6 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

No a Noctua NH-D15S (An air cooler!)

I won't use anything else. Plus I have a case with excellent airflow, 2 X 180mm fans at the front and 3 X 140mm fans under the GPU. If I turn down the volume I can barely hear any of the fans running. I did my homework when I built this PC and it paid off 

 

 

I was thinking Fahrenheit...  Forgot we are talking Centigrade. 

Edited October 24, 20223 yr by Bobsk8

3 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

The best an air cooler can get the temperature to is room temperature. You keep your PC room at 46 degrees? 

No it is 22 degrees where my PC is and you are not quite right right about your statement regarding what an air cooler can do

5 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

No it is 22 degrees where my PC is and you are not quite right right about your statement regarding what an air cooler can do

I corrected my post, see above.

 

Edited October 24, 20223 yr by Bobsk8

1 hour ago, RJC68 said:

No a Noctua NH-D15S (An air cooler!)

I won't use anything else. Plus I have a case with excellent airflow, 2 X 180mm fans at the front and 3 X 140mm fans under the GPU. If I turn down the volume I can barely hear any of the fans running. I did my homework when I built this PC and it paid off 

 

 

You and I have similar taste when it comes to cases, the FD Torrent is brilliant. I re-arranged the fans a bit since I run a 360 AIO at the front, but with the Fenix A320 my GPU runs at 68 to 70 degrees, the CPU below 60.

29 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

You and I have similar taste when it comes to cases, the FD Torrent is brilliant. I re-arranged the fans a bit since I run a 360 AIO at the front, but with the Fenix A320 my GPU runs at 68 to 70 degrees, the CPU below 60.

I built an almost identical PC before this one with a 3080TI in a Corsair 4000D Airflow, I found the size of the case a little restricting so when I was getting ready to build this PC I did a bit more research as I wanted a case that gives me room to upgrade. It is certainly a work of art and I absolutely love the PSU being at the top. It was so easy to work on. I have been impressed too with how little dust gets into this case. I took the filters out for the first time a couple of days ago.

I do have to confess though I haven't been able to bring myself to remove the plastic film from the glass panels yet 🤣

2 hours ago, hvw said:

Hi Richard, the fans were running at 10% of their capacity. I accidentally found out how I could make the fans individually faster. Running the  CPU fan at 30% cools the processor sufficiently (around 60C)

Fans are cheap compared to CPUs. Bump that fan up higher. If it were me, I would probably keep them at 75% or above if I could deal with the noise. 

I too have have built my latest flight sim PC with a Fractal Torrent case. These cases are one of the best for airflow and cooling. I have fit an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 in mine and with a 3090Ti and 5800 X3D with several fans spread around, when I am simming in MSFS, my CPU runs around 56 C at the most and my GPU around 65 C. I LOVE the Torrent...such a great case. 

Same cooler I have, the Noctua DS-15, but I didn't install the fan that came with it. My case has a top port so I just blow air from outside directly onto the CPU with a $30 Noctua Fan. The one that came with it rattled too much, and was kind of cheap, especially for a $100 cooler. Have like 4 noctua fans, but I think my CPU still hits 80c, so the install is probably not perfect, though a lot of it has to do with how loud I'm willing to listen to the fans blowing. 80c at 100% CPU is actually fine for the 5800x and anything under 85c at full load isn't a big deal. That said, it can heat your other parts and become problematic at any temp over 70c if you don't have enough fans spread around the case and overheat the drives and stuff. My GPU never goes above 65c lately, but it's almost never above 70% usage either as I need a better CPU.

All said, I consider my cooling setup "just ok" and would love a water cooled setup supplied from 35-40 degree water (one way directional setup). The problem is I have no way to recapture the water used, so I guess that would waste quite a bit of water.

Imagine I have a constant sprinkler on outside my room spraying water outside, because looped water cooling isn't nearly as effective. With an external near freezing temp water source, you could really get some pretty high numbers I imagine, unless condensation becomes an issue. Then it might be, well you know, the end of the world.

I use the Deep Cool AK620... One cracking cooler...

Deep Cool Ak620

I really never had that kind of problem while using MFS, but I experienced it the first time I sarted XP12 on my rig with an 5600x and RTX 3060 Ti.

Problem solved beautifully through MSI Afterburner, by throtling the power and temps... No impact in performance.

By the time I installed MSI Afterburner I was still using MFS and also tested it, although I was not experiencing any high temps with MFS, just to check any FPS impact. There was none either.

So I can recommend MSI Afterburner 😉

Edited October 25, 20223 yr by jcomm

2 hours ago, jcomm said:

Problem solved beautifully through MSI Afterburner, by throtling the power and temps... No impact in performance.

Thanks a lot for this tip. It wasn't my GPU that got overheated but rather one or more cores of my CPU. I don't think MSI Afterburner will take care of monitoring/controlling the CPU as well, Or will it? 

Edited October 25, 20223 yr by hvw

3 minutes ago, hvw said:

Thanks a lot for this tip. I am going to try MSI Afterburner as well and see what happens at my rig.

I am not near my sim desktop, but in the MSI interface you will find 2 sliders, one for power the other for GPU Temp.

I moved both full left, which corresponded to 50% - max 65ºC if I'm not wrong...

1 minute ago, jcomm said:

I am not near my sim desktop, but in the MSI interface you will find 2 sliders, one for power the other for GPU Temp.

I moved both full left, which corresponded to 50% - max 65ºC if I'm not wrong...

Oops, our messages crossed. It's my CPU that's getting overheated not my GPU. I will keep an eye on temperatures of my CPU and control those by setting the speed/rpm of my fan(s) higher. Only found out late last night, that I had that possibility in an app that I could download from Acer's website.

20 minutes ago, hvw said:

Oops, our messages crossed. It's my CPU that's getting overheated not my GPU. I will keep an eye on temperatures of my CPU and control those by setting the speed/rpm of my fan(s) higher. Only found out late last night, that I had that possibility in an app that I could download from Acer's website.

Oh sorry 😞 my bad ... thought it was the GPU 😞

23 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Oh sorry 😞 my bad ... thought it was the GPU 😞

No, no problem at all. Glad that you tried to help.