Location of grahics card for better cooling

[Vipermk2]

I have a coolermaster stormtrooper case with 140mm intake fan at the bottom and a 120mm intake fan in the front about the same level as the CPU which has a Noctua D14 120mm - 140mm combination a 140mm exhaust at the back and a 200mm exhaust in the top.

My GTX 980 Ti sits butt up to the CPU cooler fins (5mm Gap) and I would imagine the cooling will interfere with each other when pushing the rig. Would it be an idea to separate them more by moving the Graphics card down 1 slot. I have a M.2 x 4 MINI M.2 Hyper Interface Adapter in the bottom slot for a 2nd M.2 drive.


Could a moderator please correct the spelling of the thread title to graphics

 

[Avet]

It could help, but it may not. Hot air moving is better than cold air standing still, and the Noctua is moving it plenty. Drop it down to another 16x slot and give it a try. It should't affect m.2 adapter.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

What are your current temperatures? Are the intake/exhaust system fans unobstructed? Do they have a direct airflow path to and from components without clogged or overly fine dust filters?

 

[Vipermk2]

I'm just in the process of cleaning the dust filters but the fins on the the Noctua are totally clean. The flow is unobstructed but the CPU was topping out at about 90°C and the GPU was aroung 75. I've never seen it run so hot, just changed the motherboard but basically the same overcloking on both boards.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Well, you could try replacing the thermal paste on both the cpu and gpu if you haven't done that in the past 2-3 years

Besides, the heat will always go up... moving the card won't earn you much

 

[AngryGoldfish]

The GPU should not be causing a 90°C CPU temperature on such a good cooler. I would second a reapplication of TIM and reseat the cooler, revert motherboard BIOS to stock, ensure fans are running at max speeds, etc.

 

[Vipermk2]

After the first application of paste on the CPU i got some high temps so I cleaned both faces of the CPU and the Heat sink and reapplied the Noctua paste, 1/2 pea sized, and wiggled a little to spread the paste. Full contact has been made but after a little messing around noticed that the game I was playing had altered its res to 2160p whereas it was previously set to 1440p. Haha, I thought, imagine the jolly laughs i could have with this total inability of recognising the simplest of errors, old age has lots to offer but then again little to offer.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Running at 4k resolution shouldn't push your CPU to 90°C.

 

[Radioman]

The first thing to do is to monitor the air temperature inside the cabinet with everything all closed up. The temperature probe should NOT be mounted near any heat generating objects.

1) If the air temperature is running more than 10 F degrees or 5 C Degrees above the outside ambient air then it's time to take measures to get more air circulating through the case.

2) If the air inside the case is remaining comparative then its time to direct an additional flow of air on the offending components