570 SLI

[gladiator_mohaa]

I have 2 EVGA 570's I got to put in SLI and the top card run hotter than hell! It got up to 90C. I wish I wish I could space out the cards but the wonderful engineers who designed the mother board (Gigabyte UD5 socket 1366 from 2008) put the 3rd pci express slot at the bottom instead of 2nd from the bottom. Looking at other boards it seem most come this way unless you get the $500 evga beast.

So right now I only run one card which runs between 65C and 72C under load because it kind of concerns me with one card running so hot. Any ideas cooling these suckers down with out having to go water cooled which is expensive and sacrifices portability.

Ryan

 

[intelx]

90c is fine, thats normal with the 570 in sli, and the top always runs hotter.

 

[17seconds]

Don't worry unless you are at 95c, which is the upper limit the chip can handle. They are made to go as high as 90c in SLI under normal conditions. All the same, make sure you have good airflow through the case.

 

[gladiator_mohaa]

So whats the expected lifetime of GPU's that run that hot and what would you suggest to lower the temps to extend the life of my cards?