Stealthy work build cooling

Renvaar · April 24, 2019

What's up guys,

I've done a little browsing on this but would love direct opinions. I've got an RX470D and a G4560 in my work PC, enough for some light gaming at lunch. Temps are fine really, but it never hurts to make sure they stay as low as possible and I like fiddling. As a work pc case, there's no way to use front mounted intakes in these office style cases, all the case has is a 12cm side mount, and a 8cm that I've got as exhaust. My problem is the 12cm side mount, it's above the graphics card, more directly over the CPU, which uses a stock-style low cooler. I just stuck a fan there as an intake, thinking 1 intake and 1 exhaust makes sense in any situation, but my GPU temp actually seems to have taken a 15 degree jump from it's 50-ish idle to around 65...

After some reading, having the side panel as an intake when it's above the graphics card rather than below, might be blowing plenty of new air on the CPU, but it's actually preventing the heat from the GPU from rising? So should I make this an exhaust like the back fan, or scrap it all together? Only other fan is the PSU at top of cause, taking air from within the case and exhausting out. Everything's around that CPU, which is idling at 27....

WoodenMarker · April 24, 2019

What case are you using?

You could flip the fan to exhaust and see if that helps. If not, you should just remove the fan. More isn't always better.

Renvaar · April 24, 2019

It's a totally random, Chinese made office case... Don't think I could find it online even if I wanted to.... I guess I just wait till the office is empty and flip the fan around first...

Edit: Also read you can get a pretty decent undervolt on these cards to help with heat.... Only ever done modest OC's tho... Guess that's a topic for another forum section...