childofthetao
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Hi, when I run OCCT my max temps after five minutes go up to 72 degrees.I have a 4770K running at stock speeds. I honestly expected much lower max temps from a H100, is that normal?
I was thinking of going the sealed watercooled unit route, but after much research it turns out my "high quality air cooler" is not only quieter, less expensive, but also out performs these off the shelf units. If you want better, you will have to go for 'full on' watercooling that gives you a larger reservoir, better pump for more pump flow, bigger radiator, better block. A package, lets say from EKWB though will likely cost 4 or 5 times as much as that H100 unit.Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, (yes, really), but couldn't you get 65 or 70C, with any one of a dozen or so, high quality air coolers? Particularly if the 4770 isn't overclocked.
No matter what, if your at stock and your running an H100/h100i then that temp is way to high in my book. Ive got friends with the 4770k on Single 120mm Radiators that are keeping the temps below 60 overclocked to around 4.3ghz on one of them I know for sure (This tested under prime95) because I helped him with that.It's actually 65, there's a panel that covers the fan, I removed it. I'm gonna try reapplying the paste again.
Also check in bios that the spot the pump cord is hooked to is set to something like performance mode or high mode
Are you running Speedfan or something similar that is throttling the fan RPM? Or is your mobo BIOS/UEFI set to quiet mode?
Well on an MSI board with UEFI the setting should say something like a "Settings" column/button, under that you should get a list of all the fans and speed settings to adjust. It should look something like this LINK (Note: Thats a Z68 bios but they have not changed it much up to Z87).That might be the case, any idea where I might be able to find that setting?