Just a smal status i wanted to share.
Fist of all, sorry for the bad english. :-)
Currently i got a hold of a gtx 690, and had some seriuse heat problems in my Define R4 case.
After some fiddling around and reserach, i made some adjustment. fist up: remove all the disk drive cages(i meen ALL for them.) so that the two 140mm fans are free.
two: Mounted a 120mm side fan, to blow directly at the 690.
Tree: two 120 Exhaust fan at the top, (cooling down my Swiftech h220-x aswell)
Four: one 120mm Rear Exhust fan.
All of this pushed my card at ca. 37c idle and stable at 65-68 under load.
Now, after i was done with this i wanted to overclock the gpu, not much but a bit. And here is where the issues occured.
At 135% Power Target, 50% clock offset and 150%mem offset(just to take a exsample) the games crashed and the nvidia driver reset it self.
I did some digg'in around the web and come a cross an forum that said: "Set Maximum power in the Nvidia control panel". This work like a charm, Now i have 135% Power Target, 75% clock offset and 300% mem clock offset. Ill see if i can push it higher. I also see now the gpu is holding stedy at 1012mn and 914Mhz in idle with 48c(stable 68c at load), yess it a bit higher. But still, better the crashing.
now question time.
Have any of you come a cross this issue with a Gtx 690 before?
How far do you think i can push the gtx?
OBS! OBS!
After aplying the Maximum power in control panel, you have to restart the system to take affect.
