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April 10th, 2020 01:00

Aurora R9, overheating?

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/alienware-aurora-r9-gaming-desktop-intel-core-i7-9700-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-super-1tb-hdd-512gb-ssd-white-lunar-light/6373818.p?skuId=6373818 This is the computer and specs that I have. It runs from 160-180 degrees Fahrenheit in idle and temps stay the same when I load a game up. When I load the game, the fans will crank up real loud like a vacuum cleaner. It’s not dusty on the inside or anything so I don’t know what the issue could be

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April 10th, 2020 12:00

Easy bake oven. lol

 

Before I bought the R9 with the 9900ks, I had some concerns re: cpu temps. Liquid cooling is the only effective option for this case. Even though the system is louder than a stock car race under load, temps have been ok. Idle temps are plenty low. Loaded temps at 5.0ghz can run to 80c. but hold there. temps.PNG

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April 10th, 2020 13:00

@Gunnar C :

Before running out to buy an AIO liquid cooler, I suggest you install some benchmarks to zoom in to the cause of the loud fan noise.

You'll want to use the benchmarks to load the CPU and GPU independently to see whether it really is the hot CPU that's causing this. Let's get some screenshots of temperature numbers for the CPU to see if it really is the cause of the loud fan(s).

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April 10th, 2020 13:00

@Gunnar C , @Anonymous :

BTW, is the CPU a 9700 or 9700K?

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April 10th, 2020 13:00

@Anonymous Should I order the liquid cooler directly from Dell, or would an aftermarket cooler be better?

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April 10th, 2020 14:00

@GTS81  75 degrees celcius with fan speeds of mid 50%

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April 10th, 2020 14:00

If you ran benchmarks with the case open and the swing arm pushed out, exposing the CPU fan, how much are the temps?

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April 10th, 2020 14:00

@GTS81 Also 9700

 

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April 10th, 2020 14:00

Ok, then yeah, probably that air cooler isn't adequate to cool things down, even for a locked CPU. AIO then like @Anonymous mentioned.

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April 10th, 2020 14:00

@Anonymous So if I order both of the fans you recommended, is it a tough install? I have only ever upgraded Ram in a PC 

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April 10th, 2020 14:00

@GTS81 When I run benchmarks, my cpu fan, top fan, and front fan all say about 80 degrees celcius. The CPU fan will blow 70% while the other two are below 20%.

April 11th, 2020 19:00

@Anonymous I am wanting to do this same upgrade on the same system.  Where in the R9 case do you recommend installing the radiator, and the 2 fans?  If I have this right (and i've never installed a liquid cooling system, so speak to me as you might a 4 year old), i'll take out the stock CPU fan and discard it.  I'll put the Corsair H75 water block on the CPU where that fan was. 

 

At that point, where does the radiator and 2 water cooling fans go? Do I replace the front and top fan in the R9 case with those 2? And then where does the additional ML120 Pro fan go?  Thanks for your time!

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April 11th, 2020 20:00

@LastLivingSouls :

The first thing you'll need to do is ascertain you have this piece of a metal mounting box in your R9 chassis. Just pop open the left panel, swing out the PSU arm, and look above the CPU. It's the black outer box surrounding the fan in the pic below.

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Most Aurora R5-R9 not configured at factory for "Liquid Cooled Chassis (Shadowcat)" doesn't have this piece of mounting needed to install the radiator-fan from the AIO.

April 11th, 2020 20:00

@GTS81 So if I don't have that, is there a place to purchase it?  Or is there another location that the radiator can fit?

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April 11th, 2020 20:00

It goes FAN - RADIATOR - FAN (radiator sandwich). All in the black box. If you remove the top chassis fan, you would be able to see the black box behind the fan. Assuming you have one. 

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April 11th, 2020 20:00

The fan cage?  I thought this was a standard part of the chassis: 

 

four screws up top herefour screws up top here

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