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Discussion in 'Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games' started by The Alchemist, Oct 8, 2015.

  1. abisai2

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    I had a similar situation with a Corsair H100i V2. Under idle/light loads temps were OK but, as soon as any significant load was placed on the CPU temps would spike. In my case, I did not have proper clamping force to the CPU. I took it all apart, double checked all mounting hardware, and reassembled.

    Its also possible the AIO pump could be having issues. I had a h100i V2 fail at around the 10 month mark. It took me a bit to figure that out. At the end of the day, it might be a good idea to have an air cooler on standby just in case or at least until you can sort out your AIO issues.

    Good luck!
     
  2. Galm

    Galm Still looking for Little Red Riding Hood

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    In addition the best aircoolers like a Noctua NH-D15 come within a couple degrees of the AIO watercoolers.

    If you really want good temps do a delid and repaste too.
     
  3. LetMeBeFrank

    LetMeBeFrank Won't tell anyone my name is actually Francis

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    Thanks guys, it's a 4790k with a h100i. This is my second Corsair aio, the other is a 1st generation h100 that is still going strong, now on my work pc, a ryzen 1600. I'll be ordering some thermal paste and doing a reapplication next week.
     
  4. LetMeBeFrank

    LetMeBeFrank Won't tell anyone my name is actually Francis

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    Before changing my thermal compound I ran an aida64 test to get a baseline, and then I took my computer outside to blow out the dust. I noticed only one of the fans for my aio had dust on the filter, turns out the Silverstone pwm fan controller I bought a while back doesn't work right. The glossy port (the one it's supposed to get rpm reference from) wasn't actually turning on that fan. So I plugged it into a different port and finished dusting. I then applied the new paste, arctic mx-4. When I booted up the computer all fans were working and it was idling significantly cooler and quieter than before with way less temp spiking. Not sure how much of this is due to the new paste and how much is due to both fans spinning. I also ran aida64 after and here are both results:

    Before:
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    After:
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    I think tomorrow after work I'll disable that fan again and run the test to compare thermal paste before/after.
     
  5. dark_energy

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    Here are my results for properly OC'ing an i5 3570k to 4.5GHz with MSI z77 board. Goal was to have some energy saving features enabled.

    First OC attempt
    (voltage too high?) 4.5GHz ,coreV: 1.25V. In game performance was significantly better vs before (4.2GHz CoreV: - auto)
    The problem with the 4.5GHz OC was that the voltage was too high and CPU power spiked to 70watts, basically instant increase to 68-70 C degrees. It seemed like too much power.

    Second OC attempt
    (stable) - 4.4 [email protected] , added new thermal paste just in case and changed CPU fan (Bitfenix Spectre PWM, before i used Bitfenix case fan because it is inaudible at 1000rpm). Now temps hit only 60-62 deg C with prime95 on maximum load.

    Final OC settings (stable) - 4.5 [email protected], using OC Genie2 mode(motherboard mode that enables all OC features), but i am still able to use power saving features, clocks down to 1.6GHz and in between. (EIST - on; TurboBoost - off, not needed as EIST changes clocks anyway; C1E - must be enabled in my case for EIST)
    wPrime score 262,55s
     
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    Now that H370 and B360 boards are out, I went and purchased an i5 8400 and Gigabyte H370 HD3 for myself! 280 on newegg, plus I'm selling off my older i5 6500 to a buddy for 75, so around a 200 net investment.

    Will post pictures once I install.
     
  7. maverickronin

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    Here's a shot of the inside of my year and a half old build

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    Core components

    • i7 6900K - OC from 3.2GHz to 4.2GHz (AVX multiplier offset of 5)
    • Noctua NH-D15 Heatsink
    • EVGA X99 Classified Motherboard
    • 64GB DDR4 G.Skill Ripjaws V Series @ 3200MHz (I wish I would have bought another 64GB back then before the prices went through the roof...)
    • EVGA GTX970 4GB SSC
    • RocketRAID 2720 RAID controller
    • Corsair HX 1050 PSU
    • 2x Samsung 850 Pro - RAID0 (Boot)
    • 2x WD Black RE2 500GB - RAID1 (Random test VMs)
    • 8x WD Red 3TB - RAID6 (Media storage)
    • 2 extra USB 3.0 cards
    • Fractal Design Define XL case

    Notable monitors, peripherals, etc
    • Asus ROG PG279 - Main display
    • 2 other monitors and 1 TV that aren't anything special
    • 2x 8TB and 1x 5TB external drives for backup
    • DIY fan caddies for the drives so they stay cool and don't die in 6 months
    • Unicomp Classic buckling spring keyboard - Typing
    • OLKB x Massdrop Plank 40% Keyboard w/ Kailh Speed Copper switches - Gaming (reprogram a new layout for every game with AVR EasyKeymap)
    • Roccat Nyth programmable and modular mouse
    • 3Dconnexion Wireless 3D SpaceMouse
     
  8. FallingObjects

    FallingObjects Pay It Forward

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    Man, what kind of media are you storing that you felt you needed to double drive failure proof your home rig?
     
