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Mrnob

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Hello there i recently bought a couple of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-086-GI&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010. I get temps max of 75c on games like bf3 and crysis. But the noise coming from these cards is too much for me, even with headset on. Is there any 2 slot aftyermarket coolers possible for them. I was thinking of an arctic cooling on the top card as i have the space for it but the bottom card doesnt, so was thinking of thermalright spitfire for the bottom card.
 
Zalman VF3000F for GTX580/570 - at the lowest speed never had more than 60 C on my GTX580 and it is audible.

EDIT - sorry I didn't notice that u r looking for 2 slots cooler
 
Maybe you should modify the fan profile with Afterburner so it gets hotter and makes less noise. Still you would expect a triple fan cooler to be quiet enough but I suppose a GTX570 is a warm little card and will always struggle to dissipate that much energy with just the two slots. I see the stock fans run at 1700pm at idle and over 3000rpm at top whack. That's never going to be quiet with 6 fans buzzing away.

Which AC cooler were you thinking as I would have thought the only one to work well enough would be the Accelero Extreme Plus 2. You'd need three slots for it so I'm assuming you have a three slot gap between cards. As for the spitfire it would probably clear the ACAXP2 sitting above it but would have course move some hotter air in towards your top GTX 570. You could probably rotate the fan so it draws air through the spitfire's heatsink but that would limit it's effectiveness. You'd also need to make sure that the bottom card get's airflow for it's VRM as the heatsink fan would be effectively be blowing the top card. I would have thought you'd not have a deep enough clearance below the lower card to fit it at the bottom of the case.

Interesting idea though. Pics if you do it.
 
Being none reference cooled cards, theese dump heat into the case, as opposed to exhausting it. I have a pair of windforce cooled gtx 460's, they run a bit warmer than my 470's, (reference coolers). Its a right pain trying to find aftermarket coolers that allow sli.
 
Came up with the idea of mounting the power supply at the top, then i can use an arctic cooler on each of the cards
 
What motherboard are you using. My case also allows for top/bottom psu mounting. Id be interested in seeing your setup when youve got the coolers fitted.:)
 
It's likely that the AC will fit as they come with loads of little heatsinks that you can tailor to your individual card and provided nothing is in the way of the GPU contact you should be fine. The VRM sink seems to be separate from the cooling solution and doesn't appear too high so the AC should also clear that.

The main benefit of this 3 fan solution will be in the extra 25mm of space for thicker fans and more heatsink.

Apparently the AC is pretty quiet considering it has three fans.

There's one guy on the forums (Tommybhoy) who has (possibly had) two ACAXP in use on Xfire 6950s in a modified P182 case.
 
This is the amount of space i have between my gpu's on the p6t dlx v2.

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There is a lower slot, currently blocked by the psu. But i could top mount it as theres a bay for it. May mean having to run sli at x8 instead of x16, though im also running a pcie audio card in the x4 slot, (above top gpu), which may complicate things further.

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