Watercooling New CPU loop temperatures?

Hello guys, got my new custom cpu loop set up, VERY happy with how it looks, rx360 with push pull fans, ek extreme hf, d5 vario and all black bitspower fittings, I just wanted to know is 30 degrees a good temperature idle? many thanks guys, Luke

 

I think we may need to know yur cpu and clock speed/voltage?

 

It depends.

Whats the ambient temp and what is the full spec of your system

 

I'm leak testing a similar loop(EK Supreme LT, Coolstream 240) and I'm getting a idle temp of 24C(average) with an ambient temp of 19C.

I've got an i5 2500K with a vcore of 1.39V @5GHz, although it drops to 1.6GHz/1.25V idle.
Take the comparison as you wish, but 30C is a very decent temperature.

 

The full spec is an intel 2700k, asus maximus iv extreme-z, gtx 580 3gb x2, crucIal m4 ssd, creative sound blaster x-fi

The ambiant temperature I'm not so sure off, I'm in northern Ireland if that helps

Thanks, Luke

 

load would be a better temperature to work from

 

It's about 17 degrees in the room roughly and 42 playing bf3 maxed out

 

Use a proper benchmark application like Prime95 or IBT to test your load temps

 

Ok no problem, will when I get home on iPhone atm, any particular settings I need to use on prime (never used it before) ?

Thank you for the help

 

I would say IBT is best for stressing just the CPU, Prime95 is a more overall stress tester. With IBT, use at least high and 10 loops.

For Prime95, a good Large FFT test should do, or a Blend test

 

Small FFt's I think it is, and make sure it's set to 8 in the cores/threads bit.

 

running prime atm.. how many tests will i let it do?

 

I'd say let it run for a couple of hours, if your testing an overclock however you should aim for at least 12 hours, preferably 24hrs

 

just the processors regular speed, hasn't went over 50 yet, is that a good temp for this sort of thing?

 

Depends what your ambient temperature is, but yes that sounds pretty good to me

 

Prime isn't a great test really. Doesn't really stress using much RAM. Intel Burn test is much better, as set on max, it tests all your ram, and pushes the CPU harder. Also... there's no real need to stress for so long with IBT. If it can do an hour or two set on Max, you can be pretty confident it won't fall over during normal use, no matter how heavy.

 

went and got me a thermometer earlier, the ambient temp in the room is around 21, temperature of the pc is around 31 on boot, and so far around 50 stressed all good in the hood?

 

ill get intel burn test and give it a go in around 15 mins, is there just a setting to put it on max?

 

You'll see it... called stress level. Just set to max, and manually set all cores as the auto thing something ignores HT.

 

all done, 55 degrees overall? how does that sound?