  9. abisai2

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    When using larger than 2TB drives you probably want to roll double parity to ensure no data loss. Nothing worse than losing a RAID array during a rebuild because of an unrecoverable read error.

    I personally roll two Freenas systems at home and I use RAID6 across three of my storage pools.
     
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    Nothing too unusual. Music, movies, anime, and a ton of game installers from GOG and Humble Bundle/Humble Store. I'm a digital hoarder too. There's probably not much reason to keep almost 3TB of installers I could probably re-download whenever I needed to but I like knowing I have it forever and don't have worry about losing anything if a random company goes under.

    For music, movies, anime and other stuff, it would be practically impossible rebuild my collection. Almost none of it came on any physical media and it would be impossible to remember it all to even attempt to find it all again.

    I keep another set of 3 external hard drives as an offsite backup that I update every few months.

    Definitely. For large numbers of drives, and especially large numbers of large drives, the chances of encountering another error on an array rebuild go up.

    More drives = More things to fail
     
  11. FallingObjects

    FallingObjects Pay It Forward

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    Mmm, makes more sense now that you've both put it that way.
     
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    Parity is for chumps. Go Raid 0 or go home.
     
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    Been there, done that. Recovering the data got interesting after the motherboard died though.
     
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    My boot volume is a RAID0. It's a lot smaller so I can keep more backups of it.
     
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    I've not built any new systems for years now.....the last being a used i7 4770K from 2 to 3 years back now. I'm pretty happy with my systems except that when I game, I have more time now since I've retired, my 2x R9 290X, 2x GTX Titan 6GB (both the 290X and Titans share the same monitor, an Acer UW 21:9 3440x1440 monitor) and HD7970 (@2560x1080) weren't really cutting it with modern games. As of sometime last month till a couple of days ago, I'd embarked on a GPU upgrade program for my rigs.

    My main rig was built circa 2011-2012 and it was my dream, at that time, to build the most powerful system I could afford:
    i7 3960X, Asus Rampage IV Extreme, 4x 4GB Corsair Dominator Plat DDR3 2133mhz, Palit RTX 2080 Ti (just upgraded from 2x R9 290X), Seasonic X-1250W PSU, 64bit Win10 Pro (1809)

    2nd rig : i7 4770K, Asrock Z87 Extreme6, 4x 4GB DDR3 RipJawsX 2133mhz, Gigabyte RX VEGA 64 (just upgraded from 2x GTX Titan 6GB), Enermax MAX REVO 1500W, 64bit Win10 Pro (1809)

    HTPC: i7 2600K, Asus Maximus Gene-Z, 4x 4GB DDR3 RipJawsZ 1600mhz, Leadtek GTX 1080 (recently upgraded from HD7970), Corsair HX-1050, 64bit Win10 Home (1809)
     
  16. zerodeefex

    zerodeefex SBAF's Imelda Marcos

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    Now that we're getting a fancy desk for the office, I have to move the boat PC to my audio setup. I'm gutting it tonight and putting my delidded 7700k/1080ti system in a Dr zaber sentry.
     
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    Nice. I almost pulled the trigger on one of those during their campaign. How are you handling heat management in such a small volume; does your 1080ti exhausts out the back, what hsf are you going with to meet the limited clearance?
     
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  18. zerodeefex

    zerodeefex SBAF's Imelda Marcos

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    Using an ASUS Turbo blower.

    For HSF, I'm using the Cryorig C7 with a slim fan. Better thermals than anything else I tested.

    I have two of them from the campaign but finally bit the bullet on the Lian-Li PC-Y6b. Since it will be out of place in my home office, I'll move my audio PC into that thing and bring it down to the basement because a giant boat is too awesome to ditch.

    I only regret having too many Sentries to use right now.
     
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    OMG, what the hell is this case?! :eek::D
     
  20. spwath

    spwath Hijinks master cum laudle

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    You actually spent $399 on a aluminium case shaped like a boat???
    I would so want one if it wasn't so impractically big and expensive.
     

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