erm...Help!? Graphics card temperature...

Just purchased one of those PCI fans, and also two 80mm fans. Just realised though...how do i set it up so that one sucks air in and the other sucks air out...do i install one the other way around or something?

Also...both my fan slots are adjacent to each other just beneath my PSU. Is this alright? Or would you recommend installing one fan there and the other elsewhere?

Cheers, Blighter

 

sorry been to work all day, neva a good start to a monday morning lol, right i would install 1 fan there and the other one i dealy would want to be at the front of the case pulling air in, if this is not possible then it should be installed on the side case, there is no point putting it just under the otherone, cuz as one sucks in the other blows all the sucked in air out so it would be like not having any fans or nearly. Hope all this helps mate.

 

Well, i've bought an Akasa System Exhaust Blower (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Akasa.html - SY-000-GE) and 2 Akasa AK-182-L2B Ultra Quiet 80mm Fans (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Akasa_Fans_97.html - FG-023-AK).

I've installed them like you said - one just below the PSU sucking out, and one at the bottom of the front of the PC blowing in...

I've currently got the PC open on my lap as i type, and the fans are working fine...but it doesn't seem to be making it much cooler or anything. The PC doesn't really feel that hot either. My ambient reading now is around 34/36 mark, but my graphics card core is still 154 apparently? Should it feel hot if i touch it while it's running (because it doesn't)? The hottest area of the PC seems to be the exhaust bit of the PSU (where it pumps air out the back), but i'd only say it's at about 40 degrees (rough estimate). I'm beginning to think it's just a false alarm, because while the ambient temperature fluctuates if i stare at it for 5 minutes, i've never ever seen the 154 change! Also, i would have thought i'd see artifacts all over the screen if it was that hot, but there's nothing...I played Doom 3 for 5 minutes yesterday and it ran flawlessly...

What do we think? Is it being reported wrong, or do I need more fans?

Cheers, Blighter

 

everything in that systems looking a little toasty... your harddrive are running at like 50 degrees... thats never good... mine tend to run at just 30 - 35 degrees

If the heatsink doesnt feel hot then its likely that it hasnt been fitted properly... which would also explain the abnormally high temperatures.

remove the heatsink and fan from the graphics card clean away any old thermal paste, apply some new thermal paste (only a thin layer just enough to cover the gpu) and put the heatsink back on... if im right you will see a significant drop in temerature

 

I should probably mention that the PC had been on for about 5 days straight when i took those previous readings! These are the ones i've just got :



Also, i can't actually touch the heatsink on my graphics card because it's got thise huge xfx thing covering it. Where can i get thermal paste?

Another question : What would the performance leap be like in Doom 3 etc, if i upgraded my motherboard from AGP4x to AGP8x?

Cheers,

Blighter

 

syhper what do u make of his Motherboard reading on Everest i though it was a bit like 10-15 or so degrees above what is optimal, hence the reason for more air lol.

blighter put the case back to gether and run everest and screen dump again, my moneys on the whole thing looking better

 

i think that speaks for itself blighter, much cooler now than was before, leave it on for an hour or 2 and post us another screen shot as it should be up to temp then. good luck

 

Do you want me to be doing heavy processes with it, or just leave it for a bit? Before i was doing 5 days worth of nearly non-stop xvid encodes...

 

do heavy work with it and see how far those readings go

 

i'll do some video encodes on high priority n stuff.

I may as well mention that my Hard drives are pretty much right on top of each other, theres probably about 2mm between the two...I had to put them like this, i would have liked to have them a bay apart, but there wasn't enough room so i had to put them next to each other. I think that may heat the hard drives up a little bit at least, anyway.

What about the performance leap between AGP4x and 8x? The reason i ask is because in June i'm upgrading motherboard and processor (from P4 1.6ghz to Athlon 3400+) and was wondering if the frame rates would increase dramatically with the 4x to 8x upgrade?

Cheers, Blighter

 

Okeydokey, here's it an hour later...during the xvid encode i noticed the motherboard temp went up to about 55 degrees.

 

Yea, but even 40C Celcius (spelling?) is pretty hot...that comes out somewhere neat 100F doesn't it? I mean I don't know. My graphics card gets pretty warm sometimes too. I added an extra fan and put it next to the card--redneck style. Seems to be helping it a little bit.

 

at least ur hdd are much cooler now as 51 was a bit on the high side, ur motherboard still seems to be really hot tho, have u got cables everywhere in ur case or is it a neat and tidy tho, how is the room its in, is it a hot room?

 

so more fans? I have space for two more (in the same places, just adjacent)...

 

Well there are a lot of cables, but they're all away from the motherboard, packed mostly in the space just above my DVD Writers. Near the motherboard they're all neat and tidy...

Gotta admit though...my room's a tad on the warm side...I'm at Uni, and i always keep the window open, but it still gets a bit on the hot side in here ( i think my radiator's broken too)

 

well it depends on ur motherboard, ur gpx card is always going to be avbove everything else, and now ur hdd are low its really just ur motherboard and then should be running at optimum,

 

Hmmm...well i'm getting a new motherboard n cpu in june, n possibly a new case (will have to get new 120mm fans too!). Hopefully that might help airflow a bit more or something.

Also, i might try seeing if i can get this radiator fixed!! As nice as it is to come out of the snow and into my nice warm room, i might see if it does anything to PC temp

 

40 degrees isnt hot for a gpu... its relatively cool really