- Jan 14, 2014
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I have a Zalman Z11 Plus case with all the stock fans in it, plus a second at the top for exhaust. Not quite sure if the two side fans are intakes but got the case because of its huge number of fans already. I've got three total at the top/back pushing air out.
I don't overclock it because it performs fine as is but in some games I see the temps running up to 60-61 (also have a warning set to 60 because I have blue screened before) and use AI Suite II for monitoring and controlling everything. My temps hover around 58-59 normally with them going to 60 sometimes. I'm idling at 49 right now with the MB temp at 32. Stock heatsink for it as well as turbo fan settings for this..
Mainly, I just want to know if I should throw another intake fan at the bottom to take care of it or if it would be better to get a heatsink. I just don't like it hovering that close to the threshold. I just don't want to drop like 30+ on a heatsink if it's only going to drop me a couple degrees because intake is an issue but on the other hand I'd rather get a new heatsink if the stock one is just that bad and I'm not going to see any notable difference with more intake.
As a bit of side information as well, I've been looking at a lot of charts for temps with heatsinks and all but it's difficult to find comparisons to the stock AMD one since it seems all the tests get run on Intel chips so it's hard to tell what kind of a difference I'd be looking at compared to what I've currently got.
I don't overclock it because it performs fine as is but in some games I see the temps running up to 60-61 (also have a warning set to 60 because I have blue screened before) and use AI Suite II for monitoring and controlling everything. My temps hover around 58-59 normally with them going to 60 sometimes. I'm idling at 49 right now with the MB temp at 32. Stock heatsink for it as well as turbo fan settings for this..
Mainly, I just want to know if I should throw another intake fan at the bottom to take care of it or if it would be better to get a heatsink. I just don't like it hovering that close to the threshold. I just don't want to drop like 30+ on a heatsink if it's only going to drop me a couple degrees because intake is an issue but on the other hand I'd rather get a new heatsink if the stock one is just that bad and I'm not going to see any notable difference with more intake.
As a bit of side information as well, I've been looking at a lot of charts for temps with heatsinks and all but it's difficult to find comparisons to the stock AMD one since it seems all the tests get run on Intel chips so it's hard to tell what kind of a difference I'd be looking at compared to what I've currently got.
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