Does anyone have any experience with the Galax 980 Ti HOF? Yep, saw the video by W. He didn't go into temps much that I can remember, except for the OC part. Mine's not OC'ed.
The one I have hits 80c after about 5 minutes of running Valley at max. It also hits that temp in Skyrim and the system sounds like a jet with those 3 GPU fans running max.
The cooling for the system is a NZXT H440 with 3 120 Noctua Redux fans in the front pulling air in (each on its own fan header). The CPU is cooled with a NZXT Kraken X61 in the top with 2 140 Noctua IPC fans pushing air out of the case through the radiator. I installed the Asus assistant fan, when I put the system together. The HOF is using its own fans.
I've played around with various fan speeds and relocated fans (120s to the top, AIO to the front) without any luck. The rest of the system seems to be reasonably cool (50s low 60s on the CPU under load).
The rest of the system consists of an EVGA 1000 watt PSU, Samsung 128GB M.2 drive (with the heat cover installed), 2 Intel 480GB 730 SSDs on the shelf above the PSU, a WD 2TB HDD in the bottom of the case (in front of the PSU). The drive cage in the front has been removed and the fans have a straight shot for air flow to the mobo. The HOF is in the first slot.
Can you hear the fans ramping up on the hof using speedfan? I have heard reports of damaged fan cables or crimped fan cables grounding out preventing fan rpms from rising.
Can you be sure you see your cards fans changing wrt temperature?
It will be very loud at the far end of the heat spectrum.
Thanks gentlemen for getting me to engage my brain.
Turned the case on its side and pull off the panel. Ran Valley and checked first to see if the heatsink was getting warm and that all 3 fans were running. Both checked out.
When I looked at Valley after 5 to 10 minutes, the temp was bouncing between 65 and 69. So that got me to thinking that the exhaust off the card was just bouncing off the side panel and getting recycled through the case. It turned out that the rear exhaust fan wasn't up to the task and the AIO fans didn't help 'cause the CPU never really got hot and they don't get much above the high 900 rpm range. So much for positive pressure.
Replaced the rear fan with a Noctua 140 I had lying around, buttoned it back up and the temps stayed at 65 to 69, which I can live with. Just goes to show that even if everything checks out during the build outside of the case, it may not once it goes in.
This one is my retirement build. After 30 some years of messing with computers, I guess Grace Hopper just had to give me one last "bug" to figure out...
Yep, it would seem so. Not the best for air flow, but sure is pretty.
Story of my life, always went for the dysfunctional pretty ones... ; )
I'm just happy for now that it's not maxing out at 80C any more. The first card I had in it, an EVGA GTX 970 SSC ran about the same, mid to hi 60s under load. May be time to think about a custom cooling loop.
Just Googled it. That Air 540 is one nice looking case.
Did a budget build for a friend 's wife. Had to stay under 700 bucks and used a Tesseract case. Ugly as sin, but it's another one that has good air flow.
