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July 15, 2014 3:18:37 AM

Tom's Hardware,

I am 14 years old and recently built myself a gaming PC on a really tight budget. I play games such as BF4, Crisis 3, AC IV, NFS Rivals, Forza 5, etc. Mostly games with intensive graphics and lots of physics. However, I am forced to lower down in game graphics settings, not because my system cannot handle it, but because of the heat and I am worried of damaging my components.

Specifications:
AMD FX-8350 (Overclocked to 4.8 Ghz)
CM Seidon 120V
Kingston Hyper-X Fury (2x4GB) 1866 Mhz
ASUS M5A97 R2.0
Sapphire Radeon HD7790 Dual-X OC 1GB (Not overclocked because of heat)
CM Silent Pro M2 620W
CM K282 Mid-Tower

I can play BF4 on High at about 55 degrees celsius. However, when playing at ultra, it hits all the way up to 80 degrees. I can get decent fps but the killer is the heat. (I live in Malaysia, avg. temperature here is about 35 degrees, which answers the source problem.

Any suggestions? I am stuck with not having an option to get any new components. I only have 3 fans in my case, 2 for airflow and one for the radiator.

Thanks :-)

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July 15, 2014 3:26:45 AM

you need to ac the room, no matter how many fans / coolers you add they can't get heat outside the room if the temperature is at 35 in the room. that's 15 degrees above the normal so that would get added to any temperature target you want... for example if a gpu gets to 70 on normal usage it would be 85 in your case... you need ac and under 30C in the room...
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July 15, 2014 6:50:56 PM

laviniuc,

Thanks for your recommendation. It's my bad that I didn't mention my room is being ACed at about 25 degrees, which is pretty cold. Still I'm facing an overheating issue, what else can I do?

Thanks :-)

Ryan
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July 15, 2014 7:04:00 PM

your not really experiencing any heat problems. 80 is what my 7950 hits on watch dogs with everything but textures on ultra settings. but 80 is the peak at which one should be comfortable playing at.
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July 15, 2014 11:44:43 PM

Thanks tech techie,

I always thought that 80 degrees was a dangerous temperature for my components. Thanks for your solution :-)

Ryan
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July 16, 2014 9:11:19 AM

Ryan Wee said:
Thanks tech techie,

I always thought that 80 degrees was a dangerous temperature for my components. Thanks for your solution :-)

Ryan


thank you. i believe modern gpu's are made to handle 105c :) 
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