Hello gerbils,
I put together a new (liquid cooled) rig yesterday with an i7 3820 at its heart.
Upon booting the device, my temps skyrocket to 95 degrees Celcius just from going into the UEFI / BIOS, which is just mind-boggling.
Everything is stock, custom waterloop with quality german watercooling products (Watercool Heatkiller 3.0 LC waterblock, Alphacool Eheim pump) and a decent but not so special 240mm swiftech radiator that has served me well in previous builds (cooling i5 750 and GTX 295 2PCB model) with reasonable temps.
What do you think could be causing this insanely high CPU temperature? The UEFI HW Monitor is showing the CPU at 95 degrees pretty much instantly upon boot and the temps on all other components seem normal.
My only guess is that I used too much thermal paste and the waterblock is not making adequate contact with the CPU or that maybe I reassembled the Waterblock improperly after converting it from LGA 1156 to LGA 2011.
Help!
Full rig specs:
[*] i7 3820 Sandy Bridge-E @ stock
[*] Watercool Heatkiller 3.0 LC Waterblock
[*] Alphacool Eheim pump / reservoir combo
[*] Swiftech 240mm radiator
[*] ASrock Extreme4 x79 Motherboard
[*] Corsair TX850 850w non-modular PSU
[*] 8GB G.Skill ripjaws @ 1600 9-9-9-24
[*] GTX 670 SLI
[*] X-Fi Fatal1ty Titanium Pro
[*] Fractal Arc Midi R2
Pic of work in progress prior to connecting all needed PSU connections: