Help with cooling options

nickd559 · Oct 1, 2014

Hello I just finished my build a few days ago and everything is working out good, however my gpu an xfx 7950, heat seems to be a concern to me, after adding bigger fans and more of them I got my gpu temps down to around 85 C max at 99% with the case side off it stays around 72 C max My case is a bitfenix phenom.

so I am debating if I should switch to a different case with side ventilation like a corsair 250d or just get a ventilation side panel.

MasterDell · Oct 1, 2014

What CPU cooler do you have? Yes it matters. And what is your current fan set up?

tiny voices · Oct 1, 2014

What is your fan arrangement?

More fans DOES NOT always mean a cooler PC.

nickd559 · Oct 1, 2014

My CPU cooler is the stock one. My fan setup is a 200mm intake on front, 120 exhaust on top and I believe 120 exhaust on back. I swapped the back one a few times and went by whichever way had lower temps

nickd559 · Oct 4, 2014

Hey again, so since I don't have a blower style gpu would a 250d be a bad idea my phenom has no side vent and I believe that's why it's getting a little warm.

MasterDell · Oct 4, 2014

Some cases it is. Enter to do: 1 front intake, 1 side I take, and 1 tops exhaust as well as 1 back exhaust

tiny voices · Oct 4, 2014

I would not use a side intake. In 95% of the situations I have tired one, it either does nothing or makes temps worse.

nickd559 · Oct 4, 2014

MasterDell :

tiny voices :

I played around and I get better temps with the rear and fronts as an intake and a the tops as an exhaust. So the corsair might be too small for stock CPU cooling and a non-blower gpu?

tiny voices · Oct 4, 2014

No it will be fine. TONS of people use non-blower cards in a 250D without any issues at all.

The rear fan should be exhaust not intake if you have ANYTHING except the stock cooler. If you ever upgrade, you MUST make the rear an exhaust.

nickd559 · Oct 4, 2014

tiny voices :

Thank you, what is the reason why it has to be exhaust even if my temps are lower and I have the top vents as exhaust.

Or are you saying if I change to the 250d I would use the back as a exhaust.

tiny voices · Oct 4, 2014

With the stock cooler is it fine, but with an aftermarket cooler (blows front to back) you need it to be exhaust or you will trap all the hot air in the case as the cooler blows it towards the rear fan and then the rear fan blows it back at the cooler.

No matter what, you should always use the back as exhaust. What ran cooler with the back as intake and by how many degrees.

nickd559 · Oct 4, 2014

tiny voices :

Ah I see! If I remember right my CPU ran about 8 to 10 degrees cooler under load and my gpu about 5 degrees cooler under load.

tiny voices · Oct 4, 2014

Thats nuts. Hard to believe but if it happened, then it happened.

MasterDell · Oct 4, 2014

I disagree. My friend had an issue with temps in his case. So we added a side intake which blew directly on the cpu cooler and the gpu and his temps were great after that.

tiny voices · Oct 4, 2014

In pretty much all the instances I have seen the side fan made temps worse or did nothing. It will ONLY help if you have a top-down CPU cooler and a VERY hot GPU. A side fan effectively ruins the flow of air through the case. In SOME cases it may work, but in most it doesn't do anything.

nickd559 · Oct 4, 2014

tiny voices :

Yeah and before I added the fans my gpu went all the way to 100 C under load so I'm way better off now than I was haha.

MasterDell · Oct 4, 2014

You are PSU fan side down right?

nickd559 · Oct 4, 2014

MasterDell :

I'm gonna be a noob and say I don't remember. I'm pretty sure it is down though right.

MasterDell · Oct 4, 2014

Why dont you check?

nickd559 · Oct 4, 2014

MasterDell :

I was at work, I just got home and yeah of course its down! haha

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