Graphics card REALLY hot?

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AlpeyMLG

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Hey,

I'm having a little trouble with the temps of my GPU, It reaches 95C with the side of the case on and 70-85C with it off while gaming!

The heatsink is literally that hot it's making the whole board hot and it's quite worrying....

I have :

X4 760K Quad core (Not overclocked)
HD5770 (Not overclocked)
MSI 2AE0


The GPU itself has a fan on it which is at 100% constantly while gaming, the CPU heatsink keeps the CPU cool even while gaming and gives off quite a thrust of air, and I have an extractor fan taking the air out too.

My room is fairly hot itself and I'm top floor apartment so I'm getting everyone's heat.

So, I'm wondering how can I keep it cooler? I have the side of the case off but it doesn't cut it, neither does 100% on the GPU fan (I dunno how to control CPU & Extractor fan without entering BIOS which I'd prefer not to do)

I play my games on 1280x800 on low to try keep it cooler, but I can run them on high smoothly...

I also don't want to spend ALOT or really spend atall because I'll be upgrading to a 270X 2GB, but not yet.
 
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well do you have any intake fans???? and a good aftermarket cpu heat sink fan combo is better then the factory one having the side panel off is negative airflow providing you have a intake fan and out take yes the stuff gets hot in there and that's why in and out on the air flow works so much better otherwise it just sit there and gets hotter.
 
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AlpeyMLG

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I don't have an intake no, but my case has holes in the front and then the extractor at the back. As I said, it gets hotter with the side panel on so it must be releasing more air with it off.
 
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well almost all cases have vent holes you really need to have a fan at least 1 in front pulls the air in and flows across your board and hardware and one at the rear or top of the case to remove the hot air just having holes in the case isn't enough these days to keep those cpus and gpus cool enough almost all gpus have a fan if not 2 or 3 to move the hot air away from the card then the rear or top fan will remove it from the system what is a extractor that you mention??? is it just holes as well.
 
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AlpeyMLG

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Thermal paste on a GPU? Never knew haha, and an extractor = fan extracting the heat out the back. No intake fans no :(
 
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Well even if you took your gpu apart and clean it and added new thermal paste to it the amount of heat from it the board cpu hard drives ect so on the heat is going to stay there 1 fan to extract the heat in the rear is not enough... Years ago when I was a noob back in the 90s I was eating a candy bar and a piece drop on my board it mealted withing secs even after I pulled the plug from the wall its like this you have a hot skillet with oil in it what happens when you put a egg in there it frys??? right nothing is cooling it off you always have heat from your system it needs to be cooled off properly.
 
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I do have another fan, which I could just turn around and screw onto my case and use that as an intake, or would it be better to have two fans extracting? My motherboard only has 1 fan socket tho :(
 
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They make 4 pin molex adapters for fans and such it wont do you much good to have 2 ,3,4,5 fans in the rear to extract the heat you need to have cool air coming in .. in the front to be pulled to the rear to be extracted to cool your system anyhow have a good one and good luck to you on your system.
 
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