AIO or Air Cooling with new 3080 RTX?

Jaycensolo · 2 Sep 2020 at 09:08

I am trying to work out a new build and the big issue I have is with the cooling with the CPU and also how the heat from from the 3080 will effect it. I know a founders edition version will not work well with air tower cooler. But would it be the same with a 3rd party card?
The case I am looking at is the Lian Li 2 Mesh and I was looking at the be quiet dark pro 4 for air cooling on a 3700X but now I am unsure if I am heading down the wrong direction.
So any help or advice would be great.

mickyflinn · 2 Sep 2020 at 09:32

Think all the New gpu's will dumping heat into the case but how much that's going to affect the cpu depends on how good the airflow of the case .

So effectly the same air in the case will be cooling the cpu whichever cooler you decide unless you reverse airflow on aio.

I do t see it being a big problem with a decent cpu cooler if you have good air flow.

Jaycensolo · 2 Sep 2020 at 09:46

Thank you for the reply. One more question as I don’t know if I am going over kill with it or just over thinking it.
The Lian Li Lancool 2 Mesh has two slots above the PSU shroud you can fit 2x120mm fans and I was thinking of putting some fans there to help out the GPU. So if I went air cooler I was also going to put 2x120mm at the top as well or would that be over kill or adversely effect it with the be quiet dark pro 4 or that too much of an over kill.
I don’t intend to overclock 3700X but do have long gaming sessions so want it to all be nice and cool in there. I once made the mistake the buying the Asus Vento case because it looked cool but air flow was bad and had to spend the summers with the side panel off. So I just want to make sure on the build.

chroniclard · 2 Sep 2020 at 09:50

We dont know how good/bad the FE versions are yet for cooling/noise. Its not overkill adding more fans, so long as you get your airflow right at a decent noise level.

mickyflinn · 2 Sep 2020 at 10:07

A 3700x fully loaded is 120w the dark rock pro 4 is rated at 250w thats plenty of cooling capacity.

pp111 · 2 Sep 2020 at 19:13

I always have the CPU radiator fans set to blow in to the case. This keeps the CPU at the lowest possible temp. Then keeping everything else cool depends on how cold air you blow in from the front. I set the front fans to a trickle and graph them to the GPU, so when the GPU powers up in a game or whatnot, the front fans ramp up to flush out all the heat in the case. I know there are many ways of doing things, but this works well for me. I never use water cooling for the GPU because I upgrade the GPU too often!