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Yep I discovered the FX-500 uses a 15mm fan. Curiously as it has a very loud stock fan, I decided to throw caution to the wind and try a Noctua A4x10 I had new in-box. Now on paper it''s even worse than the A4x20 I have in the 7660B and don't get me wrong the PSU does still get quite warm. But there seems to be less heat radiating up from the PSU, so I don't know whether its the internal layout of the the FX-500 that lends itself better to the Noctua swap or whether it really is generating less heat overall.Rather than hovering between 78 and 80 after 10 mins or so of gaming, the GPU is "only" reaching 74-75c this time around. Which I don't think is entirely unreasonable for an RTX 2070 in such a small case.Now I don't know how hot the FX-500 will end up getting after 6 hours of gaming, but I'll have to keep an eye on it and take a look at those other fans.By the way, on the 7660B there appears to be a PCB set vertically with a 2-pin socket. Is that presumably where the stock fan goes? If so, do you reckon it's still wired up?
Yep I discovered the FX-500 uses a 15mm fan. Curiously as it has a very loud stock fan, I decided to throw caution to the wind and try a Noctua A4x10 I had new in-box. Now on paper it''s even worse than the A4x20 I have in the 7660B and don't get me wrong the PSU does still get quite warm. But there seems to be less heat radiating up from the PSU, so I don't know whether its the internal layout of the the FX-500 that lends itself better to the Noctua swap or whether it really is generating less heat overall.
Rather than hovering between 78 and 80 after 10 mins or so of gaming, the GPU is "only" reaching 74-75c this time around. Which I don't think is entirely unreasonable for an RTX 2070 in such a small case.
Now I don't know how hot the FX-500 will end up getting after 6 hours of gaming, but I'll have to keep an eye on it and take a look at those other fans.
By the way, on the 7660B there appears to be a PCB set vertically with a 2-pin socket. Is that presumably where the stock fan goes? If so, do you reckon it's still wired up?
