Cooling Ordered some waterblocks for my GTX 580's(More pics with benchmarks added on page 4)

SICK!

 

True, What fans are those?
I am thinking my temps could come down more with installing some of those coolermaster ones whilst keeping the noise down

 

Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000. I have 7. The best 120 fans you can get!


Right some benchmarks,

Windows 7 64bit SP1
Nvidia Display drivers Beta 270.51

GPU @ 930/1860/2050 Max temps 59*C. (Need more voltage to push these cards!)

CPU @ 4.86GHZ 143x34 Maxed temp 62*C
(5Ghz was way to hot hitting into the 80*C due to using one loop for both CPU and GPU's).

Heaven Benchmark,



3Dmark vantage Next,

Cheers,

Simon.

 

I like your max FPS ... ^^

 

Just use nvidia inspector to get higher voltages.
I can get 1.213v with my 580.

 

930? you are probably limited by one of your card.

i can do 940MHz at 1.138v.

 

Amazing!

I really need to look into water cooling!

 

That is a beautiful thing!

 

I started at 980mhz and dropped back to 960 then 950 then 930. I never tried 940mhz....For me to push these cards more, I need to have the GPU's on a separate loop...I'm very sure I can get 1ghz out of them!!

Anyway, due to the heat wave, I'm now getting higher temps. 83*C @ 4.86ghz (CPU starting to throttle back!) and 65*C on gpu's after Vantage.
I may have to look into a separate loop for the CPU and GPU's, as things are getting toast!! GTX 580 don't half heat up the water!!

THIS IS WHY SEPARATE WATER LOOPS ARE IMPORTANT!

3DMark Vantage score; (CPU throttling!)

 

Run the GTX580's on a 480 rad in the bottom compartment of your TJ07, and your CPU on a 360 in the roof?

 

I have a 120.2 (240) in the roof, which cools my Motherboard chipset. I don't really want to start sticking rads on the outside of my case either....'Off to rethink my waterloops'.

 

Go nuts then. Get a 360 for the roof, and move the 240 down in the bottom compartment next to the PSU?
You can then have a 480 for the 580's next to the 240..

But who am I to talk, I have some puny Titan Fenrir for my system

 

I have got a 120.2 and a 120.3 in the bottom at the mo. I might try the GPU,s on the 120.3 and the CPU on the 120.2...But like you say, 120.4 and a 120.3 would be better.

 

It is one of those problems I would love to have tbh

 

Why not put the cpu and mobo on the 2 120.2s, then the gpus on the 120.3? (although obviously, ideally you just need more rad)
Maybe push/pull rads, what models are they? Considered more powerful fans?

 

You probably will have to rethink the rads, remember the 580s are probably dumping 700W into your waterloop.

 

It's not a problem, I might just have to have 1 loop and a water chiller

 

I can't remember the make of them....Alphacool? Anyway the rads are good.

 

Well, are they thick or thin rads?
Might be worth getting something like the XSPC RX series, if I were to redo my loop, I'd defo swap my swiftech for a thicker model.
Any room for push/pull?

 

Yeah I would say at least that. Put it this way. One run of Vantage, and the temp of the water is 50*C.