Rotanixel Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 After about twenty minutes of Battlefield 4 on ultra my h100i GTX's coolant temps will reach 50c the rad is mounted on the front of my case Aerocool ds200 would that be affecting it? Ambient room temperature is about 28-29c (Australian summer) is my cooler defective is it not getting enough air or is it normal for the coolant temp to be that high? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datakiller24 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hi Rotanixel, How are the pump and fans setup? I have the same cooler, also front mount (intake), CPU not overclocked (base 3570K). I have setup fan profiles to max out fans from 35°C of the cooler temperature, pump setup to performance mode. As I have a silent PC case, the front intake is filtered and sound dampened so I use a 4 fan setup (push pull) - maybe this can be the problem with your case also (you have there no direct air input, just openings around the side of the front so fans must have higher force to get air in and through the radiator). During gaming I reach (only after 4 hours of SW Battlefront multiplayer on max. details) very rarely the 35°C cooler temperature (this is when my led switches to red color, so it´s noticable) - but then the fans kick in to 100% and after a while I have again for longer the blue led light (under 35°C). My ambient temperature is 25°C (here is winter, but my wife likes warm air). Can You check also the temperature of the CPU ? BR, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-attack Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 20 minutes is pretty fast for the water to go from ~30C to 50C. Obviously, make sure the pump is running, but let's look at some other things. I am assuming you have the radiator mounted in the front as an intake (bringing air into the case). The DS 200 has a solid front panel, but I can't quite tell from pictures where the air inlets are located. Can you feel air moving through the radiator? What kind of fans speeds do you get while playing BF4? Do you have the top panel closed, open, or open with exhaust fans? It looks like there are various different top enclosures available for this case. How does the 50C water temp compare to some other ambient case temperature readings during gaming -- like your HDD/SSD temperatures, any motherboard temp readings, etc. If you are mostly closed up, this could all be waste radiator and GPU heat sitting in the case waiting to be exhausted. If you don't have another source of intake air, running a front radiator can be more difficult. You may need to force higher than normal fan speeds to get air into the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotanixel Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 I only have the radiator on the front (Intake) and one exhaust fan at the back. at the minute the top panel is the closed one i'm going to pick up my spare one from my parents place soon and see if that improves it i'm also looking at repositioning the rad. The 20 minutes to 50c is probably longer but it still reaches 50c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-attack Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I believe it reaches 50C. Whether it takes 20 min or an hour doesn't really matter, but it does suggest you have a heat management issue to deal with. It sounds like you can't get the heat out fast enough and the combination of CPU and GPU waste heat + Summer is too much. Looking at your drive and motherboard temps should give an idea of your internal case temperature and I suspect it is going to very close to that 50C. You have a couple options. With the vented top open, that may help alleviate some of the heat, but probably not all. Adding a pair of exhaust fans to the top would help a lot more. You don't need to blast them. Even at low speed it should help. Ultimately, I think you may need to move the radiator to the roof as exhaust. With no other intake fans, you are dependent upon the radiator fans to bring in the air. Two fans on a radiator make more noise than two case fans and it also will continue to dump more heat into the case instead of out. That would free the front intake up for more air while the top and rear exhaust out. You may wish to try the first option before moving the radiator, but I suppose that depends on what other fans you have available. Feel free to experiment and see what works best for you. Also, if you have the case pushed back against the wall, try and slide it out a little bit to give the exhaust air somewhere else to go. The traditional between the desk and the wall spot can create a hot pocket around the case. You can probably get away with it Winter, but not in Summer in the current configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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