X205-SLI1 Owners Alert!!!!!

As a side note, can't say I'm overly reassured with Tech level 3 Toshiba engineers

 

Those would be the same guys that told us there was a 256mb samsung ram module on each card in the sli systems ;>)

 

Well, not sure totally what I've done, but been doing some testing, and running 3dMark06, and using the Ntune Nvidia Monitor to log the results, looks like GPU1 is peaking at about 84C and GPU2 reaches 70C at stock clocks during one full run, and overclocked at 585/900 i'm getting 88C on 1 and 72C on 2. It's running fine, just curious how those numbers compare to anybody else's results? Still not sure why, but it sure seems it's running hotter now even with the vent taped over, don't remember seeing anything in the 80's before, but maybe my imagination.

As a side note, CPU is idling right around 46-47C with the vent taped over, so that really doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect at all. As for the GPU's, 1 idles at 64C, 2 idles at 56C

So, other questions... if it does run in the low to mid 90's (only seen this during Crysis), is that a problem? I don't know the safe range? And other question, why is GPU2 ALWAYS so much cooler? I've been told in Crysis it's because SLI isn't enabled yet (depending on what board I'm on I get conflicting answers on this), but 3dMark06 does use it I'm sure

PS: Room temperature is right around 70F

sorry for the novel... back to work!

 

Just a thought on the gpu temp differences, could it be that the first card is the top one and it picks up some heat from the other one because of the way they are sandwiched together??

 

I have taped the opening on mine and suprisingly as I type both my cpu cores are at 46c and 47c and boht gpu's are 60c, both the cpu's and gpu's on mine will only vary by about 1 to 3c while playing Gears of War for a while I saw the highest one of the gpu's reached as 80c but the cpu's have not gone above 67c so far. So maybe we should leave the hole taped closed.

 

yeah, i'm gonna leave mine covered... it seems to help keep the gpu's cooler, with it removed i was hitting into the 90'sC, taped back up it's back down around where it had been before, and either way my cpu never gets above about mid 60's.