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Hello everyone!

I have been using this same system for around 2 years and its been doing pretty well. However during these summer months the temperature hikes up a little bit at times and I'm convinced its due to my horrible air flow and cable management.

So my goals are to increase airflow and generally just make my set up look pretty.

I find it hard with a non modular power supply and I would rather not buy another one since this one is fairly new. So I'm going to upload a couple pictures and post my components any advice is much appreciated.

Set up:
Case: IN WIN MANA136 BLACK Black SEEC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
MOBO: MSI Z68A-G43 (G3) LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
CPU: i-5 3750k 3.4ghz (3.8)
CPU Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
GPU: GTX 770
RAM: PNY Optima 8GB
PSU: Corsair 600w

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well from doing some research, the temperatures are safe especially for gaming but any higher and I would start to be concerned. A PSU sleeve may do the trick. Even if the space between the mobo is small, I'd still recommend trying to fit a few wires through. Alternatively, you could change the thermal paste (use good quality paste) depending on how long its been on there.
Edit: During summer months its natural that your...
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Does your case have room behind the motherboard tray for wiring? You could run the extra ones behind there. I doubt you see that large a of a difference in your temps anyways.

In the past I have opened up PSU to cut out unnecessary wiring, that would be the easiest neatest way to do this, if you are concerned with warranty. I always left one extra lead though in case I later decided to add a hard drive or something. However one set of wires is much easier to hide than the entire bundle.
 
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The space behind the MOBO is pretty tiny so I don't think I can put wires back there. Not sure what you mean but cut the wires out.

edit* I found something called a PSU sleeve that looks like it can condense some of the wires down so its not just a huge chunk, wondering if that could help?
 
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what kind of temperatures are you reaching and how many front/side case fans do you have?

 
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edit * I didn't mean to pick your post as best solution it was an accident, thank you for the reply though.

75c at 85% fan speed 80c at 85% fan speed is the maximum I get.

I have one fan on the lower front (blowing in), two at the top (blowing out), one on the top back (blowing out), none on the side.
 
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well from doing some research, the temperatures are safe especially for gaming but any higher and I would start to be concerned. A PSU sleeve may do the trick. Even if the space between the mobo is small, I'd still recommend trying to fit a few wires through. Alternatively, you could change the thermal paste (use good quality paste) depending on how long its been on there.
Edit: During summer months its natural that your temperatures will rise, so if your temperatures were relatively cool before I wouldn't get too hung up. Just continually monitor the temps to be safe

 
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Thanks for the reply.

I think I'll try the sleeve and the paste. I'm assuming I'd need to remove the MOBO to put anything back there? Also are you talking about putting PSU wires back there?

Lastly, what kind of paste would you recommend and is there anything important to know before opening up my GPU since I've never done that before.
 
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Thermal paste i recommend is Arctic MX-2, its quality. Yep psu wires go back through there. You'll have to remove your cooler master heatsink to apply thermal paste to the CPU. If you've never done this before, make sure you look up some tutorials on youtube for applying and removing thermal paste, removing and installing hyper 212 heatsink and lastly cable management. There's plenty of good videos out there. Just take your time with it if it's the first time you're doing this.

 
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you dont need to place any paste on your gpu
Edit: after looking at the picture again, i'd recommend changing the fan position on your heatsink. If you were to put it on the other side, so it's facing the exhaust fan that may help because you dont want any hot air lingering
 
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Careful with placing wires behind the motherboard, lots of sharp solder joints on the back side that can easily puncture wires and short things out. Not to mention many of the connectors are most likely not going to get either.

When I said cut them out, I actually opened the PSU up and the wires out near their source. Some PSU you can desolder them, but many times they have several wires going to one spot so it's easier to just cut them.

As mentioned your temps are at a safe level.

On a side note, I found lapping my EVO 212 was worth 5 C drop at idle and under full load. A second fan on it was worth 1-2 C as well.
 
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