you would be shocked how bad some manufacturers apply TIM, changing to something ICD can help by a few degrees
Cunning plan.. cooling OCed 780s
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you would be shocked how bad some manufacturers apply TIM, changing to something ICD can help by a few degrees
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Well the power connection needs to be at 100% anyway, so a splitter would work if you get 2.
From what I can tell the X31 uses a 4 pin for the fan and a 3 pin for the pump then a usb header to interface with their software. So I guess I set the header to full on in the BIOS and use the 3 pin chassis fan for the pump/s using a y splitter, then I'd use my fan controllers to control the two rad fans. I hope their software can handle that, basically both GPU coolers will be on one 3-pin and the fans on manual control.
Their software sounds pretty cool, apparently you can tell it which cooler is for your GPU and CPU etc, I don't know if many cards have got the number of headers to independently control all those pumps and fans. Mine only has 1 4-pin chassis fan and 2 3-pins on the motherboard.
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Uses a 3 pin to power the entire unit. The unit itself has x2 fan headers attached also that run the fans, and can be controlled via the USB header. They're about to release an updated version of the CAM software thats pretty cool.
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I just tried Metro 2033 Redux in 4k and the CPU was at 50% pretty solid. Thanks for the suggestion though, it is something I've considered before and a 8370 is definitely on my shopping list if I can sell this 6300 to cover some of it. I'd love to try my 780s out in my mates i7 and see if it really did make much difference but I'm afraid he wouldn't give them back
You are looking at the wrong useage to know if your CPU is a bottle neck.
Your CPU load % does not matter, what matters is your GPU load %.
If, for example your 780's were running at 100% load each then yes, your CPU is not bottlenecking your GPU's.
It would not matter a jot if your CPU load was 10% or 100%.
You have already had a correct answer, sell your board and cpu and put that and your £150 towards a better CPU, one that will not bottle neck your 780's.
You should monitor your GPU load.
I think I'm going to go with this for now, buy some ICD and re-seat my cards. I've not had much experience in VGA coolers and I think I'm just going to start small and familiarise myself with them a bit before going balls deep. Besides I didn't really like the reviews of the X31 fans, prefer the X41, like the old gunners maxim "don't tap it, thump it!".
Regarding the point of CPU bottlenecking, thanks for the suggestion, I've decided to take it to another post here in the CPU board and wrap this thread up.
TBH, I think I'm just going to go custom loop watercooled in a couple of years when I do the next major upgrade. Thanks for your comments people.
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To my utter amazement, it looks like MSI does a reasonable job applying TIM on their higher end cards (I changed it on an MSI 8500gt and it looked like it'd be put on with a trowel). I only managed to knock 1c - 2c off temps on my top card, so I haven't bothered changing the TIM on the bottom card. What I hadn't appreciated was when IC says pea sized blob, they mean it!