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JewishBacon
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so heres the deal, i have a fractal r4 window, just like everyone else on this forum apparently lol. and i have all of my fan slots occupied exceot the one on the bottom near the psu.  ive for an h100i at the top of the case with 2 scythe gentle typhoons on the rad. i have the stock fans as intake and the fan on the back is a 90 (?) cfm NZXT performance fan for exhaust. my problem is my gpu 280x  sapphire dual x getts to like 65c when i game. my cable management is as good as i could realistically get it. does anyone have any suggestions? i dont really think i should switch directions on the rad fans, because they would blow hot air into the rad, and i dont think thats really a good thing.  short of putting in some liquid loop which i really dont have the money/space/time for what could i do?   

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That is a good temp. Gpu's can go to 80 degrees. Do you have pics of your rig? It might help to put a fan at the bottom to blow fresh air up to the gpu. Is the gpu a reference or custom card? 

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65C isn't hot.. at all, @Mrusu 's 290x got 80c when doing nothing

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If 65 °C is the temperature you really ment, and it is not a type, then it is a pretty good temp for a GPU. You can run 5 minutes of MSI Kombustor to stress test the card, so that you can simultaniously read the temperature. If that doesn't go over 90 °C you are safe. You actually have a lot of arflow already. That setup is ideal.

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here is a picture of my rig. 

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here is a picture of my rig.

That is a good temp. Gpu's can go to 80 degrees. Do you have pics of your rig? It might help to put a fan at the bottom to blow fresh air up to the gpu. Is the gpu a reference or custom card? 

STEAM NAME: JewishBacon GPU  Sapphire dual x R9 280x OC edition CPU core i7 4770k stock speed COOLER H100i  CASE Fractal R4 Window Black  MOBO MSI gd-65 gaming Storage 1TB WD Blue drive, 1TB Samsung 7200 rpm, 120 GB OCZ SSD, 64 GB WD Blue ssd  RAM 12 GB @ 1600 Ghz kingston RAM  Misc. NZXT HUE, disk read/write, 2x 21 inch 1920x1080 monitors   

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here is a picture of my rig.

If you want slightly better temps. Add a fan at the bottom and do more cable management. Here is a cable management guide. 

Let me know how it goes.

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the problem i have with the bottom fan is that my roomates are fairly messy and i dont want my pc turning into a vacuum! but ill give it a shot for a week i suppose. wrst case scenario, i end up needing a can of air! after i put my hand near the area where the gpu cooler is i felt basically no airflow, the rest of the case is basically a tornado lol 

STEAM NAME: JewishBacon GPU  Sapphire dual x R9 280x OC edition CPU core i7 4770k stock speed COOLER H100i  CASE Fractal R4 Window Black  MOBO MSI gd-65 gaming Storage 1TB WD Blue drive, 1TB Samsung 7200 rpm, 120 GB OCZ SSD, 64 GB WD Blue ssd  RAM 12 GB @ 1600 Ghz kingston RAM  Misc. NZXT HUE, disk read/write, 2x 21 inch 1920x1080 monitors   

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the problem i have with the bottom fan is that my roomates are fairly messy and i dont want my pc turning into a vacuum! but ill give it a shot for a week i suppose. wrst case scenario, i end up needing a can of air! after i put my hand near the area where the gpu cooler is i felt basically no airflow, the rest of the case is basically a tornado lol 

Use a fan filter.

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