Afternoon All,
After some advice please. Recently purchased a PC someone had built from ebay, i have upgraded the CPU from AMD Ryzen 5 1600 to a 2600x.
Playing pretty much any game the PC gets really hot, like the case is on the verge of being too hot to touch.
I was concerned i had messed up the thermal paste on the CPU as the temps i was getting via HWiNFO were concerning. It got up to 93 deg C last night!
So i did a little test and removed the side acrylic panel and played the games again and i measured mid to low 70 deg C: this tells me my cooling is inadequate.
The case is a Cylon Mini Tempered Glass case with 1 x 120mm fan at the front, 1 x 80mm exhaust fan at rear. The top of the case has a vent cut out with magnetic dust guard.
My plan is to replace the single 120mm intake fan with 2 x Noctua NFP12 redux-900 and the rear exhaust fan with a Noctua NF-A9 92mm.
I still don't think this will be enough and i am considering either mounting an additional fan either in the top of the case and make use of the pre exsisting vent or on the side acrylic panel.
My preference would be the top, as the heat rises and it will sturdier but i can't fit a 120mm fan there as the connections on the top of the mobo get in the way.
What should i do? Just move the old 80mm extract fan to the top or cut a 120m hole on the side acrylic panel? Or just replace the fans as i listed above and wait to see if that is adequate?
Cheers for your help.
After some advice please. Recently purchased a PC someone had built from ebay, i have upgraded the CPU from AMD Ryzen 5 1600 to a 2600x.
Playing pretty much any game the PC gets really hot, like the case is on the verge of being too hot to touch.
I was concerned i had messed up the thermal paste on the CPU as the temps i was getting via HWiNFO were concerning. It got up to 93 deg C last night!
So i did a little test and removed the side acrylic panel and played the games again and i measured mid to low 70 deg C: this tells me my cooling is inadequate.
The case is a Cylon Mini Tempered Glass case with 1 x 120mm fan at the front, 1 x 80mm exhaust fan at rear. The top of the case has a vent cut out with magnetic dust guard.
My plan is to replace the single 120mm intake fan with 2 x Noctua NFP12 redux-900 and the rear exhaust fan with a Noctua NF-A9 92mm.
I still don't think this will be enough and i am considering either mounting an additional fan either in the top of the case and make use of the pre exsisting vent or on the side acrylic panel.
My preference would be the top, as the heat rises and it will sturdier but i can't fit a 120mm fan there as the connections on the top of the mobo get in the way.
What should i do? Just move the old 80mm extract fan to the top or cut a 120m hole on the side acrylic panel? Or just replace the fans as i listed above and wait to see if that is adequate?
Cheers for your help.