Help cooling with H440

[Antvinder]

Hi all I am having a few issues with my cooling solution,

I have an Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z board and an 8320 chip, overclocking the chip and keeping it cool with a 240 custom loop is easy enough. My problem is the board gets really hot. HWMonitor show the AMD FX-8320 as 42 degress under load but the "CPU" and "Mainboard" in the 60's. I am under the impression that the AMD FX-8320 is the cpu core temp and the "CPU" and "Mainboard" values are for the socket and VRAM's.

My question is at the moment I have the top three fans as exhaust fans with the front three as intake. Like below

If i swap the fans around so that the top and back are my intake and the front are my exhaust, will the fresh air over the VRAM's and motherboard make the temps any better? If i was to do like below

 

[Danny75]

In the first (your current) setup, your top exhaust fans may be extracting the front intake's cool air, before it gets to wash over the board VRM's etc.

The problem with the second setup is that while cool air will wash over the board VRM's etc, the exhaust is likely going to have trouble evacuating the hot air through the front. Due to the restrictions of the front panel.

First I would try stopping all three top fans, and checking for any difference. Then start them up again, one by one (in order, from left to right), and checking for differences.

Then maybe try your second setup. And then try (with the second setup) with the rear fan exhausting.

 

[hlennie]

change your cpu phase control to optimized and your cpu power switching to manual then set VRM switching to 300Hz u should see a reduction in board temp