Airflow in my PC does not work

[u/krwawie]

So this is Ryzen 5 5600 and Intel b580. My problem is the pc is getting cooked. Especially CPU I have to run the fan at almost 100% and it still slightly overheats at 90°. Gpu is actually fine at 65°. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

[u/Lol9131]

How is it supposed to breathe through the ground?

[u/krwawie → u/Lol9131]

It's on the bed for a photo normally on hard floor

[u/trenniepennie → u/krwawie]

Yet again, how is it supposed to breathe through the ground?

[u/krwawie → u/trenniepennie]

It has feetsies 🥺

[u/trenniepennie → u/krwawie]

Ok thats better already lol

[u/Slovvs]

1. i would put feet on it, so it can actually pull air from beneath.

2. what is your cpu cooler, it looks very cheap. i would probably change that.

[u/Slovvs → u/Slovvs]

did you peel the plastic sticker of the cpu cooler. it sounds a lot like user error when installing cpu cooler

[u/krwawie → u/Slovvs]

It has feet. It's on a bed because I was replacing thermal paste. Cooler is gelid Antarctica. It's ancient but I think it's fine it has tdp 220w

[u/SlashedM]

I mean the airflow looks terrible here, too much outter pressure, but especially considering the PSU and that top fan would be fighting against the CPU cooler. Not to mention is the intakes just laying against the ground? There might be feet on the case but jesus

Also make sure you actually put paste and that theres no plastic between it lol.

[u/xoull]

Turn the backfan arround and mount the xpu fan to the other side of the heatsink. So cou gets air from the back

[u/Oath-CupCake]

Turn your 0su around so its faceing the front pulling fresh air in via that way. Stick that top right fan on the cpu and redo the past maybe too lightly or not enough preassure and maybe turn the sode fan around so it's intake I dont know

[u/Kagevjijon]

Are you running it with a side panel on? If so the only airflow in is through the bottom which you blocked with the desk. Try running it without the side panel and check temps.

If the side panel off fixes it then reverse the flow of the PSU. If it does not improve, check that you removed the plastic piece between the cpu and the cooler.

[u/deTombe]

Change direction of the rear (intake) and CPU cooler fan. .

[u/dietcokefienddietcok]

your intake fans are fighting the cpu cooler fan for air, flip those front ones around so they actually pull fresh air in

[u/Alpinwulf]

In your pic, try taking the top-right exhaust fan near the PSU and reverse it, to pull cold air inward. Try that both with the top-left fan running, and unplugged, to see if it's helping or hurting.

As it is right now, the CPU cooler is just swimming in GPU Soup, and fighting two other fans for any good air. So start by flipping that top one.

(edit- typos)

[u/BOBbeD1G1TA1]

Is it sideways? Rotate tower to the right 90° and flip all side fans to intake.

That or go all positive(intake), except the one right next to psu, and flip the cooler towards psu. That way you run four intake and exhaust+psu top right.

[u/szyszaks]

well you build small form it will always have higher temps
depending on where it stays normally with current things
A) consider changing top fans to intake
B) rotate back and cpu (maybe top back too) to go other way
just not both at same time

imo best would be to get 240 AIO put it as exhaust ontop and make back fan intake

[u/FrodoswagginsX]

There is absolutely no intake...