I bought my pc used. And have always kinda noticed my cpu aio coolent (corsair h100i) hitting 60c when playing games. I've ignored it as I haven't played games much till recently. But not taking a closer look. My rear fan has some beefier blades and the two front ones are way more airflow. It seems backwards to me since the front of the case doesn't have a lot of opening and the psu bay is right behind the bottom fan. Should I get a noctua airflow for the back and static pressures for the front?
Edit: Forgot to mention my room's ambient temp is 21c
Also the aio itself is only a year old. And pump speed when gaming is around 2400 rpm
8 Comments
DuzAwe@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 3y
Clean your PC it’s filthy.
No you don’t need to worry about new fans 60c is normal. Now if you where at 80+ for long periods then maybe a new cooler would be worth it. Also that case has terrible airflow bigger/newer/stronger fans won’t help.
It’s likely the aio is nearing EOL as well they only really last 3-5 years and slowly loose performance over time.
MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
But 60c for the coolent (not the cpu itself) puts the aio into failsafe. 60c is also the max any coolent should be hitting
And yah the dust is starting to get bad. Just moved it into a new room that was unused for several months and collected dust. But the camera flash makes it look worse than it is in some spots. Admittedly the fans themselves are pretty dusty
And the aio is only a year old
CatZoomies@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Forgot to mention my room's ambient temp is 21c
Also the aio itself is only a year old. And pump speed when gaming is around 2400 rpm
scutiger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The pump speed doesn't mean much, the rpm is not actually related to how hard the pump is workimg. The pump is pretending to be a fan and feeding your motherboard an rpm number so that if it dies, your motherboard thinks there's no cooling and slows down your cpu or shuts down the computer.
I'm not sure what the cooler going into failsafe entails, but you should do some testing to see what temperature and speed your cpu is at under load. If your cpu throttles at all due to heat, certainly that's an issue. Otherwise I wouldn't be worried about it.