Cooling the Strix

[spongy21]

Right, I've finally managed to snag an ASUS 1080 Strix card... now the problem is that some idiot that had it before me decided to remove the cooler and void the warranty and still sold the card as "new"... now I've got some thermal problems, as soon as i got it and played for an hour the card went up to 82C and throttled back down to 1680mhz and the fans are running 70 percent... now I've pulled off the cooler "the guy put a screw from an EVGA 1080 in the thing FYI" and replaced the thermal paste with some MX4 and the temps dropped to around 70 degrees when under decent load... but I feel like it could be better, if there are any further suggestions anyone has short of going to an EK water-cooling solution... I'm all ears.

 

Information

 

System Spec's are as follows

CPU: I7-7700k @ 4.9ghz

GPU: GTX 1080 Strix OC

RAM: 16gb Corsair ddr4 1600

COOLER: Corsair H80i v2 with 1 fan in push configuration

PSU: Corsair RM850x

CASE: NZXT H200i

SSD: 1TB Samsung 860 EVO

FANS: 2x Case fans Corsair SP120 + 1x SP120 on radiator

[Mick Naughty]

I assume you are running the rad as exhaust as the rear fan is intake.

Is there another fan under the rad being used as intake? Not sure that could work given how the front panel is designed.

 

Have all the case fan been ran at max to see the effect on the card?

 

Not much can really be done with the poor part match up. Some real fans may help out quite a bit compared to bottom barrel corsair stuff. Id prolly start there.

[spongy21]

15 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

I assume you are running the rad as exhaust as the rear fan is intake.

Is there another fan under the rad being used as intake? Not sure that could work given how the front panel is designed.

 

Have all the case fan been ran at max to see the effect on the card?

 

Not much can really be done with the poor part match up. Some real fans may help out quite a bit compared to bottom barrel corsair stuff. Id prolly start there.

I'm not sure if 18$ fans are really bottom of the barrel, lol... but no I cant have another fan under the rad because of the nature of the case... however I can and do have one under the card blowing air up into the card

[Mick Naughty]

17 minutes ago, spongy21 said:

I'm not sure if 18$ fans are really bottom of the barrel, lol... but no I cant have another fan under the rad because of the nature of the case... however I can and do have one under the card blowing air up into the card

The corsair fans in the pic are bottom. Regardless of price. They have bad airflow, which is what you need when you have an open air gpu in a small space. Pressure just needs to be adjusted but there isn't much room for improvement.