Need help cooling my wavemaster!!

Eliot

Eliot

Eliot

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Hi, At the moment my Pc is sitting in my Coolermaster Wavemaster which is great.... Apart from the fact that everything cooks in this thing,
Ages ago my graphics card (X850Xt pe) used to overheat loads in bf2 (about 90c) so i bought an arctic silencer for it, it made my gpu about 38c idle as opposed to about 48 and 50 full load as opposed to 90ish!!! so that was a good improvement heat wise, however a problem i havent quite been able to fix is the cpu,

It was my intention to get my 4000+ at FX55 speeds when i bought it, but i found that my cpu is too hot to make this possible. At the moment it sits at 44c idle and god knows how much in game, ive got a akasa ak859 on it running at 4000rpm, and its like 43db!!!!.

I think my case is suffering because of a lack of air intake, on my 3 blank drives spaces you can hear and feel the air rushing in the gaps and it kinda whistles like its pulling in air through there, so what i was going to do was get a Coolermaster 4-in-3 Module to convert my 3 spaces to a 120mm fan intake and then install a Arctic Freezer 64 Pro for my cpu to improve the cooling and noise, will this fix my problems? do you have any suggestions, Cheers :)
EDIT: Do you think that the 120mm might create outtake probs? if so will a better 80mm fan sort it out?
 
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thats a good idea, but also what about the fans on the case, if you have got bad fans try switching to akasa ambers or even better panaflo
 
i think part of the problem might be that the holes for the intake are too small, so they restrict the intake?, the fans are all coolermaster ones, so not great but not shocking where do you fit 80mm to 120mm adapters, inside or outside the case? i was thinking one of those could be a good idea for the rear outtake.
 
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It's really not good to have so much negative pressure in a case that you are sucking air in through case gaps :D

IMO you should do a bit of a rework (I'm not overly familiar with the Wavemaster case) but you should be aiming to get cool air in through the front (low - ie close to the base of the case) and expelling through the back (high - PSU fanset and rear fan)
 
The Coolermaster 4-3 modules sounds like a great idea to me, pair it up with a 120mm fan (don't bother with an 80mm fan, you need plenty of air intake) and some mesh grilles that the stacker uses to cover the bays and you'll be set :)
 
i thought about it but really i need and intake not a outtake, and if i install a 120mm fan it will probly conflict with it.
 
the wavemaster really needs water cooling as there isnt sufficient aiflow through the case... the front two fans only draw a small amont of air in from behind that aluminium block... the rear fan can only push out small amount... and the top fan if put it doest do much other than make the circulation go all funny lol... you want air to pass in the front and across the mobo then out the back the small 80mm fans dont do this well... get a zalman resrator or something for your cpu... and there will be enough air for ya GPU :)
 
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