Yeah just realized that. Reference stock cards seem to do 76c when gaming, the reference card has a very poor HS on it, too much or not enough thermal paste could bump temps up a bit, yours has a slight OC on it but I wouldn't expect 90c temps because of it. I would put the higher temps down to a poor HS contact due to poorly applied thermal paste.
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Don't think I have any thermal paste lying around, will try different fans first and see how that improves things if at all, then look at other options
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After changing case fans and have them on max (but loud!) full load is around 75-76C, so a bit of an improvement so far
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I guess I can look around for some Arctic Silver or similar and re-seat the heatsink .. is removing / replacing the heatsink difficult on these?
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Is yours a short PCB 670, or the one with the after market cooler? His temps are about normal for a stock cooler.
Mines the short ref cooler.
Standard clocks mine never went above 70 degrees. Overclocked it used to go over 70 and throttle.
Now running more voltage, 12** boost and 80% fan speed it still never hits 80 degrees!
Not really. I did it on mine, a few screws and off it pops
It's only mounted onto the core on mine, the memory and VRMs are passively cooled
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Not really. I did it on mine, a few screws and off it pops
It's only mounted onto the core on mine, the memory and VRMs are passively cooled
Ok, I'll give that a go if I can find the tube of AS that I have somewhere - not used any in ages.
The room temp in my case will be a factor as well - always between 27-30c which will be a factor. Card seems to sit around 37c or so in idle.
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Yeah temp in my room is normally low 20s but the card idles the same as yours
Lower room temp helps - 32c idle / 68c full load when room temp is around 22-23c. But I can't be having the air conditioning on the whole day
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yep, I did, went from single 580 on 1080 through single 670 to 670SLI on 1440p
very please with the results
very please with the results
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[Death];22654399 said:
For that res going into the future I'd get 1 or 2 of these.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-031-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2294
The price premium isn't huge and you can be sure you won't be VRAM limited in the future.
Thats what im upgrading from 460 768mb.
Couldnt resist the 670 FTW for £309.
Question regarding drivers, do i just swap cards as i already have the latest drivers installed.
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