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Fan Placement Suggestion For Corsair Crystal 460x

I've included a picture of my current setup.
The GPU temp while gaming goes up quite high while gaming.The difference of temps while the TG side panel is on and off is about 5-6 degrees. so i'm assuming there is a lot of hot air from the gpu being trapped inside.
Is the current fan config okay?
I was thinking about taking off the PCIe brckets and installing a High AF fan there to blow air into/Out of the gpu compartment. Will that help?

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The GPU is an ASUS Rog Strix 1070 OC btw. I have custom fan curvers set so that the fans ramp up to 100 at 75 degrees ( i want the temps below 70). Ambient Temps are 30-36 at the moment.

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The top intake fan could be cycling warm air back into the case. Try flipping it to exhaust instead.

A rear intake under the graphics card could help but it would bring in more dust without a filter.

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the top intake should be removed. 

 

it looks like you can take off the front half of the PSU shroud?

if you can, that would definitely help with GPU temps.

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1 hour ago, WoodenMarker said:

it would bring in more dust without a filter.

I will install a filter.

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1 hour ago, Prqnk3d said:

it looks like you can take off the front half of the PSU shroud?

if you can, that would definitely help with GPU temps.

i have my ssd mounted on the front shroud :( 

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22 minutes ago, acid1011 said:

i have my ssd mounted on the front shroud :( 

 you can put it behind the motherboard. should be fine even if there isn't a mount, it has no moving parts

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Okay so placing a high air flow 80mm fan on the pcie slots as an exhaust reduced the temps by 5 degrees.If i install the fan as an intake the temps drop by 7 degrees but 2 deg drop doesnt justify the dust build up in my opinion.

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