Concerned about heat issues with EVGA GTX570 HD SLI

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FunkaGenocide

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So here is my situation. I built a fairly nice gaming/utility pc a little over a year ago. (It was before the kepler gpu's hit the market.) At the time I only put a single gtx570 into it assuming I'd upgrade to dual SLI a few months later and be done with it. Well things happened (namely getting married... who knew it could be so expensive?) and here I am at a substantially later date needing to make that gaming rig last a bit longer than I had originally suspected.

Right now I am looking at snagging a second GTX570 second hand, probably through ebay. The one I have installed currently is an EVGA superclocked version with the vapor chamber cooling fan. It looks to me like you can get a substantial discount by picking up the less popular but still just as functional HD versions with the central fans that don't really exhaust out the back port. My question, then, is if anyone has had any experience mixing the two different form factors and if you've experienced any serious overheating issues with the hd versions in SLI. My case airflow is pretty good but its nothing to write home about, pretty standard corsair carbide 400r with 2 front intake fans, one rear exhaust fan and two top exhaust fans pushing case air through an H100 radiator. So far my temps have been fine with a single gpu, my cpu stays pretty frosty with the h100 and my single GTX570 takes care of itself with nothing more serious than a custom fan profile setting.

Thanks for any info you can provide!
 
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ubercake

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I had two 580s next to each other in one build with an X58 board. There was no space between the 2-slot cards at all. The top card reached the high 80Cs and the bottom card the mid 80Cs. This is all without a custom fan configuration and design-spec clocked cards with design-spec cooling. This was all well within the temperature tolerance of the cards (Max rated at 97C).

Based on your description, it would seem like your case is well-ventilated.

Not knowing what kind of motherboard you're working with, you can expect just about the same temps I listed for the 580s, if you don't have any space between your cards. If you have a newer motherboard with a single-slot space or more between the two-slot 570s, you'll have even lower temps to look forward to.
 
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my rig (in my sig) has no space between the GTX460's and the "sandwiched" card (the card that's breathing the air from the other's backside) is always 10 degrees C higher. Playing Skyrim sometimes reaches 80 C on the sandwiched card - normal temps as well.

You shouldn't have much of an issue adding another 570. You could always cut a hole in the side of the case and put a 120mm fan to blast fresh air in on top of them, and get a bettr rear fan to suck more air out.
 
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I've got an ASUS P8P67 pro I believe, can't remember the exact designator off the top of my head nor can I recall the pcie layout. I'm pretty sure that it has at lest 3 pcie 2.0 x8 slots available though, so I should be able to put at least a few slots between the two cards. temps in the 90s are kind of disconcerting, I get a little woozy over 70 but thats probably just me being paranoid.

Thanks for the reply, if anything it might give me an excuse to watercool!

@Dingo: Actually I failed to mention that I do have 2 side case fans blowing onto my current gpu. I suppose that will help some but I will have to seriously consider upgrading my rear exhaust fan to something with some oomph. thanks for the suggestions.
 
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ubercake

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70Cs shouldn't bother you a bit and either should 80s with those cards.

The temps really aren't bad for that series of cards. Now my 680s with a custom fan profile reach into the high 60Cs under load (20C difference from the 580s). That's a huge improvement from the 500 to the 600 series. And on my X79 motherboard, I have a two full slots of airspace between the cards. As a result, both cards run at the same lower temps continuously. On the P8P67 pro, it looks like you'll have at least a slot between the cards. This will make a big difference in lower the temperature difference of one card to the other as well as allow any heat to escape with the airflow within the case.
 
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