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Slinwagh

Slinwagh

Slinwagh

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I have had to replace some RAM in one of my machines and I haven't put the side panel back on the case.

Idle temps are 34, 34, 27, 27.

Load temps after 10 minutes of Prime 95 are 52, 52, 46, 46. Again as soon as the side goes on you can add another 10'c minimum onto that.

The second the side goes back on you can at 10'c to that.

In the PC I have a q6600 running at 3.2GHz, vCore is Auto, CPU Z reports it as 1.312v

I have the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with a Noctua NF-P12 120mm fan fitted. this is mounted with the fan blowing through the HSF towards the roof of the case.

In the top and rear of the case there are the two standard 120mm fans on the lowest settings, drawing air out, the bottom front of the case is a 120mm fan drawing air in.

Also in the machine are two 4850's in crossfire.

Is there anyway to combat this 10'c instant increase with the side on?
 
Its probably the 4850's that are causing all the heat. I put one in and it increased my temperatures. It gives out a lot of heat.

So my GUESS is new coolers for those.

Or what I'm trying to do is putting a side panel fan right on top of the graphics cards (need a bit of DIY).
 
well they are going to produce the same amount of heat with new coolers... it will just be disapted into the case quicker.. you need to recycle the airflow in the case quicker.. so either a) increase the speed of your 3 120mm case fans or b) buy new 120mm case fans that move more air for similar db output if you are worried about noise
 
Not with something like the Akasa Vortexx which probably dumps the heat outside better than the standard one which barely exhausts any hot air. you just feel a tiny stream of air, compared to say the old 8800gts320 i had which had a jet of air blowing out.
 
Sounds like a Air Flow issue to me, depends on what case you have and how tidy things are insde your case. A picture is worth a thousand words, here.
 
Thanks for that :)

As noted Above, I think uprated GPU coolers that exhaust outside the case would be better here.

I take it you cant orient the TRUE to point at the rear due to that NB Heatsink you have?

Also, do you have a fan in the middle slot where the HD bay used to be?
 
The HDD bay is at the bottom, there is a fan there drawing air in over the HDD's.

I could put one above I suppose into where the other floppy / HDD cage was.
 
The way the TRUE is orientated now I suppose it will be drawing air from the GPU's and the northbridge through the TRUE will it not?
 
Slinwagh said:
The way the TRUE is orientated now I suppose it will be drawing air from the GPU's and the northbridge through the TRUE will it not?
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Yeah, and I believe the rear fan is larger than the top fan and thus be slightly more efficient at removing the air from your case.

I would definitly recommend you turn the TRUE 90 deg. so it exhausts towards your rear fan port.
 
sswats said:
Not with something like the Akasa Vortexx which probably dumps the heat outside better than the standard one which barely exhausts any hot air. you just feel a tiny stream of air, compared to say the old 8800gts320 i had which had a jet of air blowing out.
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How easy are they to fit? Never done anything like that before but I think one of those would benefit my Shuttle. I'm using a single slot HD 3850 Pro right now.
 
Arthalen said:
Yeah, and I believe the rear fan is larger than the top fan and thus be slightly more efficient at removing the air from your case.

I would definitly recommend you turn the TRUE 90 deg. so it exhausts towards your rear fan port.
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Would it fit with the northbridge cooler though, I don't think it would.
 
I think you need to get more cool air coming into the case - it looks like you have more fans exhausting than feeding. I read somewhere that you should try to aim for positive air pressure in your case, i.e more coming in than is being forcibly removed - as air will find it's way out through all the gaps and holes anyway...

I'm getting an ATI 4870 soon, and a major factor in choosing this over the 4850 is the fact that it fully exhausts out the back of the case. To this end I've just fitted another 4-in-3 module in my CM Stacker with a 120mm fan blowing directly onto my GFX...
 
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