Overheating problem, need advice.

Sgtoku

Sgtoku

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I have a coolermaster liquid cooling unit in my computer, I have had this comp about a year and 4 months. Here is what is concerning me.

Idle Temps, not running anything but online atm.

Motherboard: 56c
CPU: averaging 51c
HDD: 55c
and GPU: 71c

This is idle temps, I noticed this after I got the 8800 GTS graphics card and a new 650 watt powersupply (the power supply broke down a week ago and the older graphics card was going bad) though it could be the cooling unit, do I need to replace the fluid? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
 
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Kornowski said:
Those are really high for a water cooled computer. Have you done any overclocking on anything?
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Sadly no, that is with no overclocking, I did before but everything is swithced to normal settings for about 4 days now, I am wondering what the problem could be, do you need to replace liquid cooling coolant?
 
You do need to replace it every now and again, I don't know for sure as I don't know much about water cooling, I'd wait for somebody else to post :)
 
I only have a limited experience with water cooling systems, but I can remember that an Idle Prescott 3.2Ghz cpu was around mid 20s to early 30s. In the instructions manual it said that you need to replace the fluid every three months, so yeah you do need to replace the liquid after awhile. I still think that air cooling is the most economical way to go.
 
I wouldn't get water cooling, even if they gave it to me for free, I'd much rather have a nice big case with a few really good fans, like the Antec 900 case, I'd have that any day! :P
 
Well I use a small 10x10 box fan dropped my temps by about 10 degrees :)


Also he is right every 3 months you should change the water.
 
Thanks for the thoughts. I will replace the coolant, for this moment though I found out the graphics card I just bought was making everything hotter, turned the fan to 100% instead of 60% and it has cooled off quite abit. Idle temps are 61c for gpu and when I run a game like fear it goes up to 74c max, so I guess 8800gts cards run hot. Thanks again yall.

Also forgot to mention that that is the temp now with overclocking the card up 600/900, so again it was surly the speed on the graphics fan.
 
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