High GPU Temps

[Baileaf]

Im running two MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X's in SLI and under load the top GPU reaches 82 degrees while gaming and the bottom one reaching 71 degrees. I notice that set-ups with the same GPU's run with lower temps than mine. Theres a single slot gap between the two cards and the clock speed on both cards reaches 1924MHz. I feel like that might have something to do with it. I've set the overclock in the MSI Gaming app to the gaming preset which is like 1524MHz, but it doesnt seem to abide by that rule.

 

[Toastyx3]

If you have different softwares to oc your cards they overwrite each other and your card doesn't know what to do. I don't own nvidia cards, but is it possible that the nvidia software is troubling your cards since you use the msi software? Also is there an option like power limit?

 

[Baileaf]

MSI After Burner allows for a power limit which is set to 100%. I use After Burner for fan control and the MSI Gaming App for LED control and the "OC". I was playing CSGO last night and temps seemed to be fine floating around 65 whilst getting above 230 FPS.

 

[Toastyx3]

so since youre in SLI and also know how to oc, you should also know that its kinda normal that one card get hotter than the other one. its like the hyper threading in i7 cpus. you can try to spread out the load but you wont get a perfect balance, espacially when a game is not really optimized for multi-threading or in this case SLI.
another factor can be your pc case. if it doesnt allow good airflow, you'll get really hot temps into your pc escpacially considering that you have a 2nd GPU which also blocks partially the airflow and also heats up your mainboard bc of the power drain of the PCIe-slot.
also, in which cases was you set-up hotter than others? games? benchmarks? what did you compare?
What you could do:
- check your system and gpu fans if they really reach their specified RPM
- also set MSI Gaming App to default settings and try to use Afterburner to OC