5970 Cooling!!

[up2nogooduk]

Hi,

I'm running a 5970 with a 5870.
The heat from the 5970 is so hot, i can feel the heat from under my desk. yes i can turn the fan up, but far to loud.
So is there a after market cooler that would be better? water cooling is out the question

Thanks a lot

 

[RavenXXX2]

Only one I know of is the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=545

 

[up2nogooduk]

Only one I know of is the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=545

Thanks for that..
Anyone here have one of these ? any tips to look out for etc ?

 

[ntemples1]

Thanks for that..
Anyone here have one of these ? any tips to look out for etc ?

I just bought one of these for a client, I have to fit it this week so I will get back to you on ease of installation and how it performs.

 

[up2nogooduk]

I just bought one of these for a client, I have to fit it this week so I will get back to you on ease of installation and how it performs.

Oh great!! let us know when you're sorted
does this suck air out the case do you know.. as it's going to be behind my 5870.

Cheers.

 

[cainer]

does this suck air out the case do you know

doesnt look like it will tbh

 

[up2nogooduk]

It's in a Silverstone Fortress FT02B. maybe it be ok i hope. not sure if there's a way to turn the fans round.

 

[SilverStone Rep]

The heat generated from the dual GPUs on your 5970 will have to go somewhere eventually. In the FT02, this heat is expelled quickly out of the case (with help from reference 5970 cooler) so I would say your experience with a hot desk is quite normal.

I wouldn't recommend getting an aftermarket GPU cooler that blows air partially back into the case. It would just make the case hotter inside and delay the hot air from escaping your FT02 case.

 

[johny dolan]

I run my 5970 in the x16 slot and my 5870 in the x8 so they have more space between and there is no performance loss by using the x8.

I also fitted a small fan infront of the cards to blow cool air right into the front slots and the highest my 5970 gets is 70c load where before when i ran both in x16 without fan the 5970 would hit 90c.

 

[up2nogooduk]

Thanks for the reply guys.
What kind of benchmark have you used so i can compare it to make sure mine other 5870 is working. i can't even adjust the fan on the 5870 via CCC or after burner. ?

Cheers.

 

[johny dolan]

lots of benchmarks the scores will depend on you cpu and how high its overclocked.

Vantage - Heaven and AVP are the ones i use.

Vantage the highest score ive got was 33k thats with i7 at 4 gig

Heaven i get 89 fps

and AVP

*DX11 Hardware Detected*

Using Default Video Settings:

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Texture Quality: 2
Shadow Quality: 3
Anisotropic Filtering: 16
SSAO: ON
Vertical Sync: OFF
DX11 Tessellation: ON
DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON
DX11 MSAA Samples: 1


Benchmark Summary:

Number of frames: 10123
Average Frame Time: 10.3ms
Average FPS: 96.6

My cards are stock clocks.

 

[kedge]

Thanks for the reply guys.
What kind of benchmark have you used so i can compare it to make sure mine other 5870 is working.

There are lots of bencmark suites out there so see which one you like, furmark, heaven benchmark unigine) etc. Running three instances of GPUZ will show the 5970 and 5870 stats.