open air vs blower gpu cooling. i come to the pros

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towhog66

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once again i come to the pros, i could use some input and ur thoughts?
OK i have 4 days til payday and im making my move with the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC Classified 4GB just not sure if it would be better to go with open air or a blower coolers in my setup...
i like both. i well be doing 2 of this in SLI soon in a sum of 1000 bucks.. i have cpu Water Cooler setup in the top of my case with 2 140mm fans setup in pull and a 120 in back both exhausting out heat,
and two 120mm intake fans on the front, with 1 120 fan on the left side of case for GPU aswell as a 140fan on the out side HD cage for added gpu cooling (MOD ).

like most things when it comes to a powerful PC its the heat, ( open air is great for cooling but dumps their 60 to 70c + heat in the case/tower and stressing other components like my water cooler this dose not seem right in my case. thinking that they well make my cpu run hotter...

these are just my thoughts.

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The non blower types cool better than the blowers even with a multi gpu configuration. It does make the case hotter which is a concern if you do not have good airflow. It looks like you have plenty of air coming in though so I do not believe that will be an issue. I would go with the non blower style because I have seen instances where stock blower style coolers throttle themselves under normal conditions because the cooler just isn't up to snuff.

If you water cooler is bringing cool air in from outside then the higher case temp shouldn't effect CPU temps very much.
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In a case, the top card in a dual card rig will get hotter.
I prefer the direct exhaust blower type coolers for the reasons you stated.

I do not think 4gb vram is probably worth it.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/

For GTX770 sli, you are looking at a 850w psu.

And.. unless you are looking at triple monitor gaming, a single good card like a GTX780 will do the job.
 
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The non blower types cool better than the blowers even with a multi gpu configuration. It does make the case hotter which is a concern if you do not have good airflow. It looks like you have plenty of air coming in though so I do not believe that will be an issue. I would go with the non blower style because I have seen instances where stock blower style coolers throttle themselves under normal conditions because the cooler just isn't up to snuff.

If you water cooler is bringing cool air in from outside then the higher case temp shouldn't effect CPU temps very much.
 
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