fishysauce

The ambient temperature is about 26 degrees and under mixed CPU/GPU load. The case I have is an NZXT h500i with the radiator mounted as intake on the front. For exhaust, I have 2 Corsair LL120 (White) fans. (1 on rear, 1 on top) They are set at fixed 65% (~1800rpm). I'm not sure how to find out what my vCore is but iCue shows vCPU as anywhere from 0.74v - 1.23v (light duty chrome browsing)

Yes, but the thing is the false change from turning the lighting on LOWERS the coolant temperature. Right now, the coolant temperature is about the same temperature as the CPU temperature at idle. Under load, the coolant temperature goes as high as 38.5 degrees and CPU temps hover around 50.

Within the past week, my H100i Platinum SE has been idling much higher than it did before. Before this problem came up, light tasks such as browsing the internet, etc, my computer would idle at ~25 degrees give or take 1 or 2 degrees. Now, it idles at about 35 degrees. (According to iCue). From what i've read, most people have an issue regarding having RGB on which caused the temperatures to read higher than what it really was. I too had this problem.. except now when I turn RGB on, it causes my temps to go DOWN. (~3 degrees) From what I recall the only thing i've changed is I updated iCue software to the latest one but have since downgraded it back to 3.17.94 Also, I updated the firmware of my cooler to 1.01.15 so this may or may not be the problem. Should I downgrade the cooler firmware back to what it was before? Thanks