- Nov 22, 2008
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Hey there all,
I am still looking for an answer to my problem of finding a good cooling solution for my SLI set up. My rig is as follows:
Mobo: ECS Elite nf650i SLIT -A nVidia nforce 650i SLI chipset 1066 MHz FSB 650i NB 480i SB
Memory: 2GB (2X1GB) OCZ XTC SLI DDR2 800 SDRAM 5-5-5-15 @ 400 MHz; 2GB (2X1GB) Samsung M3 DDR2 667 SDRAM 5-5-5-15 @ 333 MHz
Processor: Intel 6700@ 2.66 GHz (My proc says Intel Confidential on it. I think its the E6700, Everest just says Intel 6700
)
Graphics: 2 X EVGA nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB in SLI; 513MHz core; 1187MHz Shader; 792MHz Memory clock
HardDisk: 2 X Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200 RPM
The graphics is wherein lies my problem. I have been looking at water and air cooling kits for the past two weeks every day most of the day ( Im on 30 days convalescent leave from having knee surgery from my knee getting blown out in Iraq ) and I havent been able to find any real solution for my problem, which is that the space between my graphics cards, its only about id say a little over 1/8th an inch. Literally about | | that much space!!! Damn ECS board doesnt give much space between pci x16 slots and graphics cards keep on getting bigger and bigger!!! Ive been pricing everything from Danger Den and Zalman water cooling kits to all around air cooling and price is not the problem, most everything is within my range (under 100 or maybe just a little over if its worth it) but its that everything that i have seen wont fit in that space. Im going based off of the pictures from the products website and the dimesions posted on the listings. My cards run temp wise as follows:
Card 1 (Closest to Processor) 50-52°C @Idle 58-60° @Load
Card 2 (Bottom) 46-49°C @Idle 56-58° @Load
Now I know from researching the cards normal temp ranges this is pretty good considering that ive read that some peoples cards run really hot, even read about a couple of people that had their temps around 90-100°C under load and one poor guy who had it that high at idle!!! (He RMA'd though and got a normal card) As you can see on my specs I havent Oc'd my proc or my graphics cards yet. Its not that I cant, its just that I would like a good cooling set up first in place before I go at it, that way I can Oc to my hearts desire
. I really need a solution to this and at this point i dont care about price, ill save up for it if I have to. I havent had a watercooling set up so it would be my first and like all noobs to WC im nervous about leakage. When i put my second 8800 gts in, the voltage spiked and killed my Q6800 quad core and blew my 600W power supply . Thats what I get for not doing my homework about the voltage requirements to run SLI! Lesson learned and I do a lot of homework before I decide to buy anything. So much so that sometimes I review so many different products I give up and dont buy anything. (If 10% of the reviews are bad I wont buy it). ANywaY... Im rambling on and getting off topic, so any help you might have, a link, picture, video, whatever that might fit in between | | that much space and bring my temps down even 5-6°C would be so great you dont even know.
If youve made it this far thanks for reading and have a good night/day and God Bless!
SPC Ray, Michael D.
United States Cavalry
US ARMY
Fort Lewis WA
email me @ criostasis@mail.com
I am still looking for an answer to my problem of finding a good cooling solution for my SLI set up. My rig is as follows:
Mobo: ECS Elite nf650i SLIT -A nVidia nforce 650i SLI chipset 1066 MHz FSB 650i NB 480i SB
Memory: 2GB (2X1GB) OCZ XTC SLI DDR2 800 SDRAM 5-5-5-15 @ 400 MHz; 2GB (2X1GB) Samsung M3 DDR2 667 SDRAM 5-5-5-15 @ 333 MHz
Processor: Intel 6700@ 2.66 GHz (My proc says Intel Confidential on it. I think its the E6700, Everest just says Intel 6700
)Graphics: 2 X EVGA nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB in SLI; 513MHz core; 1187MHz Shader; 792MHz Memory clock
HardDisk: 2 X Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200 RPM
The graphics is wherein lies my problem. I have been looking at water and air cooling kits for the past two weeks every day most of the day ( Im on 30 days convalescent leave from having knee surgery from my knee getting blown out in Iraq
) and I havent been able to find any real solution for my problem, which is that the space between my graphics cards, its only about id say a little over 1/8th an inch. Literally about | | that much space!!! Damn ECS board doesnt give much space between pci x16 slots and graphics cards keep on getting bigger and bigger!!! Ive been pricing everything from Danger Den and Zalman water cooling kits to all around air cooling and price is not the problem, most everything is within my range (under 100 or maybe just a little over if its worth it) but its that everything that i have seen wont fit in that space. Im going based off of the pictures from the products website and the dimesions posted on the listings. My cards run temp wise as follows:Card 1 (Closest to Processor) 50-52°C @Idle 58-60° @Load
Card 2 (Bottom) 46-49°C @Idle 56-58° @Load
Now I know from researching the cards normal temp ranges this is pretty good considering that ive read that some peoples cards run really hot, even read about a couple of people that had their temps around 90-100°C under load and one poor guy who had it that high at idle!!! (He RMA'd though and got a normal card) As you can see on my specs I havent Oc'd my proc or my graphics cards yet. Its not that I cant, its just that I would like a good cooling set up first in place before I go at it, that way I can Oc to my hearts desire
. I really need a solution to this and at this point i dont care about price, ill save up for it if I have to. I havent had a watercooling set up so it would be my first and like all noobs to WC im nervous about leakage. When i put my second 8800 gts in, the voltage spiked and killed my Q6800 quad core and blew my 600W power supply . Thats what I get for not doing my homework about the voltage requirements to run SLI! Lesson learned and I do a lot of homework before I decide to buy anything. So much so that sometimes I review so many different products I give up and dont buy anything. (If 10% of the reviews are bad I wont buy it). ANywaY... Im rambling on and getting off topic, so any help you might have, a link, picture, video, whatever that might fit in between | | that much space and bring my temps down even 5-6°C would be so great you dont even know. If youve made it this far thanks for reading and have a good night/day and God Bless!
SPC Ray, Michael D.
United States Cavalry
US ARMY
Fort Lewis WA
email me @ criostasis@mail.com
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