Power supply for 25.00. Sketchy, much?

[Dhalmel]

could always get something like this just have to find one that would fit in your socket and put it on and your good to go.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835181031

where you don't have to do much vs other watercooling where you have to change the water and also make sure there leaks or anything lol. But really you could just get other type of air cooling that would do the job too.

I always look at watercooling as a way to do better overclocking without worrying about temps.

Those sealed all in one water cooling products from CoolIT and Asetek suck compared to the real things, almost always better to get a HQ air cooler. Only the H220 and X20 from Swiftech has recently got the "set it and forget it" WC ones right.


Go for the H220, it is literally the closest thing to real water cooling till you're going to a full custom loop.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/18...ng_System.html

[Shura]

I installed EVGA's Precision X application in order to better manage my GPU fan. Once I set it up, it auto-set my base fan to run at 40% (which before my base was 30%). Obviously there is no need for it to run at 40% without the game running (I assume?) Is there any problem just allowing my fan to run at 40% whenever I have my computer on?

Before the fan never bumped up past 40% and the GPU got up to 63-66c while running benchmark/beta. Running the benchmark today with this application, both the the fan and temps both stay in the low 50's. This is a much better situation for my GPU, right?

As for my CPU, I'll be doing that "oil change" (as I call it, just cleaning and re-thermal pasting the stock fan) to see if that will reduce my temps before going further.

I'm a bit terrified of watercooling if I get that far, you guys think that is perfectly safe? Seems crazy to put water anywhere in there

And one more comment/question... is it possible that increasing my GPU fan which thereby lowers the temp that the GPU stays at, can reduce the CPU temp? It almost seemed like that was happening.....


EDIT! Just noticed, when I turn off the EVGA app, the fan goes back down to it's other default speed (30%). Hmm, just have to remember to run it while I have the game on. Best of both worlds maybe?

Ya nothing wrong with leaving the fan at 40% or even 50%; some fans might be loud but if you don't mind then all good. As already mentioned, unless you plan to do extreme overclocks, you don't need a water cooled system. I know some people like to push their systems to the limit but i personally don't overclock much so I don't bother watercooling. On Air, my temps are around mid-high 20s idle and mid 40s to 50 under load. For your system, A High quality air cooler or something like the H60/H80 in a push pull setup will be better.

Yes increasing your GPU fan can contribute to your CPU temp, if your GPU was running hot then it would of made the overall temp in the case high. Just throw the Evga APP in the Startup folder so you don't have to turn it on all the time, unless you only want to turn it up when you play games, in that case you'll have to manually launch it every time.

Good to hear your GPU temps are down, now just need to get the CPU down a bit and your all set for ARR launch.^^

[Soukyuu]

Water cooling is overkill unless you want to do extreme overclocking IMHO. A scythe mugen will keep anything on sane temps, at least it has so far for me.

[Dhalmel]

The mugen is also xbox huge and kinda tricky to install too

[Riv]

Yup Precision lets you set a custom fan curve too so you can adjust the fan speed versus temps if the noise level bothers you. Just set it to start with Windows. It also has a handy on screen overlay monitoring feature that you can set up to see anything you want to know about your GPU in game.

[JillyBean]

Ahh good to hear about watercooling. Nope, I don't plan to ever overclock! It is a bit noisier but it won't bother me (like it did before) because I know exactly why it's happening, and that it is better all around for the computer.

As for my CPU temps, my house temp was pretty low yesterday, so that may have contributed. Hopefully the GPU fan/temp will influence it a little as well, and next week I'll get into that CPU "oil change", and possibly ordering a simple aftermarket CPU heatsink/fan if need be.

You guys are the best! Thanks again! ^^

[JillyBean]

Hmm something I just thought of, do you know how much more power supply use it will need compared to the stock cooler?

My stock Dell PS was 350 watts. When I changed from the 240 video card to the 560, I upgraded to 650w PS. (more than enough for that upgrade).

That's the only hardware change I've made other than this new cooler.

[Dhalmel]

Hmm something I just thought of, do you know how much more power supply use it will need compared to the stock cooler?

My stock Dell PS was 350 watts. When I changed from the 240 video card to the 560, I upgraded to 650w PS. (more than enough for that upgrade).

That's the only hardware change I've made other than this new cooler.

Air cpu heatshinks hardly use any energy, it's only when going into custom water cooling to power a water pump is when there really some notable energy use but even then it's really not something to worry over.

I Apologize, i should of made sure what the mounting solution was on your current PC, i did not realize XPS 8000 had two different models with different mounts.

Dell always does weird things like that so it's not surprising.

[Riv]

Should barely use any more power, if any more at all, than the stock fan.

And yes, the fan just cools the heatsink.

[JillyBean]

First of all, NO WORRIES I appreciate all you've done. It's just a $15 fan. We'll get it figured out ^^

Here's pics:





So the reason for potentially having to remove backplate is so that it doesnt get knocked out of position and go loose? Just trying to understand. No worries at all

PS I'm happy to use this fan you've recommended, regardless of efforts necessary to get it in, it will be a great improvement. I have concerns with size of any other better fans, as you can see inside this case lol.