Cut it in a nice shape, drilled the holes.
Painted the whole thing, including some foam I cut up for a better seal.
(Ignore the giant mess lol…my family neglected this garage)
I think it turned out nice. Should prevent some spill damage doo.
Temps before and after in the same exact test conditions (same tune, benchmark, no background apps etc). I used Furmark and Cinebench 2024)
GPU before: 62 GPU, 85 Hot, 76 Mem
GPU after: 55 GPU, 78 Hot, 66 Mem (adjusted for +3C ambient)
CPU before: 62C
CPU after: 63C (66C recorded, but ambient was +3C)
No benchmark score improvements but the GPU temp dropped a lot.
Yea it’s because if the case is open, the air isn’t forced through the radiators.
In my case it was going from the front right up and back out of the case, so a bit of air was missing basically every component.
Now that it’s covered it can only go front to back and has to pass through the components.