Liquid or Air cooling.

[ColdDigital]

I recently finished building my gaming pc with a NZXT h440 case still with its stock fans, with a NZXT x61 cpu cooler, and a MSI r9 390 gpu.

The gpu gets quite hot at 85 degrees Celsius at load in the Valley benchmark max settings. Is this optimal or too high? Im not sure how I could improve the airflow in my case for better cooling. 3 120mm Intakes and 1 140mm Outtake fan. I was thinking about water cooling the gpu, but if there are better fans that can do the job ill go with the fans. With what should I go?

 

Thanks

[Gung Pow Chicken]

If you can afford it I would go with liquid cooling. 

[Jintek]

I recently finished building my gaming pc with a NZXT h440 case still with its stock fans, with a NZXT x61 cpu cooler, and a MSI r9 390 gpu.

The gpu gets quite hot at 85 degrees Celsius at load in the Valley benchmark max settings. Is this optimal or too high? Im not sure how I could improve the airflow in my case for better cooling. 3 120mm Intakes and 1 140mm Outtake fan. I was thinking about water cooling the gpu, but if there are better fans that can do the job ill go with the fans. With what should I go?

 

Thanks

Liquid

[Thermal]

Liquid air cooling! Might cause a small (read: large) explosion if anything sparks but the risk is part of the fun!

Seriously though is 85 degrees under load uncommon for 390x's?

[nuttysandwich]

I recently finished building my gaming pc with a NZXT h440 case still with its stock fans, with a NZXT x61 cpu cooler, and a MSI r9 390 gpu.

The gpu gets quite hot at 85 degrees Celsius at load in the Valley benchmark max settings. Is this optimal or too high? Im not sure how I could improve the airflow in my case for better cooling. 3 120mm Intakes and 1 140mm Outtake fan. I was thinking about water cooling the gpu, but if there are better fans that can do the job ill go with the fans. With what should I go?

 

Thanks

that's amd card for you, they're naturally that hot, liquid cooling if you want to deal with it, personally i dont want to nor have the time to. Your case has a side window so that kinda takes away from a possible fan there for your gpu. rear and top exhaust triple front intake

[tomas710]

I recently finished building my gaming pc with a NZXT h440 case still with its stock fans, with a NZXT x61 cpu cooler, and a MSI r9 390 gpu.

The gpu gets quite hot at 85 degrees Celsius at load in the Valley benchmark max settings. Is this optimal or too high? Im not sure how I could improve the airflow in my case for better cooling. 3 120mm Intakes and 1 140mm Outtake fan. I was thinking about water cooling the gpu, but if there are better fans that can do the job ill go with the fans. With what should I go?

 

Thanks

The rad is on top? If not, have you populated all fan slots?

[shypin]

i think 85 is normal

nothing to worry about

[xc3ll]

I would say: Aircooling. It's cheap, it doesn't require much maintenance and it's easy to change things. And if you do it right, you get pretty low noise-levels in idle. But of cause watercooling is much more effective and most of the time not as loud under load. And it looks awesome

85°C are fine for a 390X, which is basicly a 290X. Those things run at 95°C and don't catch fire...

[tomas710]

I recently finished building my gaming pc with a NZXT h440 case still with its stock fans, with a NZXT x61 cpu cooler, and a MSI r9 390 gpu.

The gpu gets quite hot at 85 degrees Celsius at load in the Valley benchmark max settings. Is this optimal or too high? Im not sure how I could improve the airflow in my case for better cooling. 3 120mm Intakes and 1 140mm Outtake fan. I was thinking about water cooling the gpu, but if there are better fans that can do the job ill go with the fans. With what should I go?

 

Thanks

changing the front intake fans for focused airflow fans may (strong enphasis on the may) improve the temps of the GPU. silverstone AP121, AP123, Noctua NF-F12, NF-P12 are all great, bitfenix specter pros are supposed to be chaneled airflow fans too, but i can't say much since i've never used them.

[ColdDigital]

The rad is on top? If not, have you populated all fan slots?

Yea the rad is placed at the top of the case. 3 stock fans from the case at the front for intake. 1 140mm at the rear for outtake. the radiator is outtake as well.

[tomas710]

Yea the rad is placed at the top of the case. 3 stock fans from the case at the front for intake. 1 140mm at the rear for outtake. the radiator is outtake as well.

There is an option i have thought of using but actually never used. PCI fans, you can get an exhaust one that will exhaust the hot air of the GPU or a simple dual fan one that will increase airflow. This are not very popular, and i've heard of cheap one being very loud, just thought, it's an option, may be worth taking a look at them

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010110573%201372526581