I'm currently running an evga 980 sc overclocked to about 1450mhz, and the temp never gets above 75c, even after hours in fa4 or witcher 3. later this summer I'll be looking at getting a second evga card, but due to size constraints on the asus z170a they'll be sandwiched on top of each other. My case is a deep cool tesseract bf, and has mounts for 2 fans on the window grate directly over where the cards will be, would it be a good investment to put fans there? Currently i have one intake fan at the bottom front and the radiator fan out the top rear for a corsair h60 water cooler, and thats it. No heat issues whatsoever so far, but ive never done an sli setup before. CPU is i5 6600k oc to 4.4 ghz and i have yet to see it get over 62c.
Including the window mounts there are 6 open fan spaces not in use, fans are cheap so i could put ones on the front and side as intake and the ones on the top and back to exhaust to try create a true negative pressure situation, but that almost seems overkill and i dont want to inadvertently reduce the cooling efficiency. My other thought was be to have the side fans over the cards blowing out as exhaust, though since this is my first true build I'm not sure if thats a good idea or not. Thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.
Including the window mounts there are 6 open fan spaces not in use, fans are cheap so i could put ones on the front and side as intake and the ones on the top and back to exhaust to try create a true negative pressure situation, but that almost seems overkill and i dont want to inadvertently reduce the cooling efficiency. My other thought was be to have the side fans over the cards blowing out as exhaust, though since this is my first true build I'm not sure if thats a good idea or not. Thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.