System Cooling

DStruct

DStruct

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My room gets absolutely boiling, to the point it can be uncomfortable to sit in here after long night gaming. My PC is in a little tiny room in here, if you imagine a king size bed.. Thats probably a good realistic measurement of this entire room, meaning thats all you would fit in here with no walking access.

I thought my case and fans were good enough but my GPU gets extremely hot.

My case is the HAF 912 and Ive set it up as standard. 2x 200mm fans on front and top, with 2 smaller fans on the side and rear.

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Here are the type of temps I am getting after just 1 hour of play from Overwatch.

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Radiator in this room is permanently off. Never needed. The PC is more effective anyway, though not a good thing. Annoys me.

How can I make this system cooler in order to keep the room cooler too?
 
What about the GPU though? I use the R9 290 and I know this card runs hot but 94degrees, thats beyond hot surely? 6 degrees off the boiling point
 
Thanks mate, I will look into it. Is it all I need to buy paste? Any special tools or anything else + Is it very easy to do? I've fitted my own CPU's and pasted that so.. should I be alright doing this? Never took a GFX card apart before thats all, so being 1st time.. out of my comfort zone thinking about it :)
 
I know I just asked for your recommendation but I am thinking while I am at it, It might be beneficial to reapply paste on my CPU too as its been 5 years now, so incase 1gram isnt enough for both.. price jumps up, Is the Arctic Silver 5 stuff still any good ? I can get more of that for same price, also looking into buying the Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol to do it properly too, cheers
 
OK that it is then, cheers mate. Wish me luck ha, will save this as bookmark and update in the next week or so when I get the stuff :)
Fingers crossed
 
Oh yeah by the way, do my case fans need replacing or do they seem ok? The RPM just seems somewhat low... though im sure someone here can tell me otherwise
 
You are absolutely right. I just came back here to add something.

Girlfriend is out at work atm im on afternoons, so Ive opened every single window in my house... its cold. My large room fan has a temp on it, tells me its 15 degrees in here.

Anyway, playing Overwatch today its only reaching of temps up to 83 as opposed to 94 last night.

It is definitely my room thats the problem, unfortunately cant exactly have all the windows open like I have now, not when shes home. Shes a must be warm kinda girl.

Ideas?!
 
What about something like this......
http://img1.wantitall.co.za/prodima...Copper-Chipset-Cooling-Fan-C__41IDWVsKr3L.jpg
Am I on the right tracks?
If I was attach this at the back of my PC where hot air is blowed out and then have another fan the otherend to continue the airflow in same direction - away from my pc, possibly out of my window or something........
I think it would be cheaper than a AIR CON unit. Small standalone air con units are still expensive and not sure how effective they are.

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