Is my computer and gpu too hot?

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Cheanglean

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been monitoring my 4 days old setup's temperature when gaming, is it too hot or normal?

Gpu - 70c - 81c
Cpu - 70c-77c
Mobo - 65-75c

Setup:
INTEL I5 6402P
MSI H110M-PRO VD PLUS
KINGSTON KVR 2133MHZ 8GB DDR4
ZOTAC GTX970 AMP EXTREME CORE
SAMSUNG 750 EVO 120GB SSD
WD 1TB BLUE
HEXA+ 550WATT
ARMAGGEDDON T2X

and here's the readings from CPUID HWMONITOR;


 
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Seeing as even your SSD is hot @ 58C, I'm guessing your airflow through your case is very poor. You need to check the orientation of your fans. Typically fans at the bottom and front of the case are intake fans while fans at the back and top of the case are exhaust fans. Side door fans are usually intake fans. How many fans do you have and where are they located? How is your cable management? Do you have cables all over the place blocking airflow.

These are important questions because if your system isn't able to draw in enough cool air and exhaust the hot air, your entire system is going to run hot. I believe that is what you are experiencing.
Seeing as even your SSD is hot @ 58C, I'm guessing your airflow through your case is very poor. You need to check the orientation of your fans. Typically fans at the bottom and front of the case are intake fans while fans at the back and top of the case are exhaust fans. Side door fans are usually intake fans. How many fans do you have and where are they located? How is your cable management? Do you have cables all over the place blocking airflow.

These are important questions because if your system isn't able to draw in enough cool air and exhaust the hot air, your entire system is going to run hot. I believe that is what you are experiencing.
 
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Cheanglean

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i'm living in Malaysia and it's quite warm here most of the time.
don't think I have any additional cooler/fan apart from the stock Intel cooler
interior of my setup as below



 

4745454b

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That's the problem then. You have a nice clean case, but if the room temps are high then the parts are going to be hot. There is nothing you can do about that. Other then run AC in the room, etc. Your CPU temp is high because you have temps of 65C at a ~20% load. I hit around 60C while gaming. Case fans might help, a new CPU cooler will help drop temps as well. But until your room gets cooler it will still be hotter than what you read about online. (Most of us have AC and rooms around 24C.)
 

Cheanglean

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will be getting 2 case fan and a 212 cooler.
hopefully it helps.
how about the GPU? is that normal?
 
Looking at your picture, I notice a complete lack of an exhaust fan at the back. I assume that mount location accommodates a 120mm fan. I would start there. If there is a mount location in the front of the case, I would install a fan there as well. The rear fan should be exhaust, the front fan should be an intake fan. At a bare minimum you should have two fans. From the information I'm seeing on that case, it has 5 mount locations, but no fans actually come with the case. Adding an intake and exhaust fan should lower your temps fairly significantly even with your high ambient temperatures.

If you want to improve your CPU temps, it would also help to use a HSF (Heatsink Fan) that is better than stock. Depending on availability the Hyper 212 EVO is an excellent cooler for the money. If you go this route, just make sure that your case is wide enough to accommodate a tall cooler. The Hyper 212 EVO is 159mm tall. Most cases now list a maximum cooler height in there specs.

Edit: Well I looked for information on what is the max cooler height that case will accommodate, but there isn't any. The other option if this is something you'd like to explore is to measure from the bottom of the stock heatsink up to where the side panel would be. Take that measurement and subtract about 5mm to take into account the side panel and whatever the result is, that's your maximum cooler height.
 

Nateluthje

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Yeah, ambient temperature plays a big part. From what I've heard that if CPU is under 80 degrees, that's acceptable. 81 degrees for gpu is also acceptable - you may find it throttles back to keep cool. I believe ceiling temp for CPU is 80 degrees ( I mean mine runs at 75-77 degrees and that's with AIO.) - I'm in Australia and it gets hot here to - it's actually going to be 39 degrees today - we're having a bit of a heat wave atm.

You could also liquid cool your GPU. That would drop temps 10 degrees or so - custom cooling - expensive though. Is your CPU oc'd?

Wait till winter LOL. But seriously, even at those temps you're not going to damage anything. If it gets into the 90 degree range, then you've got a problem.
 
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