HR-03 GTX and Spitfire cooler = tri sli 480

when i look at the thermalright cooler pics i think its possible to have

a tri sli thermalright cooled 480 cards

the HR-03gtx would be on the 1 and 3 card and the spitfire cooler would be on the 2 card

the HR-03GTX can be mounted with the finned portion hanging off either the front or over the rear of the card so it isnt a problem

the 1 card would have the GTX cooler on the rear
and the 2 card woudnt be a problem since the cooler is hanging on the side.

soo what do u think.

UPDATE:thermalright said that they are developing new VRM heatsinks for the GF100 cards
and as u can see here http://www.ocia.net/reviews/trhr03gtx/page4.shtml rear heatsink mount = cooler than front cooling mount

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I think you should be able to get away with two aircooled GTX480s, but three is really pushing it. You are going to have huge amounts of heat being dumped in your case, and there will be a large hot spot around the GPus that will be impossible to cool. I'd recommend going with water for the tri-sli route.

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Originally Posted by H2O

I think you should be able to get away with two aircooled GTX480s, but three is really pushing it. You are going to have huge amounts of heat being dumped in your case, and there will be a large hot spot around the GPus that will be impossible to cool. I'd recommend going with water for the tri-sli route.

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Didn't nVidia use a trisli aircooled rig to show fermi? With the sled demo?

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Originally Posted by Musho

Didn't nVidia use a trisli aircooled rig to show fermi? With the sled demo?

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Yes but those were with stock coolers, which exhaust air out the back of the case. The Thermalright coolers exhaust air back into the case. Note that (AFAIK) no one has tried this before but just looking at where the hot air from the heatsinks goes it looks like tri-sli on aftermarket coolers is a no-go, the exception being if you had a case with a huge fan on the side (like the A380).

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Originally Posted by H2O

I think you should be able to get away with two aircooled GTX480s, but three is really pushing it. You are going to have huge amounts of heat being dumped in your case, and there will be a large hot spot around the GPus that will be impossible to cool. I'd recommend going with water for the tri-sli route.

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there will be 3 fans on top exhausting hot air out

2 fans from the bottom left and right are the intake fans

look at the black x58 4 pci-e board
the first card will have the cooler reversed
the second card will have the spitfire
and the third card will be on the last slot and the cooler will also be reversed there are 3 slots available and the cooler will take 2 slots without the fan

there will be very good airflow so it isnt a problem

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Originally Posted by owned666

there will be 3 fans on top exhausting hot air out

2 fans from the bottom left and right are the intake fans

look at the black x58 4 pci-e board
the first card will have the cooler reversed
the second card will have the spitfire
and the third card will be on the last slot and the cooler will also be reversed there are 3 slots available and the cooler will take 2 slots without the fan

there will be very good airflow so it isnt a problem

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Sounds like you are going to have great airflow. If you have good airflow, and everything fits, I don't see why you couldn't do it. :)

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Originally Posted by H2O

Sounds like you are going to have great airflow. If you have good airflow, and everything fits, I don't see why you couldn't do it. :)

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and i will be the first ever to do something crazy like this

never seen someone use aftermarket air coolers in tri sli before

btw how much do modders charge to lets say create 3 fan intake "area" on top ?

i cant do it
when i mod i act like a monkey high on cocaine.

Um you have to consider vrm temps as well most little heatsinks battle to cool the 280's vrms i have trouble even on my gtx260's with little heatsinks dotted all around them i have 2x watercooled core only and rest is air cooled ie vrm memory.

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Um you have to consider vrm temps as well most little heatsinks battle to cool the 280's vrms i have trouble even on my gtx260's with little heatsinks dotted all around them i have 2x watercooled core only and rest is air cooled ie vrm memory.

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yeah i know
thermalright said that they are making new vrm heatsinks for the 480 cards