Z270 K6 BIOS Setting for Watercooler

Kanty wrote: Hey everyone, I've been having spikes up to 70c for a i7 7700k non OC turbo 4.5 GHZ on some games...namely Battlefied 1 and Ghost Recon Wildlands. I was just wdonering about the fan settings in the BIOS...at the moment it's set at full fan speed, but there's a mode called performance mode that I was curious if it'd help my temps. Also curious if spikes up to 70c with a Asetek 550LC seem normal? Idle temps are perfectly fine at around 30c. Thanks guys!

A single fan, 120mm size radiator, AIO liquid cooler is not an exceptional CPU cooler, sorry to say. But short term temperature spikes will happen with any CPU cooler, even full custom liquid configurations.

If your cooler's fan is running at the Full Speed setting, which means the fan is at its full speed (100%) all the time, regardless of the CPU temperature, what could possibly be better for cooling than that? You are at the maximum potential of your CPU cooler, assuming it is pulling air in from outside the PC case.

The performance mode setting is simply set to about 70% of the maximum speed up to some point, maybe 50C or 60C, and then up to 100% above that.

How is you cooler's pump connected to power in that PC? Is the pump running at full speed all the time?

Spikes up to 70C while gaming does not sound unusual for an i7-7700K. But a lot of important information is missing. Such as, what is the CPU usage when it reaches 70C, and what is the CPU's VCore voltage when that happens?

Okay I will fill you guys in, usage varies between 60-90% when It gets to those temps on these particular games...I thought the cooler was okay given that I'm not Overclocking in any way..of note though, I did a 2 hour stress test on the intel extreme tuning utility and the CPU never went over 69c if that's a useful info bit. I apologize for not being more informative....will I be okay rolling with this cooler for awhile even with those semi high temps? The higher temps mostly occur in GRW and BF1...I'll have to test others as well. And when I say spikes to 70c I mean like literal half second spikes to 70c and than it will quickly drop to 58-62c work it's way up to 65c and eventually more so occasionally reach 70c.

Also, the stress test had it pulling 1.32 Volts and 4.5GHZ and it never went above 69c within the two hour period.

So far on BF1 after about 15 minutes or so I'm getting roughly 70 percent CPU usage while on about 60-67c temps

Ok, this is important, how is your radiator set up? Is it drawing cool air from outside the case or operating as an extractor fan?