12-23-2016, 08:12 PM
Thanks for the reply. Decided to stop faffing and just dive in this afternoon.
1. Decided what I wanted to do might just work straight out of the box on windows so went with that and it did.
2. Installed Intel drivers. Set bios to always use integrated graphics. Installed AMD card, installed AMD drivers, pulled AMD card installed nvidia cards and drivers, reinserted AMD card, bit of a heart in mouth moment as windows booted and showed nothing but black screen but it all came good in the end.
2. Case is a corsair 540 air. Plenty of airflow and making use of a single 290x for the time being alongside the other cards, it doesn't half whack out the heat but gpu temps are stable with 100% fans at 60c case is a cool 37c with ambient room temp being about 20c think you're right though, can see me flogging these soon to add a 1070. Sadly while all the cards are blowers, the 1070s aren't FE but this isn't a 24/7 rig and it was built on a premise of "whatever I build it'll be better than what I have now".
1. Decided what I wanted to do might just work straight out of the box on windows so went with that and it did.
2. Installed Intel drivers. Set bios to always use integrated graphics. Installed AMD card, installed AMD drivers, pulled AMD card installed nvidia cards and drivers, reinserted AMD card, bit of a heart in mouth moment as windows booted and showed nothing but black screen but it all came good in the end.
2. Case is a corsair 540 air. Plenty of airflow and making use of a single 290x for the time being alongside the other cards, it doesn't half whack out the heat but gpu temps are stable with 100% fans at 60c case is a cool 37c with ambient room temp being about 20c think you're right though, can see me flogging these soon to add a 1070. Sadly while all the cards are blowers, the 1070s aren't FE but this isn't a 24/7 rig and it was built on a premise of "whatever I build it'll be better than what I have now".