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If your case is up to the job of removing the heat, then yeah sure :)
I suppose that either solution would dump a fair bit of heat into the case anyway. It's just that it's a little easier to manage without the potential headache of one card feeding heat into the other.

You say you wouldn't OC, but you will at some point and it's a bit of crime not to with these cards tbh - xfire or not :)

My reason for going with two cards if using water is mainly down to having a bit more OC headroom (depends on the chip lottery obviously) and well, because two cards look pimp :D
 
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Well it's a positive pressure setup but obv the less heat in the case the better. Is there a non ref with a blower style cooler then?. I think my 780 Gaming was but I can't recall.
A quick review showed that windforce doesn't have great temps anyway.
 
If you can separate the cards the heat isn't that much of an issue. The problem is finding a board that will let you without dropping down to pci-e 3@4x/2.0@8x.
 
Oh good shout, just remembered my motherboard lol. Single card it is for now :) what would you do though, tri X for £290 or a 2 month old MSI Gaming OC 290 for £240?
 
No blower style coolers for these unfortunately.
Could maybe try and buy a couple of dirt cheap, dead HIS IceQ 7950's and nick their blowers? :D

Anyway, don't mind me too much on this one. Plenty of people here are happily rocking two cards and dealing with whatever heat issues if they occur.

Noxia said:
Oh good shout, just remembered my motherboard lol. Single card it is for now :) what would you do though, tri X for £290 or a 2 month old MSI Gaming OC 290 for £240?
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Oh, well in that case, want a 7990? :D :D
 
I had a 7990 pre ordered but chickened out and got a 780. It still scares me a bit truth be told, temps, noise and the frame issue but surely that's fixed now?
 
I have no frame issues on my 290 xfire and had no issues on my 7950's before. As far as the tri x vs gaming edition goes....if I could do it all again of be tempted to change to the tri x seeing as apparently they run cooler.
 
Reviews wouldn't really back that up too much. Not to a significant amount anyway and I've been studying hard :)
 
They are also quite large aren't they? I've had no issues with my gaming editions except heat and have got both at 1100mhz on the core now I have them seperated.
 
Noxia said:
It's 30cm and about 1 kg. Yours is 3cm shorter.
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Uncle Petey said:
^ You'd better hope that Matt doesn't see that post ;)
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