Any tips on cooling my Wavemaster?

ukray

ukray

ukray

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Heya guys,

Put together my first rig a couple of weeks ago, and after searching these forums for a fair few hours, it seems my temps are just too high inside my case.

I'm running:
E6300 1.86 Allendale
DS4
2x1 gig Giel Ultra
MSI 7900 GTO
Arctic Freezer 7 pro
Seasonic M12 500w

Nothing at this point is overclocked, but i really want to bump it all up, which is why i'm concerned about my temps.

At idle i'm sat at 40-42C
Full load, temps rise to 55-57C

This to me seems too hot compared to others using the exact same setup.

Taking just the left side panel off the Wavemaster case drops my temps down to
Idle 34C
Full load 47-49C

Which seems much more reasonable.

This leads me to believe the flow in the Wavemaster sucks and the stock fans are rubbish :D

At the moment, i do not have the USB top port attached and i just have the mesh grill in there.

Should i just bin the stock Coolermaster fans and put in some better ones?
Replacing the 2 front intake, 1 rear exhaust and the top USB port.

I really don't want to sell the case as i love the looks, but i need the machine cooler.

Any other tips on cooling would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
personally, id cut the side open, put some mesh grills across the whole side, then put as many fans on it as you want untill it gets too noisy to handle.

i have 12 fans in my case, its like a wind tounel, but luckily iv got them wired to a fan speed controller so when i want it silent, its nice and relaxing but when im overclocking and want to cool the whole system down i speed the fans up a bit (12 fans on full speed sounds like a hellicopter beleive me)

:P its all good tho :D
 
Possibly a scythe Kama Bay, basically a low speed 120mm fan that goes in the place of 3 optical bays as an intake.

A fan in the side panel could help cool the graphics card and swapping the 80mm fans for Sharkoon models. Although only cut the side if you know you can do it neatly otherwise you'll ruin a great looking case :)

Please do not just whack a load of fans everywhere like suggested above :p
 
I was just about to post the same question about my wavemaster (boy this thing gets hot when gaming). i get the same temps as you aswell. The front intake grill doesn't look that efficiant to me. let us know how you get on. Good luck.
 
Thanks for the replies

Yeah, i really don't want to cut anything on the case, so appart from buying a side panel precut from Coolermaster its gona stay like it is.

Watercooling to be honest i don't want to get into. Other people are managing temps that are far lower than mine with similar air cooling and i'd like to keep it at that.

That Scythe kama bay for the 120mm is an awesome idea though, i have 2x 120mm zalmans sat on the desk which i bought to initially go on this machine. Didn't realise the case only had room for 80mm's :( poor judgement on my side ;)
But i could always use one of those in the kama bay.

Yeah kingy mate, the exhaust fan seems to put out enough pressure, but the front ones just don't suck anything into the case. When you put your hand behind them through the HD bays, you can't feel any pressure at all........./sigh
I'm wondering if even with a couple of delta's in there if it would help /shrug

Spud mate, that doesn't sound very encouraging at all, what did you try for your £200?
 
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