Post your gaming setup!

[Orkela]

What they're trying to tell you is to flip it 180 degrees. There SHOULD be a fan grill/hole under the PSU, for it to pull air through from outside the case, instead of from inside the case.

I think Skelly's last comment is referring to the heatsink fan. I'm still not certain how it is yall are saying I should have it. I flipped my psu. Here is a closeup of the heatsink fan if that helps.



Also I intend to get a 2nd fan to go on it, just haven't gotten to it yet.

[ispano]

Yeah, that's backwards. The fan behind it should be sucking air out, and that one is going the opposite direction, you can tell by the blades, it should be blowing to the back as well. ie the CPU HSF should be turned 180 degrees as well, so the fan is on the other side, still attached how it is, but blowing through the HSF to the back exhaust fan.

[Rennadrel]

please inform us as to what is so great about them

Put it on an i7 2600k and it will cool it at 4.5Ghz just as well as any more expensive cooler would over clocking. I pushed an X6 2.8Ghz up to 4Ghz overclocked on a Frio, most coolers can't do that.

[ispano]

Ok, now add in facts as to why it's better, not just personal experience?

EDIT: Doing work for others, yay!

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

[Drunkenvalley]

Do some research, fella.

[Cyanotical]

Put it on an i7 2600k and it will cool it at 4.5Ghz just as well as any more expensive cooler would over clocking. I pushed an X6 2.8Ghz up to 4Ghz overclocked on a Frio, most coolers can't do that.

calling people "bads" when a lot of us have cooling systems that cost more then your whole computer, is not the best thing to do

[Orkela]

Yeah, that's backwards. The fan behind it should be sucking air out, and that one is going the opposite direction, you can tell by the blades, it should be blowing to the back as well. ie the CPU HSF should be turned 180 degrees as well, so the fan is on the other side, still attached how it is, but blowing through the HSF to the back exhaust fan.

So you're just saying to hook it up on the other side of the hs, yes?

[ispano]

If you can move it without taking the HS off, yes. So it blows air through it like it is now, but in the other direction. The rear case exhaust fan should also be blowing out, can't see if it is or not.

[Xuvial]

I flipped my rear exhaust to pull air in since it's facing a wall anyway, my top 200mm does all the exhausting :P

[Orkela]

Ok I flipped it over the other way. And I noticed that it does have the airflow arrows on the side (which I never noticed before). So should be good now.

Ok so what program can I use to track cpu and gpu temps? I assume coretemp is a good one for the cpu?

[Skelly]

Ok I flipped it over the other way. And I noticed that it does have the airflow arrows on the side (which I never noticed before). So should be good now.

Ok so what program can I use to track cpu and gpu temps? I assume coretemp is a good one for the cpu?

I use Real Temp for my cpu, there might be better programs out there.

For gpu temps there probably isn't anything better than MSI Afterburner.

[ispano]

Coretemp is fine, for GPU, MSI Afterburner is one of the best, plus you can OC with it.

I use Coretemp since it shows all the cores on both CPUs for me at the same time. RealTemp doesn't.

[Deleted]

Sweet Pc's here. Shame I dont have all that money!

[Asmekiel]

Ok, this sucks. The Asus DCII 6970 is sold out _everywhere_ Now I'm forced to get the DCII 570.
The thought of going to Nvidia creeps me out, but with the 6970 being sold out worldwide with no signs of restocks the next months, it seems I have no choice.
I'd gladly wait if someone could tell me with 100% certainty it's going to hit the shelves again within 2 weeks.

[Deleted]

Sweet Pc's here. Shame I dont have all that money!

start working, just like i did, works wonders

[ispano]

start working, just like i did, works wonders

Depending on where he lives it might not be that easy. 10% Unemployment rate here ftl.

[Deleted]

Depending on where he lives it might not be that easy. 10% Unemployment rate here ftl.

no clue what it is here in sweden, but have no clue if that's much or what it is

[Asera]

That's not true at all. PSU fans push air through the PSU, so he can either take cool air from outside the case by having the fan on the bottom, or take warm air from the case by putting it on top.

Psst. Cool air sinks.

[Asmekiel]

Psst. Cool air sinks.

That must mean the air under the case is cooler
Not that it really matters at that point, unless you have a multi-gpu setup where all coolers blow air into the case.

[Rennadrel]

Ok, now add in facts as to why it's better, not just personal experience?

EDIT: Doing work for others, yay!

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

Thanks for proving my point, almost all of those fans on that list are either more expensive or around the same price as the Thermaltake Frio, not less. Notice how it was #3 for AMD and #5 for Intel when it comes to temperatures and yet you dismiss it as being bad? Good job owning yourself, I said it was a great cooler for the money and when it comes to cooling, it got rated better then the Noctua NH-D14 which costs 30 dollars more.