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I will monitor the temps during long gaming periods, it's very obvious to me now that I should've went the extra mile on the cooler but I figured liquid cooling would be adequate no matter the cooler, but as I said I will monitor the temps during long gaming periods when I have the time and post back to this thread if anything new comes up if that's okay with all of you....thank you all for being so helpful! You guys are awesome on this forum.
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It can be scary to see those higher numbers for the max, this happens more with AiO water coolers than it does with air coolers that dump heat faster when the fans spin up. When I first got my AiO I thought it may be defective because I was seeing some high temps, well above what my high end air coolers would get to. It turned out I hadn't set it up right, I had my pump (in the CPU block) attached as in PWM fan mode rather than pump mode and set to silent rather than full speed. This introduced even more lag between fans ramping up and temps going down. That is why I suggested you check yours. 

Ultimately though, even set to the "silent" profile the pump will ramp up and temps will go back down. I did find out that it is better for the pump to run at full speed all the time, it should last longer without the speedups and slowdowns given coolant flow and inertia and a bunch of other sciencey reasons Tongue

The reason we all mentioned those temps being on the high side is that you are running at stock, not overclocked. Wardog, Parsec and myself all run AiOs in our systems ranging from H100i to H110i, all 240 and 280mm radiator versions. Your temps are significantly higher than ours but your radiator is a 120mm, half or less than half the size.

So, check to make sure your pump is set to full speed in the UEFI
Make sure you have a balance of intake and exhaust fans, buy another one if you have to they are cheap.
Set your fan profile for your AiO fans to a more aggressive profile or max it out (if noise isn't a problem for you)

Then enjoy your system. Don't be afraid to dig into things, do some research, ask questions here. You are embarking on a journey where there are so many paths to take. Half the fun in owning a beastly PC is tweaking it and trying to get the most out of it.
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I do in fact have the fans on full speed in BIOS, so do things get a little more worrying now that that's cleared up?
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Okay I have the case off to look at the plug ins, the cooler is hooked into the pump and the radiator is warm to the touch
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And I hadn't really noticed, but the radiator is sandwiched between two fans both facing front wars inside of the case. Is this an issue?
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Hey Xaltar, I have a question...my ambient temps are 102 degrees F in the case, could that be the reasoning? As soon as I turn V Sync on and the GPU doesn't have to work as hard presuming less heat, things starts to cool down a good 6 degrees.
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Originally posted by Kanty Kanty wrote:

Hey Xaltar, I have a question...my ambient temps are 102 degrees F in the case, could that be the reasoning? As soon as I turn V Sync on and the GPU doesn't have to work as hard presuming less heat, things starts to cool down a good 6 degrees.



A pic of where you have the computer pigeonholed under the desk might go a long way in visually explaining your temp issue.
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I really don't know how to post a picture.
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Originally posted by Kanty Kanty wrote:

I really don't know how to post a picture.


Well, do not use Dropbox. Right Xaltar? Ouch


I use http://imgsafe.org/ to host my pics. Upload it there, leaving the imgsafe page open, then follow the below.


Then create a new post here and at the top is what appears a greenish icon depicting a tree in a field. Click on it, erase the http:// that auto appears, paste your imgsafe pic link there, click Preview, then click OK at the bottom.

That's it.










Edited by wardog - 17 Mar 2017 at 12:45pm
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Okay will do, I may even post a couple pics of the inside.
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