I believe that temperature is fine on that chipset mate as they are rated to about 99C. If your worried, its worth installing something like MSI Afterburner and setting up a custom fan profile to run the fan faster as you get into the mid 80s.

Its worth checking your CPU and chipset as well. A great little ptrogram to log everything at once is this one... very light on the system too.

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

 

Thanks Stu, I'll monitor some more

edit: just run the Heaven dx11 benchmark. GPU temp up to 80degs but the fan only ever got up to 48% so plenty more capacity for cooling it should it be needed.
Mind is at rest now

my results, not as impressive as all of yours but
FPS 45.6
Score 1149
min fps 11.4
max fps 103.3

It plays BF3 fine which is all I'm concerned about

 

nVidia cards usually runs hotter(i mean new "Fermi").

Which case you have?

If you have space fit,i would say one bigger fan will help to cool GPU


Jura

 

Hi Jura
It's a Fractal Design R3. Lovely case and has space for a few more fans if needed.

 

If you are looking at test of Fractal Design R3,temps are similar like you have...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5084/f...e-noise-down/5





Jura

 

 

One question with a triple monitor set-up like that, when you open programs do they always open on the primary screen (the one with the start button on, i.e. the left hand monitor?).

Awesome set-up by the way

 

Thinking aloud... do you have your windows piower settings on "Performance" by any chance? if so, that disables the CPU speed step. Put it on "Balanced" for best power savings.

 

Seems to bloody vary, most applications remember where you left them, others just **** you off by appearing any bloody where. There are tons of settings for it, so dare say I can sort it, but been too busy overclocking and benchmarking lately as got this thing in my head I want to joing the world leaderboards. Bloody geek.

PS:
This is how it looks with windows setup properly on central screen. much better..

 

Spot on, that's what it was, I had changed it to performance n completely forgot, so now it speed steps, so idle temps are now 35-40c, thx

 

I didn't realise that when you ran the gpu's thru 3 monitors the res went up that high I'm still tempted to change my 30" lcd monitor to a 50" plasma I have lying spare in the house

 

Great news... CPU will likely last a little longer too.
Your welcome.

Why not try it... its only a few plugs.

 

If my monitor is limited to 1680x1050 would it be worth me SLI'ing another 560Ti in my PC?

 

Depends what problem you have now mate? Is the one card limiting your enjoyment of games at the moment if playing them at full res and full texture quality? Are you getting good FPS?

 

I can't have everything on 'ultra' in BF3, but I guess my enjoyment isn't any less because of it.
I might wait for a few months, let the prices come down before splurging on another one. Just don't want to wait too long and they not be available (would rather get a matched pair rather than different manufacturers and different clock/mem speeds etc).

 

Well, Nvidia's "Kepler" is due out in next month or so, that will see a LOT of good video cards on sale cheap.

 

Nice, I am using a Corsair Obsidian 800, and it is a great case, a joy to work with.

Has a 360 triple fan rad in the top panel, and it is so easy to keep the cabling tidy.

 

There's always something 'just about to be released', but yeah I think I'd be stupid to pay over the odds for such small gains at the moment

 

Indeed there is, but they are rarely game changers like the Tahiti and Kepler chipsets.

• New manufacturing processes.
• New Lower heat output.
• New levels of performance.

New cluster**** of driver problems.

 

Your running those 3 on the same 720W PSU?

I must admit this has wetted by PC building tastebuds which were already moist after seeing how much better BF3 looks on PC compared to PS3. Wondering what I can salvage out of my current rig realistically but if only the case / PSU I may as well build from scratch and leave this one for the mrs to use.

CPU: E8400 Stock
Mobo: Asus P5K-E
Mem: 2x1gb Crucial Ballistix 8500
HDD: 74GB WD Raptor / 250GB WD AAKS
GFX: BFG OC2 8800GT 512mb (knackered see other thread)
Sound: X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
Case: Coolermaster Cosmos Case
PSU: Corsair HX620

 

[quote=P1Fanatic;10509963]Hi mate,
No, to add the 3rd card I had to buy a new MOBO and a new 1250w PSU as well, not to mention 2 extra cooling fans, so that third card, essentially, cost me over a grand! And guess what, **** all works with it.



Add a serious GPU to that rig and see what happens. That way, your not losing anything if you have decided you may build another machine.

Your problem is, Battlefield is one of the most power hungry games on the market, it really does eat up all you attack it with, but I am not sure how CPU intensive it is, but probably not much, unless you plan to play it onlne, then you can get into problems if there are a lot of connections in your map.

 

just done mine and got 25.17

 

Made a LOT of changes and tweaks to mine now, wil post up some scores later.


There were a few programs suggested mate, what was that score with?

 

super pi

 

Got ya. Try the 3D ones too mate, far more interesting to you for your new hardware as Super Pi is processor and ram only really, your GPU wont do a thing.