Good Morning People of Toms Hardware!
I recently built a new SFF PC in the Node 202. I was told that I may run into heat issues with the GPU but to be honest, the half of the case which houses the blower style GTX970 is not suffering from overheating at all and is running extremely well so far.
However, the other side of the case (housing the mobo & psu) is a different matter and seems to produce an excessive amount of heat under load and while gaming. I have tried some fixes including increasing fan speed (only one noctua fan installed adjacent to GPU) and disabling CPU turbo boost which has only made a very small impact.
Additionally, I noticed that the PSU itself seems to be producing a lot of heat which is a problem I have not encountered before in previous full ATX builds. It occurs to me that I may have made a poor choice of PSU!
My question is this: is it possible that the PSU is producing excessive heat due to being underpowered for the hardware parts I have selected? Furthermore, if I replaced it with a Corsair SF600 would it work more optimally and produce significantly less heat?
Please feel free to comment on my build and suggest improvements, especially relating to heat reduction.
Thanks in advance for the help
Take it easy
Jack
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£297.95 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler (£34.74 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard (£147.49 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£105.59 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£414.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case (£72.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair SF 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply
Case Fan: Noctua NF-F12 PWM 55.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£16.49 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1090.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-16 10:40 GMT+0000
I recently built a new SFF PC in the Node 202. I was told that I may run into heat issues with the GPU but to be honest, the half of the case which houses the blower style GTX970 is not suffering from overheating at all and is running extremely well so far.
However, the other side of the case (housing the mobo & psu) is a different matter and seems to produce an excessive amount of heat under load and while gaming. I have tried some fixes including increasing fan speed (only one noctua fan installed adjacent to GPU) and disabling CPU turbo boost which has only made a very small impact.
Additionally, I noticed that the PSU itself seems to be producing a lot of heat which is a problem I have not encountered before in previous full ATX builds. It occurs to me that I may have made a poor choice of PSU!
My question is this: is it possible that the PSU is producing excessive heat due to being underpowered for the hardware parts I have selected? Furthermore, if I replaced it with a Corsair SF600 would it work more optimally and produce significantly less heat?
Please feel free to comment on my build and suggest improvements, especially relating to heat reduction.
Thanks in advance for the help
Take it easy
Jack
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£297.95 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler (£34.74 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard (£147.49 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£105.59 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£414.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case (£72.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair SF 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply
Case Fan: Noctua NF-F12 PWM 55.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£16.49 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1090.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-16 10:40 GMT+0000