Hello everyone, after lurking these forums for a while I managed to build my first PC, thanks to you. Everything was nice and dandy, until I installed the Sapphire RX 480, I thought I turned on the lawnmower. I managed to undervolt it to 980 mv from 1175mv and downclock to 1265 stable, performance dropped about 2% and GPU fan speed was then running at about 50% speed, so still very loud for my taste.
I eventually found out about the importance of airflow in a pc case, so as you can see in the pictures i have an intake in the front, and I used the CPU cooler's as an exhaust fan as an expermient. The CPU temps are great right now, I'm getting 45 degrees in games, and the GPU fan speed is running at 20-30% depending on game with a temperature target of 75 Celsius.
I wanted to work on the esthetics a little bit so I ordered 2 more 4 pin vents vents and I plan them to replace the current ones. The one in the front uses a 3 pin connector and my motherboard doesn't allow DC voltage control so it's always running at max speed. I can hear a slight humming sound coming from it, but I could leave it at the bottom as a front intake if the temperatures would improve.
So here is my question, should I go for 1 intake/ 1 exhaust, 2 intakes/1 exhaust or buy one more fan and install it at the top of the case and use that as an exhaust as well? Thanks a lot.
Also I have one more question. The front of my case is completely covered, so it's hard for the intake fans to take air from the outside, if not impossible. Should I get a new case? Thanks.
http://i.imgur.com/TndkZjb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mzxN1wM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lw1u50A.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bXObJ1e.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Wj7uChl.jpg
Sorry, can't figure out how to embed pictures.
I eventually found out about the importance of airflow in a pc case, so as you can see in the pictures i have an intake in the front, and I used the CPU cooler's as an exhaust fan as an expermient. The CPU temps are great right now, I'm getting 45 degrees in games, and the GPU fan speed is running at 20-30% depending on game with a temperature target of 75 Celsius.
I wanted to work on the esthetics a little bit so I ordered 2 more 4 pin vents vents and I plan them to replace the current ones. The one in the front uses a 3 pin connector and my motherboard doesn't allow DC voltage control so it's always running at max speed. I can hear a slight humming sound coming from it, but I could leave it at the bottom as a front intake if the temperatures would improve.
So here is my question, should I go for 1 intake/ 1 exhaust, 2 intakes/1 exhaust or buy one more fan and install it at the top of the case and use that as an exhaust as well? Thanks a lot.
Also I have one more question. The front of my case is completely covered, so it's hard for the intake fans to take air from the outside, if not impossible. Should I get a new case? Thanks.
http://i.imgur.com/TndkZjb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mzxN1wM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lw1u50A.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bXObJ1e.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Wj7uChl.jpg
Sorry, can't figure out how to embed pictures.
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