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I have two GTX680's with XSPC full waterblocks and the water connecting bridges setup for parallel. The top card runs @ about 10 C higher than the bottom card. @ load the top card runs about 60 C and the bottom card runs @ about 50 C. Now, I do see that in GPUZ the top card also shows the idle power consumption @ 11.4 % TDP Vs the lower card @ 10.5 % TDP. Could this be the reason for that much of a temperature difference, does one card utilize more power in SLI, or is something else going on or is this normal?

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Have you checked your thermal paste and TIM to see if its applied properly?

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I have two GTX680's with XSPC full waterblocks and the water connecting bridges setup for parallel. The top card runs @ about 10 C higher than the bottom card. @ load the top card runs about 60 C and the bottom card runs @ about 50 C. Now' date=' I do see that in GPUZ the top card also shows the idle power consumption @ 11.4 % TDP Vs the lower card @ 10.5 % TDP. Could this be the reason for that much of a temperature difference, does one card utilize more power in SLI, or is something else going on or is this normal?[/quote']

Usually the top card will be working roughly 5 to 15% harder in games I've noticed. You could get MSI afterburner or EVGA precision X, setup the onscreen display and check out how much load the cards are under in game. I reckon that would be the reason.

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I was having the same problem with my 2 X evga 670 superclocked gpus in sli,, the top card always ran about 4 to 8C cooler the the bottom. I did some reserch and It seems that this is the norm,

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I have the same issue with my 6870's in Crossfire - the primary card always runs hotter then the secondary - as the primary card, it is doing more work. This is normal...

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I have the same issue with my 6870's in Crossfire - the primary card always runs hotter then the secondary - as the primary card, it is doing more work. This is normal...
That makes sense, but aren;t they saying the opposite, and that upper one in the primary slot runs cooler?
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I have the same issue with my 6870's in Crossfire - the primary card always runs hotter then the secondary - as the primary card, it is doing more work. This is normal...
Ummm... no? :)

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I have the same issue with my 6870's in Crossfire - the primary card always runs hotter then the secondary - as the primary card, it is doing more work. This is normal...
LOL woops read the first post wrong.... :(
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