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falcon26
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OK cooling or more?

Post by falcon26 » Mon Dec 29, 2014 10:03 am

I setup my computer as being a silent one. Currently I have only 1 120MM fan connected to my RAD on my corsair H55 CPU cooler. That is the only fan in my system. The fan is the Akasa 120MM Apache PWM silent fan. Which is dead silent. I also have a MSI gaming Gtx 980 where the fans only come on when its above a certain temperature. So in other words at idle my system is so quiet you don't even know its on. Idle temps seem good, CPU 30 degrees and GPU 45 degrees. At load after playing BF4 for a few hours last night my temps were CPU 68 degrees and GPU also about 68 degrees and yet my system was still near dead silent. The Akasa fan at idle spins at 500-600 rpm's and at load it got to 1000 rpm's. CFM on that fan is 55. Would this temps concern you or do they seem OK? I was thinking about perhaps adding one more Akasa fan in the front as in intake, but if it doesn't do much then I wouldn't bother.....

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Re: OK cooling or more?

Post by CA_Steve » Mon Dec 29, 2014 1:38 pm

So, the only "case" fan is the CPU radiator fan? You aren't using the two Fractal case fans?

GPU temp seems in the zone, CPU temp looks high for a liquid cooler. If you don't have any front to back case airflow, you aren't getting rid of the heat generated by the gpu.

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Re: OK cooling or more?

Post by quest_for_silence » Mon Dec 29, 2014 2:12 pm

CA_Steve wrote:GPU temp seems in the zone, CPU temp looks high for a liquid cooler.

At first glance CPU temp looks like ok to me: the H55 is a mediocre AIO (it actually performs worse than mid-end air coolers like the True Spirit 120 or the 92mm Arctic Cooling Freezer 13), and he's using a 1000rpm fan.

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Re: OK cooling or more?

Post by falcon26 » Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:55 am

I added a front Akasa 120MM fan, the same one that is on the RAD. My temps idle went down a bit. CPU is now at 28 and now GPU is about 42. System is still dead quiet. I have not had a chance to check load temps yet though...

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