Hi all,
I just got a new mobo and processor. I went with AMD 6400 and a gigabyte board that supports SLI. However, I'm concerned I might be getting to hot while playing games. Especially my graphics card (xfx 8600 gt). When playing games I can feel my case getting hot and using pc wizard my two cores are getting up to about 50 C and my graphics card hit a whopping 80C at one point. When I stop playing the games my card drops under 70C usually at about 65C to as low as 61C. My CPU cores will run at about 40C and sometimes even under 40C when not playing any games.
I think my CPU probably is okay I don't think 50 is terrible but not the best either, but I'm not a wiz at this either. My graphics card on the other hand seems to be smoking. Should I go with more case fans? I just have a regular case and only has 1 case fan, an 80mm. I'm thinking I should drop a pci fan under than video card, do you think this will help solve my problem?
Build: amd 6400
2 gigs of ram
8600 gt
sata hd 160 gigs.
OS: Vista
Thanks!
I just got a new mobo and processor. I went with AMD 6400 and a gigabyte board that supports SLI. However, I'm concerned I might be getting to hot while playing games. Especially my graphics card (xfx 8600 gt). When playing games I can feel my case getting hot and using pc wizard my two cores are getting up to about 50 C and my graphics card hit a whopping 80C at one point. When I stop playing the games my card drops under 70C usually at about 65C to as low as 61C. My CPU cores will run at about 40C and sometimes even under 40C when not playing any games.
I think my CPU probably is okay I don't think 50 is terrible but not the best either, but I'm not a wiz at this either. My graphics card on the other hand seems to be smoking. Should I go with more case fans? I just have a regular case and only has 1 case fan, an 80mm. I'm thinking I should drop a pci fan under than video card, do you think this will help solve my problem?
Build: amd 6400
2 gigs of ram
8600 gt
sata hd 160 gigs.
OS: Vista
Thanks!