HAF X cooling advice

[Gietzy]

Hi, I have just bought a second MSI Twin Frozr 580 from here and am now running an SLI rig. I have a HAF X and a p8p67 deluxe mobo. I get a good bit of distance between the 2 GPUs but the temps on my top card are reaching 90. I know this isn't awful but I would like to get those temps down a bit.

My fans are set up as default so that is 1 intake at the front, 1 intake at the side then 2 exhausts, one at the top rear and one at the back. I also have a thermaltake frio cpu cooler.

So, what should I do? Should I change the side panel fan, should I change all the fans? Should I add in a second top fan. I'm not interested in water cooling and I like negative pressure cases. I clean my computer and the cable management is good. My budget is anything under £150 (although less is best).

 

[lrlcr]

I'd try fitting the gpu duct with a nice silent fan. It should help with getting air over the cards from the front of the case. You could then run the side fan as a exhaust as you're probably struggling because the twin frozor cards vent the hot air into the case.

 

[ScottiB]

my best recommendation would be to install Afterburner and set up a custom fan profile, you may find that 10% higher fan speeds will make a big difference to the amount of standing hot air around the cards

one thing that I found can help with tower design CPU coolers is to change the orientation so that the fan is blowing warm air direction upwards out of the large exhaust.

 

[jamesuk85]

Sorry, totally wrong post :x