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Insert_Nickname

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If I'm looking at this properly, your airflow is back-to-front? That's OK as long as it's consistent. But it looks like both fans on the tower cooler are blowing outward? That won't work well. One should be blowing inward, and they should all point the same direction as that case fan next to them.

Classic case of fans fighting each other, instead of doing something productive.

OP, you need to reverse both the front fan on the CPU cooler, and the rear exhaust fan. The back fan on the CPU cooler is blowing in the correct direction. I'd be very surprised if you don't immediately notice a dramatic improvement in cooling performance.
 

bluetech

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About the fans not moving. Funny thing after I had reapplied the thermal paste I did not plug in the cpu cable correctly and the fans were not working that time plus the PC would not boot up. I took another picture of my coolers fans just now and in fact my camera is that good. It capture the blades as if they were not moving. In the pic I described with the 2 bottom fans that wouldn't upload I could see the blades the same and the led directionality too. i guess the other pic with the side panel on was too far away to capture the bottom blades.

Here is an update after testing with the newly applied thermal paste.

BTW I applied the thermal paste in a pea size in the center of the CPU and the way I did it before was to make 3 lines and I used a paper business type card to cover the whole CPU with the paste. When testing I encoded a video using all 8 cores and played an hd 1080p video in Pot Player even with priority of Handbrake CLI set to low temps rose in the 70s being Temp 2 was at 70C and temp 3 was at 78C and would have kept rising so I closed the video. It did take a little longer to reach these temps so I think there was possible improvement. When lowering the cores to 4 and closing the video the heat stopped increasing. For further testing I enabled 2 more cores making it 6 total then the temps rose again I saw temp 2 at 75C and temp 3 at 78C and temp 3 topping even at 82 C then I had to go back down to 4 cores. Even then the temps were staying in the 70s with temp 3 staying around 78C and temp 2 around 74-75C.
 

bluetech

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The air flow is up and out the back. @Insert_Nickname got it right as the fan next to the memory was facing the wrong way and thank you for your input. I now have both cooler fans blowing towards the back of the case so now all I have to do is run some tests.

Finishing edit: I will just leave this screenshot here and say all is well even with all 8 cores enabled and a twitch stream open.

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I want to thank all the people who chimed in and gave their help as I appreciate every single one of you. Thanks!
 
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bluetech

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Are you saying the rear fan on the back of the case is blowing air towards the cpu cooler?

Correct again, temps were at 58C-59C while encoding with all cores and with twitch stream open since switching the far rear fan temps are now 54-56C. Yet another improvement. Thank you so much!
 
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Ken g6

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Are you saying the rear fan on the back of the case is blowing air towards the cpu cooler?

That's what it looked like to me. Fans generally blow air from the convex side of their blades to the concave side, if that helps.
 

Insert_Nickname

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The air flow is up and out the back. @Insert_Nickname got it right as the fan next to the memory was facing the wrong way and thank you for your input. I now have both cooler fans blowing towards the back of the case so now all I have to do is run some tests.

A little tip, fans usually (but not always) have a small arrow on them indicating airflow direction.

I still think you should rig your rear fan to exhaust air from the case. You're pulling cold air in and mixing with hot air from the CPU cooler, instead of getting the hot air out of the case altogether. This is usually preferable. What's more you CPU coolers fans are fighting your rear fan for direction of airflow. Which is bad.

Finishing edit: I will just leave this screenshot here and say all is well even with all 8 cores enabled and a twitch stream open.

OaZsMK7.png


I want to thank all the people who chimed in and gave their help as I appreciate every single one of you. Thanks!

That looks far more normal.

And you're welcome... :)