Cooling My Hadron Build!

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WildCard999

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So I recently purchased a EVGA Hadron with a Z97 MB and placed a I7-4770k in it with a EVGA 780 6gb card but soon realized when gaming my temps were much higher then expected. (30 Min of Watch Dogs on Ultra @1080P put my CPU up to almost 60c and my GPU @80c). Now I know I can probably just lower the graphics and have it run cooler but more than likely i'll end up putting both the CPU/GPU in my Antec 1200 case. Now my question is what CPU/GPU would you recommend for the hadron case (as a portable system) for me to be able to at least game on med/high @1080P and still stay cool for several hour gaming sessions? I was looking at the EVGA 760 4gb or 2gb and Intel I5 4590 (or 4670K since its a Z97 MB). My parts are...

-EVGA Hadron Case W/500w PSU
-EVGA Mini-ITX CPU Cooler
-EVGA Z97 MB
-Samsung 840 Pro 256 SSD
-Asus AC56 USB Wireless Adapter

Or maybe even trying to liquid cool the system.
 
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Rammy
There's your problem :)

Reference (blower) coolers are likely to be much better in a case like the Hadron air than those with (multiple) axial fans as they control the air and self-exhaust. Axial fans are better at cooling in general but they fire hot air all over the place- in the Hadron there's not a huge amount of places for this to go so it's likely you'll get a build up of hot air around the card which will limit performance.

It's not a disaster, EVGA themselves say the ACX cooler fitted cards are supported and I doubt they would do that if it had serious issues. Most likely you'll get either slightly higher than normal temperatures, higher noise levels, or a bit of both.
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Yea but I was only gaming for about 30 min and thats were my temps were at. I suppose its not too bad. I just ran Intel Standard Burn test with no issues.
 
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Which (exact) graphics card did you get in the end? At a glance it looks like EVGA doesn't do a 6Gb version of the GTX780 with the reference cooler.
To quote myself from your previous thread:
For graphics cards you definitely want a reference cooler, you'll find a bunch of threads on these forums of people with hadrons complaining of high graphics card temps due to the limited venting/airflow in this area. Reference cooler doesn't solve the problem entirely but it should stop hot air build up.
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It's a EVGA 780 6gb w/ACX cooling part #06G-P4-3787-KR . I was just playing bf4 for about an hour and the gpu temp never went above 74c.
 
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There's your problem :)

Reference (blower) coolers are likely to be much better in a case like the Hadron air than those with (multiple) axial fans as they control the air and self-exhaust. Axial fans are better at cooling in general but they fire hot air all over the place- in the Hadron there's not a huge amount of places for this to go so it's likely you'll get a build up of hot air around the card which will limit performance.

It's not a disaster, EVGA themselves say the ACX cooler fitted cards are supported and I doubt they would do that if it had serious issues. Most likely you'll get either slightly higher than normal temperatures, higher noise levels, or a bit of both.
 
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Yea I get higher temps and louder fan noises but from what ive seen neither temp has come up to that maximum threshold. Plus I can always take the side cover off to help with air flow. Thanks again for your help Rammy!
 
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