**Temperature Issues with Custom PC Build**

In this video, I'm discussing temperature issues with my custom PC build. Typically, my tests are completed within the first four minutes, and an air-cooled CPU or GPU would hit their maximum temperature. However, with this particular build, the temperatures climb slowly to 80 degrees, and then the fan speed increases to 80% quickly.

**Initial Diagnosis**

The initial thought was that it might be an airflow problem in the case. To address this issue, a 140 millimeter fan was added to the top of the case as an intake. The reasoning behind this placement is that the front of the case is quite restrictive when it comes to airflow. Unfortunately, this solution did not effectively blow air directly onto the graphics card, and temperatures remained around 80 degrees.

**Modifying the Case**

To further investigate the issue, the fan was moved to the front of the case, where a 120 millimeter NZXT case fan was installed due to space constraints with the SSD installed. This modification did provide some improvement in temperature readings but still resulted in temperatures at 80 degrees after 15 minutes.

**Removing the Front Panel**

At this point, I decided to remove the front panel of the case to improve airflow. This solution made a significant difference, and I was able to achieve temperatures around 75 degrees with lower fan speeds. The noise level also decreased significantly.

**Conclusion**

The issue was clearly related to the case itself from the beginning, but I wanted to exhaust all possible solutions before replacing the case. If you encounter similar temperature issues with your custom PC build, try to find alternative solutions before investing in new components. In this particular case, modifying the front panel of the case resolved the temperature issues.

