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Hey, at the moment I have 6 fans, I bought 2 fans yesterday because my PC was getting hot easily (only when playing games) It rises up to about 75*C And with the new fans I got... It doesnt decrease by much. Here are the fans I have:
- 1 at front of case (MotherBoard Fan)
- 1 at top of case
- 1 at back of case
- 1 in power supply
- 1 in graphics card
- 1 Heat Sink Intel CPU Fan

Is it normal for the PC to get this hot? I want to keep it at about 50*C or 60*C. And I dont want to boost my graphics card fan to 60% cause it gets loud.
Is there more fans I should put in?

Note: My case has 4 more fans it can hold.
1. Another one ontop
2 - 3. 2 On the side
4. Another at the front
 
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Is it the CPU or GPU getting to 60-70°C?

Make sure every fan is facing the right direction, the fans will make things worse if they are blowing against each other.

Some info: Case fans are used to move hot air from the case, so adding more case fans probably only works to a certain degree, ( the benefit of more is decreasing) and you would have greater benefit from a lesser case fan upgrade with a heatsink upgrade to go with. Can you link us to your GPU? It would help to know what kind of cooler you have. If your GPU dumps heat into the case, a fan on the side should blow on to the GPU at a slow to medium speed. This prevents ruining your normal airflow while still disturbing the hot air from the GPU enough that it can move into the...
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What directions are your fans blowing? Basically, you want the air to flow from front to back in the computer's case.

Obviously, there isn't much you can do about the fans on the CPU heatsink (without replacing the entire heatsink, of course), the power supply, or the video card, but the other fans might just need a bit of optimization.

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Is it the CPU or GPU getting to 60-70°C?

Make sure every fan is facing the right direction, the fans will make things worse if they are blowing against each other.

Some info: Case fans are used to move hot air from the case, so adding more case fans probably only works to a certain degree, ( the benefit of more is decreasing) and you would have greater benefit from a lesser case fan upgrade with a heatsink upgrade to go with. Can you link us to your GPU? It would help to know what kind of cooler you have. If your GPU dumps heat into the case, a fan on the side should blow on to the GPU at a slow to medium speed. This prevents ruining your normal airflow while still disturbing the hot air from the GPU enough that it can move into the general flow and be pushed out of the case. Otherwise, full speed should be fine.

For almost every setup you want to have your front fans as intakes and rear fans as exhausts. Side fans should also be intakes but to varying speeds as mentioned before (whether GPU dumps heat in case or expels out back of GPU).

Just do a double check of your fan configuration, then we can work from there. :)
 
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Ok thanks so so so so so much for replying, I appreciate it heaps. But how do I know if my fans are doing exhaust or intake?
 
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+1 There is a good way to see if you can't read the arrow (assuming you have already installed these fans) :)
 
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Your standard case air flow directions:
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