- Nov 28, 2010
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Hello all,
I currently have 2xMSI GTX 970s in SLI and so far they're very good. I don't have any issue with the buzzing or fan problems many others seem to have, at least once I've swapped to two newer card when I took off the fan sticker very slowly. The only concern I have is with the VRM temperatures. Guru3D did a review of the card with some nice thermal images under load and found the cards VRM on the backside can reach from 80-90C. I personally ran Bioshock Infinite a while with one card and used an infrared thermometer on the back to see what temps I'm getting. I was reading around 70-80C after 5 minutes or so. With my full setup I have a sound card in front of the VRM on the backside of the top card and I have the other card in SLI so the temps are probably a little higher.
What I'm wondering is what are ok VRM temperatures to have? I'm a little nervous in the long run with these temps...but I'm not sure as doing some research it seems VRM is able to hit well over 100C comfortably and most video cards in the past haven't focused on cooling them (therefore I've probably owned cards that don't). What I was thinking of doing was swapping to Gigabyte's GTX 970 cards because they have a nice cooling solution to the VRM and Guru3D found they run around 20C less than MSI's cards. I'd honestly rather keep MSI though as I find Gigabyte's very large and although I believe it will fit in my case I think it'll be very cluttered in there with two of them. I also like that MSI has less power draw and I like the look of it more. I've also heard fan issues have occurred with previous Gigabyte cards (not sure about the GTX 970s yet though) and that MSI's customer service is better.
I have OC'd the MSI cards slightly...+150 to boost clock. So nothing too crazy...I was thinking of OCing the Memory clock a little too.
For reference:
Guru3D review of MSI GTX 970:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-geforce-gtx-970-gaming-review,1.html
Guru3D review of Gigabyte GTX 970:
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/review-gigabyte-geforce-gtx-970-g1-gaming.html
I currently have 2xMSI GTX 970s in SLI and so far they're very good. I don't have any issue with the buzzing or fan problems many others seem to have, at least once I've swapped to two newer card when I took off the fan sticker very slowly. The only concern I have is with the VRM temperatures. Guru3D did a review of the card with some nice thermal images under load and found the cards VRM on the backside can reach from 80-90C. I personally ran Bioshock Infinite a while with one card and used an infrared thermometer on the back to see what temps I'm getting. I was reading around 70-80C after 5 minutes or so. With my full setup I have a sound card in front of the VRM on the backside of the top card and I have the other card in SLI so the temps are probably a little higher.
What I'm wondering is what are ok VRM temperatures to have? I'm a little nervous in the long run with these temps...but I'm not sure as doing some research it seems VRM is able to hit well over 100C comfortably and most video cards in the past haven't focused on cooling them (therefore I've probably owned cards that don't). What I was thinking of doing was swapping to Gigabyte's GTX 970 cards because they have a nice cooling solution to the VRM and Guru3D found they run around 20C less than MSI's cards. I'd honestly rather keep MSI though as I find Gigabyte's very large and although I believe it will fit in my case I think it'll be very cluttered in there with two of them. I also like that MSI has less power draw and I like the look of it more. I've also heard fan issues have occurred with previous Gigabyte cards (not sure about the GTX 970s yet though) and that MSI's customer service is better.
I have OC'd the MSI cards slightly...+150 to boost clock. So nothing too crazy...I was thinking of OCing the Memory clock a little too.
For reference:
Guru3D review of MSI GTX 970:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-geforce-gtx-970-gaming-review,1.html
Guru3D review of Gigabyte GTX 970:
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/review-gigabyte-geforce-gtx-970-g1-gaming.html
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