I'm seeing just how much juice I can squeeze out of this before moving on!
I figured it needed a bit of cooling...
Also some cooling for the side of the case...
Luckily it fits!
But is in the way of my bios fan a little and my PCIe slow slots...
It all worked fine and was a lot cooler, I'll post the results later. I'm pretty stuck on OCing it, I think I've reached the limit without increasing the voltage and I've not even bothered looking into how to do that with the software I've been using- riva tuner- let alone know how much I can change it on this card. I need to OC my whole system properly so I'm going to post on that before having a proper go at my GPU.
With the same clocking I got something like a 25% reduction of the idle temps and the load temps 5% under the previous idle temps. The previous idle was 50 C, now it's 38 C. How's that? I've never done this before. I bought those 3 fans in one ebay auction for £4.15 ($8) inc. postage. The screws are woodscrews and I put some quiksteel behind them for good measure. The screws probably purchase the heatsink ok without it but I was worried about vibrations shaking the screws loose.
p.s. it's **** quiet!
I figured it needed a bit of cooling...
Also some cooling for the side of the case...
Luckily it fits!
But is in the way of my bios fan a little and my PCIe slow slots...
It all worked fine and was a lot cooler, I'll post the results later. I'm pretty stuck on OCing it, I think I've reached the limit without increasing the voltage and I've not even bothered looking into how to do that with the software I've been using- riva tuner- let alone know how much I can change it on this card. I need to OC my whole system properly so I'm going to post on that before having a proper go at my GPU.
With the same clocking I got something like a 25% reduction of the idle temps and the load temps 5% under the previous idle temps. The previous idle was 50 C, now it's 38 C. How's that? I've never done this before. I bought those 3 fans in one ebay auction for £4.15 ($8) inc. postage. The screws are woodscrews and I put some quiksteel behind them for good measure. The screws probably purchase the heatsink ok without it but I was worried about vibrations shaking the screws loose.
p.s. it's **** quiet!