Question How to get temps back down to 40-50c?

[MajorPager]

The ATI Radeon HD 5700 GPU that I have is a hotbox. At idle it sits at 65-70c and during gaming it sits at 85-90c, I used to have it at 40-50c under any load when it wasn't in a case. Does anyone know what I could do to get it back down to at least 50c? I even used a secondary fan to blow air directly to the back of the card and it still won't go below 60.

 

[Lafong]

What are the full details of your current hardware....particularly case, cooler, case fans, fan speeds and locations, room temperatures, etc.

Its been 50 or less ONLY when not in a case?

 

[MajorPager]

I have a 120 and 80mm SYS fans, both Foxconn.
Third card fan is an 120mm AVC.
The GPU fan itself I've set at 100% The other fans run at default speeds.
I don't know how hot it is in my upstairs work-room but it sure feels hot! Even with the fan on.
I'm not so sure about the case, it's an old aftermarket ATX case from 2009 that I got in a lot of computers a while ago.

Its been 50 or less ONLY when not in a case?

Yes, it has only been under 60c without the case.

 

[Lafong]

15 year old cases, hot rooms, and 80 mm fans are a recipe for cooling issues.

I'd replace hardware or decide not to worry so much. Don't know which of those you can do.

 

[MajorPager]

I'd replace hardware

Do you know of any recent good ventilated cases that still have ODD bays that I could get?

 

[Lafong]

Do you know of any recent good ventilated cases that still have ODD bays that I could get?

Here is a list of 92 cases with either 1 or 2 drive bays.

I'd avoid those that used 80 mm or 92 mm fans. Look for 120 mm or larger.

Don't have an opinion on any of them. It's just a list.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007583 600030545 600030551&PageSize=96

 

[Lafong]

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=10000...551 600010515 600010516 600010517&PageSize=96

Above list of 19 all have 120 mm fans and at least 1 drive bay.

 

[stonecarver]

Did you get the ATI 5700 with your Dell 9100 XPS as that was an OEM choice back than for that PC. I ended up getting one as well in one of my 9100's I bought and I was thinking sure as hell it was worthless but I keep it around as a bench tester. It does still game for what it was made for but your right that card throws some heat.

I do run daily a different GPU than the AMD 5700 but same cooling would work with whatever card.

On my Dells I have a 120 mm Be quiet mounted on the bar that is factory used from dell with that weird GPU holder latch from yester year.

The third picture down in link shows the bar. I removed the plastic GPU holder it's in the way for my needs.

So my fan blows in just under the CPU and above the GPU and fan is mounted to that bar in picture 3 in the link. It also keeps the heat down on the mother boards smaller heatsinks.

I do run with my side panel off because I do so much hand on in there I just find it easier on me to leave it off.

https://www.dell.com/community/en/c...o-upgrade-video-card/647f5402f4ccf8a8ded6a53e

 

[rscheetah30]

I currently have a GTX 1060 6GB and despite being in a very hot room it rarely exceeds 50ºC in games with
almost everything on Ultra. My previous card was an R7 240 2GB and it used to get a lot hotter on the same games such as ETS2 and Crysis 2.

I believe you would get much lower temps on an nvidia card.

PS: I use vsync at 60FPS to keep temperature down , try using vsync on your games at 60fps, this alone could
reduce your gpu temps by a lot. Also, my case doesn't have a single fan inside it, I simply keep its side panel open on my desk.

 

[MajorPager]

I believe you would get much lower temps on an nvidia card.

I know this for a fact, it's just that I had to give up my Nvidia card to a friend since the old one he had was giving him issues, forcing me to use the ATI card.

Did you get the ATI 5700 with you Dell 9100 XPS

I did. The only bad part is that the PCIe x16 port on the board is split in half.

 

[stonecarver]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000510S...3930&s=pc&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWwy

This is another option to move the heat away from GPU. We used to mod these where you flipped the bracket so the fan. open side sits in the same orientation as the GPU fan. On the bottom side and it.