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Evga GTX 680 After Market Coolers

Watlinguk

Watlinguk

Watlinguk

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Currently own a EVGA GTX 680 and i will be getting a secondary card on Tuesday to SLI.

My temperatures are currently around the 70-75 range at the moment on full load. So with another GPU stuck in there temps are going to get hotter.

Im just curious about fitting after market GPU coolers on to the both of them. Is they any great coolers i can buy that will shave hear off the cards?

Kind regards
 
Watlinguk said:
Currently own a EVGA GTX 680 and i will be getting a secondary card on Tuesday to SLI.

My temperatures are currently around the 70-75 range at the moment on full load. So with another GPU stuck in there temps are going to get hotter.

Im just curious about fitting after market GPU coolers on to the both of them. Is they any great coolers i can buy that will shave hear off the cards?

Kind regards
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I was having the same problem, so I took off the cover and cleaned the vents (they were quite blocked with dust) and I also removed the heatsink and cleaned up the old paste and applied some IC Diamond paste and now my temps are very good (in SLI also).

Put the EVGA at the bottom and the non ref at the top, this will help temps a lot.
 
Awesome mate glad that worked for you. I have had this card for quite a few months now.

There both EVGA, the one that is coming on Tuesday is the EVGA 680 SC version. Was just curious to see if there was any good coolers out.
 
How much do you care about appearance? You could spend a little more for one with a better cooler.

Could be quite expensive buying another one then two aftermarket coolers, you could add another case fan for better airflow, antec spot it fan may work. How close are your slots?
 
I thought both the cards had to be the same brand when SLIing two? That been said ive already purchased the second card, i went for this card as i only paid £330 brand new.

My slots are quite close together the motherboard is a P6X58D-E
 
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Yeah i also saw some tests using that cooler and wasn't impressed either :(

Whats the alternative to reduce temps? More case fans perhaps?
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or case fans that are more powerful, go from 60cfm up to 90cfm and make sure nothing is blocking your intakes.

but this might mean rebuilding your rig, especially if you've got the drive cage assembly blocking the intake fan.... food for thought maybe
 
In all honesty i don't have much knowledge on case fans etc, I've only ever used stock case fans. My case is a NZXT Phantom, which does seem to have an array of fans. I have also added one 200mm fan to the side of the panel.
 
Watlinguk said:
In all honesty i don't have much knowledge on case fans etc, I've only ever used stock case fans. My case is a NZXT Phantom, which does seem to have an array of fans. I have also added one 200mm fan to the side of the panel.
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yea i've seen it, case looks ok i've also seen a photo of it with the cage assembly moved out of the way of the intake.

but it does depend on your hard drive or if you have more than one, if you only have one then the hard drive can go virtually anywhere, this leaves you free to remove that cage assembly, remove and upgrade the fan, the fan is now blasting directly towards the cards rather than being blocked by that cage, i bet that intake fan is not that good anyway, because the standard Lian fans are deffo cheap junk.

finally with that cage gone you can actually put the intake fan anywhere you want.....you could design it so that you have two intakes.

best cooling is in the front and out the top back at high speed with nothing blocking the air flow, not even your wiring, so watch out for that side intake, because that might be causing serious problems for you, voids and eddies etc, it's all very complicated, but you might be ok, one would need to see photos of it first.

get this right and you'll never have trouble with cards overheating, the rig will be freezing cold inside
 
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To OP, I have a phantom, i've removed both hard drive cages and mounted a fan on the bottom of the optical drive bay, will upload a photo on Wednesday after i've fitted my 670 when it comes.
 
Awesome guys really appreciating the help right now. This is something i want to get right and hopeful i wont have any more heats issues!

I will upload some photos within the next couple of hours for your digest, Might give you a better insight to how its currently looking. I know there could be improvements, in honesty this was my first build so it prity much got put together in the hope it would all work when i pressed thw power button :)
 
i'm downloading Borderlands so that'll take 3 hours, with both cages removed you'll be fine as said.

i'm waiting for steam so i thought i'd upload mine, you can see the twin intake fans the lower one is a 90cfm, the fans are very close so you cant work on the rig while it's running or it'll cut your knuckles every time, the cpu doesn't need two fans because it's only one degree warmer without it and cooling isn't a problem for me at all anyway, so i might remove it one day, all the fans are running quite slow now, no need to go above level 2 auto any more

http://imageshack.us/a/img341/6401/pcweb.jpg

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/coretempscrt.png/

and that's what it gives me on Prime at 4.4
 
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Here you go mate, 670 isn't here but I thought i'd run through the other 6 pin so it can just go straight in when it gets here. the airflow boost you get by a 200mm fan being there is great. :) I'd definitely recommend losing it as a side fan and putting it where I have, you have to drill out the large HDD cage as they are rivetted in! The small one is screwed in. You will also need to remove the 2 side fans on the side panel which goes over the hard drives, they're pretty useless anyway.

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them mods looks really good mate, i bet your temps are fantastic!

is they any cases that are already pre built like this and designed to give you the best cooling possible? in all honesty i went for the look of the case when i was buying it and didn't really have a second thought for the cooling :( shameful
 
Tbh the Phantom has good airflow, it's not like it's a bad case for it. Just with a few tweaks it can be made a lot better (Like the majority of cases)

Most cases will have HDD bays right in front of the intake, and if they are full of drives they block a lot of it. Get the drill out. :p

Ps the 670 i'm getting is a 670 FTW , which is practically the same as your 680 really in terms of cooling/pcb etc etc so i'll do some tests to monitor the temperatures to see how much of a difference mine is to yours to see if it's worth it.
 
that'll work well, looks quite good in white too..... dont forget to block off that side fan if you copy that Defy Belief mod
 
To bump up the thread but as for results, the 670 FTW is in, so it has a 680 pcb and same cooler, it's practically a 680 so wont differ to much.

So, I think on another thread you said you run the gpu at fan speed 80%? Was to loud for me, I have it to hit 60% when temps go over 55, not really that audible.

On BF3 ultra settings I peak at 59 degrees, shows the importance of how much your gpu needs some good clean cool air to suck in to enhance it's performance. 10-16 degrees is quite a large difference - plus it's very quiet as opposed to the 80% fan speed.
 
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