Alternatively you could use very high fan speeds (>2000 rpm). It clearly requires at least 2x120mm radiator slots and fans. At a reasonable fan volume and decent water temperature (200W, at the extreme something like 250W just like the i7 920 did. We have a simple rule for calculating the thermal capability of watercooling loop.
The H100 is about the only one that does do notably better and that is because its got 2x120mm fans with double the radiator area. The prebuilt watercoolers don't perform much better than high end air unfortunately. Maybe I have a bad cooler and need to exchange it? Anyone else have any ideas?
INTEL EXTREME TUNING UTILITY I7 3960X INSTALL
I'm on the verge of returning the water cooler and getting a Cooler Master air cooler, but I'd hate to do that since the Corsair H60 runs nice and quiet, which is something I desire.ĭid I not install the cooler correctly? I doubt it, since every time I remove it, I see that the thermal paste on it looks OK, i.e. That spreads better and the performance was a little better, like around 40 degrees idle, but recently the performance has worsened. So I returned that and got a Shin-Etsu MicroSi for real cheap. The first one was an Antec Formula 6, but I hated that one because it was too thick and didn't spread well. I've even seen some throttling when the load is around 15% (playing Starcraft II), though that's probably due to one or two cores heating up. At 100% load, the utility reports around 40-60% throttling because the temperature is at the limit of 90 degrees. At idle, the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility reports a core temperature around 52-58 degrees. I must have done something wrong, or I must be a newbie when it comes to water coolers (having used nothing but Intel's stock air coolers that come with their retail CPUs).īut I have a Corsair H60 installed on my Intel Core i7-3960X, and it's not performing as well as I would expect.
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