keep your friends close but your enemies closer
Published on November 7, 2016 By Anthony R In Personal Computing

Been trying out some new vid cards. At first, I installed a Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 480 4GB and it ran great. Great on the burn in,  and great with memory consuming games like DOOM, but when I would go into FOB on MGSV the fan would spike to 100% and go into an infinite loop error. I would shut the game and bring up Trixx to try adjusting the fan, but it was unresponsive and would blue screen. I figured it might just be a minor fix, but I looked and saw that lots of people were having the same problem. IT was possible a format could have fixed it, but I decided to unload it before I was stuck with it. It was a great card, but it was either defective, or it was flaky as hell. Now I have the MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G installed. I went with a different chipset to avoid the potential that all the 480's would give me the same result. The 1060 is a great card in many ways, but the fans! I can't hear them no matter what... they are like, totally silent! All games are running good and there doesn't seem to be any issues, but when I ran the burn in, I noticed that some parts of the cabinet were getting warm towards the back of the rig near the card. This is of course when I was demanding 99% of the GPU with furmark for 10 minutes. Is that something that could become an issue? should I set up another fan, or worry about it? I doubt many games will call for that much power, but if it did, is such warmth on the back of the cabinet generally something to worry about?


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on Nov 22, 2016

Anthony R

 That looks like a great airflow setup, but my case doesn't have air filtration for incoming air from the top, so if I used it for incoming air it would probably fill my case with dust. Also its probably a good idea to exhaust the hot air thats rising from the top rather than blow it back into the case? Not sure about the insulators, but its definitely a well built case by Fractal design. The R4.  There are some really nice new cases out there now though, some are really tempting to switch to


I agree hot air rises to the top, so it would be better to blow it out on the top but this would mean that you also blow out the fresh/cold air that comes from the front fans  
https://www.caseking.de/demciflex-staubfilter-corsair-air-540-top-zust-135.html some filters for the top 
All you need to do is messure both openings for the Fans on the top and choose the right size then they should fit nicely on the R4

 

on Nov 22, 2016

Something that might helps is that hot air rises; while, cold air falls.

on Nov 22, 2016

 

One way to definitely isolate heat sources....compartmentalize to-the-max.

The Drives, Optical drives and PSU are all separated from the MoBo/GPU, as well as pretty much all the cabling...

All 'inlets' are below the compartments...all outlets are at upper-rear.

Chassis is all 3mm sheet aluminium....so the case is its own heat-sink...

on Nov 23, 2016

Thanks for the tip Benmanns, but I think I will use the top to exhaust the heat. It seems to be working pretty good. I could always bring in more cool air from the bottom in the future.  Hey Jafo, is that your new rig? very nice! where is that case listed? Just for curiosity and to see its specs.

on Nov 23, 2016

Yes....it's my 'new' one....almost a year old now though.

The case is a Limited Edition [it'll be sold out].  There were 500 world wide.

Probably 95% of computers cost less than just this case alone.  Thermaltake Level 10 Limited Edition Titanium [it googles]...about $1300 AUD.

on Nov 23, 2016


Thermaltake Level 10 Limited Edition Titanium [it googles]...about $1300 AUD.
Holy sheepsheeet But if you like it Jafo I hope you're enjoying it  very much Was checking out the reviews on Amazon and they were pretty bummed about the prices as well lol  https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Level-10-Limited-Edition/dp/B00A443V4O

on Nov 23, 2016

It's pricey...but then I've just updated my monitor....and that was another $1200 ...

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