Do i need a better heatsink and cooling system?

Jamie1989

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Apr 5, 2013
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So i have a iPower G5800 - Ibe just brought a GTX 660 ti 3gb OC and a new cosair hx 650 gold fan as i want to play games on max settings,

no the questions is do i need a better heat sink and fan ?

I ask as at the moment the temps seem quite high when running games "low 60's to mid" and the fan from on the montherboard makes a hell of noise running the games on full, the computer can handle it fine but im just worried a little about the heat and if i should be concerned.

I want to ideally replace the heat sink on the CPU (i think thats what i mean) and replace the fan attached the the back of my computer which blows air into the computer (maybe liquid cooling here)

thoughts anyone or does my CPU/Motherdoard need replacing?....i hope not


**EDIT P.S I COULD INCREASE THE FAN SPEED ON THE 660 TI IF THIS WOULD REMDY THE HEAT?**


System Information
Packard Bell ipower G5800
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Model Packard Bell ipower G5800
Processor Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.80 GHz
1 processor, 4 cores, 8 threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
L1 Instruction Cache 256 KB
L1 Data Cache 256 KB
L2 Cache 1024 KB
L3 Cache 8192 KB
Motherboard Packard Bell ipower G5800
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. P01-A2
Memory 6135 MB 1333 MHz
 

festerovic

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60* - 70* is pretty warm for CPU, but not out of spec. You don't need a cooler. But if you wanted one, check out the Cooler master hyper 212 or other variations of the 212. CPU fans and case fans are totally different, if you have the stock cooler. The fan on the stock cooler isnt meant to be replaced.

Also the case fan on the back of the PC blows air out of the case, not into it, if it does you should reverse it.