Are these temps normal for firestrike?

[bobbypie67890]

I7 5820k@4.5ghz
2x G1 Gaming 980 Ti's +100 mhz core +125mem +12v
Asus x99 Sabertooth
16gb 2400mhz Ram
850 Evo 250gb ssd
3tb Toshiba 7200 HDD
Corsair Rm1000I
H100i Gtx

I was just able to get my graphics card up to 91 degrees by using firestrike ultra and customizing it even more demanding than the stock settings.

I have 3 intakes and 3 exhausts.

I have ~1 inch between my cards but i might be able to move down another slot.

So are these normal?

 

[Agash]

NOPE!!!! It should be 75 degrees at max. 91 degrees is too high and close to thermal shutdown. I would rethink your settings and change them a bit. What are the stock temps? 92 degrees is the highest the GPU should go, and your temps shouldn't be near it.

 

[bobbypie67890]

stock are like 84 max no overclock these things dont even throttle to 91 let alone shutdown so judging by what u alredy know, please tell me what i can do and look it up these things run hot af

 

[bobbypie67890]

Anyone? I am looking these up, and they say that reference cards run MUCH cooler in SLI because of the way that these exhaust heat

 

[gotovato]

What was your bottom card running at? What case are you using? What speed were the gpu fans running at? Gpus in sli run very hot. My buddies 980ti's, the top card was hitting 90c easily until we put them on water. You can try raising the fan speed on your cards but the aftermarket coolers do run hotter then reference coolers in sli. Also if your case isn't large enough to move that kind of heat you'll really not have too many options.

 

[bobbypie67890]

My bottom card maxed at 73. speeds hit 100. Corsair 780t. Also, if the evga sc acx 2.0 like the reference one in terms of it blowing out of the case rather than in?

 

[gotovato]

Reference coolers blow all the heat out of the case rather then blowing it all around inside the case. How do you have your h100 setup? Is it exhausting through the top? Or pulling air into the case? 780t is a massive case so that's not an issue

 

[bobbypie67890]

h100i is exhausting through the top

 

[gotovato]

Do you have the corsair case fans wired to the case fan controller and set to max? There's 3 settings of fan speed on the case via a button on the top.

 

[bobbypie67890]

No. But in the bios I have set their speeds quite high. If i were to switch to ref. cards, how much of a temp drop could I expect. And by the way, the only programs that can push the top card past 83 are the benchmarks.

 

[gotovato]

If its only benchmarks I would keep the g1s as they tend to OC better but then again you'll run into heat issues. It's tough to say how much cooler ref cards will run, and if you're into overclocking you'll be limited by the poor ref coolers ability to cool the 1 card. I'd suggest pulling up some YouTube videos and see what others get with ref cards. The g1s are nice though.

 

[bobbypie67890]

This is on a sidenote, but Sometimes BF4 dips to about 130 fps and my rig should constantly hold 144 why is this?

 

[gotovato]

What res? 1440p? You should be hitting 144fps with eas. My friends does over 100fps at 4k. What CPU are you running? Are the cards throttling at all? If its just a dip for a split second during a heavy scene then I wouldn't worry but if the fps are dropping and staying at 130 or less perhaps you have some throttling going on. Sli isn't perfect and this is part of it.

 

[bobbypie67890]

For example, pearl market can put me at 135 in certain spots. i am at 1080 but 150% res scale and gpu usage for both cards is at 50

 

[bobbypie67890]

and then my top gpu decides to stay at stock clock while the other ones boosts....wtf?

 

[gotovato]

50%? Seems very low. My 780's peg 95+ usage, and my buddies 980tis also. I game at 140% res scale at 1080, with everything ultra, 4xmsaa and maintain about 90-120fps(gpus are under a heavy OC btw). You should have no issues capping 144fps but again random drops are not an issue. What CPU do you have?

 

[gotovato]

One card boosting while another doesn't is due to the low usage. If the card isn't being stressed it won't boost. That is Normal.

 

[bobbypie67890]

Look in my first post

 

[gotovato]

5820k. No bottleneck there. The low usage is odd but might be explainable. Let me see what my friends 980tis get.

 

[bobbypie67890]

OK. Ill wait here...alone...in the darkness

 

[gotovato]

According to my buddy his cards slap 99% at all times in bf4 at 1080, 1440, and 4k. You aren't running any vsync are you?

 

[bobbypie67890]

well to keep it at 144 i am. Altho, i have it disable in game, in the control panel, and in the user.cfg I dont know y it is staying capped.

 

[gotovato]

Hmm. Remove the vsync. That's why you're only getting 50% usage.

 

[bobbypie67890]

I am trying something. Let me get back to you in a moment after I test this

 

[bobbypie67890]

I literally have it disabled in every single way I can think of. How else can i disable it?