Custom Rig Running too hot and loud.

man5000000

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Hi! I recently built a gaming PC, and have noticed it was running very loud, and the side of the case feels very hot. I was wondering what possible fixes there would be, like fan controllers and water cooling, and more so what you would recommend.
Here are the specs:
ThermalMaster case
750w Bronze Rated EVGA PSU
MSI GTX 760 OC ITX 3GB GDDR5 Graphics card
8GB Ballistix Sport RAM
2 Kingwin Red LED fans
AMD A10 8320 3.5 Ghz Black Edition Processor
Gigabyte USB 3.0 Motherboard
1.5 TB Green Caviar HDD
160 GB VelociRaptor HDD

Thanks!
 
Hi,

First off you have a velociraptor in your rig, theses guys can get noisy.
About the case getting hot, it normal, but how hot is it?

If you are concerned about overheating, download hwmonitor and msi afterburner to check your cpu / gpu temperatures.

Are you overclocking anything in your computer ?

 
No, I am not overclocking. The velociraptor drive is not currently being used, ( it's a triple boot system, it has a different OS on it, but it is plugged in ).
I'll check my exact temperatures after some heavy Elder Scrolls online tomorrow to give exact temperatures, but it was towards the higher end of my graphics card's temperatures ( around 70° C. )
The noise is coming from the fans overall though, as the Caviar drive is the only one being used, and isn't that loud overall.
 
It's also being stored in an area with very little ventilation, so I'd like it if the cooling system where rather self sufficient. Planning on opening up the area, but I'd still rather a cooler core temperature in any given situation