**Upcoming Videos**

I'm planning to vlog my upcoming trip to LTX and will be uploading the video on Monday or Tuesday next week. I'll also continue working on the personal rig upgrade, which I'm excited about, and will feature it in a future video.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow today we're unfortunately gonna have a little bit of a filler video the main video that I was working on which was like upgrading my personal build ran into a really irritating snag like really irritating snag and basically long story short I'm waiting for components and I'm not going to be able to finish that until some point next week so I decided to do a video where I deal with some overheating problems that I have in the YouTube bounty PC now last week I posted a video where I upgraded this YouTube Bounty PC I put an AMD rx 570 in there and honestly the performance was really great but if you remember from that video I did it like a noise test with it and it did sound a little bit like a jet on takeoff and that's obviously not something we want so let me run you through the troubleshooting process that I went for the actual heat with the graphics card now when running fur mark with this graphics card it quite quickly hits 80 degrees Celsius and 80 degrees is the point where the software doesn't want the graphics card to run any hotter so to deal with that to keep it at 80 degrees the fan speed slowly keeps ramping up and then by the time you hit 15 minutes it's at 80% fan speed and it's all very noisy now the first way I thought about dealing with this problem is by actually putting a new thermal paste on the graphics card now I know that the graphics card is quite new but because it's a fairly entry-level graphics card I thought maybe MSI uses very basic thermal paste and this will help alleviate the problem so let's go through the process of repaying the graphics card now as you can see I'm using natural light for this shot so that it looks all all artistic I actually before we tear it down I just want to point out that I got a new screwdriver I'm really excited excited about it look at that bad boy the reason that I got it is because I actually had some problems with my iFixit screwdriver and this one what I really like about it is it's got a really nice grip to it so it feels like you're like grabbing a goose by the neck and not like you're kind of trying to screw using chopsticks or whatever and it's also got these these drill bits well not drill bits screw bits screwdriver bits that feel like they've kind of been hewn out of dragon scales in Mount Doom so that's exciting I'm really excited I enjoy this screwdriver very much okay so as you can see on here we have a warranty void if remove sticker now the only thing that I have to say to that is is this pretty much so I'm gonna tear that guy off well I'm just going to screw through it actually Ek actually recommends that you put more thermal paste on than that so every time you change like we put a water block on a graphics card they show you a diagram and they want you to do like an X pattern on it I yeah so I've always kind of tend to put more on yeah so let's put this back in and see if that made any difference and then after all of that I put the graphics card back in the PC ran the FIR mark test and the exact same thing happened by 15 minutes we were sitting at 80 degrees and 80% fan speed now it's not really the eighty degrees that bothers me too much because it's not super hot it's more the fan speed I want to get that down so if we get 80 degrees with like 55% fan speed I'll actually be pretty happy but obviously the thermal paste upgrade didn't do that which is sad but at the same time it shows that MSI is actually kind of using decent thermal paste for their budget graphics cards which is nice for them now the next step involves adding some stuff so if you look at the actual temperature graph it is a very slow temperature increase which is quite weird for air cooling in all of my tests are usually within the first four minutes an air-cooled CPU or GPU would hit more or less their max temperature whereas with this one it climbs slowly to 80 and then the fan speed slowly climbs to 80% fan speed which kind of makes me think that it's an airflow problem in the case so the next step was adding a hundred and forty millimeter fan to the top of the case as an intake now the reason I use this spot is because the front of the case is really restrictive airflow wise so I thought I could get more air into the case through the top but it obviously isn't blowing directly onto the graphics card and as you can see with the temperatures well it didn't really help at all it reached the kind of 80 degrees 80 percent fan speed very quickly so I just stopped the test there and decided not to waste my time and then I moved the fan into the front of the case and I actually used 120 millimeter NZXT case fan because of like with the SSD installed you can't actually fit 140 millimeter fan in the front of the case this actually helped the direct air flow onto the graphics card kind of kind of helped with the temperatures a little bit but at 15 minutes we were still sitting at 80 degrees 80 percent fan speed so then I kind of just lost patience and ripped the front of the case off and that actually made a really big difference so that's what we wanted we wanted about 75 degrees or so with a lower fan speed and without that massive noise so obviously the problem here is the case this was honestly clear from the beginning but the reason that I went through all these processes was because I didn't initially want to replace something I didn't initially want to buy something if I could fix the problem with just bits that I have lying around and I at this car to the point of this video right is if you have a problem with temperatures in your case or something like that always try and find a different solution before actually just going out and buying something new now what I can do with this case is I can try and modify the front to get better air flow but honestly it's gonna ruin the aesthetic of the case now this case worked really well when it was just the 2400 G but the moment that you add the rx 570 to it it just meant that the TDP of the system became too much for the case to deal with so one solution could be once you replace the graphics card you kind of deal with the high temperatures for a bit and then replace the case a bit down the line or you just modify the case I'm not really sure which route I'm gonna take at this point I think at the moment I'm just gonna kind of run it with the front panel open and honestly while gaming it's not think of an issue I've got headphones on anyway but you know I thought it would make an interesting video and with that I'm actually going to LTX this weekend I'm really excited I'm not one of the people that was officially invited so I'm not like on a guest list which I'm kind of offended about okay I'm obviously not offended but I'm going to LTX and I'm actually gonna vlog it so on about Monday or Tuesday next week I'm gonna upload my LTX vlog for those of you are interested to see what actually happens at LTX because I have no idea so yeah stick around if you want to see that and then after that we're gonna finish the personal rig upgrade which I'm very excited about it's standing right over there and it looks awesome I can't wait for that video but yeah I just need to deal with the snags and wait for the new components so until my next video which is going to be the LTX vlog which I'm really excited about like and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and then follow me on Instagram and Twitter to see some occasional updates there I actually need to post on Instagram a lot more I'm really bad with that but like I said my personal rig is down at the moment so I don't