Recent content by turboturd

Not much better, at stock clocks. In fact VRM1 temp kept climbing until it peaked at 112 last night. I've lowered the voltage to 1050 and dropped the core clock to 950 MHz and I'm getting these temps so far: Very happy with this, seeing how cramped my case is. It might not be very stable...

Cards have arrived. Installed the first one, greeted with these temps after half an hour of mining. Clearly my cooling setup and my tiny CM 430 Elite aren't quite ready to handle two of these. At least I'm getting good hashrates right out of the box (650-720 KH/s)

Is it the top card that's throttling or are they both? I'm trying to decide between keeping one in my system and getting a newegg refund on the other, or trying both and selling one used if the setup is shit. They should be arriving today or tomorrow.

I recently ordered a pair of XFX Double D 280x's planning to use them for LTC mining and gaming but I've just read terrible things about how hot the VRM gets due to lack of proper VRM cooling. The two PCIe x16 slots on my mobo (ASUS P8P67 B3) aren't spaced apart either, so this is especially...