- May 11, 2007
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Hello,
I've recently purchased a new custom barebones build from AVADirect of which I then transferred a few components from my old PC to this new one. Everything has been working great since I got it all setup a few months ago. Yet, I'm slightly concerned with heat coming from the video card. The basic specs, in relation to my question, are:
ENERMAX Ostrog GT Black/Blue Mid-Tower Case
Corsair CMPSU-1000HX Power Supply
GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 motherboard
CORSAIR H75 Hydro liquid CPU cooling
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 390 8GB video card
CREATIVE Sound Blaster Z sound card
* NOTE: The case has 2 good fans in the front blowing inward and I added a fan to the top blowing up and out. The only fans blowing out the back are the liquid cooling fan(s) right near the top of the case (above the video card) and the power supply fan (below the video card).
Of course the video card is in the first PCI-e x16 slot where it should be, while the sound card is in the lowest or bottom-most PCI-e x1 slot and thus pretty much as far away from the video card as it can get. The video card's fans spin up to the max (actually is loud if I'm not using headphones) when gaming and whatnot blowing all sorts of hot air right at the sound card (and technically into the power supply which is right below that). The sound card does have that red, protective shroud/heatsink/whatever that it came with. Though I haven't seen any problems thus far, I'm concerned about the longevity of this setup and if said heat will gradually ruin my sound card (or power supply for that matter).
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Has anyone seen something like this happening? If so, what could I do to try and steer the air away from the sound card? Unfortunately I didn't think this through when buying the case as though it has a side window, there is no side-panel fan slot. That would make me feel better (though it would make it louder), but I don't think I can mod the panel too easy.
Please just let me know your thoughts and suggestions. Thank you so much for all of your help!
I've recently purchased a new custom barebones build from AVADirect of which I then transferred a few components from my old PC to this new one. Everything has been working great since I got it all setup a few months ago. Yet, I'm slightly concerned with heat coming from the video card. The basic specs, in relation to my question, are:
ENERMAX Ostrog GT Black/Blue Mid-Tower Case
Corsair CMPSU-1000HX Power Supply
GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 motherboard
CORSAIR H75 Hydro liquid CPU cooling
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 390 8GB video card
CREATIVE Sound Blaster Z sound card
* NOTE: The case has 2 good fans in the front blowing inward and I added a fan to the top blowing up and out. The only fans blowing out the back are the liquid cooling fan(s) right near the top of the case (above the video card) and the power supply fan (below the video card).
Of course the video card is in the first PCI-e x16 slot where it should be, while the sound card is in the lowest or bottom-most PCI-e x1 slot and thus pretty much as far away from the video card as it can get. The video card's fans spin up to the max (actually is loud if I'm not using headphones) when gaming and whatnot blowing all sorts of hot air right at the sound card (and technically into the power supply which is right below that). The sound card does have that red, protective shroud/heatsink/whatever that it came with. Though I haven't seen any problems thus far, I'm concerned about the longevity of this setup and if said heat will gradually ruin my sound card (or power supply for that matter).
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Has anyone seen something like this happening? If so, what could I do to try and steer the air away from the sound card? Unfortunately I didn't think this through when buying the case as though it has a side window, there is no side-panel fan slot. That would make me feel better (though it would make it louder), but I don't think I can mod the panel too easy.
Please just let me know your thoughts and suggestions. Thank you so much for all of your help!
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