Case needs cooling from 2700x

fuchsiashockz

fuchsiashockz

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Hi,
I've never really considered cooling in a case, just expected it to happen on it's own until getting the turbine which is the amd 2700x with stock wraith cooler. It's ready to take off when gaming! It makes me wonder why cases don't have an intake on the side?

So,
1. Can anyone recommend a cheap case which can handle the airflow requirements for the 2700x?

And/or 2. Should I get a heatsink to change the fan direction (so it's not pointing at the side of the case?).
 
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What case, fans and motherboard do you have?

I'm assuming it's the stock Wraith Prism cooler that came with the 2700x?
In which case the Prism is actually quite good, but likely will need some tweaking of you motherboard fan control settings, to stop it constantly speeding up and down
 
If you can't tweak the fan control settings to get it quiet enough, you're better off getting a decent aftermarket cpu cooler than changing the case
 
ok, so I put the fans on "silent" in bios. Without overclocking, running an fps makes the cpu fan louder than the tv. Should I just change cpu to something that doesn't go mental?
 
I have a 2700x, but replaced the stock cooler (it's good at cooling, just very noisy) with a thermalright aro m14. Now it's very very rare that I hear my cpu over either my graphics or case fans, compared to the stock cooler it's silent.

I have my system in a meshify C, with 2 phantek 140MF (I think that's it) at the front, and then just the 120mm that came with the case, pushing air out the back. I manually spin up the case fans when gaming, noisiest thing now is graphics card when it's hot.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/two-...140mm-fan-radiator-performance-bu-003-pt.html

That's the bundle for fans, brilliant price, just rarely in stock. They produce high pressure, so can overcome filters/grills etc.

EDIT - Meshify C perhaps not cheap enough for you. A tower CPU cooler will help keep all the air going front to back, and therefore not mixing.
 
fuchsiashockz said:
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It's a weird upside down case, so any heat from the CPU cooler is always going to get trapped underneath your graphics card - with only a single rear 80mm exhaust (according to https://www.riotoro.com/cr-1080) then you will struggle to extract the hot air.
You could try fitting both a 2nd intake fan at the front, and a 120mm exhaust in the rear bottom position - potentially with those fitted it may make a difference, and/or as previously mentioned a tower cooler would help, but ultimately it isn't a great case for airflow.

The AMD Wraith cooler isn't that bad - but it absolutely depends on airflow (unlike tower coolers which will cope better due to the fan orientation).

I've got a 3700X with the stock Wraith Prism cooler in a tiny little Aerocool QS-240 case, and it's whilst it's not silent - it's certainly not intrusive, as I have 2x 120mm intake and 2x 120mm exhausts which move a reasonable amount of air through the case and ensure the hot air gets exhausted.
 
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It's a weird upside down case, so any heat from the CPU cooler is always going to get trapped underneath your graphics card - with only a single rear 80mm exhaust (according to https://www.riotoro.com/cr-1080) then you will struggle to extract the hot air.
You could try fitting both a 2nd intake fan at the front, and a 120mm exhaust in the rear bottom position - potentially with those fitted it may make a difference, and/or as previously mentioned a tower cooler would help, but ultimately it isn't a great case for airflow.

The AMD Wraith cooler isn't that bad - but it absolutely depends on airflow (unlike tower coolers which will cope better due to the fan orientation).

I've got a 3700X with the stock Wraith Prism cooler in a tiny little Aerocool QS-240 case, and it's whilst it's not silent - it's certainly not intrusive, as I have 2x 120mm intake and 2x 120mm exhausts which move a reasonable amount of air through the case and ensure the hot air gets exhausted.
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Yeah it's not great. I switched the large fan at the front for a 120mm directed towards the cpu, then have two 80mm exhausts at the rear. I might just change cases.
 
Its a good case, don't take any flak. Just organise intake and exhaust fans, so that inside air is not too hot.

Have you checked how cpu temperature behaves when cooler goes fast? If it goes to max rpm every time cpu hits 50C, thats excessive.

But could be that cpu is hitting 80-90C when under load, and motherboard honestly tries to cool it down. This could be a result of bad cooler seating.
 
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If it's a actually a thermaltake core v1, then I wouldn't have thought it would be too bad
https://uk.thermaltake.com/core-v1.html

Not sure why you would swap the 200mm fan for a 120mm fan though?


Regardless - you still need to look at fan curve options in the bios:

Fan step up and fan step down times are normally set to something like 0.1s by default - these should be increased to at least 1.0 - this will stop the fan speeding up and down when there is a sudden (but brief) temperature spike - which happens due to how Ryzen's boost features work.

Your CPU fan Temperature source should be set to CPU.

I would then look at a custom fan curve something like:

40% fan speed up to 50C
60% fan speed up to 60C
75% fan speed to up 70C
100% fan speed at 80C (always have a 100% option set)

Monitor temperatures and depending on what CPU temperatures you are getting then tweak the speeds at each temperature up and down as appropriate (e.g. if you aren't hitting 70C then you can reduce the next lower band from 60% to say 55%)
(Conversely if you are hitting 75C, then you could change the 75%/70C option to 75%/75C to see if 75% fan speed is enough to keep temperatures from climbing to the next band)

Your case fans can probably be set to manual, and just run them as fast as possible (without them being intolerably loud)
 
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Done those settings as suggested and MUCH better, thank you.
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That's good - just keep an eye on temperatures to make sure they don't get too high e.g. during gaming, but should be a good starting point to make any changes from.

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The large fan didn't seem to move much air so I thought the smaller one would do a better job of blowing the hot air across the top.
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A quick google does suggest the included 200mm fan is a bit rubbish, and there don't seem to be that many good 200mm options - a good 140mm fan such as the below is probably a good option (and can run between 200-1,700rpm, so you could control that via the BIOS options to find the best compromise between speed/noise)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £9.69 (includes shipping: £2.74)​
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