Water cooling installed - system hangs - temps low

[Joe]

installed the water cooling setup, everything runs fines circulates fine. My temps are 34 celcius for the CPU and 40 for the gpu.

This is a 3800+ x2 proc and a 7950gtoc - The proc is clocked at 2300mhz which it ran fine on air and the gpu is stock for now. I tried to drop the cpu back to 2200mhz and it still locked a few minutes after using it. I have run this cpu at that speed from day one.

I now reseated the water-block and cpu in the socket to see if maybe while pulling my old HS/F off I might have pull it out slightly causing it to wig out.

There are no leaks that I can see and monitoring temps before the locks shows no change in idle temps. Any ideas? Ill post back if it doesnt lock up now that ive reseated the cpu.

[Joel]

installed the water cooling setup, everything runs fines circulates fine. My temps are 34 celcius for the CPU and 40 for the gpu.

This is a 3800+ x2 proc and a 7950gtoc - The proc is clocked at 2300mhz which it ran fine on air and the gpu is stock for now. I tried to drop the cpu back to 2200mhz and it still locked a few minutes after using it. I have run this cpu at that speed from day one.

I now reseated the water-block and cpu in the socket to see if maybe while pulling my old HS/F off I might have pull it out slightly causing it to wig out.

There are no leaks that I can see and monitoring temps before the locks shows no change in idle temps. Any ideas? Ill post back if it doesnt lock up now that ive reseated the cpu.
This work?

[Joe]

no i had to downclock my cpu to 220 fsb from 230 which ran solid on a heatpipe with big fan combo. Im pretty sure it is my northbridge as was crazy hot after only a short period of running. Gonna research northbridge cooling maybe. OR! just invest in a intel core 2 setup.

[YARDofSTUF]

If you have an older p3 or amd cooler that will fit jsut use arctic silvers epoxy adn glue it on for good. Then you'd have a good cooler and could mount a fan.

Unfortunately though it seems more common now to hid the NB right in line with the pcie slot for the video card so it doesnt work then.

[Rivas]

no i had to downclock my cpu to 220 fsb from 230 which ran solid on a heatpipe with big fan combo. Im pretty sure it is my northbridge as was crazy hot after only a short period of running. Gonna research northbridge cooling maybe. OR! just invest in a intel core 2 setup.

then it's propably NB, the water block is cheap, around 4-10 bucks, just make sure the water is floating from the cold point to the hot and not the opposite.

And yah YOS is right, on the newer mobos it's hard to fit NB cooler, the videocard is blocking it.

[Joe]

pic of board-

http://www.biostar-usa.com/products/socket939/NF4ST-A9/NF4ST-A9_lg.jpg

Gonna run to the comp shop and see if they have thermal adhesive on hand and possibly an old cheesy heatsink with fan. good idea YoS!

[Rivas]

You should have buy that Watercooling setup what Think got, one of the best, price difference wasnt too big, maybe few bucks, they would supplie you with all you need including NB, SB, CPU, video card blocks.
All made in Denmark, there are stickers on every component NOT MADE IN TAIWAN OR CHINA.

I hope YOS idea works for ya :thumb:

[YARDofSTUF]

Joe has been at that comp store a while now...

[Rivas]

Joe has been at that comp store a while now...

:nod: :rotfl:

[Joe]

yea comp store didnt have any and shortly after getting back my girlfriend connec me into going to valleyfair in the twin cities so we pretty much got everything ready for that. I did order a tube off of newegg and it should be here wednesday or so. I would gladly buy a better cooling setup but I plan on upgrading to a 680i intel setup sometime and from what I read they dont have many issues with something like this. I mean all I am doing is overclocking my bus 30Mhz lol.