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Temperature Question: Watercooled PC
I have an AMD FX-8350 with a Cooler Master Seidon 240 AIO water kit. I use four 120 mm fans in a push-pull configuration, and the rad is mounted on the top of the case. There are two 120 mm intake fans on the front of the case, one 120 mm on the side panel, and one 120 mm exhaust fan in back.
I think my CPU idle temp is too high.
My ambient room temp is 21C or less
Motherboard temp is 21C
GPU temp is 24C (at idle, air cooling)
CPU idle temp is 35C
To me that is rather high for idle with watercooling. I should note that I run the PC in High Performance mode, without using Cool and Quiet (Speedstep for you Intel boys), and my CPU Vcore is 1.368V (set to auto). The PC is currently running at 4 GHz with a 200 MHz turbo setting now and then. It is not overclocked.
The PC never gets above 50C at full load, but isn't 35C a little high for idle in this situation? I would have thought that the watercooler would reduce the idle temp as well as the max temp. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong.
Thoughts?