Help cooling my SLI GTX 670s

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So I currently have 2 Zotac GTX 670s 4GB models that use the reference GTX 680 PCB and cooler in SLI, and I'm looking for a way to help keep the running cooler then what they currently are. They tend to get up into the 70s while gaming in games that peaks them. Especially the top card. I have them in a CM Haf 912 right now and I am currently looking to getting a Storm Trooper. The one with the side window. They have your typical 1 slot spacing between them too. The main reason I want to get them cooler then what they are is so I can do a slight OC on them in hopes to help keep frames at 60 FPS in certain titles like Metro Redux series or Watch Dogs, because right now they will drop down into the 40s and sometime 30s and I start to get Micro Stutter.

Any help and suggestions would be nice. I'm open to anything really. So feel free to suggest any of your crazy ideas. =)
 
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I have a GTX 680 with the same PCB and use a Kraken G10 bracket, with a Corsair H55 cooler, and some small copper heatsinks for the VRMs and vram chips.

This keeps my quite heavily overclocked 680 at around 60'c on full load, with the fan running at very slow and quiet speed.

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Yea I was looking into this idea. And if I do it, I am thinking of trying to modify the setup in a way that I can use both my old Graphics Card cover, fan, and the heatsink for the ram and vrm. I just don't know how I will do that yet because idk if the H55 sits higher then the cover, I know I would have to cut part of the cover to feed the tubing out of course, but I've been unable to see how high the waterblock sits on the GPU to determine if this would be a possible task or not.

Edit: Do you think you could possibly show me a picture from the side and from the IO panel view so I can see how high the heatsink sits and if I could put the old cover over it?
 
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You should go with a full water block and not deal with the fans and other stuff. EKWB offers water blocks that are compatible with the GPUs you have and will reduce the space they take up down to one PCIe slot on the board and your two PCI I/O slots in the rear will still be used. This will reduce temps significantly and allow you a ton of head room for OC'ing. You will need to build your own custom loop for the water blocks though. So, price will be higher, but performance will be so much more.
http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/step1_complist
 
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Yea I would like to do that, but as of right now I am not ready to take on a full loop. I was wanting to wait to do that in the future with newer hardware. I'm kinda looking for a cheaper alternative to get some more strength and a few more generations out of this hardware without spending so much money that I might as well have upgraded the cards to a new model. When the time comes to where I want to do a full loop, I'm going to try and buy a Hyrdo series card from EVGA,
 
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First time hearing about this, I already like the way it is designed too. Kinda keeps the old blower style fan it looked like. Only question is, are they making this compatible with the 600 cards? I would assume so since they aren't really any different then the 700 but I guess we will see when they tell us more. This will also allow for me to keep my stock cooler in tact for re sell purpose.
 
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You dont have to break anything on the stock cooler to fit the G10. You can just remove it and put the stock cooler back on, easy.

I have already had this setup on two different cards, the first card now has its stock cooler back on again, and working fine in another pc.
 
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That's completely understandable. If you wanted a more flexible method and still wanted to start investing in the loop then you can use a universal GPU block and utilize VRAM heatsinks instead of doing a full water block for the card. its way cheaper and way more flexible. And it'll be really useful until you get the higher end components you want. The other coolers that have been recommended are good alternatives as well. As long as your okay with spending more money in the end.
 
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The reason why if I used the G10 to cool my cards, I would have to modify the cover just a little bit to re mount the cover and not use the G10 cover and fan, I was hoping to try and make a setup similar to the old PNY Liquied Cooled GTX 580.

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Reason why I would like to do something like this using parts from the G10 is 1 I honestly can't stand the way the G10 looks. and 2, the blower style fan and the original heatsink for the vram and vrm helps keep the vram and vrm cooler then the G10 does, from what I've hear/read anyways.

But with the Corsair HG10 coming out sometime. I might hold off on the G10 and modding and wait for the HG10, since I like the way it looks since it is similar to that of a stock blower style cooler, and it uses a blower style fan and heatsink for the vram and vrm.
 
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I sent them a email, just waiting to hear back
 
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