H80I high idle temps

[dustynana]

I just bought a new case(s340 elite) and installed all my parts in it. After booting, the first thing i checked was the temps using HWmoniter, cam, and corsair link. They all seem to agree on about low to mid 50'sC on the cpu(i53570k) at idle. When i played gta V the temps increased to about 95C. So what i did was re-positioned the heat-sink, radiator, and fans. This didn't seem to work, so then i checked to make sure the pump is working properly in corsair link. it's running at about 2219 rpm. I decided to then re apply thermal paste, making sure not to put to much or to little, still getting high temps and not sure what to do now.

In my other case i was getting idle temps around 30C-40C and gaming temps rarely went over 75C.

mobo: asus p8h77-vle
cpu: i5 3570k
cooler: corsair h80i
gpu: gtx 970

[patio]

The stock air cooler that ships with that CPU is more than adequate...

Did a build for a friend...last i checked idle was @ 29c...under load never even got to 70c.

[DaveLembke]

Run computer with side panel off of it and see if it still roasts. If it still roasts with the side panel off of it then you have something else going on.

Are you overclocking / overvoltaging at all or running normal clock?

[dustynana]

I tried it with the side panels off, same thing happened. I'm not over clocking or doing anything else that's special.

Recently it'll idle at about mid 50's but now when i game it only gets up to about 74C which seems fairly normal to me.

[DaveLembke]

In my other case i was getting idle temps around 30C-40C and gaming temps rarely went over 75C.

So the only change was the case.. no other changes or upgrades through the process... you moved the guts from one case to the other and then this problem started?

I decided to then re apply thermal paste, making sure not to put to much or to little, still getting high temps and not sure what to do now

Heat sink itself might be flawed then if nothing changed. I assume you cleaned off the old thermal compound properly and it was a clean dry surface before applying new thermal compound.

However I am curious if your BIOS on that board has a way to calibrate the system minimum, medium, and maximum fan speeds to calibrate the CPU fan for the CPU. My low cost Biostar motherboard from 2009 has a CPU FAN Speed option to have it learn minimum, medium, and maximum PWM for CPU Fan control and after calibrating my CPU fan, I got it to run 14 degrees cooler with my quadcore. Do you have any options in the BIOS on that board to have it calibrate the CPU fan speed? Or if it doesnt have a CPU Fan speed calibration feature does it have a FAN speed selection in which you can manually set the FAN speed to 75% or 100% etc. On my Biostar the CPU FAN speed is set to Auto so as the motherboard senses the CPU is rising in temp the CPU fan will speed up to cool it, and once cool it will slow the CPU fan speed. *Maybe the CMOS battery got accidentally shorted when transition from one case to the other and it lost its Fan Speed configuration to cause this change when swapping from one case to the other.

Lastly if adjustment to CPU Fan speed isnt the cure then a new heatsink may be required such as if a heatpipe cracked and alcohol evaporated out of the tube.

[dustynana]

Yeah i might just get a new cooler, depending on what i can do with it within a few days.

[dustynana]

The only thing that changed was the case. I cleaned off the thermal paste completely and reapplied my own. There's no option for fans in the bios, but using corsair link i can modify the radiator fan speeds. But even putting them to the highest speed barely helps. I've been messing with the positions of the case fans and this is what i have.

-two 140mm fans pushing air out(front)
-one 140mm fan pushing air in(top)
-two 120mm radiator fans pulling air in(back)

This seems to yield the same results as the first 3 fans reversed. So not much there.
These are the results i'm getting btw.



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[patio]

There's the issue....

Front = in...Top = out... Rear - out.

[dustynana]

I tried that configuration but it changed nothing.

This is after leaving it off over night.

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[patio]

When did you try it like that ? ?
It's the correct configuration...

[dustynana]

That was the first configuration i did, but it may not have worked if the heat-sink was improperly placed the first time. I'll try it again i suppose.

[dustynana]

I switched the fans to that config, but it just seems to have gotten a bit worse.

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[patio]

What Make and Model # PSU is in this PC ? ?

Have a look at the V readings in CPU ID

[dustynana]

I'm using this PSU

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01MDP5J36/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1485538881&sr=1-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=cx750m&dpPl=1&dpID=41%2BGxnggVlL&ref=plSrch

[patio]

May need another monitor app ...DLoad install and run Speccy...Free.

Then post a screenshot or link to it...