Help me cool my GPU's!

Shep_Cobain

Shep_Cobain

Shep_Cobain

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So i upgraded my fans in my case as my three GTX 580's were overheating.

After fitting the new fans, upgrading the standard ones, fitting a fan controller, modifying the backplates on the cards so they have a wider opening allowing hot air to escape quicker more efficiently and fitting a fan to the back of the graphics cards so it pulls hot air from the cards.

Here are some pictures:

msi Afterburner

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Side Fan and Inside Case

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Fan Controller

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80mm Fan at the Rear of the Graphics Cards (pulling hot air away from them)

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As you can see after playing Batman Arkham Asylum with all of the fans in the case including the GPU ones at 100% my tempurate of GPU1 is still sitting at a dangerous 98c...

Any last suggestions before i consider watercooling? I have made sure i have the GPU's apart from each other as much as possible however due to the SLI bridge and the motherboard they are still sandwhiched tightly together.

Thanks,

Shep.
 
I don't think that there is a lot more you can do for them on air. With three cards there must only be a few mm between them so they are going to run hot unfortunately. That side fan is blowing onto them i take it? Watercooling is going to be very expensive as you are looking at nearly £190 just for the three gpu blocks.
 
WOW!

I think, you have done everything you can really bud tbh.

Looks like water cooling, Or the best case you can find for air cooling!

What fans are you acutally running, not being funny. But i have yet to see any LED fans produce good CFM. They all seem to be style first, CFM later.....
 
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theres not a lot you can do with them that you havent already. my only solution that doesnt involve spending a lot of money on watercooling would be to lower the voltage a lot and underclock them a bit to make them stable at the lower voltage
 
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