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The GTX 760 Conundrum

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Hi all, this is my first time posting here, and I'm super excited to join the community. Currently, I have a prebuilt computer from Asus with an I7-4770s, and a GTX 760 3gb card. the cooling solutions for both of these are terrible with the CPU being cooling with the stock intel cooler, and the GPU is cooled by a single fan heatsink. I was waiting to build a new computer until the next-gen graphics cards to come out, but with the news seeming that they will be pushed back due to GDDR6 not being produced until June, it seems that the cards may be coming later than I thought. In the meantime, I was trying to overclock my GPU using MSI Afterburner and I noticed that it wasn't failing due to artifacting on the screen and then a graphics crash, but instead, my graphics card would hit 89 degrees Celsius and thermal throttle. The MSI Kombuster simulation would drop to 30 frames per second. So, I am considering replacing the cooling system on the CPU with a Hyper 212 or something cheap, but the GPU is more complicated. I have been searching for aftermarket heatsinks, and I can't find anything compatible with the Kepler architecture. I just wanted to know if anyone else knew about any products or had any experience with cooling the card. Thanks a lot!  

 

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considering its age, replacing the thermal paste should be enough to get it cool again.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Thanks, for the suggestion, and I will definitely do that. I was also looking at the Rajintek Morpheus II cooler and it apparently is compatible with the 760!

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21 minutes ago, LooseBoots said:

Thanks, for the suggestion, and I will definitely do that. I was also looking at the Rajintek Morpheus II cooler and it apparently is compatible with the 760!

Iirc that's a really good cooler, as long as your getting the mosfets with thermal pads or something. Leaving those uncovered is asking for a card to die prematurely 

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Thanks for your input, I think I am going to go with that cooler. It does come with 24 heatsinks for the RAM and one big heat sink for the VRAM.  Those do come with "thermal adhesive."

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