Fractal Design R4 Cooling - Need Help!

Andromeda1983

Andromeda1983

Andromeda1983

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The British summer is finally upon as and as I have noticed recently my cooling setup is currently struggling to cope with all the excess heat. As you probably know the Fractal Design R4 is not exactly the most open of cases but I have been able to cover that by using AIO CPU coolers that dump the heat outside the case.

Sadly however my GTX680's aftermarket cooler is currently letting me down (Accelero Twin Turbo II) as its dumping all the heat into my case. So I was thinking of buying the Accerelo Hybrid to counter this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-068-AR&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=787

Now my idea is to run the CPU cooler from the front 120mm's and the GPU on the back 120mm. Do you all think this is a good idea or would I run into further heating issue's?
 
PC is clean and dust free, cable management is excellent with very little cable's in the way of airflow. Right now I use 2 x 120mm GT AP15's on a H60 (wished for better cpu cooler but there you go ) with a stock Fractal Design fan on the front of the case bringing in cold air. Case has about 1/3 meter clearance from the wall.
 
Mine is fine, have the 2x140mm stock fans at the front intake and 2x140mm BitFenix fans at the rear and top exhaust. GFX card in the way so can't fit one on the side.

Gave the air filters a clean the other day, was a layer of what can only be described as a fur coat on each (built it 6 months ago).

Have a Noctua DH U14S (i think, can't remember now) on the CPU.
 
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