Game machine overheating

dance415

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I have a build with 4 SLI enabled graphics cards (780Ti).

The processor was overheating when I play games. Battlefield 4 is the worst offender. So I took it back to Fry's, where the build was done, to have it fixed. They installed a new liquid cooling system. It coves the entire top of my case and should be more than enough to handle the job. The tech at Fry's said he spent a couple of days stress testing it and no overheating problems. Of course he didn't try actually running a game. I got it home and tried Battlefield 4. Same exact problem. I am up to 95 degrees as soon as I play. I'm taking it back and was going to ask them to check the thermal paste. If I have good and brand new liquid cooling what else besides thermal paste could be the problem? Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
 

dance415

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So an airflow problem for sure. They had the rear fan in backwards! The cards are really stacked on top of each other so that was killing it. Now the temperature stays around 70. Kind of funny actually. I don't have an easy way to link the pic. It the newest rampage board in a corsair square case.

Thanks everyone for responding so quickly!


 

JimF_35

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That is the problem with Quad SLI. Have you considered water cooling?
 
Glad you fixed it, that's why I would never have a computer built for me, I like to know how it was built so that if its screwed up, I can fix it. I also enjoy it. You could maybe try some really powerful fans and a fan controller to keep everything cool, since as dust builds up, that's going to become more of an issue. Those ones sound like jet engines, but with a fan controller, you can turn them up and down depending on how loud you want them to be. 70c should be fine for now, though.
 

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The Proccessor is water cooled but the 4 cards are packed into a Corsair Carbide 540 and there is no room to attach water cooling on the GPU's that I can tell. Still getting PCH warnings of over 60 C. Wondering if I can do something more hardcore with the front fans?
 

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I used to build my own but at Frys I pick out the parts..they pricematch anything price off the web so I save shipping on the parts. Then they put it together for $49 bucks. The headache I would have experienced to put $7000 in parts together would have been substantial. But yes I do then incure the frustrations of dragging it back and forth if they screw up.