case for SLI rig

I bought a V1000+ for my Sli rig and it did not keep the cards cool at all, nor the internal temps, to cramped. Transferred all back to my Akasa Eclipse and all was well again. I even bought the side panel for the Akasa and noticed a further drop in temps. Lian Li lovely case for single card setup and maybe 2 HDs but not what I had in there.
 
What cards were you using for the SLI?

Was it overclocked and was it stable? (Did you use the blower fan and rear fan as intake?)
 
Cards were 7800 GTX Extremes.

No Overclocking, they ran in the High 70s now they run low 50s. CPU 3.8 ghz had an X120 heatsink with a 120mm fan on top

The fans were setup to suck cold air from the front and expel warm air at the rear, believe this is how the case arrived. My Akasa is setup the same.

I could have fried eggs on the GPUs, now I cant. They actually burnt my fingers to the touch now they dont. :)
 
Ahhhh well the v1000+ regardless of how it is factory fitted for any amount of cooling needs to be.

Front intake for blowing over hard drives, OR front extraction if running a passive PSU.

Rear fan is a intake.

Blower fan is a extraction fan.

- Unless you set the case up like that, the v1000+ can not cool a freezer really, same with any case though if its not done right it wont be any good, just happens the v1000+ is different from most cases so people do not realise the fans have to be different.

Just even though your graphics cards were hot, was it stable?
 
Still even if he had the fans setup correctly it probably wouldn’t cool his SLi as well as the Eclipse.

The cooling ability on the V1000 series is below par, yes it does the job but for all that money you would expect the best.
 
Yup the eclipse pushes more air and keeps lower temps usually.

The v1000+ is not necissarily aiming at the best cooling, it aims to be what the old ATCS cases were, a designer enclosure :)
 
Silverwolf said:
I bought a V1000+ for my Sli rig and it did not keep the cards cool at all, nor the internal temps, to cramped. Transferred all back to my Akasa Eclipse and all was well again. I even bought the side panel for the Akasa and noticed a further drop in temps. Lian Li lovely case for single card setup and maybe 2 HDs but not what I had in there.
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The only thing i can think of..Is you forgot to plug some the fans in if you couldn't get a pair of 7800gtx in sli to run stable in a big case like the v1000+
(You find a Lian Li V1000+ to cramped :eek: )

This is my sli setup..(Two 7800gtx in SLI running 490/1300 running in a shuttle case)

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Yewen said:
Is that not on the line for a personal attack, how I read it.

I do not beleive I have ever bragged about my v1000+ on here, and I do not advise people on getting one just because I use one myself, I like to think I offer impartial advice to people.
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You do and your advice is much appreciated. :)
 
Thanks for that!

I am not a great beleiver in internet reviews unless you can ask the people questions on them.

So, here is one for you!

How is it? :p
 
Following this thread with interest...

I'm running 2 XFX 7800GTX XXX Extremes on an Asus A8N32-SLI and have recently uprated the HSFs from stock to Arctic Accelero X1s in an attempt to improve the GPU cooling.

Unfortunately, due to the height of the new HSFs and the board layout, I've had to move my X-Fi soundcard to the only available PCI slot. This puts the X-Fi right in the middle of the two 7800s and about 1mm above the HSF of GPU1 and under load this results in a temp of ~80 degrees on GPU1. :eek: :(

This is causing problems with texture maps in GPU-intensive games like Oblivion.

I have an 80mm intake fan on the front of the case and another (exhaust) at the back and the CPU/HDD temps are fine so it's definitely a problem with a hot spot around the graphics cards.

I'm limited by desk size to a midi-tower case so I'm looking for one that's specifically designed with SLI configurations in mind.

From what I've read, it sounds like the Akasa Eclipse might be what I need.

I'm not too concerned about noise levels - I just really need to get the GPU temps down. Any other suggestions?

TIA. :cool:
 
Akasa Eclipse, spot on.

Although unless you fit two Delta Screamers to it you wont get miracles, the sound card is creating a heat pocket just above the graphics card.

If you run the case without the sound card does it solve it?

If it does you know it is that issue, and you would need some serious airflow to solve it.
 
Cheers for the reply Yewen. :)

I did try running it without the sound card and it was a couple of degrees cooler but I was still getting artifacts... so thinking about it the hot spot is there with or without the X-Fi. :confused:

I'm amazed at the design of the mainboard that puts the PCI slots so close to the PCI-E slots. With the stock HSFs I could only put the X-Fi in the very bottom slot and now with the Arctics I can only put it in between the two PCI-E slots. This has created a tiny area of intense heat in the case which I don't seem able to cool. :(

It doesn't help that the HSFs (both stock and Arctics) dump the exhaust air straight back into the case. :mad:
 
Go with the case then, Akasa Eclipse + 2x Akasa Ambers and the blowhole side panel should sort you out perfectly, if it does not then your graphics cards are faulty as you can't get better cooling than that under normal noise levels. :p
 
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