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My case is pretty small, and while I was gaming last night, the top of my case was really warm. I'm not sure how hot the CPU or GPU were, but I was wanting to know if that could be hurting my computer. It's a prebuilt, so that might be the issue since their coolers are apparently always garbo.

Thank you in advance!

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Depends on how decent the airflow is inside. You may want to add a fan or 2 for exhaust and/or intake depending on the fan configuration your prebuilt shipped with. 

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2 minutes ago, bungusboy81 said:

My case is pretty small, and while I was gaming last night, the top of my case was really warm. I'm not sure how hot the CPU or GPU were, but I was wanting to know if that could be hurting my computer. It's a prebuilt, so that might be the issue since their coolers are apparently always garbo.

Thank you in advance!

What about the acoustics? 

 

Have you heard the fans ramp up at all?

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On its own this doesn't mean anything either way. The goal is to get heat away from your components. If the case is hot, that's heat not on your components instead, and could mean it's doing what it's supposed to. You need to get something like HWINFO64 and actually monitor your components temps under load. That's the only real way to tell.

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11 minutes ago, Seban said:

What about the acoustics? 

 

Have you heard the fans ramp up at all?

A little bit, but it doesn't sound like an airplane or anything.

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1 minute ago, Chris Pratt said:

On its own this doesn't mean anything either way. The goal is to get heat away from your components. If the case is hot, that's heat not on your components instead, and could mean it's doing what it's supposed to. You need to get something like HWINFO64 and actually monitor your components temps under load. That's the only real way to tell.

Oh ok, thank you. I'm assuming this computer is probably designed to put the heat into the case instead of the components because it's so small.

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Maybe you could attach a photo of your pc with the side open?

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16 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

On its own this doesn't mean anything either way. The goal is to get heat away from your components. If the case is hot, that's heat not on your components instead, and could mean it's doing what it's supposed to. You need to get something like HWINFO64 and actually monitor your components temps under load. That's the only real way to tell.

I played a game for about 20 minutes and my CPU and GPU are both at about 50c according to that program, so I'm assuming that the case is just getting hot and not the actual components.

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Yeah. 50C is definitely nothing to be concerned about. However, 20 minutes of gaming isn't all that stressful, either. You might still want to do an actual stress test, like Prime95 for the CPU and Kombuster for the GPU. Particularly if you're not aware of the overall cooling capabilities of your system (as you are not) you definitely want to monitor these while running so you can stop them if heat gets out of control, but that will tell you very definitely whether you need to be concerned at all. By that same token, though, these tests intentionally are designed to put your components under loads you'd almost never experienced in day to day usage, so if all you do is gaming in 20 minute blocks, that's not really necessary.

 

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1 hour ago, Chris Pratt said:

Yeah. 50C is definitely nothing to be concerned about. However, 20 minutes of gaming isn't all that stressful, either. You might still want to do an actual stress test, like Prime95 for the CPU and Kombuster for the GPU. Particularly if you're not aware of the overall cooling capabilities of your system (as you are not) you definitely want to monitor these while running so you can stop them if heat gets out of control, but that will tell you very definitely whether you need to be concerned at all. By that same token, though, these tests intentionally are designed to put your components under loads you'd almost never experienced in day to day usage, so if all you do is gaming in 20 minute blocks, that's not really necessary.

 

Well I usually game about 6 hours at a time, so I'll definitely have to do a stress test.

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1 hour ago, Chris Pratt said:

Yeah. 50C is definitely nothing to be concerned about. However, 20 minutes of gaming isn't all that stressful, either. You might still want to do an actual stress test, like Prime95 for the CPU and Kombuster for the GPU. Particularly if you're not aware of the overall cooling capabilities of your system (as you are not) you definitely want to monitor these while running so you can stop them if heat gets out of control, but that will tell you very definitely whether you need to be concerned at all. By that same token, though, these tests intentionally are designed to put your components under loads you'd almost never experienced in day to day usage, so if all you do is gaming in 20 minute blocks, that's not really necessary.

 

I ran kombustor and my GPU temp reached about 65c~ degrees

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On 4/3/2021 at 3:45 PM, bungusboy81 said:

I ran kombustor and my GPU temp reached about 65c~ degrees

Still fine. Your hand is very inaccurate way of measuring temps. Human body temp is 35-37C and anything hotter than that will feel hot. So your case might have been around 40-45C which is far from worrying. For CPU and GPU, the worrying temps are over 85C.

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10 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

Still fine. Your hand is very inaccurate way of measuring temps. Human body temp is 35-37C and anything hotter than that will feel hot. So your case might have been around 40-45C which is far from worrying. For CPU and GPU, the worrying temps are over 85C.

The hottest my GPU is gotten is when I played a flat baseplate roblox game with my unlocker and no cap, hit 500FPS and it got up to 85c

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18 minutes ago, bungusboy81 said:

The hottest my GPU is gotten is when I played a flat baseplate roblox game with my unlocker and no cap, hit 500FPS and it got up to 85c

That could be normal for all we know. Prebuilds are notorious for having bad airflow which means hotter temps for the components under heavy loads.

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