Hey Sup Forums. I'm here to ask about the airflow of my case...

Hey Sup Forums. I'm here to ask about the airflow of my case. I have a 390 which hits 94 degrees on any graphicslly demanding games. Ambient temps are about 24 degrees celsius. Is my card just shit or is my airflow fucked?

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Airflow is fucked.

How?

Never ever ever make a rad an intake. Linus did it with a fury x and it overheated the system to bsod. What do you think it's happening...

Make the rad a top exhaust and your Temps will drop 20c I fucking promise

This so much

How do I mount it on the top though? There isn't enough clearance to put it on the top slot. And the rear slot is 120mm which is too small

You need a better case.

Your airflow is fucked. I have that same card and it doesn't go over 80ºC under pressure. Do you have a custom profile, are the fans working properly and not fucked?

Yeah I have the fans configured and stuff. They seem to work fine

Different case then. I'd rather spend $50 to have clearance than heat problems.

Supermicro s5 is like $60 at microcenter. Other cases that aren't huge have clearance too. I had the same issue with my fury x rad an the air 240.

What the fuck were you thinking?
>Intake through a fucking PSU shroud
>crippled intake with three exhaust
Change the front to intake immediately. Move the rad to the back.

Should I nigger rig it and put the fan outside of the case?

Oh shit, I'm retarded.

Just move the rad to the back, get a better case if you want to.

You can't because then you're just pulling. You'd be much better off with a push on the rad than only pull. Text me and we can talk.
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Did you really just post your phone number in Sup Forums?

Would reversing the airflow help at all?

This, why the fuck would you blow hot air back into the case?

Done it many times to help people. I've been here since 2004. People don't do shit

Put another exhaust fan on the top and add 2 intake fans on the side panel if possible also, move the fan in the back of the case to place the radiator there (if it's a 120mm x 120mm one)
replace your GPU's thermal paste and if that doesn't help much, underclock it.

Guys would switching rear and top slots to intake and switching front to exhaust work? Or would that just suffocate my card

In that case can I get some help. I'm actually looking for the haf x Nvidia edition. Can't find it any where. I'm being serious.

>You'd be much better off with a push on the rad than only pull.
Yeah, except that temps would be exactly the goddamn same, as has been proven time and time again.
The whole push vs pull debate is fucking retarded. It doesn't make a nick of a difference to your temps. What it DOES make a difference to, however, is how dust builds up, and a pull configuration has a huge advantage when it comes to ease of cleaning here.

Bump please answer

I have three (3) 120mm intake fans on the front of my case, 280mm radiator intake at the top of my case, and a 140mm exhaust fan at the back. My temps are fine.

I have a gigabyte 390

>max C is 74 :^)

the point of an intake is to take COOL air from outside into the case not push the HOT air from your cpu into the case. holy shit

I've looked up S340 configurations and they all had rads as intakes. Just dig a little and you'll see my issue here.

Guys please answer this:

Would is work to use rear/top for intake and the front as exhaust? That seems to be the only way to use the rad as exhaust without modding my case

swap the rear fan and rad. see what that does.

get a new case that actually has some room.

I can't because there's not enough clearance for the rad and fan

A radiator isn't like a normal heatsink. It doesn't exhaust "hot air".

Any recommendations for one for $60 or so?

yes it does. dont be stupid

What? How else would you do it then?

magic pixie dust.

But say I didn't want to jew out the money for a new case. Would that reverse airflow idea work?

wouldnt hurt to try. i still think a larger case will serve you well

Most companies rec making the Rad an intake.
I run an mITX doing so with a 960, the highest temp i get is 70C for the GPU. Everything else is way lower.

The fuck games are you playing that makes it hit 94? I have a 390 and the hottest I've ever seen it was 74 on ARK on epic settings. Set up a fan curve with MSI afterburner you silly twat

well the cpu gets better cooling that way, but you're blowing hot air into your case.

I do have a fan curve. Mostly stuff like Witcher 3 and GTA 5. Trust me, it confuses me just as much as it confuses you.

I get like 68-72 on those games. What the actual fuck. Let's see your fan curve.

i have msi 390x that was hitting 94°C @ 100% fan speed while running demanding games so i decided to change factory applied thermal paste on gpu with aftermarket one and now highest i have seen is 83°C @ 70% fan speed.
Did that after i came to conclusion that case airflow was not causing the issue.

Airflow doesn't matter nearly as much as you think it does.

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You need to have it hit max fan speed BEFORE your card is hot... Move the 100% fuck to around 70c.

