Is 1 Case Fan Enough?

[Bartek_Shady101]

Hey, Im planning on building my first gaming rig soon inside a Coolermaster Masterbox Lite 5, which is only supplied with 1 Fan. I wish to squeez the most performance for my money and wish to buy a gtx 1060 6gb and a ryzen 5 1500x, which I wish to do a little overclocking with on the stock cooler. However, In order to do so, I need to cut some corners (for now) like buying a 4e keyboard, and not purchacing extra fans. In 1 or 2 months time, I will be planning on purchacing 1 or 2 extra case fans that I would put at the front. Would that single exhaust fan do the job for the 2 months?

 

[SoggyTissue]

depends on how the case is designed. some are designed for use with several fans, some not. generally you should be ok but i would exercise caution with overclocking before putting in the second. you dont want to cook stuff and then replace the damaged goods.

 

[Bartek_Shady101]

depends on how the case is designed. some are designed for use with several fans, some not. generally you should be ok but i would exercise caution with overclocking before putting in the second. you dont want to cook stuff and then replace the damaged goods.

Yeah thanks for the reply, might stay with the stock clock speeds of my components before improving airflow. Also, what should be the max temperature that my components should be running at while under load?

 

[SoggyTissue]

70-85 cpu and gpu most common

 

[lumineZ]

1 fan should be ok, but as already stated it also comes down the to case.
Are you running a "founders edition" blower style card on the 1060 or an open aftermarket card that dumps heat into the case?

If you are using an aftermarket open air cooler GPU then you should not overclock cause of the airflow over the motherboards VRM / MOSFET until you have gotten more case fans to improve airflow.

 

[Bartek_Shady101]

1 fan should be ok, but as already stated it also comes down the to case.
Are you running a "founders edition" blower style card on the 1060 or an open aftermarket card that dumps heat into the case?

If you are using an aftermarket open air cooler GPU then you should not overclock cause of the airflow over the motherboards VRM / MOSFET until you have gotten more case fans to improve airflow.

Im planning on getting a dual fan aftermarket one from palit, thanks for the tip

 

[Bartek_Shady101]

70-85 cpu and gpu most common

Thanks