Howdy again everybody! My parts finally came in and after spending a day hammering and bending on my PC case to house the radiator in the top, I've finally got everything installed and running!
I've only run into a couple of issues for the time being, and once again my google-fu has failed me on finding a solid answer. BIOS all running the default auto settings for the time being, I'll hit a rare occasion of graphics driver failing on me when windows loads, but my biggest issue is that I think my NB is running a little too hot for comfort.
I've updated my sig with my current rig setup if you need any information, but I'll throw a few pictures out here so you can see what I'm looking at.
There's the final product, minus the LED lighting.
I took that reading down into the fins immediately after taking my side cover with fan off. Highest temp I got was 62c after I let it run under moderate load for 15 minutes with the side fan not blowing on it, but that still seems a bit high for no overclocks.
Now I've googled for the past hour and the only threads I've come across are hot NB for the MSI 970 chipset boards, nothing on Gigabyte.
Is the NB suppose to run that hot? I've considered adding a fan or two, or just reworking my airflow in the case to hopefully bring that temp down a little.
Thanks to some amazing MS Paint skills, I've mapped out what I believe to be my current airflow.
Side fan blows directly into the graphics card, and a little overlap on the top is the little bit cooling the NB.
Brown is just a dead air zone, nothing that requires cooling in there.
What would be the best course of action to take a little heat off that NB?
I've also been thinking about putting a fan on the VRM so I can ease into some overclocking in the future.
I've only run into a couple of issues for the time being, and once again my google-fu has failed me on finding a solid answer. BIOS all running the default auto settings for the time being, I'll hit a rare occasion of graphics driver failing on me when windows loads, but my biggest issue is that I think my NB is running a little too hot for comfort.
I've updated my sig with my current rig setup if you need any information, but I'll throw a few pictures out here so you can see what I'm looking at.
There's the final product, minus the LED lighting.
I took that reading down into the fins immediately after taking my side cover with fan off. Highest temp I got was 62c after I let it run under moderate load for 15 minutes with the side fan not blowing on it, but that still seems a bit high for no overclocks.
Now I've googled for the past hour and the only threads I've come across are hot NB for the MSI 970 chipset boards, nothing on Gigabyte.
Is the NB suppose to run that hot? I've considered adding a fan or two, or just reworking my airflow in the case to hopefully bring that temp down a little.
Thanks to some amazing MS Paint skills, I've mapped out what I believe to be my current airflow.
Side fan blows directly into the graphics card, and a little overlap on the top is the little bit cooling the NB.
Brown is just a dead air zone, nothing that requires cooling in there.
What would be the best course of action to take a little heat off that NB?
I've also been thinking about putting a fan on the VRM so I can ease into some overclocking in the future.