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After lowering the voltages as low as I could get them without furmark crashing - 0.887 volts on each card - that top card still overheats, it goes all the way up to ~110 at which point the card shuts itself off, presumably to prevent damage. When the top card goes the bottom card is in the high...

While it seems there is a slight difference between the card voltages neither card can handle that top slot, the cooler one still overheats, it just takes a bit longer to get there :( Though I do wonder if it would be possible to lower the voltages in order to bring the temps down. Perhaps...

Ooooh Now that is interesting. The card on the bottom was about 10-25 degrees cooler than the one on top. Now I look at the voltages they are not the same: one card is running at 0.875 v the other is running at 0.950v and the 0.950v card was the one on top, so not only was it worse off in...

The airflow through my case is good, but it looks like the cards just need space to breathe. What are my options? a new mobo with wide spacing? different graphics cards? is there some kind of aftermarket cooler? I'd love to go water cooling but i don't have the time and cash to invest in it...

No good :( The system panel connector blocks the card from going into the bottom slot. Another fantastic piece of motherboard design, that those little pins for the chassis connectors prevent a graphics card from going in slot 3. I'm starting to regret my choice of motherboard, and graphics...

I'll give it a try and report back :)

Thanks for the fast replies. I did consider moving it down a slot. Will running the second card on a 8x lane reduce performance though? You'd think motherboard manufacturers would space the PCI-E lanes more especially for mobos marketed for SLI/XFire.

Hi all, Got a problem with my new graphics set up. Got two Palit GTX 470 graphics cards in an SLI configuration with an ASUS P6X58D-E motherboard. The performance is awesome, for about ten minutes until the top graphics card overheats and the PC locks up :( . The cards are at stock speeds...

Thanks for the tips. I couldn't find the mushkin RAM you mentioned (I live in the UK and here we get screwed on price and availability) but I did find this OCZ CAS6 memory(6-8-6-24 timings) which seems better, I'm curious as to why ebuyer is selling it cheaper than similar memory with looser...

my current hdd is the older spinpoint F1 :) newer one might be nice though ...

well more of an upgrade really, this should replace the guts of my existing PC: I was thinking... MB - Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R CPU - Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (It's like a tenner more than the 930) RAM - Corsair 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz GFX - PALIT GTX 470 x 2 (SLI) Approx cost - ..try...

ty for the responses. Turns out it was a driver issue, ATi have provided a hotfix for the 5800 series, it works fine on both ports now :)

Hi, I just got a new Sapphire Radeon 5870 vapor-x, installed it with 10.1 drivers & vista x64. Right from the start I noticed a flickering across the top inch or so of the screen, every few seconds, coloured lines and a slight unalignment of the image. So I plugged my monitor into the other...

Overheating did cross my mind, this card always did run really really hot, I took the card out but it didnt seem that dusty, but there is no way I can properly see or clean it without removing the cooler from it, and if I do that then I can forget about the warranty :(

Hi, I'm looking at putting together a mid range water cooling system for an upcoming build. My question is this: I would like the speed of the radiator fans (and possibly some case fans) to be controlled automatically based on temperature, In this case the temperature of the water. The idea...