I bought a pre built and its hot .. too hot

MostlyHuman

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I bought a new pc, mainly cos it was the only way to get a 3060Ti. The original CPU, a 3600, temperatures when watching you tube would reach 60C. Playing Total War Warhammer II took it to 90C and then the PC started to turn off completely.

I had already bought a 5600X so flashed the bios and fitted that. Temps are still very high. I think I have 2 problems:
  1. The case a Aerocool Shard RGB Tempered Glass Mid Tower Case - Black has very bad air flow, it looks pretty but the 3 front fans can only draw air in from tiny side grills
  2. The wraith stock cooler
I have taken off the glass side panel and removed the mesh covers to get cooler air into the case (a 5 to 10C improvement) but I do need a permanent solution. I will look at undervolting the CPU over the week end.

Some ideas I have thought of:
  1. Getting a single fan aio cooler, mounting it on the back panel and putting the fan that was there on the top to draw air in.
  2. Getting a decent air cooler and adding an extra fan to the top to draw air in.
  3. Getting a 240mm cooler and mounting it to the top
Any thoughts or suggestions?
 
I dont want to move everything to a different case if I can help it. GPU temps seem OK, 60ish C, the internal case temp rises to 35 - 40 C during long game sessions.

So replace the stock cooler and I think I'll also add a fan to the top to increase air flow into the case.
 
The case came with 3 front mounted fans. But honestly all they are good for is looking pretty (RGB)

As for mounting an aio on top it looks as there is only 25mm clearance between the top of the case and the top chunk of metal on the mb
 
Looks like its buy two extra fans to exhaust the case out the top and see if that works. Otherwise its buy a new case and a better cooler which I'm guessing is going to set me back £200+ or drill a gazillion holes in the front panel so those 3 fans actually suck a decent amount of air in.

ETA

I've removed the paste that came with the cooler and used artic mx-4
 
Today I undervolted the cpu (working my way up, currently PBO setting 25 - seems stable) I also moved one of the useless front fans up to the top to exhaust. Oh and about those useless front fans the bottom one is even more useless as it literally blast its output straight against the hd retaining wall.

PC now runs at with temps in the high 70's

Long term I think I'll buy another case
 
Update

I bought an Artic Liquid Freezer II 240mm and although an absolute nightmare to fit has dropped the temps from mid to high 70's to low to mid 40's when gaming . A drop of 35 - 40C
 
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