u/KatieKatRetro

I paid $30 for a partial PC, and I feel like I actually got a great come up. It has:

I7-4790

An AIO with seemingly good condition 120mm fans (rest of AIO is shot)

500w PSU (probably questionable quality)

GTX 960 of unknown condition

And the crown piece, a BDRW internal drive by LG

I already know the Blu Ray drive alone makes this a great buy and I'll likely at least double what I spent as long as it's working properly

But I figured if I toss 16gb of RAM and an SSD at the rest of the system and perhaps an upgraded GPU it might be worth selling as a budget gaming PC. I figure I can get into the build at about $110 all in and sell it for $200. Like a 4790/1660 super build. I myself am using a 4790k in my gaming rig for the time being and it does great for like 95% of tasks

Hi all, I have an upgraded Dell Optiplex 3020 that I have equipped with a few aftermarket parts including a 1660 super.

I noticed during my tests with Superposition benchmark that the temps on the 1660 super were pretty rapidly climbing up to 89/90 and thermal throttling. For context I have a single fan Asus 1660 super, the ITX version.

My cooling setup is a 120mm intake fan and 92mm exhaust. I figured this card shouldn't be that difficult to cool as it's not that powerful, but maybe the heatsink is just too small for it to do enough in this old Optiplex case.

I tried repasting the card and cleaning it up -- this helped already with getting the temperatures lower, but they are still hovering around 85 during superposition. While this stopped the throttling behavior and technically is within spec, I wouldn't mind getting the temps down a bit more to keep the core clocks higher.

Any advice?

Xeon e3-1270v2

16gb ddr3

1050ti 4gb

250gb SSD

I built for $80 and hoping I can get some gaming performance

I have an 80mm noctua high flow intake, but even with that the Yeston 3050 immediately approaches 90C in Superposition benchmark and then thermal throttles, bringing the score down by 2000 points between the first and second run.

I'm in an Optiplex 5050 case with an i7-7700. Stock cooler, all that's changed is the intake to 80mm (Daisy chained form CPU cooler).

The CPU temp is acceptable for the most part, only getting into the 60s while benchmarking superposition (high 80s with prime95). So I think the CPU cooler is sufficient even in stock configuration.

I have two ideas:

1. drill a hole in the side of the case and attach a 140mm fan as intake. That should keep the GPU from recirculating its own heat I would hope

2. create a duct from the 80mm intake to the GPU intake directly, and add a second intake fan for case air to the outside of the case still

Has anyone successfully kept one of these cards cool under heavy load in a sff case? I'm not afraid of modding the case, and I think the external 140mm fan would probably be good. I'm just worried that at that point the exhaust would become insufficient.

Edit: should probably mention I also intend to undervolt the card. I'm aiming for a heavy load temp of under 80C maximum

Edit: thanks everyone for responding. I was able to get the temperatures into an acceptable sub 85 range by running the noctua at full speed. I never tried swapping the card to the other slot but I'd imagine that could save a degree or two as well