ok so i have two gigabyte windforce 780ti's, in a corsair carbide 500r. right? well, i modified the side into basically a window instead of having the 200mm fan there. and, i was running warlords of draenor beta up to 70% load on both gpu's (had to create a seperate sli profile for the .exe because its in beta but thats another story)
now im not... THAT concerned about it, but i used to have a fan mounted on the bottom of the case 140mm and a fan mounted on the side, 200mm. now i do not because it looks much better with the windows, and a longer power supply that gets in the way of the bottom fan mount. dont get me wrong the computer looks freaking amazing and i took the disk drive mount out altogether, and mounted my ssd where the bottom fan was (simply screwed it into the fan holes real tight).
im VERY happy with the way it looks. and maybe its just because its an extremely hot day today. its currently like 90 degrees outside. but my primary video card, at 70% load, got up to 83 celsius after a little bit of heat buildup where it used to only hit around 74c.
tl;dr what should i do?:
my thoughts are, i could replace the front two 120mm fans with 140mm fans that are high airflow. i could also try to dremel a hole in the bottom where the hard drive cage used to be, which i'd like to avoid doing because id probably have to take my rig apart to avoid any metal dust getting in the components. my third option that i'd like to try to avoid due to aesthetic reasons, is i could try to dremel a smaller 120mm hole in the slanted part of the side panel.
also, do you guys think replacing the thermal paste on them would help much? seems more of a heat buildup problem rather than a heat transfer problem really. though, i will be replacing the thermal paste very soon anyways.
now im not... THAT concerned about it, but i used to have a fan mounted on the bottom of the case 140mm and a fan mounted on the side, 200mm. now i do not because it looks much better with the windows, and a longer power supply that gets in the way of the bottom fan mount. dont get me wrong the computer looks freaking amazing and i took the disk drive mount out altogether, and mounted my ssd where the bottom fan was (simply screwed it into the fan holes real tight).
im VERY happy with the way it looks. and maybe its just because its an extremely hot day today. its currently like 90 degrees outside. but my primary video card, at 70% load, got up to 83 celsius after a little bit of heat buildup where it used to only hit around 74c.
tl;dr what should i do?:
my thoughts are, i could replace the front two 120mm fans with 140mm fans that are high airflow. i could also try to dremel a hole in the bottom where the hard drive cage used to be, which i'd like to avoid doing because id probably have to take my rig apart to avoid any metal dust getting in the components. my third option that i'd like to try to avoid due to aesthetic reasons, is i could try to dremel a smaller 120mm hole in the slanted part of the side panel.
also, do you guys think replacing the thermal paste on them would help much? seems more of a heat buildup problem rather than a heat transfer problem really. though, i will be replacing the thermal paste very soon anyways.