I aim to fully turn off overclocking.
I aim to fully turn off overclocking.
Someone familiar with me here definitely understands my stance on avoiding MSI motherboards. Their graphics cards are fine. I haven’t noticed any obvious quality control or performance problems with them, not worse than other brands. Regarding the motherboards, the situation is different. They have had issues before, improved temporarily, but then reverted to their previous problems again.
Are you using the original cooler? I inquired about hardware, but still haven’t found any relevant responses there.
Yes, I'm running a stock cooler. Here are the details:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600x (stock cooler)
GPU: AMD RX 580
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 3000Mhz
Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk
I've connected six case fans to the Molex connector on my power supply, but they aren't linked to the motherboard.
Well, with six case fans running full speed, there shouldn't be any kind of thermal issues as far as case airflow is concerned, unless there is a problem with the orientation configuration of the fans. I would never advise using molex powered fans because it would drive me nucking futs having one fan running full speed all the time, much less six of them. Those should definitely be connected to the motherboard fan headers but you'll likely need a couple of splitters in order to connect them all and control them through the BIOS.
More important, for now anyhow, would be to check the orientation of those fans. Each of them. Make certain that any front, bottom or side fans are configured as intake. That means, either the arrows on the fan frame (Which you can find if you look for them on the frame of the fan) should be pointing towards the inside of the case, or easier to check would be that the side of the fan that does not have the framework with the motor attached to it, so the side that is open to the fan blades, is facing out, and that the fan is moving air into the case.
On the exhaust, it should be exactly the opposite. Rear and top mounted fans should be mounted so that the fan blades are facing into the case and the motor side of the fan is facing towards the outside, blowing out. The only deviation from that configuration should be on some few specialty cases, or cases that are very old with top mounted power supplies.
What model are those fans? Can you post some pictures of all the fans where they are mounted, and what case do you have?