[albionmoonlight]

My son got a Dell desktop that he uses for gaming. He upgraded the graphics card. Now, when he runs graphics-intensive games, the inside of the tower gets hot--both the GPU and the CPU. It seems like the GPU is just venting too much heat into the box.

He wants to get a cooling system for Christmas, but from what I can tell, those just cool the CPU, which might not help the overall problem if most of the heat is coming from the GPU. But possibly if he gets a AIO liquid cooling system and puts the radiator outside of the box, that might remove enough overall heat to help.

Or does he just need a bigger box?

As you can tell, I know very little about this area. Any insights into a solution are appreciated. I am happy to answer questions, send pics, etc. if it would help.

And thank you very much.