i need assistance with a new closed loop water cooler.
i need assistance with a new closed loop water cooler.
It seems your concern likely relates to the vcore configuration, possibly affecting other components too. If there was an issue with the cooler, it could also lead to overheating under standard settings. Could you share the temperatures you observed during this process? If you intended to use PWM control via a CPU or MB header, their guidance might have been helpful in checking if RPMs were being applied properly. This isn’t necessarily the primary solution, but worth exploring.
It’s important not to take it personally, as many users mistakenly believe a cooler can handle any BIOS setting, even when they’re suboptimal. The cooler’s performance is limited by the thermal sensors on the die and how effectively heat moves through the IHS, heatsink, and cooling field.
I had a similar setup with a Master Hyper 212 Plus using these vcore values and it performed much better than older air CPU coolers. It ran off the CPU fan header and pump via an MB header, achieving temperatures around 80°C or less. If I ran it at stock voltage, I think a standard Intel cooler would have been sufficient.
Additionally, even at 1.3V, the temperatures are generally acceptable except for the single core, which tends to be very hot. I’ve also tried reapplying thermal paste multiple times without much improvement.
that is a screenshot I took of a 15 minute prime 95 benchmark on small ffts before installing my new cooler, which is on my old cooler master hyper 212 plus air cooler and now with the water cooler. In one second of prime 95 small ffts it reaches 100c. I'm sure this can't be right.
Premium liquid coolers are essentially marketing terms for AIO coolers. Most of them match the performance of decent or excellent air coolers. It still feels like an airlock problem might be at play, but there could be other reasons too. Did you follow the steps I suggested for fixing the airlock? If not, it might not matter much anymore.