Mach II r134a evaporator temps?

[evolutionsentra]

I know for a fact my evaporator temps are too high. It gets down to about -44c then levels off at -36c after a couple hours. from what I read it should read in the negative 55-70c range. I know it's not a leak otherwise it would discharge faster. The system has been throughly cleaned of dust (fan blades and heat exchanger). What could be causing this problem?

Even if I had bad contact on the CPU head, shouldn't the evap. head still stay really cold?

 

[justin]

that is very cold for 134a, what are your chip temps?

 

[fatty]

We need your system specs and are you overclocked or stock??

Also has this problem just occured or has it been like this the whole time??

 

[evolutionsentra]

We need your system specs and are you overclocked or stock??

Also has this problem just occured or has it been like this the whole time??

Just started having the problem.

AMD 3200+ @ 3.10ghz

Corsair XMS 2x512mb

ASUS A8N-Sli-Premium

OCZ 520w Powerstream

 

[maverik-sg1]

Sounds like the beginning of the end mate - suggests leakage - but then reading on in your post seems to be just what you said.

It's a tough called, Machs are well known for being over generous in showing the evap temps - better to use something like the BIOS or even better some windows monitoring software (speefan for example).

If it is broke - I got a unit here you can have for £250, 134 mach2, with 3 month warranty

Mav

 

[fatty]

What were your temps b4 you started having the problem and also have you changed any hardware but it may be a leak ???

 

[evolutionsentra]

What were your temps b4 you started having the problem and also have you changed any hardware but it may be a leak ???

Not sure of evaporator temps b/c I just recently got the software to work. But on the same hardware/overclock it would read -22c idle and -08c full load on speedfan. Now it's running -07c idle and 00c full load.

 

[boardy]

Ah, were the fans on turbo before hand? and since installing the software they have reverted to normal.

@mav - windows software is no better than BIOS reading as the windows software pulls its temps off the BIOS readings. So either one is just as gd

Boardy

 

[maverik-sg1]

Ah, were the fans on turbo before hand? and since installing the software they have reverted to normal.

@mav - windows software is no better than BIOS reading as the windows software pulls its temps off the BIOS readings. So either one is just as gd

Boardy

Difficult to read the BIOS temps under load though without it mate

 

[evolutionsentra]

Ah, were the fans on turbo before hand? and since installing the software they have reverted to normal.

@mav - windows software is no better than BIOS reading as the windows software pulls its temps off the BIOS readings. So either one is just as gd

Boardy

That was it! I changed the fans to turbo and within 3-5mins evap. temps dropped 14c. Thanks for the idea, I would have never guessed about the fans.

 

[maverik-sg1]

@mav - windows software is no better than BIOS reading as the windows software pulls its temps off the BIOS readings. So either one is just as gd

Boardy

Thats true but it's pretty hard to monitor the BIOS while in windows with CPU on full load.

Windows monitoring software allows you to view your temps while software is running.

This helps you to check if you have correct contact on the CPU by being able to see the temps in Windows while running an application (such as superpi or OCCT or Pifast).

It also helps with fine tuning your overclock for best 24/7 usage (sub zero temps under load) and for benching (positive temps for such periods).

Mav