Hardware How do you cool your Pc?

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I hace a fairly small Pc build with a GTX 1080 and I7 6700k. It can get somewhere in between 70-80 'C while playing games. I was wondering what are some of your most creative cooling solutions and tricks to keep the air flowing. I just usually take the case of and put my room fan on top of it and it dips to 60'C while playing Skyrim.

 

[Originality]

I've always used a case with enough airflow. The Antec 1200 I had before had four 120mm intake fans, two 120mm exhaust fans and a 200mm roof exhaust fan. Now my Corsair graphite 760T has two 140mm intake and a total of three 140mm exhaust fans (two of which are strapped to my 280mm CLC radiator on the roof).

Bigger fans flow quieter and generally have more airflow, so it's even better at cooking than my old Antec 1200.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

If the PSU mounts over the CPU in that case, try turning the PSU so it's fan-down and flipping the CPU cooler fan so that it's removing air as opposed to blowing air on the CPU. That way the PSU can act as an auxiliary exhaust fan if things get too toasty

 

[8BitWonder]

I fill a bucket with ice from my freezer and dump it right in. Keeps it cool for a few hours at best.

 

[Deleted User]

Customloop watercooling

 

[DinohScene]

I use computers to cool me.
I'm hot af.

In reality tho, I just bang a bunch of fans in me pc.
Then again, it's a homeserver anyway ;')
Yay laptops.

 

[migles]

this is one of the reasons i dislike small form\mini itx pc's...
there is little room to air move through..
one thing you may look into is water cooling\AIO.. there are some small factor cases that allow instalation of 1 block radiators..

 

[Minox]

I'm using a Corsair H90 to cool my overclocked i5 6600k together with the original fans in my case and nothing goes above 60C while playing for extended periods of time. This is all in a smaller mITX case with a GeForce 970 acting as GPU.

I have been thinking of replacing the case fans with some Noctua ones, but that would purely be to lower its overall volume.

 

[Joe88]

11 fans and an h100i v2, also helps its a full tower case for better airflow

 

[JFTS]

this is one of the reasons i dislike small form\mini itx pc's...
there is little room to air move through..
one thing you may look into is water cooling\AIO.. there are some small factor cases that allow instalation of 1 block radiators..

What about the Mac Pro trash can design? And other cases that simulate it like the BottleNext Entropy and the Cryorig Ola?





Supposedly, the unified, cylindrical design allows the airflow to move only in one direction (up) and that cools the system in a more efficient way.

What do you think about it?

 

[Temptress Cerise]

6 Noctua NF-A14 PWM Fans. Noctua NH-D15 cooler for the CPU. Pretty much dead silent. Was thinking of getting an Phanteks Enthoo Primo, just so I could slap even more Noctua fans on. But I think I'll save that for another time.

 

[Futurdreamz]

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/b/qcCbt6

7 case fans