My Rig

[CRAZYCAP]

Hi Guys

Just after some comments on my every changing but now completed build (i hope

). In there I have a gigabyte z68-ud3r motherboard, i5 2500 processor, 2 OCZ agility 3 in raid 0, ssd for games, 2 storage drives, 2 GTX 570s in SLI, X-FI titanium soundcard, 16gb corsair vengeance DDR3 1600mhz RAM and processor is cooled by an ANTEC 920

 

[yassarikhan786]

Looking good mate. What are your temps like?

 

[CRAZYCAP]

not too bad mate. it's nearly summer in Australia so it's heating up a bit. My rig temps aren't much different to the ambient so I am pretty happy with that. It was a shame I couldn't get the same MSI 570 as I have only been able to find the twin frozer, but the price of the galaxy card was good so i grabbed it (would have liked another MSI to match for esthetics). It's the first time I have ever had an SLI rig as rigs in the past (socket 775) have been crossfire due to the lack of SLI support. I get 9898 in 3dmark 11 and P41704 in Vantage with the cards at stock and the i5 2500 @ 4ghz so pretty happy with the setup.

I made the box to go over the power supply so I didn't see the power cables connected to the supply and I like the way it turned out. I made it out of 2 bits of cardboard and its held down with using the power supply bracket, i thought I was pretty tricky hahahahahahaha.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Cool, thanks.

 

[| raVen |]

Looking good, but do you really need this 2extra fans on the top of PSU?I don't think so

 

[yassarikhan786]

Wouldn't the first card run hotter?

Wouldn't it be better to have some way of directing air towards the first card?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Aye fans are blowing at the psu...?

 

[| raVen |]

Aye fans are blowing at the psu...?

Yeah...

So its just making more noise then its should be in this rig and not helping at all

 

[fcb]

Is this a Lancool chasis?

 

[CRAZYCAP]

The 2 fans on the PSU are blowing up into the bottom card. I think I'll remove them as I haven't noticed much of a temp drop. Yesterday it was a hot one and the cards were idling around 50deg so i was experimenting to see if I could drop it a bit. Coca Cola yeah is a lancool pc-k62. Michael89, after testing this I see your point.

Got home from work this afternoon and the temp today is about the same as yesterday 34deg. I read on the WWW where people were finding their Nvidia cards were running hotter with particular drivers and I was interested to try. I was running the latest drivers and I uninstalled and went back to 285.27 and my temps have dropped 10degs. Yesterday I wasn't comfortable with a 50deg idle temp and today I get 39deg.

Does anyone know any issues with the latest drivers from Nvidia?

 

[| raVen |]

I have no issues with latest drivers, temps in idle 31deg.