weird amd 6700xt cooling issue, 5800xt vs 5800x3d etc

so awhile ago my pc had a 5700g, for whatever reason i got a good deal on it and was running it, i think its like a 65w cpu w/ onboard gpu

at some point i got a 5700x3d from newegg and upgraded to that, gave the 5700g to my kid for their pc.  5700x3d dies 4 months later, get screwed by newegg, which is a whole other story you dont care about -- finally get the cpu replaced, got a 5800x3d (must have been out of 5700x3ds)

anyways, during that whole time i had no cpu, i got pissed off and went and bought a 5800xt at the local microcenter.  holy shit.  that is a hot ass cpu.  i was not prepared for the amount of heat that thing put out and ended up going for a bigger case, more fans, bigger fans (140mm vs 120), etc, just to deal with it

but then, after getting temperatures under control on the cpu, i noticed that the gpu was running stupid hot like 100c, and somehow the gpu fan was stuck at like 60% 

using coolercontrol i was able to set a curve on it such that anything over around 80 and the fans on the gpu card should be at 100% (roughly 3000rpm in this case)

that seemed to get things under control and although the gpu is still very hot its as cool as its getting until i can once again add more cooling capacity to this configuration.

currently two 120mm noctua cpu fans, outputting into another 120mm noctua case fan, with a be quiet 140mm on the top of the case, and a 120mm corsair which i am going to replace with a 140mm be quiet, also on the top of the case.

each fan upgrade has brought around 5-7' of cooling increase

 

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