As the title states. I've been having a heck of a time with controlling temps on this card recently. Noticed temps soring to 85c in 7days to die. ive never air cooled this card always liquid cooled all my gpus. this is the first time I'm having this issue. when I redone some of the tubing I swapped coolants to XSPC EC6. Before I ran EK cryofuel blood red for years no issues. due to recent events I've swapped coolant brands. this is when I've noticed these temps.
While I had the system apart re-bending tubes I ordered Kingpin Thermal paste. applied it top the gpu and cpu. started having issues. so I pulled the card back out and removed the block found out I didn't apply the paste very well. that stuff is thicker than a snicker. so I went back with my tried and true Arctic silver. same outcome. Hotspot temps i just seen was 109c. I know I correctly applied the paste this go round as I always spread the paste. I know there's mixed views on how to correctly do this. but this has always worked well for me.
today I pulled the rads out swapped out my noctua fans back to my lian li as everyone was saying that's the issue since temps would come back down once I pulled the front cover off the case. my cooling loop is the exact lay out in this case as it was when I put my 8600k build in it.
When I changed over to my 12900k with the classified z690 I was using my lian li fans no issues. the 8600k build with this gpu was with my noctuas no issue.
could this be an issue with coolant? as now fans have been proven not to be the case here.
I'm literally stumped. Also what else could factor into high hot spot temps? Thanks in advance
Case: Fractal Designs Define s2
mobo: Classified Z690
Cpu:i9 12900k
RAMM: corsair dominator 32 gigs ddr5 6000
GPU: Evga 2080ti xc gaming
gpu block: EKWB Vector
PSU: Evga Super nova 1300
Coolant: XSPC EC6
post edited by holeyguy66 - 2024/11/23 14:36:19