08-29-2016, 03:47 AM
Thanks all for some very useful feedback & fan specs.
Now I am leaning towards putting (hopefully) 3 x 1080 FEs in the case, spaced apart from each other at the maximum distance that the motherboard allows, with a 200 mm side fan pushing air onto the cards, and if it fits, a 120x38mm blower from near the front of the case pushing air onto the front end of the cards.
The (HAF X) case that I am now looking at has room for 2x200m exhaust fans at the top. Good points about considering the room that the rig will be put into.
If I just end up using 2 GPUs, then I should be able to separate them quite a long way apart from each other. Would this situation, with less heat spilling from its neighbour, be more appropriate for a gaming card? Or would heat from the lower card rise onto the top card and cause issues?
FEs with quality fans sound like the way to go.
Now I am leaning towards putting (hopefully) 3 x 1080 FEs in the case, spaced apart from each other at the maximum distance that the motherboard allows, with a 200 mm side fan pushing air onto the cards, and if it fits, a 120x38mm blower from near the front of the case pushing air onto the front end of the cards.
The (HAF X) case that I am now looking at has room for 2x200m exhaust fans at the top. Good points about considering the room that the rig will be put into.
If I just end up using 2 GPUs, then I should be able to separate them quite a long way apart from each other. Would this situation, with less heat spilling from its neighbour, be more appropriate for a gaming card? Or would heat from the lower card rise onto the top card and cause issues?
FEs with quality fans sound like the way to go.