Sylferion

You doubled your reply.  But I get you. 

I will feel sad if he retires, but if it's his decision and that's what he wants, I'll respect it. I've learned so much things from this guy and he is unique. From what I mean by unique, you already know, drops stuff but that's the reason why he is so interesting to watch. The sponsors too. I swear @LinusTech people will respect the decision that you will make in the future.

I will feel sad if he retires, but if it's his decision and that's what he wants, I'll respect it. I've learned so much things from this guy and he is unique. From what I mean by unique, you already know, drops stuff but that's the reason why he is so interesting to watch. The sponsors too. I swear @LinusTech people will respect the decision that you will make in the future.

I will feel sad if he retires, but if it's his decision and that's what he wants, I'll respect it. I've learned so much things from this guy and he is unique. From what I mean by unique, you already know, drops stuff but that's the reason why he is so interesting to watch. The sponsors too. I swear @LinusTech people will respect the decision that you will make in the future.

Imma leave this here:
 
 
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Well, you learn things as you get older.

I will feel sad if he retires, but if it's his decision and that's what he wants, I'll respect it. I've learned so much things from this guy and he is unique. From what I mean by unique, you already know, drops stuff but that's the reason why he is so interesting to watch. The sponsors too. I swear @LinusTech people will respect the decision that you will make in the future.

I will feel sad if he retires, but if it's his decision and that's what he wants, I'll respect it. I've learned so much things from this guy and he is unique. From what I mean by unique, you already know, drops stuff but that's the reason why he is so interesting to watch. The sponsors too. I swear @LinusTech people will respect the decision that you will make in the future.

I will feel sad if he retires, but if it's his decision and that's what he wants, I'll respect it. I've learned so much things from this guy and he is unique. From what I mean by unique, you already know, drops stuff but that's the reason why he is so interesting to watch. The sponsors too. I swear @LinusTech people will respect the decision that you will make in the future.

Thanks for the kind words guys ?

The only reason why config 1 doesn't work is cos the top exhaust fans are moving the hot GPU air through the CPU block.  It's only the preferred config if your GPU is a blower style, or you are using an AIO and there's no CPU block to warm from the GPU.

Hi all,

Recently, I have been experimenting with different fan configurations for my PC since my CPU temperatures rose significatly while playing CPU demanding games.
Frankly I got the best results while doing everything "wrong" by the common knowledge about pc cooling, so I wanted to share them with everyone who ever had such a dilemma.
Please note that those results are most likely totally dependant on my case model, but chances are that if you're running a similar setup to mine, this could work for you too.

First, my setup:
CPU: R7 1700 @ 3.9GHz, 1.26V (yes, it's stable, guess that's the lottery win)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance  RGB 16GB 3200Mhz (2x8gb dimms)
GPU: Gigabyte RX 5700XT Gaming OC
MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus B450 Elite
Case: Silentium PC Gladius GD8 (also Tecware Bifrost in some parts of the word)
CPU cooler: Silentium Fera 3 RGB - simple tower cooler - per specs should be able to dissipate 180W heat
Case Fans 6x Silentium PC Sigma PRO fans - nothing pro about them, supposed to be static pressure, 38,5 CFM, 1200rpm

Temperature measurements taken after ~30 min of Battlefield 1, 64 player conquest - Known to be CPU demanding, it actually generates higher temps than OCCT test, but this might be due to additional GPU load in the game.

Configuration 1: 3x front intake 2x top exhaust 1x rear exhaust, CPU - Spikes to 83C; GPU - 71C

Originally I went for the most logical fan layout
Problem with this case is it has a very little clearance for the front fans, back exhast has no obstacles, top fans have bit more room to breathe than front. In result I ended up with negative air pressure.
My CPU temps were bad and final conclusion was that top exhaust fans are stealing air from CPU cooler

Configuration 2: 3x front intake 2x top intake 1x rear exhaust, CPU - Spikes to 76C; GPU - 71C

Common knowledge is that you should always go with natural air convection (hot air rises naturally).
Seems though that even cheapo fans absolutely negate this effect. This has been confirmed by Pudget Systems in this article.
It looks like this config was working way better at the start of the test but temps were gradually increasing to 76C on the CPU and 71C on the GPU.
Easy guess is that single fan was not able to cope with that much air being taken in and airflow in the case was a mess.

Configuration 3: 3x front intake 1x forward top intake 1x rear top exhaust 1x rear exhaust, CPU - Spikes to 74 C; GPU - 69C

Would you look at that, I decided to do the stupidest thing ever (as per every forum post and article I have found) and mounted intake and exhaust on the same (top) case panel.
All sources say that this will cause turbulence in case and that those two fans will suck air from each other. To minimize this effect I have moved them as far apart as possible.
I was hoping that the top fan will feed additional air into the CPU tower and top exhasut in the back will help to suck out hot air directly behind it. Result? Even lower CPU temp, suprisingly GPU temp went down too.

(Those results were also reflected in OCCT stress test but are way more pronounced in a real gaming scenario).

TLDR: The least recommended fan configuration dropped my CPU temp by 9C and GPU temp by 2C.

The fan stop spinning thing could have something to do with the fancurve on the laptop. Some manufactures set the fancurve to respond to how much load is on the system. IMO that's a stupid way to cool a PC noise-wise. 
The BSOD could be a result of too much undervolting. Try running CPU stress test for 6 hours to really be sure that it's stable.

Earlier this day, I undervolted my CPU. I was pretty sure that it's stable since Prime95 didn't show any errors and everything passed, CPU is maxed at 75°c. Now, the thing is, when I stopped prime95, the moment I clicked stopped at Prime95, I heard the fan stopped spinning then I just felt something so hot in my laptop for a few seconds, let's say around five seconds. Then the BSOD showed. I just restarted the Laptop, then it showed me a message to go to BIOS, I just skipped BIOS and just clicked discard w/o saving anything. Then my Laptop started without errors. So, is there something that I did wrong? Or maybe it was just because of the heat when the fan stopped spinning? In case you want to know, I'm running on AC at that time, it was 28°c here when I started running Prime95.