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NCASE M1 heat issues

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m0po

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Hello All,
I'm having some GPU heat issues with my NCASE M1. Specs:

- Core i5 4460 w/ stock cooler
- ASUS H97I-PLUS
- Samsung 940 256GB SSD
- 8GB G.Skill DDR3 NT
- Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X
- Silverstone SX600-G 600w PSU

Whilst playing rust the CPU gets up to about 50deg, but the GPU reaches 95deg! I have two Corsair SP120 fans as intake on the side, and two Corsair SP120 fans on the bottom as intake for the GPU. The fans are attached to splitters on the two PWM headers on the motherboard. I have them running at 100% speed whenever the computer is on.

The GPU gets to around 70deg whilst playing lighter games like TF2 but still a worry as the fan ramps up quite high. Any suggestions on what to do?
 
This is why I recommend against open cooler cards on the website. That's particularly true for higher TDP GPUs, which the high end AMDs are especially guilty of.

I would try setting the side fans as exhaust, as Rav3n said.
 
I'll give that a try tonight, thanks guys. Looks like I'm on the hunt for a new blower style card. Any recommendations?
 
m0po said:
I'll give that a try tonight, thanks guys. Looks like I'm on the hunt for a new blower style card. Any recommendations?
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IMO there's really only one choice as far as blower cards, and that's any nvidia card using the reference Titan-style cooler. They are well engineered, and in my experience all you hear is the sound of rushing air under load. The AMD blowers that I've heard, in contrast, have been awful screaming shopvacs under load. No comparison really.

That said, the GTX 970 is low enough TDP that it's not usually much of a problem to use an open cooler variant in the M1. I know that right now AMD is favored for price/performance around the 390x level, but because of the higher TDPs and worse blower situation, I couldn't really recommend them for the M1.
 
Necere said:
IMO there's really only one choice as far as blower cards, and that's any nvidia card using the reference Titan-style cooler. They are well engineered, and in my experience all you hear is the sound of rushing air under load. The AMD blowers that I've heard, in contrast, have been awful screaming shopvacs under load. No comparison really.

That said, the GTX 970 is low enough TDP that it's not usually much of a problem to use an open cooler variant in the M1. I know that right now AMD is favored for price/performance around the 390x level, but because of the higher TDPs and worse blower situation, I couldn't really recommend them for the M1.
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Thanks so much for your help. Thanks for creating the NCASE M1 too, absolutely love the size.
 
m0po said:
I'll give that a try tonight, thanks guys. Looks like I'm on the hunt for a new blower style card. Any recommendations?
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I have a 980 ti SC reference card and even +100 clock, +200 memory overclock keeps it under 80c max. Upping the fan speed from 22% to 38% keeps top temps to under 70c but I can then hear the card. Reference cards are noisier but it does a great job exhausting the hot air.

A 970 reference would be an even better solution in terms of heat.
 
If you are willing to keep using the card and put some effort, you can try ducting the GPU fans. Its the best way to guarantee that the GPU will recieve fresh air, avoding to shortcut the airflow of the fans.

The reasons the Ncase is not so good with open air coolers are the third PCI slot and lack of ventilation holes on GPU height. With ducting you can solve the first problem.

And as already mentioned, orient the fans to exaust on side.
 
Necere said:
This is why I recommend against open cooler cards on the website. That's particularly true for higher TDP GPUs, which the high end AMDs are especially guilty of.

I would try setting the side fans as exhaust, as Rav3n said.
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I have a 290X Tri-X and have 0 temperature problems on my system... and the only fan I have in there is the one being used on the Corsair H50 that cools the cpu.
 
I switched the side fans to exhaust and it helped a bit, however the 280x is still getting quite hot and loud. I'm going to invest in a GTX 970 blower-style card and hopefully this will be the last I hear of it :)
 
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