Alright. You think that will make a substantial difference?

Yeah, but don't take my word for it. Try it. I'm interested to see the results. Report back ASAP.

Testing as we speak.

Jeez the 390 is shit. I have my Zotac GTX 970 in a small ass Optiplex case with one exhaust fan and it never goes above 74° C while benchmarking. Idle is around 30-34° C

C'mon user, I know vidya is fun but we're working on a mystery here

I've been trying to follow what you're saying, but a simple rule is in at the front, out at the back. Don't mess with the sides if you can. I'd say top fans go out, tentatively. Changes based on case and preference.

Alright. So it's sitting around 87 degrees in comparison to 94 so I guess that's a bonus. But it still seems high

Move the CLC radiator to the top or the back of the case as an exhaust, move whichever fan you take off to the front.

That is indeed high. Where is your pc situated? Mine is off the floor, not pushed up against anything (all 6 faces have at least an inch of breathing room)

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Weird. All I can say is to tweak the fan curve. Anything after 90ish is, from what I've heard, the temps that'll lower the lifespan of your hardware, so if you can stay under it, i wouldn't stress too much about it.

Your car doesn't happen to have a fan controller that you could be turning on to high while you're gaming, right?

I have my fan in my room spinning max 24/7

>>*case, not car

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Never go full retard, boys.

try replacing thermal paste.

Yeah I'm thinking about that. Might even email MSI and get an official opinion from them. Thanks for all the help Sup Forumsents

Temps are 90% coolers on offending components, 10% intake/exhaust deliberations.

I just run everything exhaust and have no problems on the last 4 cases. Maybe your GPU needs to be reseated, maybe something is running it at full load.

Show us a speccy/HWMonitor during or after a game.

ITT: Retards

The 390 is a hot card. Set a custom fan curve with msi afterburner. Does it reach that temperature with the cards fan speed at 100%? Literally all 290/390 sit around 65+ with 100% fan speed.

This. Factory thermal paste is shitty. Clean the bastard too.

390 may be a hot card, but that just means most of their 3rd party cooling solutions are garbage.

You need an active exhaust point under your gpu in the back if the gpu cooler doesn't exhaust. The air is circulating around the gpu causing the air to build up heat. The passive vents of the psi slot covers helps a little but not a lot. Normally the psu could help but it's intake fan appears to draw air from the bottom of your case.

Also, radiators can be inlet fans. It's not a big deal cooling the upper portion of the mobo with slightly warmer air so long as it gets replaced which your setup is doing.

I think 2 exhausts for the mobo is overkill. Increased positive pressure may actually help your gpu situation by removing one of the exhausts. This forces to air to leave other places of the case, like the passive pci vents.

Just remove the side panel from your case. You have a window there anyway.

>calls people retards
>doesn't read thread
whew boy

unless you mean this guy; he's got some serious brain damage.

The 390 is a horribly hot card, that's probably normal.

>AMD

>100% fan speed
Awesome, except I don't want to fucking hear my card when I game

Sorry, sunshine, but rendering 1,000,000 erect dicks per second takes significant computing power, and thus generates a lot of heat that has to be exhausted.

>not wearing headphones to actually be immersed

Alternatively
>not having a soundproofed case

That shit is pretty much standard these days. Up your game.

Consider the fact that at saturation temp your radiator is dumping 50C+ air into the case.

I understand it's safer to keep it away from other stuff if the rad leaks, but that really doesn't matter, every part of a water unit has an equal chance of busting.

Lol ur intake is getting heated by ur CPU u fuckin pleb

How can someone be so fucking stupid?

Your "intake" is blowing hot air inside your case because of your radiator being there.

My CPU and Mobo both run fairly cool.
Most things maybe hit 60 with the exception of my GPU.
You may be blowing some hot air in, but most of it is just blowing air in that gets sucked out.

Autistic people who have never seen S340 before

this guys right
even at 65% fan speed (+15% increment over the standard max fan speed) the card doesn't go over 80C. It only hits 94% because of the fuckery that is 55% max fan speed, not to mention the card begins to throttle down at that point. Do yourself a favor and stop being a fucking retard.

94C not %

wtf m8

Intake rads are better for CPU cooling.

can you elabore with the link to the vid?

Intake rads are better for cpu cooling, indeed. But worse for overall system temps.

Think about it, not to mention that the gains you have on the cpu die are being fucked up by the fact that there's hot air blowing on it, so you're screwing our delta. And the fact that everything is running unecessarily hotter, voltage regs, mem ram, hd drives..