EVGA 770 SC 3 Way SLI- Temp. Issues

Evening Kids,

I just upgraded my rig with 3 X EVGA's 770 SC cards with the ACX coolers (Replacing my 3 X 670's FTW which will go to my brother as always). Have to say, I was really existed when EVGA decided to use some damn nice dual fans on their cards.

Nevertheless, I was really surprised/gutted when I started testing the cards on some of the games that I'm playing currently (The list is just too long but mainly BioShock Infinite, The Witcher 2, Tomb Raider ..etc).

The card temperatures rocketed to 97 C's 15 m's or so in the game (Idle around 29 C's) for the first time since I started sli'ing and I've been doing that for a long time.

I've been doing tones of reading about high temp's playing the game that I've just mentioned but still we can't keep on blaming the games for bad SLI compatibility and drivers issues .. etc

My case is well ventilated (Cosmos II) and I never had this problem with my 670's in 3 way sli and the room temp never goes above 19C's - air-conditioned.

My questions are as follows :

1- Anyone else having this problem with the cards and please guys i don't water cool and I will never will do that I'm just too clumsy to play with water

2- Can anyone advise if the Arctic Accelero Xtreme III is an actual dual slot cooler as I'm thinking of getting them instead of the existing stock coolers

Please help guys

Cheers

DS

Do you have a side fan?

Problem here is that the cards don't have room to breathe. Reference style coolers are typically better for SLI since they don't dump the hot air on the next card in line.

yup I have 2 side fans

Are the cards overclocked or at their stock speed?

they are the SC version which are factory OC'ed

DarkSouls said:

they are the SC version which are factory OC'ed

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Just making sure you didn't push them farther, which would cause more heat.

I'm out of ideas for now. In my opinion, you're just starving the cards for good air since the cards just dump their hot air right back into the case instead of pushing it out the back.

If the bottom card is noteably cooler, then its the physical orientation of the cards causing the issue.

yup its in the 60's (the lower card)

Yep simple. Not enough airflow to the top cards.

DarkSouls said:

yup its in the 60's (the lower card)

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That's where my single 770 runs.

+1 to what EarthDog said, gotta get cool air to those top cards.

Thnx for the help guys ..

so I will try two things, first will add another fan to blow air from the front of the case and will lower the cards no 2 and 3 to leave some space for card no1 to breath and use a 4 way sli bridge instead of the 3 and will post the results

If that doesn't work, will look into the accelro fans as they provide much more air flow as the stock fans have the same mechanics and keep the air in the case

man my sig. is waaaay to old

will update that as well

Try this.

ATMINSIDE said:

Try this.

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Will do, not sure if my MB will be able to accommodate that config. (Ausus Rampage IV Extreme)

Btw, will post some benchmarks for the cards shortly if people are interested

Cheers

DS

Post them on hwbot.org for the overclockers.com benching team and drop links

Edit: If the board won't support it, sounds like a good excuse for a GPU loop

ATMINSIDE said:

Post them on hwbot.org for the overclockers.com benching team and drop links

Edit: If the board won't support it, sounds like a good excuse for a GPU loop

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here it goes



Cheers

DS

ATMINSIDE said:

Post them on hwbot.org for the overclockers.com benching team and drop links

Edit: If the board won't support it, sounds like a good excuse for a GPU loop

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here is the link to hwbot.org

http://hwbot.org/submission/2404876..._preset_3x_geforce_gtx_770_4348.99_dx11_marks

1st world wide to use 3 x sli for the 770's

and ermm 95th out of 198 for score .. lame

I hope you have more than that 22 inch dell LCD for those 3 GTX 770's....lol

Put the picture of your rig onto the HWBot submission, it'll get more points.