Fastx
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- Dec 18, 2008
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Just had the cards on the default auto setting, no fan profile. The top card was reaching 90C, bottom card was a little cooler, hovered around 80-83C.
I have a Corsair 650D, 2x Corsair SP120 Quiet fans (exhaust) at the top, another SP120 as a rear exhaust, and Bitfinex 200mm fan as intake at the front. So it's not like my airflow is bad or anything. As I said ambient temps here are high though, around 80 F right now... probably higher than most.
Pic of my case, now with the 980s: http://i.picpar.com/teeb.jpg
Ok your gpu's were hitting higher temps than what I expected, I was wondering if you had a fan custom profile at +10% fan speed over temps forcing that 80% percentage.
I was overclocking my 290 game testing temps when I first got it (oc 1175/1550/1.23v) and used a custom fan profile under load gaming GPU temps hit 73F max and with my fan profile +9 of course fan percent was at around 81% then. So I decided to start lower my fan % speed setting in 5% increments to test it out for a lower fan % vers temps that same day. To my surprise (believe it or not) I was able to lower to a final setting 65% (per fan profile) and still retain a 73-74 max gpu temp under gaming load vs the custom 81% setting at 73F. So I was thinking maybe you had a custom fan profile setup forcing the fan speed % higher than you needed. So definitely not case for you and sorry to waste your time on this.
So one last question, have you run your 290 CFX setup in around 74F ambient temp (or AC on) stock and overclocked (around 1075?) and what was your GPU temps in around 74F ambient temps.
TIA
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