can vertically mounting your gpu lower its temperature?

[Happy]

i know that if the gpu is too close to the side panel its going to tank the temperature but my case was designed with the vertical mounting in mind and i wanted to know if i did vertically mount my gpu would it lower its temperature or not?

[Wichtelman]

i would say it could increase the temperatur

[emoticorpse]

What case?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Yeah it could, if possible place it further away from the cpu and then get fans to push any heat out.

[mc5686]

It strongly depends on actual airflow.
It's impossible to give a sensible answer without mechanical design of your case.

In general hotter air tries to raise and air gets hotter in its circuit inside cabinet.
Air circulation is mostly constrained by physical obstacles and set in motion by fans.
This means you should rotate your box in such a way the airflow is generally from bottom to top to get some help from hot air, if you do the reverse fans will have to work against "hot air raising".

[Happy]

Originally posted by mc5686:

It strongly depends on actual airflow.
It's impossible to give a sensible answer without mechanical design of your case.

In general hotter air tries to raise and air gets hotter in its circuit inside cabinet.
Air circulation is mostly constrained by physical obstacles and set in motion by fans.
This means you should rotate your box in such a way the airflow is generally from bottom to top to get some help from hot air, if you do the reverse fans will have to work against "hot air raising".

well i have 3 intake fans in the front and 1 exhaust at the back and 2 exhaust at the top is that enough?

[mc5686]

Originally posted by Happy:

well i have 3 intake fans in the front and 1 exhaust at the back and 2 exhaust at the top is that enough?

Not really.
We need to understand how air circulates an this means to have position and orientation of all "barriers" (cards, cables, passive radiators, CPU cooler, etc) you have.
It would be easier if you give model of your cabinet and card positions (current and "future" configuration).
Otherwise best we can say is "it's best to have vertical, bottom-to-top, unimpeded airflow".

[Raoul]

I'd say yes but if you already have a good mid sized airflow case then it's mainly an aesthetic thing though it may still like have a marginal temp drop like 1 or 2C and personally I'd rather have the card directly connected and not rely on the PCIE extensions which can be another complication.

On a lot of recent mini ITX designs it's basically necessary though and allows you to be able to use some of the beefiest cards so for those situations hell yes I would do it otherwise the card would just cook itself over time.

[Happy]

Originally posted by mc5686:

Originally posted by Happy:

well i have 3 intake fans in the front and 1 exhaust at the back and 2 exhaust at the top is that enough?

Not really.
We need to understand how air circulates an this means to have position and orientation of all "barriers" (cards, cables, passive radiators, CPU cooler, etc) you have.
It would be easier if you give model of your cabinet and card positions (current and "future" configuration).
Otherwise best we can say is "it's best to have vertical, bottom-to-top, unimpeded airflow".

https://green.ir/products/case/griffin-g3
Here is my case but the website is in persian so you have to translate most of it

[Haruspex]

I think it depends on the case.

If you have something like the Fractal North with the mesh side panel, you can vertically mount your GPU and install a side-mounted fan bracket to blow air from directly outside the case directly into the GPU.

[Happy]

Originally posted by Raoul:

I'd say yes but if you already have a good mid sized airflow case then it's mainly an aesthetic thing though it may still like have a marginal temp drop like 1 or 2C and personally I'd rather have the card directly connected and not rely on the PCIE extensions which can be another complication.

On a lot of recent mini ITX designs it's basically necessary though and allows you to be able to use some of the beefiest cards so for those situations hell yes I would do it otherwise the card would just cook itself over time.

My problem is with my graphics card and i just want it to run colder i unfortunately didnt research about the temperature problems before buying it and now they wont take it back unless theres something drastically wrong with it and in thier eyes having 80 plus degrees is perfectly fine so i have no other options really

[Viking2121]

Depends, if the fans are right up against the side panel, its not going to breath and can be worse actually, But it could be better as the air can more freely pass threw a 3 fan cooler, of course depends on the card, Nvidia reference cards could be worse vertically mounted, im not too sure, but I can say the different between the 2 is vary slim, both has its pros and cons.

[Happy]

Originally posted by Viking2121:

Depends, if the fans are right up against the side panel, its not going to breath and can be worse actually, But it could be better as the air can more freely pass threw a 3 fan cooler, of course depends on the card, Nvidia reference cards could be worse vertically mounted, im not too sure, but I can say the different between the 2 is vary slim, both has its pros and cons.

I have an rtx 3060 ti dual eagle oc and it just gets crazy hot so even if the difference is 2-3 degrees its good enough for me

[Happy]

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

What case?

https://green.ir/products/case/griffin-g3

[Viking2121]

Originally posted by Happy:

Originally posted by Viking2121:

Depends, if the fans are right up against the side panel, its not going to breath and can be worse actually, But it could be better as the air can more freely pass threw a 3 fan cooler, of course depends on the card, Nvidia reference cards could be worse vertically mounted, im not too sure, but I can say the different between the 2 is vary slim, both has its pros and cons.

I have an rtx 3060 ti dual eagle oc and it just gets crazy hot so even if the difference is 2-3 degrees its good enough for me

That card it probably would run the same in either position due to how the fins are, they go from front to back, rather than side to side like most.

Also how hot is hot to you? A GPU can safely go to 80C even more or some models, With that cooler that 3060 shouldn't be getting to uncomfortably hot, Also sometimes some manufactures will set a fan profile optimizing it for sound than cooling performance, probably better off using MSI Afterburner, or EVGA Precision X which can be downloaded from steam, free and works on all Nvidia cards, can use either of them to control and set a more aggressive fan curve.

[mc5686]

Originally posted by Happy:

https://green.ir/products/case/griffin-g3
Here is my case but the website is in persian so you have to translate most of it

If your setup resembles what in picture, including AIO water cooling, then surely yes, mounting vertically (as shown in picture) will help.

Just make sure lower fans (those in PSU) are sucking air from bottom and upper fans (those in AIO water cooler) go in the same direction suck from below and spit above).
They should **help** air to move from bottom (where dust filters are) to top and out.

Just the same you should have intake from front and exhaust from back.

Mounting board horizontally would create a barrier air need to work around (in spite of GPU fans).