Rise of the Tomb Raider Max settings 1440p

GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0
Temp : 75C - 78C

GTX 970 Hybrid
Temp : 35C - 43C


holy fuk
so good

You said that you have all your air blowing out, that is definitely a bad idea.
You always want to have positive pressure in your case so dust doesn't enter your case.
So you want to have more fans blowing in air and less blowing out so air is getting pushed out of the open parts of your case and will restrict any dust coming in.
Then you also want to have dust filters on your intake fans.
You should have 2 front intakes 140mm if possible otherwise 120mm is fine.
Then you want your top/rear to be exhaust. You only need 1 fan on your CPU cooler as well, 2nd fan doesn't make a noticeable difference.

With this setup I would use 2x140mm fans in front and 1x120mm rear and 1x120mm top rear.
Or, if all 120mm just use, 2x120mm fans in front and 1x120mm rear.
If you really want to use more fans, which honestly doesn't make a huge difference, have 2 front intake + 1 bottom (mid or front) intake, and 1 rear exhaust and 1 top rear exhaust.
(Remember more fans = more noise, and at some point it isn't worth the extra noise for 1-2 degree gain)
(Just make sure you have more air going in then out)

Also, if you don't believe you don't need that many fans, just run different setups and run some benchmark and stress out your system and look at your temperatures.

1 fan on CPU cooler. You made me lol. Rest of your info isn't too bad but that part was funny.

Also, for your monitor, just dial it down to 100Hz instead of 144Hz, you don't need to go all the way down to 60Hz. By the way the difference between 100Hz is barely noticeable if noticeable at all. Past 120Hz it's not possible to notice a difference. You see the biggest improvement from 60Hz to 100Hz. If you system still not performing as well as you want dial down to 90Hz, then 80Hz.

How is that, funny...
It is true. I will bet you the max difference he will see is about 2 degrees Celsius under load. His rear exhaust fan is so close anyway pulling air towards it.
It's just a waste, and very unnecessary. Ask him to run Prime95 and look at his min/avg/max temps with 1 fan and with 2 fans and c if there is a difference.
He can also run Geekbench and Cinebench if he wants, but Prime95 will put the most stress on the CPU.

By the way since you have no intake fans., your system is running hotter then it should already, when you put in some intake fans and use a positive pressure, you will see an improvement in your temperatures.

Noctua D - 15 uses a push/pull configuration and can keep up with most AIO coolers. Saying that there's no advantage is redundant. The faster you can expel heat out of the case the better the cooling system is. Regardless of the proximity of the exhaust fan, there is definite reasons why people recommend them.

Heat problem already resolved guys

The temps on all components don't go past 50c with games max settings for over 3 hours

Thanks again guys

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That isn't a Noctua D-15 it is a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

Your temperature might be good but your airflow sucks and could be a lot better, which will also improve your GPU temperature as well as your motherboard and RAM temperatures, as well as your CPU by a bit.
Also, it will prevent dust build up in your case.

It is not about your temperature being good now on your CPU and GPU, it's about your overall temps on your system.

I know what cooler it is.