jasonzliangI think I have pretty good air flow. I am using a Fractal Design Nano S case. I have two 140mm intake fans in the front and a 120mm outtake fan in the rear. Here is an image of my setup:--snipped--
jasonzliangI noticed that when I run the Uniengine Heaven 4.0 Benchmark, my temperatures flatten out at around 82 C. This is with the default clockspeed settings and fan profile. Is this within the normal operating range for the 1080 FTW? It seems around 8-10 C higher than the temperature reported in the reviews and what other users reported.
EVGATech_MDeckerjasonzliangI think I have pretty good air flow. I am using a Fractal Design Nano S case. I have two 140mm intake fans in the front and a 120mm outtake fan in the rear. Here is an image of my setup:--snipped-- Yeah that airflow looks fine. Some chips just run hotter than others. 82C is nothing to be concerned about in terms of stability and performance however you may want to remove the cooler and clean / re-apply thermal paste to see if the temperatures drop. I noticed a 6C drop in temperatures by doing this on several cards.
tubbingWhat are your temps at when gaming regularly though?Your air flow looks good but does the temps drop if you take the side of your case off?
jasonzliangI reconfigured my PSU fan so that it now faces the gpu and pushes air upwards. Also, I swapped out my air cooler for a H100i with exhaust on top. Temperatures in Heaven 4.0 benchmark are now around 73-74 C.
jmaster299jasonzliangI reconfigured my PSU fan so that it now faces the gpu and pushes air upwards. Also, I swapped out my air cooler for a H100i with exhaust on top. Temperatures in Heaven 4.0 benchmark are now around 73-74 C. The large fan on your PSU pulls air, it does not push. It pulls air into the PSU and exhausts it out the back. While that may help your GPU temps because you are in fact pulling the hot air it generates away, you are just pulling that hot air into the PSU. And that is never a good thing. All PSUs should be pulling in fresh air from the outside, it's why a bottom mount case has a hole in the bottom for the PSU fan, with all it's exhaust going out the back. With that config, the PSU won't be adding much to the overall temp inside the case.Switching to the H100i was a good move, as the majority of it's heat will go right out of the case, and pull the hot air from the GPU with it. I would strongly suggest fixing your PSU so the fan faces the bottom, your temps should still be better than the 82c you had before due to that H100i increasing the exhaust airflow. I would also mount the fans for that H100i on top of the radiator in a pull configuration. That will prevent dust from building up between the fans and the radiator. With the radiator fans on top in a pull config, any dust that collects on the bottom of the radiator will be easy to clean off.
arestavoSomething like ICDiamond, or even better Grizzly Kryonaut, would be a little better than MX-4.
Sean1976I don't own the FTW version, but my 1080GTX F.E. doesn't break 64C ever. I originally looked at the 1080 GTX FTW, due to extra power and phase design, and supposed better cooling, but then what good is the extra +35 watts of power, if the chip itself isn't capable of achieving higher than promised clocks?My F.E. does 1989mhz core stable(+136 offset) and +5500mhz memory(+500 offset),@ stock voltage, that is more than enough of a OC for me!
Sean1976My card was set at 120% pwr/ target 92C out of the box. At least thats what the tuner showed upon opening PrecisionX 15.0.13.