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disolitude on 17 September 2011
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Vetteman94 said:
disolitude said:
Vetteman94 said:
disolitude said:
Hopefully Nvidia releases some new ones too and lowers the price of gtx580 to $250 range. I'd love to add a 3rd one and heat my house this winter... :)

That would be nice as I just ordered one myself to replace my dead  5870, and I wouldnt hesitate to add a second one.

I cant wait to see how it runs my games.

I have not been dissapointed. Most of the time I don't even turn SLI on...no point for games like Deuse Ex 3 and Super SF 4.

People always bring up heat but thanks to water cooling I never see it go over 50 degrees.

How much hotter can 1 GTX 580 get over 2 5870s in Crossfire,  I cant imagine too much more,  plus I am getting a bigger case that has better airflow than the one I got so.  Eventually I may dabble in water cooling but for now I will settle for standard Air cooling.

From what I've read I think its going to max out around 80-85 degrees for the reference card under intense benchmarks. Aftermarket heatsink ones are 10 degrees cooler.  Water cooling for video cards is more important than CPU IMO.

When I was building my PC I had an extra rad and parts to make the CPU watercooled as well but after realizing that 2 580s watercooled will top out at 50 degrees with no air flow in to the case I really didn't have to. Picked up a decent Noctua air cooler for the CPU and overclocked the i7 950 to 4.0 (3.06 reference). The cPU also hovers around 50 at high load so its all good.