Help!!

[L3gend2You]

So i build a new pc and inisde my tower is really hot and the glass on the outside is hot but my temps are good. Do i have to worry or am i overthinking it. 

 

I7 9700K- 55 Cel full load

2080 Super- 71 Cel Full load

[bellabichon]

Those internal temps are perfectly acceptable, but if your PC case is getting hot enough to actually burn you, there might be something wrong with where your cooling system is transporting that heat. If you can find an Infrared Thermometer gun, it'll allow you to take more accurate readings about the surface temperature of your case, but they're pretty hard to find right now due to COVID-19. 

[TylerDurden!]

10 minutes ago, L3gend2You said:

So i build a new pc and inisde my tower is really hot and the glass on the outside is hot but my temps are good. Do i have to worry or am i overthinking it. 

 

I7 9700K- 55 Cel full load

2080 Super- 71 Cel Full load

glass is an insulator (it holds onto heat).  plexiglass would be better at getting rid of the heat, but does not look as purty

[NickPickerWI]

Oh, man, those are actually great temps for those parts. I'm assuming you're using an air cooled GPU, and a tower air cooler/small-ish AIO on your CPU. The glass and interior of the case will get hot, that's just how it goes - make sure you have case fans blowing in from the front, and out from the back/top, and you should be fine.

 

The outside of your case should not be too hot to touch, but you will notice it will get warm. You will feel heat pouring out from your exhaust fans, like a space heater. The inside of your case will be hot, and if you touch a heatsink (on the motherboard, on the CPU or GPU, etc.), it might burn you - that's the heatsink doing its job, though, so don't do that.

 

You're overthinking it, I think. My 2070 Super gets about that hot (76C under synthetic loads), and my 8700K delidded, with a big air cooler on it, gets up to 70C (under synthetic loads).

 

Both your CPU and GPU would throttle at about 100C, and are more or less good anywhere lower than that. It isn't great to run components hot for long periods of time, but I wouldn't even consider your temps to be hot - more like greater than 80C is getting hot for a sustained temperature.

 

You have thermal room to spare on your main heat-generating devices. I think you're OK.

 

If you really wanted to be sure, run a program like HWInfo, and check all of the temperatures you're seeing against a Google search for normal temps for each thing. There are a lot of components that report temperatures, not just the CPU and GPU, and these other things can give you clues about how your system is really running in a thermal sense.

 

Chances are, your numbers will be OK. And if not, review where the fans are set up to be intake and exhaust, make sure you have them oriented properly, and make sure you have your fan curves (in BIOS, usually) set to something a little on the aggressive side (so fans kick in earlier and go faster sooner than stock). You can also get better/more fans for your case, if you don't have all the fan slots populated - just make sure you have the fan headers available to power them on your motherboard, or get fan splitters.

[NickPickerWI]

3 minutes ago, TylerDurden! said:

glass is an insulator (it holds onto heat).  plexiglass would be better at getting rid of the heat, but does not look as purty

I have to mention, I just got done watching Fight Club with the kid maybe an hour ago.

[TylerDurden!]

29 minutes ago, NickPickerWI said:

Fight Club with the kid

a movie every kid must watch with their father