What do enthusiasts do regardless of the price of the components? They look for every possible way to drop the temp even if by only 1c.
So here we have the GTX-660 SC 2gb.
Its a clean looking almost completely reference design, my particular unit spends most of its time running about 1110mhz boost. However with the Fan set @ 55% the GPU works its way up to about 77C, warmer then I like. So lets take it apart and find out what everything looks like down there.
Having too much thermal paste is always better then having too little, In all the time I've owned EVGA products, and this is only my opinion I have never received a unit with a proper tim job. More then adequate for mass production and far better then what I've seen from some other AIB's but still in my opinion, too much is being used.
Lets clean things up.
Ok, ready to put it back together, but I have an itch, and I hate to say it, I must scratch.
I wonder will this fit....
yes.
That is one of my old Zalman VF-900-CUs god I loved these things back on my 9800's in theory these cards should be low enough of a TDP for this cooler to keep it MORE then cool being that the VF-900 is rated for 150w.
I'll get to testing that out later once I acquire some extra vram sinks to use on the VRM's
Anyways, a little bit of MX-2 later + some VRam sinks and were done!
So it will take a few days for the MX-2 to fully seat but initial results are wonderful.
Ambient: 30c
Heaven 1920x1200 x4x4 normal Tess 15min @ 55% fan
Before: 77C
After: 70C
7C, yep its fun times ahead.
~Red
post edited by Lordred - 2012/09/23 20:52:29
