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Where are my vrms?

Looks great, I hope the vrm sinks work better than the AC's.

HankScorpio said:
What do you mean? The vrm heatsink? I already did, look to the right-ish side. There are 2 provided but only 1 would fit.
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The one next to the yellow arrow is very important, I think your taking a chance not using it, you maybe didn't have a heatsink on it originally, but the original coolers fans were in much closer direct contact than what your new fans are.

Remember the hotter it runs the quicker the card will fail.

There are other heatsinks that you can see in the pic too, how important they are, I don't have a clue, but I presume AC are telling you to cover these points for a reason.

If you don't have any heatsinks left then you shouldn't oc it until you do.

I must add however that I'm 99% sure that your VTX edition X is built on a reference board from what Iv'e seen.

If I'm the 1% however, and I'm wrong, apologies in advance for the panic.

I have fitted a few now(but I give the box back with the rest of the bits), so I might be able to get one if you can't get any.
 
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Not using what? It's exposed to begin with and there's nothing I've currently got or that came with the cooler to stick over the area you've highlighted.

Not at all impressed with the fans that go with this cooler. they're 1200rpm and suck quite badly when the card goes full load. Temps could be kept under 45-50c but they rise to 55c and vrm and vram I don't feel much air flowing past the heatfins to cool them either. Think this cooler needs 1900rpm fans to properly cool everything on the card. vrms and vram temps are hitting 70c on heaven benchmark stock after a while, and that's just from slowly rising temps, as they start off at around 30-40c, just through lack of airflow the fans aren't giving.
 
Very disappointed with the fans that came with the bundle I chose, did OcUK even test this or just bundle random fans with it?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-035-TL&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=787

At the time I picked them since the other options were 'due soon' and thought these should surely work but they're barely any better than stock, if not worse for keeping the vrm/vram cool. 70-80c on stock heaven runs. They keep the core nice and cool10-20c better than stock, but they just run so weak 1200rps barely breaks through the heatsink to get to the pcb at the back and cool the vrmvrams heatspreaders and they start to boil over.

Anyone got x2 120mm fans to recommend instead as replacements?
 
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Well I've got a spare long vrm heatsink strip that I'm going to chop up when I get one of those thin blue file saws and place them on the bits I'm missing. This with better fans should allow me to push my card to the max! :p
 
You will find you get better results by getting more cool air into the case, if that HDD housing is removable, remove and relocate the HD's and if that case can have a fan in the bottom, do so.
 
That HDD is hooked in with metal rickets, reason I cancelled my arctic acellero since the bay was in the way. There is also a fan behind it but the hdds block the airflow somewhat.

Idle temps
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after 20 mins
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30 mins
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Currently using the two fans from my 620 and now have better cooling results. Just pulled the push fan from my 620 because it was making a bloody racket, pull works though(is cooling the cpu)....bloody useless they are!

Also of notice was my vrm heatsink had fallen off so I was getting rather high temps because of that. Still a lot of tinkering to come I feel though :rolleyes:
 
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