What was your load temp, ambient temp & fan speed?

This post has been edited by kmarc: Aug 31 2007, 05:06 PM

erm.. i'm oc my gpu 720/1080
3dm05 = 12k
3dm06 = 5.7k
idle = ~51
load = ~72

dont know ..i go touch it , it can goyang goyang 1 ....but still can run wor zz

then soldering them up.. later short.. u know la..

Imo, better RMA it, esp. if yer new\noob at soldering...

Cheers

Just put propeller card may cool down a lot..

decided to try something to help with the cooling of my 2x 8800s...

previously it takes a while for the temps to go down from load to idle. so i added a 60mm fan in the HDD bay to help push some air from the front intake to the GC coolers..

bottom card benefitted alot from this....from load, the temps went down pretty quick to idle...even the idle temps has dropped...

top card however, is not receiving as much air as the bottom card...but its still benefitting from this... temps from load to idle drops pretty quick...but still not as fast as bottom card. idle temps has also dropped.

not really sure about load temps..as i started the PC and straight ran 1 round of CoH benchmark and 1 round of 3D Mark 05....

currently top card is idling stable at 63 and bottom card is at 56



the sli bridge area is still friggin hot though

This post has been edited by mADmAN: Sep 1 2007, 05:29 AM

Why not put a fan on top of the HDD to blow on the top GC? Looks like there some space on top of the HDD.....

put a ramsink on the sli bridge

The SLI bridge won't get hot. Its the empty space in between the two cards that is hot.

maybe u can install the hdd at the 5.25" bay n remove the hdd rack so the front intake fan can supply enough cold air directly to both ur gpu...

if i put the fan on top of the HDD then none of the GCs will be getting air...the air from the fan will be blowing over the top of the card...


EXACTLY! the air around the sli bridge area gets hot...even my sidepanel on that side feels warm. need to figure out a way to exhaust the hot air from there.

thought about that....but then all my hidden cables behind the HDD bay will be exposed!

besides...even if i did do it...im still gonna install another 120mm fan right before the GCs to help pull fresh air from the front intake (same thing like now la)....but at least now both my HDD and my GCs are benefiting from this setup cooling wise.

Very good idea there for helping the bottom card in getting fresh cool air. Nice temperature indeed. Maybe i could steal some idea and do it for me card..Whaha..

The heat comes from the heatpipe near the ventilation holes, you can see there's a heatpipe there. So thats why the SLi bridge area gets heated up.

here is some comparison pics from Bioshock
DX9 vs DX10
the differences are very subtle
http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:IAenFj...lient=firefox-a
http://sheogorad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15&page=2

So what's the current temperature? Any improvement?

that nice

u manage getting the lowest temp for the secondary card...for my last setup...its more than 70C..

ya i agree that the space between both card firggin hot!! if running any 3d app, my exhaust fan will blow out the heat till my feet can felt it even the
rig stood up 0.5 meter from me.

anyway,nice idea though. feel sory for selling my GTS last time...but to get new one is a foolish idea coz nvidia will preparing new gc at the end of this year..
better get a new one wif much power for DX10.

My previous Galaxy 8800GTS 640MB runs at 60 on idle & 68 on load.
After changing the stock TIM to Arctic Cooling MX-1, the temps drop to idle 56 & 64 on load. [At this time, Arctic Cooling MX-2 is still unreleased. ]

Can't understand why your 8800GTS goes that hot.

I see. I wondered why so I tested it again. Looks like it has to do a lot with ambient temp too.

Now ambient around 26'c (indicated on aircon), I ran the atitool again, a short test, this time with 100% fan speed......

Stock temp 513/792 : 68'c
OC temp 600/950 : 71'c

However, the temps doesn't change much between 80% fan speed and 100% fan speed!

I can't understand why mine goes even HOTTER, up to 100'C yesterday with ATITool 3DView =.= !

Edit: Oh, its 31'C room temperature no air cond.

This post has been edited by tanghm: Sep 2 2007, 11:01 AM