have like a set place to do things and that means that it becomes really difficult to do like video editing or whatever but yeah until the next videonow today we're unfortunately gonna have a little bit of a filler video the main video that I was working on which was like upgrading my personal build ran into a really irritating snag like really irritating snag and basically long story short I'm waiting for components and I'm not going to be able to finish that until some point next week so I decided to do a video where I deal with some overheating problems that I have in the YouTube bounty PC now last week I posted a video where I upgraded this YouTube Bounty PC I put an AMD rx 570 in there and honestly the performance was really great but if you remember from that video I did it like a noise test with it and it did sound a little bit like a jet on takeoff and that's obviously not something we want so let me run you through the troubleshooting process that I went for the actual heat with the graphics card now when running fur mark with this graphics card it quite quickly hits 80 degrees Celsius and 80 degrees is the point where the software doesn't want the graphics card to run any hotter so to deal with that to keep it at 80 degrees the fan speed slowly keeps ramping up and then by the time you hit 15 minutes it's at 80% fan speed and it's all very noisy now the first way I thought about dealing with this problem is by actually putting a new thermal paste on the graphics card now I know that the graphics card is quite new but because it's a fairly entry-level graphics card I thought maybe MSI uses very basic thermal paste and this will help alleviate the problem so let's go through the process of repaying the graphics card now as you can see I'm using natural light for this shot so that it looks all all artistic I actually before we tear it down I just want to point out that I got a new screwdriver I'm really excited excited about it look at that bad boy the reason that I got it is because I actually had some problems with my iFixit screwdriver and this one what I really like about it is it's got a really nice grip to it so it feels like you're like grabbing a goose by the neck and not like you're kind of trying to screw using chopsticks or whatever and it's also got these these drill bits well not drill bits screw bits screwdriver bits that feel like they've kind of been hewn out of dragon scales in Mount Doom so that's exciting I'm really excited I enjoy this screwdriver very much okay so as you can see on here we have a warranty void if remove sticker now the only thing that I have to say to that is is this pretty much so I'm gonna tear that guy off well I'm just going to screw through it actually Ek actually recommends that you put more thermal paste on than that so every time you change like we put a water block on a graphics card they show you a diagram and they want you to do like an X pattern on it I yeah so I've always kind of tend to put more on yeah so let's put this back in and see if that made any difference and then after all of that I put the graphics card back in the PC ran the FIR mark test and the exact same thing happened by 15 minutes we were sitting at 80 degrees and 80% fan speed now it's not really the eighty degrees that bothers me too much because it's not super hot it's more the fan speed I want to get that down so if we get 80 degrees with like 55% fan speed I'll actually be pretty happy but obviously the thermal paste upgrade didn't do that which is sad but at the same time it shows that MSI is actually kind of using decent thermal paste for their budget graphics cards which is nice for them now the next step involves adding some stuff so if you look at the actual temperature graph it is a very slow temperature increase which is quite weird for air cooling in all of my tests are usually within the first four minutes an air-cooled CPU or GPU would hit more or less their max temperature whereas with this one it climbs slowly to 80 and then the fan speed slowly climbs to 80% fan speed which kind of makes me think that it's an airflow problem in the case so the next step was adding a hundred and forty millimeter fan to the top of the case as an intake now the reason I use this spot is because the front of the case is really restrictive airflow wise so I thought I could get more air into the case through the top but it obviously isn't blowing directly onto the graphics card and as you can see with the temperatures well it didn't really help at all it reached the kind of 80 degrees 80 percent fan speed very quickly so I just stopped the test there and decided not to waste my time and then I moved the fan into the front of the case and I actually used 120 millimeter NZXT case fan because of like with the SSD installed you can't actually fit 140 millimeter fan in the front of the case this actually helped the direct air flow onto the graphics card kind of kind of helped with the temperatures a little bit but at 15 minutes we were still sitting at 80 degrees 80 percent fan speed so then I kind of just lost patience and ripped the front of the case off and that actually made a really big difference so that's what we wanted we wanted about 75 degrees or so with a lower fan speed and without that massive noise so obviously the problem here is the case this was honestly clear from the beginning but the reason that I went through all these processes was because I didn't initially want to replace something I didn't initially want to buy something if I could fix the problem with just bits that I have lying around and I at this car to the point of this video right is if you have a problem with temperatures in your case or something like that always try and find a different solution before actually just going out and buying something new now what I can do with this case is I can try and modify the front to get better air flow but honestly it's gonna ruin the aesthetic of the case now this case worked really well when it was just the 2400 G but the moment that you add the rx 570 to it it just meant that the TDP of the system became too much for the case to deal with so one solution could be once you replace the graphics card you kind of deal with the high temperatures for a bit and then replace the case a bit down the line or you just modify the case I'm not really sure which route I'm gonna take at this point I think at the moment I'm just gonna kind of run it with the front panel open and honestly while gaming it's not think of an issue I've got headphones on anyway but you know I thought it would make an interesting video and with that I'm actually going to LTX this weekend I'm really excited I'm not one of the people that was officially invited so I'm not like on a guest list which I'm kind of offended about okay I'm obviously not offended but I'm going to LTX and I'm actually gonna vlog it so on about Monday or Tuesday next week I'm gonna upload my LTX vlog for those of you are interested to see what actually happens at LTX because I have no idea so yeah stick around if you want to see that and then after that we're gonna finish the personal rig upgrade which I'm very excited about it's standing right over there and it looks awesome I can't wait for that video but yeah I just need to deal with the snags and wait for the new components so until my next video which is going to be the LTX vlog which I'm really excited about like and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and then follow me on Instagram and Twitter to see some occasional updates there I actually need to post on Instagram a lot more I'm really bad with that but like I said my personal rig is down at the moment so I don't have like a set place to do things and that means that it becomes really difficult to do like video editing or whatever but yeah until the next video