GTXJackBauer
Dave3d
True. Small cases they would be good for. IF they will fit, lol.
I am going to have to turn my huge side case fan around to blow out, instead of in, with the 3 fan model I am getting, to exhaust all that heat out faster.
Probably going to have to redo all my case fans to fit the style that dumps heat into the system (I have the Titan X blower model now, so its a lot of fans blowing into the case. Need to reverse it a little for a card that dumps into the case. I wish I could afford water cooling, but I was lucky just to be able to afford a 2080 at all).
I wouldn't worry too much tbh unless you see temps spike during high OCing. Just make sure you're setting your filtered areas of the case as intake and exhausts out the back and possibly the top if its not filtered or what have you.
Trust me, it makes a difference.
even when I went from my 780 to the titan x, I had to move fans around (the 780 was a dump into the case version, the titan x is the blower).
You just can NOT have a fan blowing straight into a place that is trying to blow out the way the fan is. It will not only create a dead air space, it can make the hot air of the card not even escape from the video card in the 1st place and make it overheat.
Think side fan cool air going in ---> <--- Air going towards side case, heat trying to escape from the video card.
You need to have it like this:
Side fan pulling out hot air <--- <--- Air going towards side case, heat trying to escape from the video card.
That way, there will be no deadlocked airflow.
The top is already a 2 fan water cooler, and it sucks up the top front and rear corners and along the top half of the mobo hot air out.
I have 1 huge side case fan blowing into the mobo top/bottom, as well as the M.2 card (I have to figure that one out, as that M.2 drive gets burning hot, and HAS to have cooling on it), and the (IF I put it back in) Creative SB card, and the 4 port usb card. Its also used to move the air dead spots, like at the bottom mobo/top of the power supply, and the bottom rear of the case where the air sits because nothing moves there because of the blower on the video card does nothing at the back of the case, only moves air near the front where the fan is.
I also have 2 large front case fans blowing over the hard drives (1 fan), and the top and front of the video card (2nd fan) as well as system memory, and pushing the hot air out the back empty case fan spot. Well, the top video card/memory fan wont be used anymore, as the card I am getting exhausts all the heat out the back, side, front, and rear of the card (basically it expells heat all around the 4 sides of the card).
So, if I have a fan blowing into the front (fan and power plug end) of the card, that heat cant escape.
I have a slot cooler I will use instead of the second fan pushing air into the case.
So, I will have to change it to this for the new card:
1 huge fan blowing into the hdd's, which some cooling will get to bottom mobo and pull into the video card (there is also a vent at the bottom of the case for cool air to enter).
1 slot coole fan sucking just a little bit of the heat off the top of the card, but not very powerful as to not make the card not expell its heat.
1 huge side fan (I will have to tweak it to make sure it isnt pulling too hard, so as to NOT take the fresh air from the bottom and from the hdd's air, so the bottom mobo and video card still get fresh air). I may even have to put a fan where the bottom fresh air vent is, to make sure air gets to the video card before being pushed out the side fan.
2 slot water cooler at the top for all the top hot air.
I may have to put 1 rear top fan in also, since I will be removing the 1 fan in front that cools the memory/top mobo/top of the video card, to make sure enough air moves at the very rear top corner of the case. I will have to try each way (with and w/o the top rear fan) to see what the best cooling scenario is.
Believe me, I have been building computers since 1995.
I have seen some get WAY too hot because people did not use the correct fans (110 cfm fans going in, with only 45 cfm pulling out), the correct fan placements, or people thinking the more fans the better, right? Not always. Sometimes more fans can hurt the system. Also, you need a good flow ratio, based on the parts you have, and the case you have.
Its why I am thinking the Thor V2 case 'may' be the better case for this system than my current CM HAF-X case will be.
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post edited by Dave3d - 2018/09/26 21:14:00