Coolin question

Milz42 · 2 Jul 2012 at 12:35

Would opening the expansion slots on the back of the computer aid in cooling or is it better to leave them in?
Cheers,
Dave

doyll · 2 Jul 2012 at 12:39

Depends on case and airflow. What do you have?

Milz42 · 2 Jul 2012 at 14:22

Its a PB ipower gaming case with 2x 120mm case fans, i have a hyper 212 evo with a cooling fan mounted, my gpu is a sapphire Hd 7850 with 2x cooling fans. Also the prosessor is an i53570k at 4.2ghz

doyll · 2 Jul 2012 at 14:52

I like the style of your case, but not crazy about cooling.
Appears an intake fan in front bottom angled area in front of HDDs?
Exhaust fan in traditional position behind CPU?
Any other vents in case?

Milz42 · 2 Jul 2012 at 16:41

It has a big intake with 2x 120mm exhause fans no other vents

doyll · 2 Jul 2012 at 16:51

Assume you have stock fans in it now. How often do you clean the heat sinks on CPU and GPU?

Removing the PCI back covers might help cool air get to GPU but might mean more hot air to CPU heatsink. Best would be to monitor temps on both for a few days then remove PCI covers and monitor for another couple of days. Keep in mind that if room temp changes so will computer temps.

j.col · 2 Jul 2012 at 21:21

are front fans blowing air into the case (intake)
and rear and/or top fans removing air ftom case. (exhaust)
basically you are trying to create an air flow from front of case through the middle to rear of case.