Time To Upgrade to LC? HELP PLS

Hi All,

Since moving back to Australia I have found that in summer here the rig is getting extremely warm. Very few houses have ducted air conditioning here and you wouldn't be able to afford the cost of running it anyway. So you are at the beckon call of the outside air temp in your house for the most part. Where I live it has been close to 100 F all of this week.

I have a HAF case with 2x 470GTX cards and they do get to around 102 degrees when I am playing BF3 or anything like that. The room temp before playing is like 25-30 degrees celcius so its warm already. The rig is up on the table (off the carpet) and away from the wall by about 2 feet to help with airflow. The CPU temps are still ok with the Noctua 14 air system but I am a little worried about the GPUs.

Also I have put a Titanium Creative X-Fi audio card in there and obviously it is very close to the top GPU. Because of the heat, it trips out regularly under heaving gameplay/load. And there is nowhere else to put it right? (X-58 131-GT-E767 board)

So here is my question - I have never done liquid cooling but am wondering if I should look into LC for the GPUs? Is there anything that I would need to look out for if I did the install (not many/any good computer stores over here) and I am coming to the US for work for 3-4 weeks in February so I could order everything and install on my return.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

P.S. If I do put the LC on the GPUs, will there still be space for the audio card being that I assume the cooling rig goes under the GPU?

Anyone seen these before or used them or want to slam them?

Accelero hybrid

Edit - link doesn't seem to go to right page on artic website. Phone is not playing the game. Its the accelero hybrid on their site.

Looking for any option really including adding an extra fan in the room and possibly a small air conditioner to lower inlet temps into the tower



Edited by AussieJT - 01 Jan 2013 at 12:16am

Not really in the market for new GPUs. The GTX 470s have dual fans too and I still run every game right now at max setting on a single monitor.That is probably another 1-2 years down the track. There really is no way of dissipating the heat though even with 2 fans on each GPU.

Pretty cool looking... The more I read about the Accelero the more I think I might go that way. I have tried to read as much as possible to get a good (un biased) viewpoint. Although the cost is a little higher I would suggest, it might be the best option.

Now to find someone that sells them at a good price.

yeah with ambient temps like that even LC will have a hard time managing the temps