Advice requested vertical mounting NVME PCIE card

[emcp]

I have the following rig

 

coolermaster XB HAF

old ASUS motherboard

a hot GPU

a PCIE->NVME adapter + an NVME SSD

 

If I mount things "As-is" the gpu blows directly towards the SSD.. which is also extremely hot.

 

 

 

Enter the Corsair PCIE Riser cable

 

I want to use a PCIE Riser card, and move the PCIE SSD into the underneath area of the HAF...

 

Should I safely mount the end mount of the corsair.. so it is electrically safe?  Can I tap the case somehow and put some stand offs?  

 

OR

 

Should I perhaps try to mod this corsair adapter and mount the NVME Adapter plate onto it with stand offs

 

 

 

I will also be adding a 80mm fan down stairs to help move air out of the SSDs area.

 

Thanks

[AbydosOne]

4 minutes ago, emcp said:

If I mount things "As-is" the gpu blows directly towards the SSD.. which is also extremely hot.

Where that's shown, the GPU would be pulling air in, not blowing it out.

 

The place where it's shown the last picture would be worse because you have less airflow over it than where it was originally, even with an extra fan, because you're right up against the side of the case. Honestly, unless you're hammering it constantly, the heatsink you have on it should be more than enough for normal usage.

[emcp]

26 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

Where that's shown, the GPU would be pulling air in, not blowing it out.

 

The place where it's shown the last picture would be worse because you have less airflow over it than where it was originally, even with an extra fan, because you're right up against the side of the case. Honestly, unless you're hammering it constantly, the heatsink you have on it should be more than enough for normal usage.

 
I am hammering the SSD as of now.. and the GPU + CPU coolers are quite warm (this is doing deep learning experiments).

I will mount and add an 80mm fan in the lower case shroud shown in lower area.. and I can indeed move the ssd + adapter AWAY from the wall as you suggest.

 

The SSD or Adapter get so hot or bad... the entire SSD drops from my system (could be a bad board, or SSD.. I'm testing different combinations of hardware to isolate the issue.

So again, sounds like I should 

 

1) add airflow down below

2) mount far from the case wall 

Thanks for the ideas

 

EDIT

 

Perhaps, if you can see my CPU fan situation you can recommend something that will help the temps ?  The front case fans are whatever come with the coolermaster

 

 

Edited May 13, 2020 by emcp
clarify

[jaslion]

22 minutes ago, emcp said:

 
I am hammering the SSD as of now.. and the GPU + CPU coolers are quite warm (this is doing deep learning experiments).

I will mount and add an 80mm fan in the lower case shroud shown in lower area.. and I can indeed move the ssd + adapter AWAY from the wall as you suggest.

 

The SSD or Adapter get so hot or bad... the entire SSD drops from my system (could be a bad board, or SSD.. I'm testing different combinations of hardware to isolate the issue.

So again, sounds like I should 

 

1) add airflow down below

2) mount far from the case wall 

Thanks for the ideas

 

EDIT

 

Perhaps, if you can see my CPU fan situation you can recommend something that will help the temps ?  The front case fans are whatever come with the coolermaster

 

 

Mount the fan on the other side? So it exhausts air instead of dumping it in the case and coming into conflict with the airflow of the front panel?

[AbydosOne]

20 minutes ago, emcp said:

I would at least turn the CPU cooler around and add another exhaust fan behind it. It looks like it's blowing towards the front of the case, and I assume the front fans are blowing into the case, so they're fighting each other.

[emcp]

36 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

I would at least turn the CPU cooler around and add another exhaust fan behind it. It looks like it's blowing towards the front of the case, and I assume the front fans are blowing into the case, so they're fighting each other.

 

oh wow you guys are both right.. I could have sworn I checked fan direction but this is definitely wrong.  Will fix that as well.

This all still comes back to the original question.. if I am feeling adventerous.. how do I go about properly mounting that PCIE end piece on the case.. I am guessing use either standoffs(?) or mount it somehow with thermal pads to a hdd tray down there?

[emcp]

re-running now with the fan swapped to the front.. looking good... 

 

I guess I might refrain from remounting the PCIE + SSD for now, and focus on other things.  Thanks !