My configuration is below
thermaltake armor + full case
This case has like a 260 mm fan on the side directly blowing on the video card, plus an 80 on the back, and another on the front. I have room for some more.
Core I7 2.66 with a different cooler
Asus revolution MOBO
6gb corsair ddr3
No holds bar 850 watt power supply
EVGA gtx 260 +
I ran an average 70C when playing the demo for the last remnant, and that was with every setting maxed out. I have heard of video card coolers, case fans, and other things. I want to know the best way to keep my card cool so i can play this and other games. My comp plays crysis warhead at max everything except anti aliasing at 16x and 16x q. I usually play with anti aliasing at 4x to keep it cooler. What can i do to keep my setup cool besides liquid cooling?|||70C is not that high of a temp for a card under load.
You might want to look at your cable management along with ambient temperature.
The heatsink/Fan combination on the card is limited in it's cooling ability by the average temperature of the air around you. If you keep your room at 80F, then the card will have a hard time cooling down.
It is the same if the air in the case is not flowing properly.
Make sure all the cables are tucked away and not blocking airflow.
Other than that, you could try removing the heatsink and fan off the card, and using some higher quality thermal paste such as Arctic Silver 5.
I would not suggest doing that though, as it is not as easy as it seems and will void the warranty. There is also the risk of damaging the GPU.|||As of today your card should have a cooling fan on it. If it doesn't you are unable to pur an cooling fan to it.|||Most high performance graphics cards, when using an intensive game maxed out in it's settings, will run hot.
Granted, they do have a fan on the side for a High Performance graphics card.
NO, it isn't going to always be the best graphics card cooling solution!
In fact, it's just a crutch!
Problem areas of graphics cards cooling capabilities,
1.Most of the High Performance graphics cards, are pretty thick in width.
This means they are usually installed pretty close to the Northbridge chipset, and/or other expansion slots that have a card in them.
This results in less air flow around the card, and it's fan.
Depends largely on the motherboard design, as to placement of the hardware components, and also what cards the user has placed next to the graphics card. The user may have no choice but to put that card,
(Expansion card. Could be a number of different expansion cards. Depends on what expansion slot, the motherboard designer put next to the PCI Express x16 slot, that you're using for your graphics card),
right next to the graphics card being used. OR, there may be another expansion slot available for this particular card, and the user can get it away from the graphics card itself.
2.Watch the cable placement inside the case. Make sure the harddrive cable/s, CD/DVD drive cable/s, audio cable, and power cables, are not blocking the fan for the graphics card. The card also needs as much room as possible, around the body of the graphics card, also. Not just the small area of the fan.
Tie cables up out of the way with plastic tie's. Make sure the inside of the computer is always clean, with a can of compressed air for computers, whenever it needs it.
(Warning! If you are not familiar with using a can of compressed air for computers, read this!
When you install that plastic 'straw', into the nozzle of the can of air, the 'straw' can put out a large force of air at the tip of the straw.
Only use short bursts of air on the processor fan, and the graphics card fan. These little fans are only designed to spin so fast. Spinning them faster than they were designed for, can result in shortening their 'Life Span' tremendously. Premature failure of the fan's bearings!
A short burst is squeezing the trigger in all the way, but letting go of the trigger quick!
Kinda' sounds funny, when the fan goes "Ziiiiing!", but the humor stops real quick when the fan bearings go out, and the fan quits spinning!
A processor will get hot, and shut off. HOPEFULLY! A graphics card may just burn up, and not shut off. Bye-bye $100 to $400 bucks!)
3.Sometimes the graphics card comes with a faulty fan. Looks to be spinning, but isn't spinning at the high Rpm's it's supposed to.
Happens! Sometimes a faulty part just gets in there! This is Not a perfect world.
4.Sometimes, that plastic case that goes around the graphics card body, isn't sealed like it should be. It may not be 'sealed' per se, but should fit flat around the body, (Actually it's a flat circuit board), and not have any 'humps' that stick up around the edge. It's a plastic molded part.
5.The heatsink that attaches to the GPU chip, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU), uses a type of thermal paste, just like the heatsink to a processor.
Sometimes it dries up, (Just like on a processor), and the thermal transference capability of the paste, is low or is no good.
(Negligible or Nil)
Taking the outside case off, and removing the fan and heatsink to check, is NO FUN! Plus if the card is new, it voids the warranty.
Sometimes that heatsink isn't sitting properly on the GPU chip, and isn't transferring heat as it should
With a 260mm fan blowing directly on the vid card, you'd THINK it would stay cool! Several things could be happening, however.
Maybe the 260mm is overpowering the 260's little fan, and causing it to slow down. Just a thought.
Maybe the 80mm fan in the front was somehow installed wrong, and is blowing air out, instead of sucking it in.
Maybe the 80mm in the back is installed wrong, and blowing air in, instead of sucking it out.
Airflow should go from front to back.
Perhaps installing a 120mm fan in the front, and another 120mm fan in the back, will help. (Remember! Air gets sucked IN the front, and blows OUT the back!)
->IF there is room, there are additional fan air coolers you can buy, and install on the graphics card.
Examples:
1.http://www.tweaktown.com/news/7726/
2.http://www.moddersmart.com/en/air-coolin…
(VGA cooler is a graphics card cooler)
3.http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers…
Examples of 120mm case fans,
http://www.directron.com/120mmfans.html
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