Hi all, have an odd one for you .
I just this weekend pruchased a Silverstone Raven 2 Case , i know this is the graphics card section but bare with me .
|So I fitted my mothetboard ( gigabyte ex58-Extreme ) and Graphics card radeon 4870X2 and all the rest of the bits and peices.
So I wanted to check my temps with the new case , cpu system all pretty good, 4870x2 however is now going mentle with gpu touching 110c at load and memory IO up to 120c, card killing territory , fyi I have the accelloro xtreme fited to this card and in my previous case it worked wonders ( GPU never greater then 60 c ) .
So to cut this considerably long story short I did a wealth of troubleshooting including re applying thermal paste and a whole number of other shinanigins , non of which worked , it got to the point where I thought , I had somehow damaged the card whilst fitting new case.
So as you may know the raven 2 mounts your cards etc horizontally , and I did remember the card cbracket not fully alignining with the case where you put the screws in , so I start messing with this a bit , removing the screws so as not to pull the card , aslo I tried switching off / on the big raven upwars fans in case the upward air flow was doing something funky with the accelro air flow . Again non of it worked .
I finally got the card to operate at the expected temptretures by lying the raven case on its side !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So if I stand the case up normally ( graphics card is vertical ) the temps of the card go through the roof , I lie it on the side card is now in position where the PCI -e connection is running parrelel to the ground , the temps are back to being great .
now the card is heavy so I figure I will put something underneath it between the floor of the case and the card to support it , that way if it is caused by pulling too heavy on the MB that will sort it .
it didnt , so here I am have a case that I have to lie on its side in order to get the Graphics card stable .
Any thoughts anyone ?
Cheers
Bytes
I just this weekend pruchased a Silverstone Raven 2 Case , i know this is the graphics card section but bare with me .
|So I fitted my mothetboard ( gigabyte ex58-Extreme ) and Graphics card radeon 4870X2 and all the rest of the bits and peices.
So I wanted to check my temps with the new case , cpu system all pretty good, 4870x2 however is now going mentle with gpu touching 110c at load and memory IO up to 120c, card killing territory , fyi I have the accelloro xtreme fited to this card and in my previous case it worked wonders ( GPU never greater then 60 c ) .
So to cut this considerably long story short I did a wealth of troubleshooting including re applying thermal paste and a whole number of other shinanigins , non of which worked , it got to the point where I thought , I had somehow damaged the card whilst fitting new case.
So as you may know the raven 2 mounts your cards etc horizontally , and I did remember the card cbracket not fully alignining with the case where you put the screws in , so I start messing with this a bit , removing the screws so as not to pull the card , aslo I tried switching off / on the big raven upwars fans in case the upward air flow was doing something funky with the accelro air flow . Again non of it worked .
I finally got the card to operate at the expected temptretures by lying the raven case on its side !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So if I stand the case up normally ( graphics card is vertical ) the temps of the card go through the roof , I lie it on the side card is now in position where the PCI -e connection is running parrelel to the ground , the temps are back to being great .
now the card is heavy so I figure I will put something underneath it between the floor of the case and the card to support it , that way if it is caused by pulling too heavy on the MB that will sort it .
it didnt , so here I am have a case that I have to lie on its side in order to get the Graphics card stable .
Any thoughts anyone ?
Cheers
Bytes
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