So basically I built my new PC a couple of months ago and it has always ran very, very hot. I have an FX-8350 and after looking into it I found that the stock CPU fan is less than adequate for it so I chose a far better quality fan and heatsink for it: The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO. Although it quickly became apparent that my temperatures were worryingly high, right now it is running at 66c (or 151 Fahrenheit). Surprisingly though this system never complains it doesn't shut or slow down erratically. But the temperatures are no error I accidentally touched the heatsink after ten minutes of it being on and I suddenly began to understand what it would be like to live in Pompeii in 79AD.
As it stands the system has one intake fan at the bottom front of the unit and no exhaust fans (if one were in place it would be directly next to the CPU heatsink). So my question is under my limited budget would it make a considerable difference installing a rear exhaust fan or would I be better looking for alternative solutions such as closed-loop water coolers? Another possibility is that it is just bad thermal paste or something silly that I have missed. Any ideas?
System specs (just for fun):
- Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
- Memory: 16384MB RAM (DDR3 1833MHz)
- Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (2GB GDDR5 ver)
As it stands the system has one intake fan at the bottom front of the unit and no exhaust fans (if one were in place it would be directly next to the CPU heatsink). So my question is under my limited budget would it make a considerable difference installing a rear exhaust fan or would I be better looking for alternative solutions such as closed-loop water coolers? Another possibility is that it is just bad thermal paste or something silly that I have missed. Any ideas?
System specs (just for fun):
- Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
- Memory: 16384MB RAM (DDR3 1833MHz)
- Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (2GB GDDR5 ver)