Hi,
I have been running an i7 930 @ 4Ghz and Rampage III Extreme on a BlackICE stealth 240 rad. Top of case, extracting.
Three, and then two (one failed) 480s on a thermochill PA 120.3 rad. Bottom of case, seperate airflow.
All Fans are Corsair SP120's via fan controller.
I have recently replaced the cpu with a x5650 @ 4.2. This gets up to 80 (absolute max on one core only momentarily, normally around 75 max) while rending content @ 100% on 6 cores (this was on a render that took 2.5 days), in this extra hot summer heat. Thats with the two SP120s on 100%, normally I run them around 75% for noise, upping when its either hot like now, or when I am doing a long render (will probably be changing them over to auto control when i rebuild the loop tomorrow).
The 480s normally didn't go above around 62 when testing previously on furmark (previous to that it was 2 x GTX 295's and they didn't get past 57), but I had to RMA one, and on one particular game recently they went up to 69ish with only two in the loop (could do with a dust clean on the rad etc. and only in that one game).
I have just replaced the 480s with 3 x 980ti's, and will be adding them into the loop tomorrow.
I have also bought an EK-CoolStream XE 240 and two EK-Vardar F4-120 (2200rpm). This will be additional intake fans at the front of my TJ07 in its 5.25" bays.
I was going to simply add the new rad to the GPU loop thus giving 5 x 120 for 3 980ti's and leave the CPU as is. But I just thought, maybe it would be better to have the thicker EK rad being used for CPU/mobo loop, which would also give it cool air via being intake. Then using the PA 120.3 and the black ice Stealth for the GPU's, which would give equivalent of 4-4.5 x 120 for 3 gpus.
I have been running an i7 930 @ 4Ghz and Rampage III Extreme on a BlackICE stealth 240 rad. Top of case, extracting.
Three, and then two (one failed) 480s on a thermochill PA 120.3 rad. Bottom of case, seperate airflow.
All Fans are Corsair SP120's via fan controller.
I have recently replaced the cpu with a x5650 @ 4.2. This gets up to 80 (absolute max on one core only momentarily, normally around 75 max) while rending content @ 100% on 6 cores (this was on a render that took 2.5 days), in this extra hot summer heat. Thats with the two SP120s on 100%, normally I run them around 75% for noise, upping when its either hot like now, or when I am doing a long render (will probably be changing them over to auto control when i rebuild the loop tomorrow).
The 480s normally didn't go above around 62 when testing previously on furmark (previous to that it was 2 x GTX 295's and they didn't get past 57), but I had to RMA one, and on one particular game recently they went up to 69ish with only two in the loop (could do with a dust clean on the rad etc. and only in that one game).
I have just replaced the 480s with 3 x 980ti's, and will be adding them into the loop tomorrow.
I have also bought an EK-CoolStream XE 240 and two EK-Vardar F4-120 (2200rpm). This will be additional intake fans at the front of my TJ07 in its 5.25" bays.
I was going to simply add the new rad to the GPU loop thus giving 5 x 120 for 3 980ti's and leave the CPU as is. But I just thought, maybe it would be better to have the thicker EK rad being used for CPU/mobo loop, which would also give it cool air via being intake. Then using the PA 120.3 and the black ice Stealth for the GPU's, which would give equivalent of 4-4.5 x 120 for 3 gpus.