Beginners cooling!

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Hi all,

Just put together a new PC

3700X (wraith prism stock cooler)
3060TI (gigabyte 2 fan)
This case https://www.xigmatek.com/product_detail.php?item=192
Currently 3 fans - 1 rear two at the front

NZXT temps here: https://imgur.com/a/86kPBdD

Once I open the acrylic side, the temps pretty quickly plunge from 90 to 75 and as low as 45 whilst gaming

With this, playing gears 5, my temps go quite high. I have seen reviews and under load, (with reviewers) they don't go this high. So a few questions

1) Are they too high in your opinion
2) Anything else I can do without buying a new case - happy to buy a case, it's just the faff of re-building everything in there that puts me off!
3) I have space for 3 more fans, but 2 of them would sit on the PSU cover, so I don't see where the air could go and 1 I lost with my new builds as I cant seem to fit it in anymore alongside the new CPU cables!
4) can I assume that because the temps plunge when I take the side cover off, it's the case that has bad airflow?

Thank you!
 
That GPU temperature looks pretty toasty!

I'm not sure about that case. Where do the front two fans actually pull air in through? They look like they're right up against the glass in the pictures. If the temeratures drop so dramatically when you remove the side panel it's unlikely to be a faulty GPU.

Another exhaust fan might help but a case with better airflow such as this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/frac...i-dark-tg-micro-atx-case-black-ca-081-fd.html might be your best solution.
 
The case has poor airflow the 2 fans at the front air covered drawaing in little air from the bottom. This is confirmed by taking the side panel off as temps plunmit, you could add a couple of fans see if it helps but i would get a better case.
 
Yes sadly i was thinking a new case is the answer. A shame as I like the asthetics of the case, but you are both right, the rear fan and top fan (not in atm) use the mesh filters, but the front two are right against the glass so i dont see what air they can pull in.

I assume a good case will bring these temps down a fair bit?

Or i could just leave the side off haha
 
Another vote for Meshify C Mini, but the stock fans are no good.
Replace them with 2x 140mm high pressure front intakes. Block all openings in fan mounting panel not covered by these intake fans so air they push into case has to flow through case, not circle around in front of fan to go in circles. Remove all PCIe back slot covers to increase rear vent area around GPU. This improved front to back airflow pushing heated exhaust air back and out, thus lower temp air enters GPU so it is cooler and it's fan run slower so less noise too. ;) Attached link below to basic guide to how airflow works and how to optimize case airflow might be of interest.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-i-put-my-temp-sensor.18564223/#post-26159770
 
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