MindsEyeTHPS

Yes you got that right. At the same time, I am planning to eventually upgrade to an RX 590 Fatboy OC+, hence why I wanted airflow advice.

So I am trying to cool my GTX 1060 6GB GPU that tends to always reach 82c at full load, yet it's 37c on idle. I tried removing the top fans, as well as leaving the case open to no avail. I have 2 140mm Static Pressure intakes on the front (the grey fans) and 1 exhaust, after I removed the 2 top fans that sadly didn't help the cooling of the GPU. Attached below is the image of my current fan setup. For reference I'm using a Rosewill CHALLENGER S case. Also I tried a new PSU, with bronze efficiency yet the 82c temp issue still remained. Before you guys go on to argue that 82c is a safe temp, I would like to still get the GPU's temp to as low as possible.

Okay there's good news and bad news I gotta share. So I just set the fan curve to hit as early as the late 60s, and Fortnite, it just ran so much better, in fact, almost flawlessly. However, it was a different story with (the new) Modern Warfare, because during a botmatch, I encountered some stutters, and at one point in the match, it froze for almost 10 seconds, therefore giving very bad percentile figures, making them both 0 FPS. A few botmatches later my PC just suddenly shut off in the middle (I either suspect that the PSU reached its 550w limit or the other components were getting hot; 197W usage at peak). With Black Ops 4 though (I put EVERY SINGLE fan here to full speed in this test), it wasn't AS bad, but I had a series of microstutters in MP botmatches, but ran flawlessly in Zombies. Here, the temps reached 72c at peak. For the fan curve here, I put the GPU fan to run at full speed, setting it to 93% as soon as it hit 40c. It's worth noting that throughout this run of tests I put an exhaust fan on top of my case, and it went into the CPU_FAN2 connector, as the other chassis fan connectors were already occupied, but I set the BIOS so that it can monitor the mobo temp, therefore allowing it to behave like a case fan (however, at full speed, that top fan, which BTW is a Rosewill RFA-120-BL, makes a buzzing noise when at full speed, as it's situated right above the CPU heatsink & cooler/Wraith Max).

So I put every single fan to run at full speed, and even disabled 0 RPM for my GPU (no other settings were adjusted in WattMan), and I get 196 W power usage at peak, and temps are still as high as 82/83c at full 100 usage, when I ran the FurMark benchmark (no crashes from that, thank goodness), plus still heard coil whining when playing games, and had some stutters, esp. in Fortnite, due to thermal throttling in the 80s. Room temp. in the PC's current environment was 80 F/26c (at the time of this writing) if anyone wants to know. Also felt the PSU not too hot after usage.

I brought this up as if I leave my fans to normal mode in BIOS, the fan will spin up and down, also to do with last night when my fan was ramping up like crazy... also am using 0 RPM on my GPU at idle.

The GPU now idles at 46c, the CPU is still idling in the 40s as of now, judging by HWMONITOR (F Stream Tuning reports 60c idle on CPU). Last night, it was beefy and loud. My case has 2 intake at the front and 1 exhaust at the back. I can feel the hot air coming out of the back. Maybe I need to fix my thermal paste on CPU?

UPDATE: So I switched out my CX750 PSU for the aforementioned Cooler Master PSU, and it made quite a difference. GTA 5 passed the benchmark test, and worked flawlessly in Online mode (with the coil whine still there). MW2 loaded up no problem, but there were still some stutters (maybe I suspect my new GPU is just getting warmed up and used to it). I tested the new Modern Warfare, and it ran flawlessly in a 6-bot match of Infected, but at the end, the GPU crashed to a black screen, and when I hit the reset button, it produced 5 long beeps. I cut the power, turned it back on, and it returned to the desktop no problem. However, the GPU (as of this post) is now 50c at idle, with the CPU idling in the 40s (hence the PC currently being quite loud), and even my mobo idling in the 40s, too, having until now idled in the 30s.

First, I've had the CX750M for 2 months now, and the same issue was on the V56. But when I paired the V56 with the Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 550W PSU, the same issue persisted, so I have a feeling that the same could be said for my new RX 590, had I used that PSU.

No, but as I said, when I run a game like GTA 5 or MW2, with or without V Sync, the whole PC restarts. Tried updating the BIOS, and even using the drivers from the provided install disc to no avail. Maybe I need a higher wattage PSU perhaps? Again, my current PSU is a CORSAIR CX750M Bronze PSU, and my CPU is a Ryzen 1700x, which is a 95W TDP CPU, and is paired with a Wraith Max cooler, as well as a CORSIAR Vengeance 3000MHz DDR4 RAM, same issue w/ or w/o XMP active.

So I recently bought a new RX 590 factory OC GPU off Best Buy's website, but when I tried to play new gen games with it, the fans start going to full speed, the coil whines (I know it's from the GPU as I lightly put my finger on it and felt the while) and cause the PC to restart (I know because I wanted to try the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Spec Ops mission Body Count, and I got quite some stutters, and by the time I moved into the building it just restarted; similar story with GTA 5, while benchmarking the PC restarts during the waterfall scene). This happened with my Vega 56 too, which is a similar story to this. Benchmarked with Furmark and temps were reaching 83c at peak. For reference, my PSU is a CORSAIR CX750M Bronze, and I last had the issue with the latest Adrenalin 2020 drivers. Specs: ASRock B450 Gaming K4 Fatal1ty Ryzen 1700x CPU + Wraith Max Cooler CORSAIR CX750M Bronze PSU CORSAIR VENGANCE DDR4 3000MHz RAM XFX RX 590 Fatboy OC+