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keeping gpu cool-ish?

ozaudio

ozaudio

ozaudio

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right now I have 75c full load running folding@home on one of them amd msi 7950's on offer, the case im using is a horrid looking case, with the exception been itll take 3 x 120mm fans at the front , 2 on the top for exhaust , another exhaust at the back , The side panel can also hold 6 120mm fans to blow cold air into the side.

do I buy a load of the cheap cool master sickle flow fans with 69.9 cfm air flow or buy a better case? a case can only do so much though right?
 
you could fit an accelero extreme cooler to it?? but its long so make sure your current case can take it

you would knock off 20c at least
 
20c? even if it knocked 10 maybe 15c max id be more than happy!!.

every were ive looked doesn't have any in stock at present
 
GTX 780 idle temp 40c load 80c fitted a XSPC Razor GTX Titan GPU Waterblock now idles at 26c and overclocked load 47c and that's on the same loop as the cpu.

If you want great temps water cooling will give the best results imo.
 
Ive looked at the cost of a block + a kit with a decent size rad, was near £300. block alone was around £75 ish I think.

its quite silly really , I should have just spend more on a gpu with a better cooler to start with

im not as annoyed now its at 75, it was 80c before I moved the case from next to the wall , I think if I can shave another 10c of id be happy , I need to look online for the best config of which way fans should be pushing air in/out of my case aswell!
 
Is your MSI 7950 one of the Twin FrozR model (dump heat into case)? If it is, then adding a fan on the side-panel next to the card as "exhaust" might be able to drop the temp from 75C down to 72C.
 
ozaudio said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-203-MS

ive found an old fan in the draw and ive stuck at the side of the gpu to suck warm air out , its dropped it 4c down to 71c now.

deffantly going to order a couple of fans to exhaust the heat from the gpu
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Yea. I've done some testing comparing side-panel fan on intake vs exhaust in the pass, and I found that intake doesn't change the temp much, but exhaust help lowering the temp quite effectively. I came to the conclusion that cases' top and rear exhaust fans are simply too far away to shift the heat away from the lower half of the case around the graphic card area effectively.

Having fan on side-panel as exhaust works wonders on lowering the graphic card's temp. But of course, you should still look into getting a better VGA cooler nonetheless. With bigger heatsink and more fans on the cooler it would mean heat would be dumped into the case at a even faster rate, so combine that with extra fans on the side-panel exhaust should help lower the temp by quite a lot.
 
hopefully it'll lower it to a nice level then, now all I have to do is find out why the sound has vanished even though I have my onboard sound as the default audio player
 
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