Well I fixed the reboot in 5 seconds issue but for some reason, this watercooling system is far worse off than the stock coolers/heatsinks I had. I upgraded because I would lock up sometimes with those, but this is running much hotter ( it would seem) and I lock up a lot more. Anything that puts a load on my CPU be it a game (locks up as soon as I get in) or video editing stuff. I have the fans on full, and I don't have anything overclocked. What is with this?
http://www.cluboverclocker.com/revie...cliquidcooler/
is what I am using. As you can see from that review it stayed at 44 degrees when under a load. Mine is at around 55 idle! And they were running the fans at at 44-45%.
I have no idea why my results are soo poor compared to others that I have seen on the web.
Why is my computer so hot? This is very frustrating that my stock stuff was better...
anyhow, if anyone has a suggestion, please share

I've personally got no experience of water cooling. Have you tried getting in touch with the Tech Support guys at the retailer where you bought it?

yes. No reply. That is ok though because I got it myself now. Just turned out that the temp wire wasn't close enough to the CPU underneath the heatsink thing. So when the computer was on, it (the water cooling system) thought that it was 15 degrees cooler than it really was. The lowest setting for the temp to turn on the water pump is 40. So by the time it kicked in it was almost already overheated. I moved the wire now and so it kicks in at the right time and so far my system is perfectly stable and cool.
Idle is about 36 and load is usaually about 44.
So thanks for the replies! Lesson here: make sure the wire is as close to the actual CPU as possible...

Cool - thanks for the update



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