature is about the same as the room temperature (24.3 °C). The temperature above the radiator exhaust is 25.5 °C
So basically:
Sys #1/#3 Intake --> Radiator Intake --> Radiator Exhaust
.......24.2 °C....................24.3 °C..................25.5 °C
I took these measurements just now after cleaning the radiator of any dust that could cause problems.
This is at complete idle:
Doing a stress test on the CPU reaches more than 90 °C! (96 °C until I cancelled the test).
I have felt the radiator, and it seems like only the first 1/4 of it gets warm. The rest is cold. Could it be that the radiator is clogged?
It seems like there's something wrong with my cooler, or am I mistaken?
