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So the I've built this PC with the following specs.

The specs are as follows:

Intel i7 - 5930k 6-Core @3.5Ghz

Asus Rampage V Extreme Motherboard

2x Asus Matrix Platinum GTX 980

2x EVGA SC ACX 2.0 GTX 970

16GB Corsair LPX Quad Channel 2133 Ram

250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD

3TB Western Digital Green HDD

Corsair H110 (NOT H110i)

8x White LED Corsair Fans

-4x on the H110 cooler in push/pull mode <-- Is this efficient?

-2x on front 1x on bottom pulling fresh air into the case <-- enough to provide fresh air to the GPUs?

-1x rear exhaust

PSU-AX 1200i

All of this is housed in a Corsair 760T White

None of the components will be overclocked, nor will the GPUs be water cooled at any point in time. The purpose for the computer is to run the GPUs 100% at all times 24/7 for my computational chemistry lab doing simulations.

-Any suggestions on how to place fan(s) on the side of the GPU to provide air?

Is the air flow good? Should I change the fans around?

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The airflow should be enough, but push/pull isn't efficient in the sense that it is pretty redundant and doesn't offer much more performance than just 2 fans. As for side fans for the GPU, you can't really do that unless you have a side panel with a fan grill. Also, what's with the 2 980s and 2 970s? 

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The airflow should be enough, but push/pull isn't efficient in the sense that it is pretty redundant and doesn't offer much more performance than just 2 fans. As for side fans for the GPU, you can't really do that unless you have a side panel with a fan grill. Also, what's with the 2 980s and 2 970s?

This is for my computational chemistry and the budget didn't allow for four of the same graphics cards so had to downgrade two of them. I'll eventually upgrade the two to matrix platinums over the summer. I'll have to look at the temps and then post them on here, I'm currently waiting on the AX1200i PSU.

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The airflow in that case should be adequate but..... I really don't get the setup. You've gone for a mega high end gaming rig with top end priced parts to use for chem labs?

Is this some obscure Br Ba reference that I don't get because I've never watched it?

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The airflow in that case should be adequate but..... I really don't get the setup. You've gone for a mega high end gaming rig with top end priced parts to use for chem labs?

Is this some obscure Br Ba reference that I don't get because I've never watched it?

Well the concept is the same as folding@home BOINC...etc. The GPUs are used to do massive mathematical calculations on a system. How the system interact has to be calculated on a massive scale. The environment can be chosen to body temperature to monitor how certain proteins behave so we can better understand how to develop drugs, genetic markers, and much more. The possibility is endless and with the help of a software called AMBER, which stimulates molecular mechanics to study how these proteins behave. GPUs significantly lower the calculation time and more data can be gathered via this approach. Also the reason for not over clocking is that the program loses track and errors pop up in the output file which causes a big headache and then have to restart the stimulation.

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