budget build

Ive not been around much as my dad has been in and out of hospital with prostate cancer :(

so ive been neglecting my pc build at the moment..

I did get a new monitor and keyboard for my xmas so ive been happy with them.

monitor is an LG W2486L 24" and keyboard is the corsair K40 so im chuffed with them..

Its just a pity im really starting to hate my case... Ive been looking at either the corsair 300r or the 230t I just cant make up my mind.
 
yes I find the standard fans loud I have been thinking on changing them with the sp120 fans. do you have yours running as an intake or exhaust?
 
thanks about my dad. hes getting there slowly but it was a shock as he recently retired and was hoping to be taking things easy
 
heres a fresh picture took about 10 minutes ago.

As you can see ive got the H80i mounted at the front under my dvd drive.

I had to move the fan controller down a slot and move the dvd drive to the top slot to give space. Im still playing on the idea of taking the hard drive caddy out to aid better cooling or just bite the bullet and get a new case... well see what happens.

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as far as my temps go heres my temps on normal usage
ive not ran any tests with it set up this way at present

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I had closed hardware monitor so some of the min values are higher than normal.
during normal use ive got the H80i set on quiet where as if im playing a game ill knock it up to either balanced or performance depending on if the misses is watching the tv
 
yea my fans are set up as follows. ive been wondering if I should change my top fan to an exhaust

I gave the case a clean out when I had the side off it and moved my H/D to the top slot which has lowered its temps by 2c..
Ive also gave my 7950's heat sink its routine blow out which helps keep its temps down.

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well as you say everything is trial an error...
so I took the top fan off and fitted that to the lower front panel as an intake
( it moves some serious amounts of air even running quiet )
I took the led one from the front panel and fitted it to the top as an exhaust..

my 7950 is sitting at 31c so that has dropped my hard drive has dropped to 22c and cpu seems to be averaging around the 14c mark.. :D


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Cenedd said:
Good to see. I'm a bit sceptical of the temp the CPU is reporting as 14C is lower than the surround temp. Unless you've got the rad for it in a very cold room it's not possible.
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yea hw monitor, corsair link and speccy give the same readings as I was a bit sceptical my self but ive been told that the fx chips don't give a very accurate reading when down in the low temps.
the radiator is sitting right at the front so it is pulling in cold air but I know its not as cold as reported.
 
so ive played with my fans.. ive also added a fan to the system.
so 5 case fans in total now not counting the liquid cooler

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still to tidy this modifacation up a bit. but also still looking at other cases...
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I have thought about just removing the hard drive bays but this seems to be working ok.
the second fan here does make a difference. its dropped my case temps down by 2c drops my hard drive 3c and lets the 7950 idle at 30c rather than 32c to 33c
 
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spoke too soon... MSi afterburner giving me error msgs again and closing.. its now uninstalled and im trying asus gpu tweak

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I didint like asus gpu tweak.. so I tried msi AB again but without monitoring and all seemed good. so ive turned monitoring back on but ive uninstalled asus Ai suite so will report back..
 
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so I made a step forward to get knocked back a step..
I got a new case finally.
I got a Phanteks enthoo Pro M which In my eyes is a really nice case.

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