have Swiftech Storm Waterblock (Socket 775) Swiftech MCP655 pump (set at speed 5) Zalman GPU waterblock Swiftech MCP200 radiator (2x120mm, pulling orientation, 2 front pulling, 1 back pushing) pump>cpu>gpu>rad>reservior I am getting very high temps (45C idle) with Pentium D OC'ed at 3.6GHZ. I have reseated the storm like 45 times with AS5 and only a few degress temp variations. I am using 1/2 + 3/8 tygon tubing. 1/2 tubing is from Reservior to pump and pump to waterblock. The rest 3/8th. The pump is at 5 and i cant see any reason why the temps are so high. After a few mins the block does seem luke warm but not burning or anything. The air is warm coming from the rad and the water temp going to the block is about 75-82F. The only thing I can think of is the Storm is not installed with the parts that came with it, rather I used the mounting screws that came with the Big Water 745 block. They seemed the same thing just the Storm more work. The block seems fine and the temps dont drop no matter how much i reseat. Please help BTW- during testing, the pump did run on air for maybe 2 sec. before i killed the switch. This happened a few times but by the speed of the air bubbles and tubing being filled up, I cant see any significant flow decrease.
Which Pent D chip have you got? They are some of the hottest, most worthless procs out there. Especially the Pentium D 8xx series. They will run hot almost no matter what you do, especially overclocked. I don't know anyone that spent the money for liq cooling on those junk procs, but I would figure you would be able to get a lower temp than 45 idle..
