- Jun 23, 2001
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I'm ran into a minor problem on the first go, getting the cold plate properly seated due to the standoff screws in the backplate not being fully tight. Cold plate only made contact with about 1/2 the i5 4670.
I'm fairly certain I've gotten it seated correctly now, but temps still seem similar to the stock Intel cooler I had previously. Using the ASRock A-Tune utility(which I don't much care for), the idle temp seems to be ~33C/91F. And thats with it about 72F in the house. Utility reports about 31C/87F as the motherboard temperature.
To load up the CPUs a little in something I've done before, I used Handbrake to encode the 480p test video in the Handbrake benchmark thread in the the CPU forum. This peaked at about 63C/145F. This seems a tad high, given that the last time I ran this, the stock Intel cooler peaked at 71C with it being 25C/78F in my house at the time.
Right now, I have the Corsair fan set as an exhaust since there's a large 140mm intake fan in the front of the case with nothing save a few cables between it and the radiator.
I'm running Prime95 right now, and watching the CPU temp report 74C/165F after only a few seconds.
Edit - 79C
Edit 2 - Nope, weren't normal. Did some Googling and digging. A concern was that the backplate and standoff screws were loose, even after being fully finger tightened on the mobo side. There was maybe a milimeter of space between the Corsair plate and the metal plate of the socket, which made the whole thing seem very lose. This seems to be normal, and once the block is installed and tightened, there's no give. What seemed to be my issue was the orientation of the Corsair backplate. The plate has cut outs that must be mounted towards the top, otherwise the water block will not sit even. The pictures in the manual do show the plate being mounted with the cut outs up, but makes no mention that it is required. Little confusing as the plate can be screwed in in any orientation.
After I fixed that, remounted, Prime95 peaks at 63C. Much more to my liking. Handbrake with the same file above seems to top at 55C.
I'm fairly certain I've gotten it seated correctly now, but temps still seem similar to the stock Intel cooler I had previously. Using the ASRock A-Tune utility(which I don't much care for), the idle temp seems to be ~33C/91F. And thats with it about 72F in the house. Utility reports about 31C/87F as the motherboard temperature.
To load up the CPUs a little in something I've done before, I used Handbrake to encode the 480p test video in the Handbrake benchmark thread in the the CPU forum. This peaked at about 63C/145F. This seems a tad high, given that the last time I ran this, the stock Intel cooler peaked at 71C with it being 25C/78F in my house at the time.
Right now, I have the Corsair fan set as an exhaust since there's a large 140mm intake fan in the front of the case with nothing save a few cables between it and the radiator.
I'm running Prime95 right now, and watching the CPU temp report 74C/165F after only a few seconds.
Edit - 79C
Edit 2 - Nope, weren't normal. Did some Googling and digging. A concern was that the backplate and standoff screws were loose, even after being fully finger tightened on the mobo side. There was maybe a milimeter of space between the Corsair plate and the metal plate of the socket, which made the whole thing seem very lose. This seems to be normal, and once the block is installed and tightened, there's no give. What seemed to be my issue was the orientation of the Corsair backplate. The plate has cut outs that must be mounted towards the top, otherwise the water block will not sit even. The pictures in the manual do show the plate being mounted with the cut outs up, but makes no mention that it is required. Little confusing as the plate can be screwed in in any orientation.
After I fixed that, remounted, Prime95 peaks at 63C. Much more to my liking. Handbrake with the same file above seems to top at 55C.
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