The original post: /r/watercooling by /u/SinisterSh0t on 2024-12-27 02:31:33.
Late Last Year I purchased an EK Nucleus AIO CR360 Dark after my previous Corsair AIO Died, To be honest I'm glad for the Upgrade as my Corsair AIO was neither very good and seemed to worsen over time but more importantly the Software Bloat that ICUE is was plain annoying.
It's why I bought the EK Nucleus, I heard very good reviews on the product and the lack of proprietary software meant I could just run it either directly via the motherboard's own fan control options or use the simplistic 3rd party Fan Control Program by Remi Mercier that has been excellent thus far.
I have plans in the future to upgrade the Entire PC Specs in General as While I'm running a 3900x which is still a decent CPU, I carried over my 1080Ti and PCIE-3 SSD over from my First PC Build. What I'm curious about is what to do about the Thermal Performance of my PC.
I've heard newer components are alot more power hungry these days, and thus push out a lot of heat. On a Good Day my PC can be anywhere between 38*c and 45*C, sometimes even lower than that [once saw it as low as 28-32*C]. Temperature's will slip into the mid 50's range under load while I work or Game. In the Summer it can be anywhere between early to mid 60*C range, sometimes even 70*C.
That's still better than the corsair which eventually was hurtling toward 90*C+ under a normal load.
I Live in a Old House, and my room doesn't exactly have the best ventilation so I'm wondering what I could do to Improve my overall cooling performance once I upgrade my other components So I'd like some advice on PC Cases, Fans and Thermal Compounds please. [I have no experience with Custom Water Cooling, Hence Using AIO's.]
I've heard about Thermal Pads, mainly one named PTM7950. I'm not sure how well this does in comparison to Thermal Paste so some information would be appreciated on the subject, thank you. I've seen documents and videos about it being good for Air Cooling, but nothing on AIO Water Cooling.