Is this temperature difference normal?

XxKINGxX40 · March 25, 2015

I've been tinkering with my 2 980s, and so far, got to 1586Mhz stable. Tried to go to 1600, but Valley crashed. So, i'm fine on 1586.

Anyway. Is this temperature difference normal? There's usually a difference of 5°C.

My loop goes:

Res/Pump -> radiator -> CPU -> Radiator -> GTX 980s -> res

And my PC specs:

Asus Maximus VII Hero

i5 4690K OCd to 4.4Ghz

2x GTX 980s (With a EK-FC Terminal Dual Parallel 3-Slot)

Corsair Vengeance 16GB 2x8GB 1600Mhz

Corsair RM850

The radiators are 2 Alphacool UT60 360mm.

And just in case, http://imgur.com/a/WnbGp

Enderman · March 25, 2015

yeah thats normal

TheMcSame · March 25, 2015

It's fine. Anyway, 1586 is a pretty decent OC, however, I think it'll be short lived if you're using Valley and furmark for testing. Furmark doesn't know what it wants to be and I assume valley is about as good as heaven when it comes to stability testing. Firestrike seems to give off more realistic results when testing the stability of an OC.