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Decipher · 06-25-2012, 03:31 AM

I'm using the stock cooler on my i7 2700K and it idles around 32C in its hottest core. I gotta agree with TigerClaw here. The airflow for the CPU is intended to point out toward the back exhaust fan. Do that and you'll probably see your temps drop a few degrees.

Digital*Firefly · 06-25-2012, 08:13 AM

Yeah, the way you have it now the heat from the CPU is venting onto the video card.

Octocamo · 06-25-2012, 10:49 AM

I don't think you guys realize how big this thing is, I don't think it can go vertically with the fan facing that way.

edit: and video card temps at idle are 36 degrees c with fan running at 20%.

I'll try switching it over tomorrow. There's one fan that's bugging me too, like high pitched buzzing constantly switching RPM. I think it's one of the fans that I mounted on mobo.

Octocamo · 06-29-2012, 07:31 PM

had to reorder the same heatsink cause the bracket was fucked once I took it off. Heatsink is now mounted vertically and I also added another 120mm CM fan onto it so it's blowing out towards the front and towards the back.

Decipher · 06-30-2012, 04:51 AM

You put two opposing fans on either side of the heatsink? Unless they're working in the same direction, you're only going to have two fans working very hard to accomplish nothing as they'd negate each other and just create a low pressure zone in the heatsink.

TigerClaw · 06-30-2012, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Decipher

You put two opposing fans on either side of the heatsink? Unless they're working in the same direction, you're only going to have two fans working very hard to accomplish nothing as they'd negate each other and just create a low pressure zone in the heatsink.

By having one fan blow into the heatsink and the 2nd one blowing out, It creates a push/pull configuration which provides better cooling.

Decipher · 07-01-2012, 04:53 AM

Yes, that's what I said, but worded differently. He's saying one is blowing toward the back, and one toward the front.

Octocamo · 09-06-2012, 10:51 AM

Got a Asus GTX 660ti OC in this rig now.

TigerClaw · 09-07-2012, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Octocamo

Got a Asus GTX 660ti OC in this rig now.

Cool since its from Asus, you can use there overclocking utility.

True · 11-01-2012, 04:41 PM

Ok, I gotta question for you guys....

I'm looking at a Motherboard and a Graphics card. The GFX card say that it's interface is (PCI Express 2.1 x16), but the Mother shows (and all the other ones in my range) that it only has (PCI Express 2.0 x16 2 (x16, x4) ). Will I still be able to run this GFX card with this MoBo??