EVGA 8800 GTS KO ACS3

Hat-TrixHat-Trix
edited January 2008 in Hardware
I just bought 2 8800 EVGA cards to run SLI in my Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI Mobo... The cards width would not fit side by side in the PCI-e slots. The only way was to completely remove the outer cover of the cards, grrrr. Well I got them in but the temp of the 1st is fine at 70 ish card 2 gets up to 86 c. Is that a problem? Did anyone else have a similar problem with the 8800 cards?

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  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    My single 8800GTS 320MB used to hit ~88C under full load with the stock cooler, so if you have two stacked on top of each other and all you are hitting is 86C on the hottest card, you're good to go. Are those full load temps, and if so what are you using to load/monitor?

    IMO, aftermarket cooling is always a good idea for SLi, especially for G80.
  • MAGICMAGIC Doot Doot Furniture City, Michigan Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    The G80 gpu just runs hot as hell. My single GTS at stock speeds with the stock cooler would hit around 88-90 in crysis. If you're daring, i took off the stock heatsink and removed the thermal pads and relaced them with silicon thermal grease, and replaced the gpu thermal material with arctic silver. now i dont get over 78.
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