Beginners cooling!

omarlilyo

omarlilyo

omarlilyo

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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!
 
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
 
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