Cooling problem....

wilko49 · 4 Jan 2011 at 22:04

I'm not really happy with my temps after adding a second card. At the moment I have a 120mm intake at the front and a 120mm exhaust at the rear, and my psu at the top facing down.

I reckon a lot of the problem is that the second card exhaust air towards the front of the case, against the airflow.

Unfortunately, I can't afford a new case right now, so I was considering reversing the front fan, and adding a 200mm intake to the side panel (which is meshed).

Do you guys think that would work? Or do you have any better ideas?

wilko49 · 5 Jan 2011 at 13:17

50 at idle (used to be around 35), i'm terrified of running furmark on it.

Can't replace the coolers cos the cards are non-reference.

wilko49 · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:12

Doesn't look too bad, but i don't have filters.

wilko49 · 5 Jan 2011 at 17:35

Ok, just ran 9000 frames of furmark, temps seemed to top out around 88º.

The cards have about an inch between them, but my poor Xonar DG is in between them as well.

wilko49 · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:07

I will take it out later to see what effect it has, but removing it permanently isn't a solution I want to use.

I doubt it is the problem anyway, as it is the bottom gpu that gets hottest.