Lower temps?

These days you can get an aftermarket fullcopper heatsink with 40+ CFM for less than $30 bucks. If you can spare that6 much get a full lcopper aftermarket heatsink and get an upgraded fan. Otherwise, upgrade your current CPU fan. The front HDD fan and the back panel fan should keep your video card cool, but I'm pretty sure that it would help alot more if you put the fan higher so it blew toward the CPU fan. just get an 40mm (or whatever size your GPU's hsf is) and give it a cheap 10CFM or something fan
 
Is there anyway to find out what cfm my stock cpu fan is giving out?
 
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As has been mentioned, case cooling is just as important as CPU cooling.

You need a good airflow so that all the hot air is pushed out of the case. Leaving the side off won't help much as you won't have any kind of flow.

At the very least you need to:

Make sure your heatsink is not clogged with dust and hair.
Reconnect your rear exhaust fan.
Install a fan at the front of your case sucking air in.
Put the side panel back on.

If you have space then add more fans, either suck from the back and side and blow out front and top or suck in front and side and blow out top and back.

I currently have 9 fans installed.

1x 80mm top exhaust fan blowing air out of the case.
2x 80mm front fans sucking air in.
2x 120mm inside the case ensuring the air from the front is pushed right to the back.
2x 80mm side fans sucking air in.
2x 80mm rear exhaust fans.

I get about 30C on idle. That's with a stock cpu cooler.
 
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Damn thats confusing to do.

Im lost with the front fan part. Where does it go? I see a spot in the case in the front that's made for a fan so I guess it goes there but where it's positioned looks pretty useless.
 
If you have a space at the front designed for the fan then put one in, they cost very little to buy and take seconds to fit.

It might seem like a strange place (usually bottom) but it will help.

Also, make sure your cables are out of the way, if they can't be hidden then zip tie them up and remove any cables that aren't being used.
 
Yeah it's at the front bottom. Do I get one that blows air or one that sucks in?

Omfg all this stuffs to confusing with blowing in or blowing out air,
 
Depending which way you fit it, depends whether it blows or sucks. :)

Just fit it so that it sucks air IN from the front.
 
Oh sweet.

Im still lost about the front fan sucking in though but I guess it can't be explained any more.
 
Think about....

The air in your case is warm / hot due to all of your components generating heat and has nowhere to go.

You fit a fan at the front that sucks cooler air into the case, this will push the hot air, you then have a fan at the rear of the case blowing air out, so the warm air that is being moved by the front fan gets pushed to the rear fan and blown out.

So, you should have a constant supply of cooler air from outside of your case, blowing through the inside of your case and pushing the hot air out.
 
Simon@Linux said:
As has been mentioned, case cooling is just as important as CPU cooling.

You need a good airflow so that all the hot air is pushed out of the case. Leaving the side off won't help much as you won't have any kind of flow.

At the very least you need to:

Make sure your heatsink is not clogged with dust and hair.
Reconnect your rear exhaust fan.
Install a fan at the front of your case sucking air in.
Put the side panel back on.

If you have space then add more fans, either suck from the back and side and blow out front and top or suck in front and side and blow out top and back.

I currently have 9 fans installed.

1x 80mm top exhaust fan blowing air out of the case.
2x 80mm front fans sucking air in.
2x 120mm inside the case ensuring the air from the front is pushed right to the back.
2x 80mm side fans sucking air in.
2x 80mm rear exhaust fans.

I get about 30C on idle. That's with a stock cpu cooler.
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You dont answer his question above. You can probably find out the CFM if you give us the model number, if you recieved it in a combo deal , usually the page where you got the combo from, there will be a specifications page. Heat rises, so thats why the PSU fan is there, and thats why theres always a top fan or a rear fan. You simply just flip it around. for the in/out fan thingy: the place where the front is, you can see the manufacturer on the blade (like CYBER COOLER or something), thats the front. Simply flip it so you get the back, where theres a guard. usually the back is where it blows. yu just flip it and in out is done. Check your temperatures right now using PC wizard, then contact us with the temps, if your temps are too high we will tell you how to lower em. if their low then your fine
 
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Alright I udnerstand the fan thing now. Thanks.

osc the cpu/heatsink came with the cpu. I dont have any of the packaging or papers of anything no more though. (stupid choice i know).
 
It's a combo. If you bought it like from tigerdirect, it should be on the web, unless the item sold out... if you got it from best buy then you cant get it unles you go ask them. If it came with your CPU that means that that fan can be used with that CPU. It may be barely sufficient enough, so I would recommend getting a 40+ CFM fan with a copper heatsink. or upgrade just the fan not the heatsink
 
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Core-2-Du...ryZ80149QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

like this one? if it is then you have 35+CFm.

Did you check your temps yet?
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Yeah it looks exactly like that.

Heres a front Pic, maybe all those numbers on it mean something.

intelfan.jpg
 
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