What are people doing to cool their VRAM chips? I am using heat sinks but they still get pretty hot.
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Yes I understand ur problem. The artic fan that attaches to the radiator spins super slow! That's one of the issues I found about this cooler. Your best bet is to buy two good fans and do a push and pull configuration. I also bought a tri-speed fan regulator to help with cooling.plus, what kind of card do u have? I'm running this on my gtx 970. I also put all the thermal rubber all over my heat sinks. Hope this helps.
1313299
Stock cooling will do just fine. I have mine slightly over clocked and no worries. Just make sure you have good air flow through your case.
1132048
In my experience AMDs run hotter. I had an aftermarket fan with a nice solid heatsink and larger fan that I used as the stock fan heat sink seemed a bit thin. I can't say it wouldn't be good enough my last 2 AMD cpus I used the stock fans and never had an issue.
2015788
This is the same setup I have running on this board, 8350 with a 280. Under heavy load this cpu gets extremely hot so I would recommend a liquid cpu cooler and a case with excellent airflow. My rig has been running 24/7 without issue. The hottest I've seen my computer get was 134F with an ambient room temp of 87F.
12890
No problems with over heating. I've been playing a couple games (dirt 3 maxed, skyrim medium - high, borderlands high, assassins creed 3 medium high) all with little to no lag. And I've seen 65*C on rare occasions after a couple hours . Idk about it overclocking or how it works. Hope this helps
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I have had overheating problems on all three of my Gtx 660 ti cards. I play Skyrim with about 243 mods and my card used to overheat. I have gone to a closed loop water cooler setup using the NZXT G10 bracket. Water cooling worked well, BUT, first, check the air flow inside your computer case. Without knowing what your particular setup is, I will give you some generic ideas. make sure your fans bring in outside air as low as possible and exhaust it as high as possible. Also small cases are great for aesthetics but suck for air flow. Try to get a case with the best airflow you can get. Also remember hot air rises so the floor is the optimum location for your case, if you have carpet, set the case on a piece of thin plywood to keep the carpet fibers from getting sucked into the computer. If you are overclocking anything, cpu, ram, gpu (video card), you are creating unnecessary heat. You can add more case fans depending on your case configuration but one solution that has paid off in spades is I replaced one of my GTX 660 ti cards with a G1 GTX 970 by Gigabyte and that puppy ROCKS and runs cool to boot. The non G1 rendition is slightly cheaper but does not cool as well. Anyway, good luck.
538134
They do run a bit hot, but not as much as the R9 280X IMHO. The new fan design does a great job of cooling the card. If anything a bit noisy. Its a great gaming card
1232144
You can always add a fan or heatsink? I usually add both to all my cards if they don't have them.
10741
I find the temperatures to be satisfactory, and honestly this is a very quiet graphics card. But honestly if you're looking for complete silence, I would watercool anyways. But, so far , I have no problems with my graphics card.
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I am running 4.6 using 1.29 and I am under a custom loop with dual 220 rads with temps under load about 40, load is check temps after 2 hrs of gaming. hardly any heat put out for this dual core, simple overclocking, have no pressed for 4.8 yet
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Under normal use that may be the case. However, in my particular case, I have the board in a Pimoroni Pibow Ninja case which doesn't have the most airflow. Coupled with that is the fact I have my Pi overclocked to the highest setting (full 1ghz). These things all taken together plus watching full HD output video causes things to heat up considerably. Put another way, need them or not, it's such a small investment for a good deal of peace of mind why WOULDN'T you get them?
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Hi SenorFrog,Honestly I haven't done that before so I can't make any suggestion.You can visit Thermaltake website or ask their technical support.Thank you.
800045
I have read the other two answers to your question.I would also suggest looking at getting more fans in your computer case. You need to create good airflow to get hot air out. I have used this Zalman setup combined with Artic Silver one 5 systems now. CPU runs under 90 f under load. I also have at least 5 other fans installed in each case.
1078461
I currently use this on an AMD a10-5700 and have not had any problems with keeping it cool. I use it as a media PC so it runs 24/7.
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FYI - I've got an HP with an AMD chip and that sucker runs hot (running Vista). Cooling fan runs all the time. Another HP I recently bought has the Intel chip and it runs significanlt cooler (Win 7). Can't tell if it the chip or OS but all I can report is what I'm experiencing. The guy at Best Buy had the same comment on AMD chips.
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I had this on my i5-4690k running at stock speeds and it was hitting mid 60s under max load. Unless you are trying to make an ITX build I would highly recommend you just stick with liquid cooling.
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Hi Mr. James. I just got home to check out your predicament, and I can say that I arrived at close to the same conclusion. I set my fan to manually run at max and there is a visual disconnect though the Precision X HUD. The meter says my fan is running at max, but the digital readout on PX says it's only at 80%. That's not exactly what you're reading (75%)...but it looks like the same issue. For comparison sake I took the other fan software and did the same thing to see if I noticed the same issue.... and I did. For some reason all the Fan software I use say the max is 80%. What I found out after looking into it more was that EVGA apparently puts a limit on the max speed you can run their fans using external controllers. I do not know if the card itself will push the fans above 80%, but it seems that when using other software, that is the max. ...even so. Whether your fan is running at a true 75% top speed or the actual max speed, I find that my fan on max keeps things cooled to about 40-44c...which is well below maximum temps. Hope that helps! (on a side note, I've read that you want to keep these cards at 70c or cooler in order not to lose any clock speed. Supposedly, once they hit 70c the card throttles back the clock until temps are below 70)