Gaming card which will run cooler

[Mark Excell]

I live in a location with high humidity and dust. Currently taking steps to cool my current pc. (so using normal production software I can keep the CPU below 60'c (i5 with 16gb of ram so no page swapping)

It did have a Radeon R265 originally but last year due to over heating I stopped playing games etc and removed the card.

Looking to start with gaming again and although I wont be running a lot of FPS games, from experience titles like the CIV range can cause a GFX to work over time.

Sort of thinking of something like a R580, but have read that AMD cards run hotter. If this is the case would it be better to go Nvidia and if so which models should I be looking at?

Ideally didn't want to spend a fortune on a card (maybe up to a max of £200).

 

[Mark Excell]

Good call. Just looked on a couple of spec pages and couldn't see much between them, but hen watched a youtube video which puts it in simpler terms, 5 to 10 degrees cooler with no noticeable difference on screen.

 

[Mark Excell]

Seen a 3 fan 570 on here which looks like it could be very good, but just happy that 570 looks like the best choice. Just need to see how the extra cooling goes first, and then can look at this.

 

[Mark Excell]

I'm strapping an extra Corsair fan to the case to extract warm air, just waiting for a cable converter to arrive.

 

[Mark Excell]

The original case is one from ChillBlast and upon investigation is a CIT Domination (quite old now). So currently two going in the front and two going out of the back (one being the ps) with two going in on the side. (There is also a bottom intake I think..)

Issue with the case is that on the top there is just a grate, which normally would be good, but lets so much dust in..

So did a massive clean (as much as I was able to) and basically taped over anything that is a hole and doesn't have a fan attached. (The fans all have some filtering over them.)

The new fan, as it going on the top, just going to use it to drag air upwards (warm air rises..).

I think the £25 I have spend on fan and cable is probably as much as I want to throw on the case and if its still problematic, will look to get the fractal design 7. But what I have done (just waiting for the cable to fit the fan) has already taken about 7 degrees off of idle and about 15 degrees off the top end, so happy. This equates to playing runescape or world of warplanes without it going over 70c (Which is was doing before the clean just running my web dev setup.)