Reddit mentions of IC Value V1

I'll have to double check about the fans blowing the wrong direction, thanks for the tip! As for viruses, I've been doing regular scans of my computer with both Avast and Malware bytes, so I've fairly certain that's not the case.

I went ahead and tried feeling the tubes again and I feel like an idiot, the first tube felt cold because I was feeling it in the middle, whereas I was practically touching the end near the CPU for the "warm tube". Definitely seems like a broken liquid cooler might be the problem now. As for the thermal paste, I used this stuff (link). And I definitely cleaned off the previous thermal paste, I followed a tutorial and did the x-pattern when screwing it back on, etc.


I'm really leaning towards it being a broken liquid cooler now. Still, does that warrant 85-92 degrees on idle? I'll try to buy a new liquid cooler and apply the thermal paste more carefully this time, if indeed I messed up.


Thanks a ton for the feedback, I'm truly grateful not to be left alone figuring this stuff out :P