Need help on my case and fans

[eetu85]

I need help on how to improve my rigs' airflow/fans. My CPU overheats when I play intensive games such as Rust. I was thinking you guys could help me figure out if i could rearrange my fans or something in my case.

CPU : AMD FX-8370
Case : Coolermaster 550 Silencio

http://postimg.org/image/95i2sejuv/ <--- picture of my rig

 

[profoundnoah]

Case fans will only improve interior temperature mildly. Please provide the name of your CPU cooler.

 

[yatys93]

when you say over heats? what does it do, and what temp is it at? also I think you have the CPU cooler fan the wrong way, it looks like it is pulling air towards the front of the case, against the fan at the back, so it gets no airflow

 

[eetu85]

when you say over heats? what does it do, and what temp is it at? also I think you have the CPU cooler fan the wrong way, it looks like it is pulling air towards the front of the case, against the fan at the back, so it gets no airflow

My PC shuts down and it is about 84 celsius.
And TY i changed it and it helped a bit but i still get about 80 celsius

 

[eetu85]

Case fans will only improve interior temperature mildly. Please provide the name of your CPU cooler.

Aftermarket one.. dont know the name sry.

 

[madmatt30]

Your cooler fan is pretty definitely back to front mate as stated above - it should be blowing into the heatsink towards the rear fan (which should also be exhausting backwards)

 

[Black-Bird_04]

Like "Yatys93" is saying, the fan is on the wrong way. If you don't mind me asking, when was that heat sink put on? because a other thing to consider, is your thermal paste. Sometimes, people put too much on it which "can" make the CPU temp go high, specially using aftermarket cheap thermal paste doesn't help nor last as long. In my opinion always use good thermal paste like the Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound for about $6 Canadian.

99.9% Pure Silver:
The Arctic Silver 5 uses three unique shapes and sizes of pure silver particles to maximize particle-to-particle contact area and thermal transfer.

High Density:
The Arctic Silver 5 contains over 88% thermally conductive filler by weight. The thermally-enhanced ceramic particles including micronized silver, sub-micron zinc oxide, aluminum oxide and boron nitride particles improve the compound's performance and long-term stability.

Looking at the picture as well, it's a bit dusty, I would dust it out, little things like that always can help BUT I know most people would say to the picture you have for us on your rig, that wouldn't do much blowing out that amount of dust you have but I like to look after my PC like a babe.

 

[danny2000]

Like "Yatys93" is saying,

Looking at the picture as well, it's a bit dusty, I would dust it out, little things like that always can help BUT I know most people would say to the picture you have for us on your rig, that wouldn't do much blowing out that amount of dust you have but I like to look after my PC like a babe.

I agree, now that I looked at it closer. You may have a large dust encasing around the bottom of the heat sink and underneath it. It is always a good idea to de-dust your computer once or twice per year.

 

[danny2000]

Also, I just noticed something.
Does the bottom of your case have a vent underneath the power supply?
The case does not seem to have any feet on the bottom from the looks of the picture and the power supply should have two fans, unless it is a fanless power supply. So it looks to me that the power supply's second fan is trying to suck in air from the bottom.. Maybe I'm wrong, but something doesn't look right there either. But it definitely needs the feet so that the power supply can suck in air from the bottom of the power supply

 

[madmatt30]

^ good spot on the case feet mate - they do indeed look missing !!!

If he doesn't have any the only option is to either prop the case on the corners or probably more sensibly flip the psu over - it may well be cooking itself at the moment!!

 

[synphul]

Thermal pastes should have little difference, 1-3c difference from on another despite the marketing hype of conductors and pure silver etc. As5 works on par with about 30-40 other compounds, nothing spectacular. The most performance can be gained from very high end specialty compounds that require being brushed on with an application method all their own, completely different from typical pastes/compounds. The biggest gains from reapplying paste comes from correcting installation errors rather than the paste itself.

The fan being oriented properly to blow through the cooler toward the rear should have helped. If temps still aren't improved much it may require a better cooler to make any significant difference. Ambient temps in the room the pc is in will have an impact as well.