Aurora R11, what temp should my i7-10700F be running?

"The H60 Hydro Series AIO cooler is only around $100."

I bought mine from bestbuy for $45 a while back.

I just checked best buy and the H60 is $59.99 right now.

$100 is pricey even for an H75.

YouTube is your teacher. Actually, if you can afford a licensed PC technician, they will do a night-and-day better job installing the CPU liquid cooler for you, than any YouTube amateurish hack ever can.

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    Looks like I have some extra shopping to do! I'll definitely be heading into my local and most renowned PC shop to check out your suggestions. I would like to buy and install this all myself, but I'm still pretty green. Makes me wish I had friends who are tech savvy to watch over my shoulder while I attempt to learn. I mean I actually opened up my PC for the first time to really look at where I need to begin and install a cooler (with a little help from youtube.) However, when I opened/ closed the power source I accidentally unplugged the SATA cable that connected my 1TB HD and I thought I ruined my PC lmfao. After a few bad words and anxiety ridden moments passed I was at least able to find the common sense to identify the issue and plug it back in... Needless to say this was a reality check and I will need supervision from someone with experience to continue with this. If you guys have any outlets or suggestions on learning the anatomy of these magic boxes, don't hesitate to let me know! 

Thanks for the helpful suggestions, I'll be a pro some day... maybe.

i just got through doing this and i'm not really seeing better temps. i also put a ml120 pro in the front fan. i also still get the startup error with the 120 pro. no idea how to diagnose this either. this is the first time that i've done anything more than install RAM. 

i'm running zoom right now with the below system temps and it's no better than it was air cooled. here's a stupid question, but what direction should the two fans be pointing?

pic below of the setup. i'm pretty sure that i have it all done correctly but i'm still getting the startup error. temps are better now by the way since i swapped the fan and radiator around. it's also been pointed out that it's weird that there are no rvm heatsinks. is that something i can find and install?

I might be late to the party and you may have already caught this but I am almost certain that your corsair fan mounted in the top fan location is oriented incorrectly, meaning that it is blowing air into the case instead of blowing it out. The Corsair logo is on the front of the fan with the air flowing from behind it. The back of the fans are where the cords are and have the regulatory info. In short: air flows through the fan from cord side to logo side.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/199318/intel-core-i7-10700f-processor-16m-cache-up-to-4-80-ghz.html

TJUNCTION100°C

What matters the most is the temperature under load. How it looks when it is idle is of little consequence, unless it is abnormally high. 

To determine if it is abnormally high, I have my own rule of thumb that if it is below the maximum temperature -50 Celsius it is good. (100 - 50 = 50)

CPU's will clock up and down, even when idling. You might see spikes up to 60 Celsius under no load conditions, but those would only exist for a very small period of time. It should average out below 50.

@K1tt3nb0i the fan is correctly mounted I think ML 120 Pro from the inside

Err, it was the top exhaust fan, if you see the logo from the inside of the case, it is exhausting

ML 120 ProDirection (up)

Pull from the outside:

ML 120 Pro + 30mm 6-32 screws

I was responding to hawkhandler's picture from 12-03-2020 07:59 AM. In that picture the top fan is directing the airflow into the case instead of out of it. The top and front fans will be oriented opposite each other, so that front fans draw in air and tops fan exhausts it. So if you are looking inside your case with the side off, for the front fans you should see the corsair logo, and for the top fan you should see the regulatory info/cord attachment. Also tossing in an extra fan in the 3.5" hdd caddy helps a lot; I just used a Y split cable and had no problems. @markburvif those 2 pics are of the same fan in the front intake position they are correct. You can also do a super simple test and hold a piece of string or hair in front of your intakes/output areas and see which way it is pushed or pulled to confirm your positioning. I hope that helps!

@hawkhandler 

Howdy Friend,

The Intel i7 10700F process can handle fairly high temperatures for sustained periods of time. This is part of the reason Dell favors Intel and uses them in their Alienwares. 

That chip monitors itself and will start shutting in down or throttling at dangerous peaks. That temp is right around 100 degrees celcius.

Anything under 100°C is safe for that processor (90-100 for short periods of time is fine). 89 and below is where the normal range is under graphic intensive loads.

That specific processor is put in a bunch of the air cooled Alienware R11's and those will float between 86-92°C (usually smack dab at 89 in my experience) while playing graphic intensive AAA gaming titles. The fans in that bad boy at those temps literally sounds like a turbine lol (I got 2 of them one at my business and one at home). 

Now if your running AMD chips all around that's a different story. You generally would want ro run those much cooler.

If you start noticing your games starting to "lock up/freeze" or you screen appear to glitch out then check your Temps. Your processor may have went into that high-temp self preservation-mode (~100°C). This is also generally when you'll want to start double checking your cooling hardware install, dusty vents, etc to make sure everything is up to par.

If you really want the AIO try reaching out to sales asap.  The worst they can say is no.  With the i9 and 3080 you might potentially be looking at delays anyway.