PC gets really loud and kinda warm while gaming

[Matthew Winters]

Basically when I play any game on my PC the fans get very loud and the PC gets warmish. I have a AMD FX- 4350 and my GPU is Nvidia GTX 970 and 8GB RAM. I usually cover my PC with a pillow to mask the sound a bit. Thanks for advice.

 

[Ramlethal]

It is competly normal. For what i see you have a kind of pseudo budget pc.
Investments on cooling and cases are necessary to avoid this issues...
For now i can give you the following tips:
-open your PC and clean it. It must have 0 dust on it.
-check if your fans are fine spinning fine
-downlod msi afterburner and adjust a more aggresive fan curve for your gtx 970
- get a Watercooler if dont have one. They are extremly cool and silent.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

And don't cover the PC with a pillow, that's just going to add to the temperature problem. Craziest thing I ever heard of.

 

[EdgeT]

What Phillip said, the pillow thing is just nuts, you'll overheat your rig like crazy, you're basically adding extra thermal protection to the case, thus keeping the heat inside ...

 

[rahul999rap]

have you considered this thing that u actually hv gtx970 an awesome GPU but lacking in CPU as fx 4350 and GTX970 are like totally uncompare-able mixture. Perhaps that is causing heating perhaps ur CPU is not able to handle it.
WELL JUST A THOUGHT IN MY MIND REALLY!!!!

 

[Ramlethal]

have you considered this thing that u actually hv gtx970 an awesome GPU but lacking in CPU as fx 4350 and GTX970 are like totally uncompare-able mixture. Perhaps that is causing heating perhaps ur CPU is not able to handle it.
WELL JUST A THOUGHT IN MY MIND REALLY!!!!

wtf dude... that dosent cause Overheat. Overheat is caused cause there is clearly no investments on the cooling and case.

 

[EdgeT]

Nah, Rahul, Ramlethal is right, if the CPU can't handle it, the GPU just won't reach its full potential, it won't overheat, it has nothing to do with it.

 

[xtcmax]

I am not sure if you are trolling us or not, because "covering PC with a pillow"...I will let this trolling slide and answer you seriously.

1. Open your PC and clean it. By cleaning I mean take some Q-tips and clean the fans, clean the air intake ports.
2. Leave your PC open and play the same video games. This is to test two things: I) if you fans work. II) If you PC will overheat with more air flow available.
3. GTX 970's fans kick in at a certain temperature. I would assume it gets hot and tries to cool itself and you, BAD BOY, choking off the air . With more air flow available the GTX should be fine.

Post results after you play your games for 1- 1 1/2 hours.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You have a FX4350 which is a 125w CPU and probably the stock cooler , and if it's mixed with a case with poor Airflow it's going to run warm and the stock cooler is loud an insufficient.

 

[rahul999rap]

have you considered this thing that u actually hv gtx970 an awesome GPU but lacking in CPU as fx 4350 and GTX970 are like totally uncompare-able mixture. Perhaps that is causing heating perhaps ur CPU is not able to handle it.
WELL JUST A THOUGHT IN MY MIND REALLY!!!!

wtf dude... that dosent cause Overheat. Overheat is caused cause there is clearly no investments on the cooling and case.

okay. well as i said it was jus a thought

 

[vrumor]

Are you sure 2 pillows wouldnt hide the noise better?

 

[Scottray]

What model case do you have and what model of case fans? How many case fans and in what positions? What CPU cooler are you using? Please provide some more details. Also, as noted above, open up the case. Are all the fans powered up and spinning? With this info we may be able to provide some solution options.

 

[Nevering]

loud fans or bad ones is generally a problem. Switch out fans for quieter ones, Noctua is a good brand. Generally if not bad or noisy fans it's the CPU fan going nuts, get a better CPU cooler. Nocuta makes some good ones here too, as do others.

Give us an idea of the temps. There is a hardware monitor program that you can download for free that will give those temps for you.

 

[weberdarren97]

You have a FX4350 which is a 125w CPU and probably the stock cooler , and if it's mixed with a case with poor Airflow it's going to run warm and the stock cooler is loud an insufficient.

I like how the arguing continues, but nobody acknowledges your response. Don't worry, I still care. xD

BTW, I agree completely with your statement.

 

[Rexer]

The last time I had a warm computer was a Dell Studio XPS 435mt. This was a first generation i7 920 computer I bought in Jan. 2009 so it's fairly old. I still use for a day to day computer.
On start up it was warm, noisy and sometimes crashed into still life. There were lost of reasons.
Mini tower, X58 chipset (notroious for heat), small psu (eventually fried), cpu fan was a little thing, AMD HD4850 graphics card was a hot running heater box. I never got it run quietly but I did drastically reduce the heat signatures. I had to modify it a bit to keep it running under 45c in a closed case. Here's a list of what I did.
Installed Chipset cooler with fan Silenx IXN40C 40mm iXtrema Pro Chipset Cooler
Installed a 120mm fan in front where there was none.
Installed XFX HD7850 removed the fan shrod.
Added fans to unused bay below DVD/ROM StarTech.com 5.25in Drive Bay Hard Drive Cooler w/Black Bezel
& 3-Fans (obsolete item) (may still find one on ebay)
Added a new cpu heatsink with 90mm fan
Changed thermo-mud between the chips and heatsinks to Artic Silver
install a SeaSonic 650w G series psu
Added a StarTech.com Expansion Slot Rear Exhaust Cooling Fan with LP4 Connector (in vacant PCIe slot)
Probably some of this stuff won't help you with the noise but please don't smother your PC with a pillow.

 

[Matthew Winters]

It is competly normal. For what i see you have a kind of pseudo budget pc.
Investments on cooling and cases are necessary to avoid this issues...
For now i can give you the following tips:
-open your PC and clean it. It must have 0 dust on it.
-check if your fans are fine spinning fine
-downlod msi afterburner and adjust a more aggresive fan curve for your gtx 970
- get a Watercooler if dont have one. They are extremly cool and silent.

Okay so I should just clean it an invest in a watercooled case and new PSU and not get a new CPU?