Gold Rig

[MarlonSJR]

Hey guys!
I just got my second GTX 970 Jetstream, so it's now finally finished.
I thought.
Since I put the second 970 in, the temperatures have reached an all time high... and I think there will be no other way than to watercool this system to reduce the noiselevel and temps.

 

Test: FurMark 10 Minutes (Ambient temp ~21°C)

 

1: R.I.P. ears

ALL Fans at 100%

CPU: 52°C
GPU1: 83°C
GPU2: 75°C

 

2: Still noisy

Case and CPU Fans at 100%, GPU support fan at the cages at 60% to reduce noise, GPU fans at 100%

CPU: 56°C
GPU1: 88°C
GPU2: 81°C

 

3: My ears are working again

Case and CPU Fans at 70%, GPU support at minimum (about 700rpm), GPU fans at 70%

CPU: 67°C

GPU1: 93°C
GPU2: 86°C

 

WELL

 

Do you have some tips to improve the airflow without destroying my ears with fan noise?

Or is "watercool that system, dude" the right answer?

 

Halp pl0x

 

 

Specs (While the heat test the GPU tun at stock speed, the CPU @ 4.2GHz):

 

In a Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Black There is:
-Intel i5 4670K @ 4.4 GHz

-2x Palit GTX 970 Jet Stream in SLI @ 1,4GHz / 7,45 GHz
-4x Avexir 4GB 2133 Gold/Yellow LED DDR3 RAM

-ASUS Z-87 PRO Motherboard

-BeQuiet! PowerZone 750W

-EVGA ACX CPU cooler with a BitFenix Spectre Pro 120

-Fans all over the case:
 -front: 1x Phanteks 200SP (came with case)

 -top: 2x Phanteks 140XP

 -back: 1x Phanteks 140SP (came with case)
 -cages: EVGA 120 (came with cpu cooler)

 

Album as reference: 

 

[19_blackie_73]

guess the only thing you could do: water cooling if you want to keep the oc.

Or reduce the oc and see if you can live the performance loss.

Adding more fans will not help much I think and will only increase loudness

[Orangeator]

Honestly make sure you have a 140mm side fan. That solved a heating problem for my dad's sli gtx 970's.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

Well, you're pushing 1.4Ghz out of thouse GPUs man so, really high temps are expected. No matter how well you optimize the airflow it won't make much of a difference so :

-Water cool that system dude

-Crank it down a notch

-Use an open air test bench 

[MarlonSJR]

55 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

Honestly make sure you have a 140mm side fan. That solved a heating problem for my dad's sli gtx 970's.

Aye, max temp reduced by 3 to 80°C. Thx man!
GPU OC is off, until I'll get some watercooling.

About watercooling: The Palit 970s have somehow different PCBs and I haven't found anyone knowing about the correct waterblock to use on these cards. In some forum there was a list that said Palit used the reference PCB design for the [NE5X970H14G2J] (mHDMI, 3x mDP), but for the [NE5X970H16G2J] (HDMI, 2xmDP) I haven't found anything yet. I wrote an Email to Palit but didn't recieve an answer yet.

[Cyracus]

I've heard good things about oil dipping...of course it is a bit spendy

[Rofl47]

The question isn't about how good it performs... The question is if a PC can be made out of pure gold? Somebody call Donald Bill Gates!

[pvtmatchsticks]

On 5/14/2016 at 2:54 PM, Rofl47 said:

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If you want to see a pure gold build check out my build log!