- Apr 9, 2016
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After upgrading my casing from (an admittedly really bad and really small) a local / generic case. I was hoping for much better results.
Upgraded my case to a Sharkoon VG5-W standard ATX case, it comes with 3 prebuilt fans, 2 on front intake and one as exhaust. The fans however, aren't specced, it does come with pretty rad LED lighting though.
I'm currently running an ECS GTX 560 on a micro ATX board, on my older case it idled at 48C, on the newer case it actually did an improvement of about 5-10C and the card cools quite quicker after doing some casual gaming.
But, when doing heavy lifting (say, playing Crysis) the temps still reach a hellish 99C after a short while. When stress testing with MSI Kombustor PhysX Fluids, the card reaches around the 90C threshold after about 8 minutes, on Crysis reaching 100C takes much less than 5 minutes really.
I have re-applied some generic thermal paste on the card, everything's newly cleaned, and I must say that despite the Sharkoon case coming with 3 fans, they don't really feel like they make much difference to the airflow.
I was actually considering buying some Coolermaster Sickleflow fans and a different case, but this one had prebuilt fans and felt like a much better bargain.
So what really is keeping the temps all that high? (notably with Crysis)
Upgraded my case to a Sharkoon VG5-W standard ATX case, it comes with 3 prebuilt fans, 2 on front intake and one as exhaust. The fans however, aren't specced, it does come with pretty rad LED lighting though.
I'm currently running an ECS GTX 560 on a micro ATX board, on my older case it idled at 48C, on the newer case it actually did an improvement of about 5-10C and the card cools quite quicker after doing some casual gaming.
But, when doing heavy lifting (say, playing Crysis) the temps still reach a hellish 99C after a short while. When stress testing with MSI Kombustor PhysX Fluids, the card reaches around the 90C threshold after about 8 minutes, on Crysis reaching 100C takes much less than 5 minutes really.
I have re-applied some generic thermal paste on the card, everything's newly cleaned, and I must say that despite the Sharkoon case coming with 3 fans, they don't really feel like they make much difference to the airflow.
I was actually considering buying some Coolermaster Sickleflow fans and a different case, but this one had prebuilt fans and felt like a much better bargain.
So what really is keeping the temps all that high? (notably with Crysis)
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