Dude still repercussions if you mess up. I want to fly like superman. Well I guess leap lol..
His superpowers help keep my case cool with his ice breathe.
So we are staying on the topic of cooling your pc so we don’t get shut down.
I’m just shocked it hasn’t been moved to hardware by now. But overall a great thread on cooling. I was able to drop over 35C and eliminate fan noise.
I have a degree in aerospace engineering too, but hadn’t been paying much attention to normal operating temps. Plus I’ve long forgotten the more complex aspects of thermodynamics.
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Just a quick reminder (as mentioned by others before allready), please stay on topic.
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Back in the early days of this computer I build for the new holy grail of flight simming in 2020, I was barely able to cool my graphics card in summer (ASUS Dual Radeon 5700 Super Advanced Overclocked Edition).
And even when the chip was cool and below 90°C with 100% fan speed the graphics card was still sometimes shutting down because the VRAM was overheating. (VRAM overheat in Radeon cards is normally crashing with a greenscreen).
Has anyone experience with the VRAM temps and the chip temps of the new Radeon 6600 XT series?
Are these the same hot-heads like the Radeon 5700 becoming very unstable during summertime? Or is the 6600 series running cooler?
RX6600 series is based on a laptop chip. The 6600 does use 100w and the junction temp can reach 85C. (Junction is the temp at the center of the GPU.) GPU temp is at 65 C. (GPU temp is at the edge of the GPU). Three cooling fans would be ideal. The 6600XT uses up to 160W of power. It’s clocked at 2359 as compared to the 6600 clocked at 2044. It will run hotter. Both versions require 1x8 pin power connector. Both are designed for 1080p gaming and support 4K.
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Excellent, and wow what a low power consumption with perfect rendering power. The XT seems to be ideal.
No need to buy some over-the-top 800 or 1200w PSU 
The only negative aspect of the Gigabyte Eagle (and most other R6600 cards) only comes with 8GB VRAM bound to a ridiculous 128 Bits bus interface!
But time goes by and maybe in automn there are better and more enhanced graphics cards with 12GB VRAM available… Sometimes significant VRAM upgrades are available after some time in beloved and established graphics card series.
Half of my family is from Mass. The NE is always a shock to me when I come back up from TX. I haven’t seen a full-service station down here since I was a kid. I’m 41 now.
About 5 hours into flight, descending around the north coast of Oahu, this is about the highest temp spike I saw during the entire flight from KOAK to PHNL. Considering it’s about 23℃ in the room where I’m simming, and I’ve got the cooler running in “balanced” mode, I’m quite pleased. Most of the time I was in the mid/upper 40’s.
Close crop of the stats:
Specs for nerds: i7-11700KF; RTX 3070; 32GB DDR4-3200; CPU cooler: Corsair iCue H100i Elite Capellix.
Graphics settings: 1440p with most settings on Ultra; Terrain LOD 200; Object LOD 100; trees/grass = Medium; motion blur = Off; depth of field = Medium; SU10 Beta w/DLSS set to Quality; sim render resolution 3413 x 1920; for this long flight, Vsync set to On/33% which caps refresh at 40 fps.
EDITED TO ADD: I was also streaming my flight to Discord too, so now I’m even more pleased with these numbers, lol.
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Those Intel CPUs run a bit cooler but I’m happy to see spikes for my 5800X staying in the 60s now.
To keep it aviation related, do private pilots pump their own avgas at the FBOs? Some of the pumps in the sim look self-service. If so, can they do it in New Jersey?
Passing through Jersey once, I tried to pump my own fuel, not realizing what a serious crime it is.
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“You took their jerbs!”
Tons of FBO’s have self pump avgas, mainly at untowered airports. Swipe and pump. The Jersey thing is kinda funny. I’d say it likely wouldn’t apply to an airport, but what are your alternatives. Call the airport manager after hours, and make him come in to pump your gas from the self serve pump? LOL.
Interesting thing related to cooling I found. My case has two 200 mm exhaust fans on the top. After much testing I determined they make no difference in temperature. That is for blowing in, out, or off. It makes no difference at load or idle for the CPU, motherboard or graphics card.
They seem to have been put there for mostly decorative purposes as the manufacturer put them blowing in.
I’m not surprised. It might be fun to do a smoke test to observe the airflow. I think GamersNexus does that now as part of their case testing.
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Yeah, there is also limited benefit the higher airflow gets in most situations. At a certain point it just becomes more noise and turbulence.
I keep the radiator push/pull so I can run the fans quieter.
But, like I said above, I’ve long since forgotten most of my advanced thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. So I’m mostly speculating. But I do remember a little of Newton’s Law of Cooling, which is where this thread’s title comes in to play!
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If it’s open top the hot air already knows where its going, all the fans really do is cause negative pressure.
My case is an embarrassment, an old style gaming tower with the psu at the top, a filtered mesh front (with a couple of low speed Nocua 120mm fans) and one half speed Nocua 80mm fan at the back. Both sides are removed with mesh put in its place held on by magnets. Hard to believe but it’s really quiet, MSFS hardly causes a sweat thanks to AMD’s dynamic core cooling. But of course mesh isn’t perfect and it still needs a clean every 6 months.
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Oh man, I remember those cases!
Most case manufacturers seem to take forever to catch up technology wise. With my latest builds I’m always removing all those hard drive cages they still add.
Funny thing is I also sealed off the top of the case to test that too. I actually had my lowest readings, but it was getting later at night and the ambient temp had also dropped a degree or two F. If it doesn’t rain my central AC has been struggling to stay under 77F (25C) until around 9 PM.
I was shocked but perhaps that single 120mm rear exhaust does the trick. My AIO is front mounted with two 200mm on the push side and the two 120 mm on the pull side.
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In my case it´s the complete opposite. No matter how high I ramp up the three front fans the RAM banks are just not getting cool! (Because the broad ATX 24 pin cable is blocking most of the airflow coming from the front to the RAM.)
But when the two 140mm fans right above CPU and RAM are turning faster, the RAM is no longer hot to the touch in summer, but luke warm.
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30C here at the moment and things look not quite so bad. 12900K/3080/DDR5 setup and the liquid temps in the rad got up to 45C, the GPU up to average 65-70 on a threehour VFR jaunt. I had honestly expected it to be higher.
Exact temps for me here.