- Aug 4, 2015
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I recently built a computer and booted into lawbreakers, luckily I thought to use MSI Afterburner to measure my temps. I noticed that my i7 started venturing to the 68-72 degree Celsius range after a game (At about 50% usage) and I smelt an electrical smell from my computer. I immediately jumped out of the game and found my idle temperatures to be around 45 to 50 Celsius.
I turned off my computer and opened it up to find a TON of heat around the CPU area and near the back fan. I decided to switch around my fans so that rather than having two 140mms in the front and one in the back, I now have one in the front and one in the back. The smell disappeared the the heat wasn't building up around the CPU anymore, and the worst I got at about an 80% load was 65-66 degrees Celsius (I also turned off hyperthreading at this time). I tested this again with 2 in the front and one in the back and had the same problem as before, as my CPU began to quickly heat up after a few minutes.
I'm wondering if this is due to my fan configuration, and if I could set up my extra fan somewhere else for it to be even better. I have a fractal design r5 case, a zotac amp extreme 1080 (its a massive card) and a hyper 212 evo.
If anyone could give me any information on why this is possibly happening and how to improve it I would be incredibly appreciative.
I turned off my computer and opened it up to find a TON of heat around the CPU area and near the back fan. I decided to switch around my fans so that rather than having two 140mms in the front and one in the back, I now have one in the front and one in the back. The smell disappeared the the heat wasn't building up around the CPU anymore, and the worst I got at about an 80% load was 65-66 degrees Celsius (I also turned off hyperthreading at this time). I tested this again with 2 in the front and one in the back and had the same problem as before, as my CPU began to quickly heat up after a few minutes.
I'm wondering if this is due to my fan configuration, and if I could set up my extra fan somewhere else for it to be even better. I have a fractal design r5 case, a zotac amp extreme 1080 (its a massive card) and a hyper 212 evo.
If anyone could give me any information on why this is possibly happening and how to improve it I would be incredibly appreciative.
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