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GTX 480 SLI idle temps

Ejizz said:
No it isn't an airflow issue, he's switched the cards around and they run at different temps in each configuration.
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Oh well its the cards then. My 480's run are slightly different temps and they are on water. I have reseated a few times and every time the result was the same. I came to the conclusion that one gpu runs hotter than the other one. :)
 
happened to me with my 5870's
i put it down to dust inside the card on the sensors
and your not really going to get every gpu running the same temp are you ?
 
This shouldn't really turn into a discussion on how people spent their money or if they have an OCD complex. Absolutley nothing to do with it.

I will try the suggestion about removing the side panel. Seems the best one so far. I honestly think it's the airflow in the 600T. You have a single 200mm fan cooling 3 drives and expected to cool both GPU's. And you have a single 200mm exhaust, and a H70 in push/pull exhausting. I bet if I had this rig in a Fortess FT02 or HAF-X the temps would drop big time as the card would be fed air directly. I may go down that route. My initial worry was the cards were not working as expected but they are. That's why I started this thread.

Regarding heat/noise - not a problem. I knew what I was letting myself in for. And noise is not as bad as I though. The heat means no radiator has to be turned on. And as for Phoenix's comment about being silly enough to buy these cards- Well of course I knew ATI were coming out with new cards but I will never go back to ATI as the drivers eventually drove me nuts. Ok up to 10.5 and 10.7 with 10.8 profile gave me better crossfire performance, and benches were beter then the gtx 480 sli combo I have. But gameplay suffered. Lots of issues. Even if Cayman blows away the GTX 480, unless ATI drastically improve their drivers then there is no way I will go back.

Thanks for the advice people
 
Flanno said:
Well of course I knew ATI were coming out with new cards but I will never go back to ATI as the drivers eventually drove me nuts. Ok up to 10.5 and 10.7 with 10.8 profile gave me better crossfire performance, and benches were beter then the gtx 480 sli combo I have. But gameplay suffered. Lots of issues. Even if Cayman blows away the GTX 480, unless ATI drastically improve their drivers then there is no way I will go back.
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Just some advice for the future, avoid tri or quad-fire/sli if your worried about driver compatibility.
 
Flanno said:
Absolutely. Double checked.

I don't want to void the warranty by removing the cooler. It's possible the thermal paste is not spread properly but if I have nothing to worry about, I don't think I will look into that just yet.

Just to confrim since I swapped the cards around they are at 58 and 51 idle which seems fair enough. I am only using the nvidia drivers to control fan speeds so maybe the temps could be lower. I have seen people boasting on other forums of their clocks idling in high 30's on air and I don't know how this is possible even. I'm assuming they are running aggressive afterburner fan profiles to achieve this.
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Yep, thats true. But, evga's warranty service is very picky, theyre a firm i try to avoid after rma'ing a motherboard to them, working board, they use their famous dust excuse to turn down a lot of genuine rmas theese days, their famous warranty isnt worth the paper its printed on.
 
Unfortunately no, I suspect that the 6970 will not be much faster than my OC 480, so I'm sticking with it, that and I rate the Nvidia CP over CCC and the better power management options, game profiles ect.
 
Do not worry about the warranty as the stock GTX480 HSF just pulls off no seals to break on my Asus.

First thing I did when I got mine 6 months ago was remove the HFS & clean the GPU paste as there is way to much on there. Then I put on some AS5 & the temps went down 7-9C immediately.

Since then I bought a Gelid Icy VGA cooler and mine now idles @ 43C. Under full load its under 70C @ all times + also silent @ all times. The stock HSF is unsuitable for temps due to it being a very poor design. 3rd part HSF's show you how much when they reduce temps by over 20C you know something is wrong with the stock Nvidia design ;)

If you can find them buy some Gelic Icy or Zalman VF3000 for GTX480. Either will be silent & offer more overclocking headroom (not that you will need it.........).
 
AWPC said:
Do not worry about the warranty as the stock GTX480 HSF just pulls off no seals to break on my Asus.

First thing I did when I got mine 6 months ago was remove the HFS & clean the GPU paste as there is way to much on there. Then I put on some AS5 & the temps went down 7-9C immediately.

Since then I bought a Gelid Icy VGA cooler and mine now idles @ 43C. Under full load its under 70C @ all times + also silent @ all times. The stock HSF is unsuitable for temps due to it being a very poor design. 3rd part HSF's show you how much when they reduce temps by over 20C you know something is wrong with the stock Nvidia design ;)

If you can find them buy some Gelic Icy or Zalman VF3000 for GTX480. Either will be silent & offer more overclocking headroom (not that you will need it.........).
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Thanks. Good advice.
 
Ejizz said:
Just some advice for the future, avoid tri or quad-fire/sli if your worried about driver compatibility.
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I wasn't worried. It worked fine as proven in some benches I posted a while back. The problem I was having was GSOD even with a 1 ATI card. Drove me mad eventually.
 
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