Alienware Aurora R7 really bad heating issues

[Emanbaird]

On 12/20/2018 at 9:58 PM, jake929 said:

I own an alienware aurora r7. My model has an i7 8700, and gtx1070 (upgrading to 2080 ti shortly). I am ruinning the stock AIO liquid cooling solution, and have noticed no issue with excessive heat on either my graphics card or cpu. everything has been fine in both idle and under load. I cam curious to see how the 2080 ti handles though.

The stock AIO does a great job, i used to sell them at Fry's i ran all kinds of stress test on different kinds of prebuilts when i worked there, i never got to open it up, but where does the AIO mount? is it up at the top?  OP could just find the aio on ebay or something 

[Tamesh16]

not saying this is your problem, but dell, well alienware so far as i have experienced doesnt use good thermal paste, i have had to repaste my pc because of aweful thermals, i couldnt even run games on low without throttling, but i repasted and its much much better

[boey]

9 hours ago, Tristerin said:

(33-35c)91 - 95F ambient temp?  Jesus.

 

That is the first thing to fix if you want better thermals.  The air entering my case is 21c

 

On the bottom pic it looks like you could mount a 120mm AIO as top exhaust.  Since I see no other exhaust worthy ports on that case, is it using the top (I THINK I see a fan)

Yeah front 120mm intake, top 120mm exhaust.

[boey]

9 hours ago, Tristerin said:

(33-35c)91 - 95F ambient temp?  Jesus.

 

That is the first thing to fix if you want better thermals.  The air entering my case is 21c

There is a law in my country where you cannot have more than 3 air conditioning units in a 5-room flat(I’m in a five room flat) which means only the bedrooms can achieve lower than 30C ambient, and my PC is in the living room. Ambient temps are basically the same as outside temps

[Tristerin]

On ‎12‎/‎22‎/‎2018 at 6:33 PM, _d0nut said:

There is a law in my country where you cannot have more than 3 air conditioning units in a 5-room flat(I’m in a five room flat) which means only the bedrooms can achieve lower than 30C ambient, and my PC is in the living room. Ambient temps are basically the same as outside temps

Well then...

 

I would replace the thermal paste with the best I could afford/get in my country

I would then clean the crap out of everything (remove all dust from PC case)

I would then add more fans anywhere I could zip tie them to create as much intake/exhaust as possible, I wouldn't care which you achieve (positive or negative air pressure) because eliminating hot spots is all that matters

I would then try to "duct" my CPU coolers exhaust out of the case using plexi/acrylic/dryer tubing (especially if you don't want to buy the AIO that could come with it)

I would also try keeping the case open air if nothing else works.

[boey]

9 hours ago, Tristerin said:

Well then...

 

I would replace the thermal paste with the best I could afford/get in my country

I would then clean the crap out of everything (remove all dust from PC case)

I would then add more fans anywhere I could zip tie them to create as much intake/exhaust as possible, I wouldn't care which you achieve (positive or negative air pressure) because eliminating hot spots is all that matters

I would then try to "duct" my CPU coolers exhaust out of the case using plexi/acrylic/dryer tubing (especially if you don't want to buy the AIO that could come with it)

I would also try keeping the case open air if nothing else works.

Opening the case works a little. As for the DIY stuff, I’m too lazy to do that so I’ll just be getting completely new parts(except cpu and gpu). The case I’m getting has intakes on the bottom that line up with the GPU and since my GPU is a blower it would create like a small current of airflow(air enters through bottom, goes into gpu, gpu exhausts it out and since heat rises, it doesn’t go back into the bottom intake). Think it would help a lot. I’m using a Cryorig H7 with the i5-8400 too so it’s a little overkill and I should be able to get decent temps