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Hi All,
My previous thread was a question, with the help from the overclock.net community I decided what route I'd like to take.
The Problem
So the problem I had is I have an Intel Core I5 4670K that is overclocked to 4.4GHz which is great, but I also have the ability to get a nice overclock on my R9 290 as well but I cannot run the graphics overclock because my current watercooling setup cannot remove the heat well enough and causes a system freeze after a while. After some opinions thrown I decided to purchase a second 240mm radiator (EK-Coolstream RAD XTX 240 Dual) as well as some Corsair SP-120 Low noise High Static Pressure fans for the radiator, this above most methods should have the greatest reduce in temperature.
Before I go and add a secondary radiator I wanted to keep a log so I know what my temperatures where before and then re-run the tests and see what impact it made.
Stress Tests with one dual 240mm Radiator in push configuration
I5 4690K Overclocked @ 4489.28MHz Stress Test with IntelBurnTest
Update
After Cyro999's post I decided to add a very quick bench along with some information from HWInfo which shows all relevant (well most) data. The new stress test (HW264 modified by "Angelotti") is more appropriate for haswell stress tests and didn't nearly fry my CPU like the other one in this post.
HW264 "Angelotti version"

HWInfo Screenshot

CPU-Z

HWMonitor - Massive 90 Degree Celsius Temp at max

Intel Burn Test - Maximum stress settings (Not recommended for Haswell stress tests)

Sapphire R9 290 Overclocked @ Core: 1170MHz Memory: 1500MHz Benchmarked using Unigine Valley
I was looking for the best stress tests for GPU but there seems to be a lot of debate about stress tests providing unrealistic scenarios, the test is to see the impact of adding another dual radiator to the rig so I'll use Valley to provide a baseline

I've logged GPUZ temperatures to a file while running Unigine Valley and here are the max temperatures:
GPU Core Start Temp: 50 Degree's Celsius
GPU Core Max Temp: 69 Degrees Celsius
VRM1 Start Temp: 46 Degree's Celsius
VRM1 Max Temp: 91 Degree's Celsius
VRM2 Start Temp:[/B: 43 Degree's Celsius
VRM2 Max Temp: 59 Degrees Celsius
Later I'll strip the rig, clean, re-thermal paste and install a secondary dual 240mm radiator and re-test
My previous thread was a question, with the help from the overclock.net community I decided what route I'd like to take.
The Problem
So the problem I had is I have an Intel Core I5 4670K that is overclocked to 4.4GHz which is great, but I also have the ability to get a nice overclock on my R9 290 as well but I cannot run the graphics overclock because my current watercooling setup cannot remove the heat well enough and causes a system freeze after a while. After some opinions thrown I decided to purchase a second 240mm radiator (EK-Coolstream RAD XTX 240 Dual) as well as some Corsair SP-120 Low noise High Static Pressure fans for the radiator, this above most methods should have the greatest reduce in temperature.
Before I go and add a secondary radiator I wanted to keep a log so I know what my temperatures where before and then re-run the tests and see what impact it made.
Stress Tests with one dual 240mm Radiator in push configuration
I5 4690K Overclocked @ 4489.28MHz Stress Test with IntelBurnTest
Update
After Cyro999's post I decided to add a very quick bench along with some information from HWInfo which shows all relevant (well most) data. The new stress test (HW264 modified by "Angelotti") is more appropriate for haswell stress tests and didn't nearly fry my CPU like the other one in this post.
HW264 "Angelotti version"
HWInfo Screenshot
CPU-Z
HWMonitor - Massive 90 Degree Celsius Temp at max
Intel Burn Test - Maximum stress settings (Not recommended for Haswell stress tests)
Sapphire R9 290 Overclocked @ Core: 1170MHz Memory: 1500MHz Benchmarked using Unigine Valley
I was looking for the best stress tests for GPU but there seems to be a lot of debate about stress tests providing unrealistic scenarios, the test is to see the impact of adding another dual radiator to the rig so I'll use Valley to provide a baseline
I've logged GPUZ temperatures to a file while running Unigine Valley and here are the max temperatures:
GPU Core Start Temp: 50 Degree's Celsius
GPU Core Max Temp: 69 Degrees Celsius
VRM1 Start Temp: 46 Degree's Celsius
VRM1 Max Temp: 91 Degree's Celsius
VRM2 Start Temp:[/B: 43 Degree's Celsius
VRM2 Max Temp: 59 Degrees Celsius
Later I'll strip the rig, clean, re-thermal paste and install a secondary dual 240mm radiator and re-test