HIGH case temps -- Well, I think so.... Help please!!

I don't know if this would help - What about the Yate Loon 120mm D12SL-12 case fans?

If I replaced the existing ones with these, would it help? They seem to be well reviewed on the web.....

I wonder if it is my case, or if it is the monitoring software, or possibly the fans.... I'll post a link for pics on the case and try to find details on the fans

Any help?

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Just to state the obvious, but have u got the orientation correct ie. the air flow going in the right direction.

In general:

Exhaust - Top and Back
Intake - Bottom and Front (and sides possibly but i think u could debate this one)

So just give a wee check on each fan, a simple method i sometimes use is a small piece of light paper, if sticks to the fan grill then its intake else probably exhaust.

Other than that, are u living in the Sahara by chance

Your case is high on bling, but low on cooling. Only one 120mm input and one 120mm output (plus side &psu) does not seem like much for a hot cpu & vga card. I can think of two options:
1) Replace the 120mm fans with higher capacity units. The price is added noise.
2) Replace the vga cooler with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835186130
arctic cooling NV6 rev-2. Reports are that it fits the 7600GT nicely. The advantage is that it expels the vga's hot air out the back instead of recirculating it. I used a similar option an a machine a while back, and it reduced case, cpu and vga temperatures nicely. This will not void your EVGA warranty; just save the old cooler to reinstall in case you need to send it back.

If your case temperature is hot, then the best that a very good cpu cooler can do is approach the case temperature plus 5c or so. Don't count on the PSU fan; it's job is to protect itself, not ventilate the case, and will speed up only when things have gotten too hot already. Put something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835705004 a high speed 114 cfm panaflo fan in front and rear. Be warned, it will be noisy. Also remember that the best case temperature will always be hotter than the room temperature. Can you turn down the heat in the room? The 80mm fan can vary from 20cfm to 80 cfm for a real screamer; it is probably not helping much. Both of the fans you referenced are good, but they do not do much cooling; they are for being quiet. For $17 or so, use the NV silencer I referenced on your vga card before you spend more on anything else. You need to get the case temperatures under control before a better cpu cooler can do any good.

I did that

I took a small desk fan ( about 10 inches in diameter )

I took off the side of the case and put the fan right next to it on high...

It only dropped the temps about 2 degrees Celcius

I wonder if I might just have a bad temp probe on the mobo...

We it doesn't sound like you have an airflow problem to me as opening the fan and pointing a desk fan at it should sort out any airflow issues.

What is the ambient temperature next to your case? Is it in the sun?

Yeah.... That's what I thought.

When I look at speedfan and it has the temps, Are those just the motherboard temps? If so, what can I do to lower them?

Look at the mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813188016

The fan on the motherboard is RIGHT behind the video card.

I only have a 7600Gt and it stops just over the short heatsink/fan combo, so a large cooler would not clear the vid card's pcb....

Right now with the pc idleing for hours, the temps are

System - 52C
CPU - 52C
Aux - 53C
Core - 34C


Now CPU, what does that measure?
Is the core temp more important or the CPU temp?

You could be looking at the wrong temperature in speedfan. Run Prime 95 to stress out your CPU, and watch for the temperature that climbs steadily - that will be the CPU.

With all those fans you've tried, it is hard not to think the sensors may be off. Are the heatsinks hot to the touch?

What PSU are you using? If it's a cheap one, maybe your voltages are way out of spec and causing overheating, or the PSU is acting as a space heater inside your case.

I ran Prime95 Last night - Right now I'm at 2.82Ghz with stock vcore and such...

6 hours perfect with no errors and Speedfan showed the core maxing out at 41C

I'm idling right now at 37C

My question is this:

I know the core temps..... But what is the CPU temp?

I think that the speedfan recognizes that the cores are pretty good, but maybe it doesn't read the EVGA mobo that well......

My PSU is a good Hiper one.... I like it a lot.

My fans are scheduled to be here Friday and the Ultra 120 Extreme on Monday, so I'll just replace the case fans first and check temps on the system and inside the case first, and the on Monday I'll install the 120 Extreme and see what that does to the core temps

Okay - I just installed two new 120mm Fans - High flow here....

Linkage -


http://www.jab-tech.com/YATE-LOON- [...] -3771.html


I can definetly feel a LOT more air being blown out the back of the case.

The only problem is the temps haven't changed
I'm still running at 52-54 degrees Celsius

My Northbridge has a small copper heatsink and fan on it also.

I have a Gigabyte DS3 and I have problems getting temps to read correctly. I have used the built in app, speed fan, and core temp. All give different readings. They way I rectified this was to use my multitester with a temperature Gauge on it and stick the probe as close to the bottom of the heatsink as possible. Although this will not give you the exact temp of the component (it will be a few degrees cooler since you are measuring the temp of the heatsink) it will be close, and it will allow you to distinguish which software readings are for what component and how accurate they are.

Success!!!!!

I installed my Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme about 45 minutes ago, and all I can say is WOW!!!

My idle temps were 35-37 degrees at idle and maxed out at 49-52 degrees celcius at 2.92Ghz stock vcore, and stable for about 30 min with prime 95


Now I'm idling at 24degrees celcius and maxed out both cpu with dual instances of Orthos, and I'm only at 35 degrees Celcius


I'm running both cores 100% and its rock steady with stock vcore!!!!!!

Finally figured out the temps on SpeedFan

All of those temps that I have been bitching about on here about not changing were for the GPU

I downloaded nVidia's nTune and ran NVMonitor and it shows all of my temps correctly.

These are the correct temps

Core - 26 deg celcius
System temp - 32 deg celcius
GPU - 52 deg celcius
nForce Chipset - 40 deg celcius



These temps make a LOT more sense now!!