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Unread 05-12-2007, 05:02 AM   #7
billbartuska
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Default Re: Water Cooling CPU Temps?

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Originally Posted by kinghong1970
as soon as i started my system, went into bios and checked the hardware monitoring...
Monitoring temps in the BIOS is useless. There is little load on the CPU. Water cooled systems take a while to reach equilibrium. This depends on the individual system components. Get something like CoteTemp, SpeedFan, Everest, etc. Load the CPU with CPUBurn-in, OCCT or some other stressing program. It wil ltake somewhere between 15 min to 2 hrs for CPU load temps to stabalize.

The advice about case cooling is good. Airflow (CFMs) into the case should be about equal to exhaust. And more CFMs are always better for cooling.
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