GPU cooling kit, what's the difference?

awesome, yeah so that's similar to mine, although I have 3 above the GPU chip and 2 to the left of it. I've ordered the heatsinks to just go on those and the VRM's I'm just going to leave as the fan sits directly above those anyway. If I get any issues then I can always add heatsinks I suppose.
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
awesome, yeah so that's similar to mine, although I have 3 above the GPU chip and 2 to the left of it. I've ordered the heatsinks to just go on those and the VRM's I'm just going to leave as the fan sits directly above those anyway. If I get any issues then I can always add heatsinks I suppose.
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If anything, I'd say you need it the other way around. Sink the VRMs under the fans as those are the ones that will definitely get really hot, so anything you can do to get the heat out more efficiently the better. Notice that those were directly thermally padded to the air cooler you removed. I simply would not recommend not sinking them some way or other.

It's the memory chips located around the processor I couldn't find any definitive test results indicating whether they need sinking or not. I just stuck them on for peace of mind... and had the bits knocking around so there was no reason not to.
 
Ah okay, I had it the other way around in my head... as the memory had nothing on them and no fan blowing onto them I thought that they would be the items that required the heatsinks to make sure I don't blow them up... I'm going to fire it up later with nothing on and see what happens, is there anyway to monitor the temps of the memory chips and VRM's on Nvidia cards?
 
Well thought I'd fire it all up and see how it runs. Using the phanteks fan hub keeps all the cabling nice and neat and allowed me to get my airflow setup I wanted. Initial tests seem good, scored a new best score on unigine superposition and at only 38 degrees! The kit works well!
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
Well thought I'd fire it all up and see how it runs. Using the phanteks fan hub keeps all the cabling nice and neat and allowed me to get my airflow setup I wanted. Initial tests seem good, scored a new best score on unigine superposition and at only 38 degrees! The kit works well!
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Great stuff.

Although if you really want to get temps on the GPU what I do is run a loop of 3d mark timespy for around 45 minutes.

That will give you worst case as I find that with uniengine is doesn't tax the gpu and vrms etc as much (it still bothers me that reviewers use it to test temps as I never feel it gives an accurate gaming load as when ever the scenes change gpu usage drops for a second. That doesnt happen on a lot of games)
 
Tried a timespy loop and temps did go up, basically sat at 41 degrees after 30 minutes. Didn't seem to budge after that. Not tried any gaming yet, but that's on +225 on gpu core and +500 on memory!
 
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