Hey fellow geeks
I have been reading up heavily on cooling of GPUs in crossfire lately. This is because I have chosen to (re)install my second card, and just try to solve whatever issues might occur.
When I first tried to run in crossfire, I had to place the cards right next to each other, which gave some serious heating issues. I later acquired a 107mm bridge, and the temperatures went down. Yet I am not happy with, 1) the temperature of the second gpu, 2) the noise level since I have to set an aggressive fan profile.
Picture (air flow illustrated by arrows):
http://i47.tinypic.com/b4i3jk.jpg
So, when I run a 3 min stress test on full load, the second card reaches ~80-85 C, while the first card stays under 80 C, generally 5-10 C lower. I kind of feel this is too hot. (Btw I presume that the bottom card is the second, considering that I had the upper one installed already)
I know the picture is not super, but my regular camera didn't work :/
Anyway, I am wondering what my options are here? Since my case places the PSU at the bottom, it will be hard to install i.e. an xtreme plus II to each of the cards. I am open to most solutions, though I guess I feel WC is too expensive and comprehensive.
Thanks in advance!
I have been reading up heavily on cooling of GPUs in crossfire lately. This is because I have chosen to (re)install my second card, and just try to solve whatever issues might occur.
When I first tried to run in crossfire, I had to place the cards right next to each other, which gave some serious heating issues. I later acquired a 107mm bridge, and the temperatures went down. Yet I am not happy with, 1) the temperature of the second gpu, 2) the noise level since I have to set an aggressive fan profile.
Picture (air flow illustrated by arrows):
http://i47.tinypic.com/b4i3jk.jpg
So, when I run a 3 min stress test on full load, the second card reaches ~80-85 C, while the first card stays under 80 C, generally 5-10 C lower. I kind of feel this is too hot. (Btw I presume that the bottom card is the second, considering that I had the upper one installed already)
I know the picture is not super, but my regular camera didn't work :/
Anyway, I am wondering what my options are here? Since my case places the PSU at the bottom, it will be hard to install i.e. an xtreme plus II to each of the cards. I am open to most solutions, though I guess I feel WC is too expensive and comprehensive.
Thanks in advance!