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SkidMarkKing

SkidMarkKing

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Hello.

I was playing a mmorpg game and noticed the top of my case and the rear of my case was very hot. Is this normal? I have not overclocked at all but it is very warm (hence this thread in this forum).

I will consider upgrading the cooling with in the computer. Possibly I different heatsink for the cpu as I just had the standard one which comes with the amd phenom II x 4 965.

As far as fans are concerned ide probably need a new case. Im not sure what the one I have is but the ventilation doesn't look great on it. I got it as part of a barebone system.
 
What all is your system? What case, GPU, heatsink, etc.?

The heat is from the hot air coming off of your CPU cooler and I assume there is an exhaust fan in top back near top of case pulling that hot air out.
 
doyll said:
What all is your system? What case, GPU, heatsink, etc.?

The heat is from the hot air coming off of your CPU cooler and I assume there is an exhaust fan in top back near top of case pulling that hot air out.
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CPU is the amd phenom II x 4 965 with the standard heatsink/fan. GPU is gtx460. 550w PSU. 8GB RAM. Fans are stock ones which came with the case.

Feels a lot cooler now. I was playing on Starwars: The One Republic online.

Im tempted by one of those corsair liquid coolers for the cpu.
 
What case do you have?

I don't like Closed Loop Coolers. Especially the Corsairs. Many people have had problems with them.. pump noise and pump failures being the worst. They are also as expensive or more than air cooler, don't cool any better and are usually noisier.

Only moving part on air coolers is the fan/fans.. and if a fan goes bad cooler still works and it's easy to replace.. just get a new fan.

CLC have fans too but also a pump.. and if the pump goes bad the coolant does not circulate and you have no cooling until you replace the whole system.

There are lots of thread and posts about CLC problems and often they are not easily fixed.. but very few about air coolers failing and usual problems are simple fixes.
 
Just taken the side of my case to find a whole load of dust stuck in the heatsink. All cleaned up now but im going crazy as I can't find the thermal paste I bought a while ago.

I had a look at cpu temperatures last night and one of the cores went to 120oc :/

I did find the booklet which tells me which case it is (upstairs at the moment). I also found out the case only has one fan at the front. Thinking of purchasing one for the rear.

Any recommendations?

EDIT: Going to stay away from watercooling (for now :))
 
Just set down. What a beautiful weekend we've had!

Look forward to seeing how much difference cleaning makes.

You could put 1 front intake fans in if you are not using 3 of your 5.25 bays.. 3 bays work nice and it looks like covers on them are grills.

Does the lower front fan mount have a vent/grill for it to draw air? I don't see anything in the pictures.
Some good fans are even less than that.

IMHO good case airflow is the most important and overlooked part of system builds.
 
doyll said:
Just set down. What a beautiful weekend we've had!

Look forward to seeing how much difference cleaning makes.

You could put 1 front intake fans in if you are not using 3 of your 5.25 bays.. 3 bays work nice and it looks like covers on them are grills.

Does the lower front fan mount have a vent/grill for it to draw air? I don't see anything in the pictures.
Some good fans are even less than that.

IMHO good case airflow is the most important and overlooked part of system builds.
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Brilliant weekend yeah. Been travelling around Wales most of it :)

The case has one big fan at the front.

I have 1 x kingston 4gb ddr3 ram and 2 x 2GB buffalo ram sticks. The kingston one is weird. Its half the height of the 2 buffalo sticks. I have often thought should I buy different ram. A lot of rigs seem to have the fancy looking stuff with plastic casing. I actually don't know the difference though apart from ddr2 and ddr3.
 
Easy way to see how well your case is cooling is a cheapo indoor/outdoor wired remote digital thermometer. Refrigerator or terrarium thermometer of same basic design work good too. Can be had for £3-4 on auction site. Twist a piece of insulated wire into the last 6" or so and mount it in front of cooler about 1-2" and set the readout where it's easy for you to keep an eye on to see what the air temp going into cooler is at idle and load. They shouldn't be more than a couple degrees warmer.. 5c at most than the room. Every degree warmer is a degree warmer the CPU will be.
 
Temperatures seem to be good now its just the noise of the cpu fan as I have moved my pc tower on to the desk for better ventilation. Anyway I made another thread for this :)
 
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