GTX 970 Single Fan Blower VS Dual Fan Cooling in x51

While you wait ...

Is there anything you can do to exhaust hot air from inside system or circulate it better?

What's your fan profile set to? I actually had auto off, I just set it to aggressive and nows it's running 2,150 rpm or 48% fan speed idle.. It's at 38C idle, Do you think my cards faulty? Also I could remove my optical drive to make a little bit of room to breathe and save a couple of watts -EDIT- It's maintaining 38C on the quiet fan curve running at 1330 RPM (30%), but it did take awhile to get down to that temp on aggressive. Your card really only goes up to 52C while gaming??

Also, I noticed your specs, do you have a R1 powerboard in your system? Did you modify anything to get your system from rebooting during games or did you just plug n' play?

Still experimenting with OC's & Profiles.

Fan profile points:

45 - 45%
55  - 60%
60  - 70%
75  - 80%

So I'm trying to undervolt in MSI afterburner and it's not working, so I found that some users remedy this problem from flashing the GPU's bios, theoretically could I flash a stock 970 bios onto my 970 FTW? or would that be bad? Also the FTW has 2 fans on it, so maybe if I did flash it, it would only regulate one fan?

Blower Card is your only hope.

X51 is a SFF which requires a reference style card.

Sell the ACX while you can... Admit the mistake and correct it.

970 Blower Cards are harder to find because they're the preferred choice for SLI, so people tend to buy 2 at a time much more often than dual fan models.

EVGA 04G-P4-1970-KR  

EVGA 04G-P4-1972-KR

MSI 4GD5OC

PNY VCGGTX9704XPB

And get a free $60 game while you're at it. I did.

Ok, I ONLY have two options, get a blower 980 reference and upgrade to a R2 powerboard (170w limit) OR buy a mini ITX cooler master case (elite 130 www.newegg.com/.../Product.aspx) and a cooler master 550w PSU (CM V550 www.newegg.com/.../Product.aspx) I'm wondering if the dual fan GPU will work well in that mini ITX case, it has a lot of ventilation but I'm always worried that the dual fan gpu will blow the air in the wrong direction :/ but which do you think is better? The first option is $220 + $40. and the second is $95 + $50

The extra 20 watts is mostly just the difference between SandyBridge 2600 [95w] and IvyBridge [77w].

IDK about Haswell.

Check stock availability: NVIDIA GTX 970 In Stock Tracker - NowInStock.net

Newegg in stock now with free $60 game EVGA SC blower card.

Apparently a user named pengful on this forum thread (http://www.alienowners.com/showthread.php/6325-X51-R1-Power-Board-Replacement-R1-(VFHMM)-with-R2-(D85RT)/page1) has replaced his r1 powerboard with an r2 powerboard and no longer experiences shut downs, I think it's more of the powerboard than the motherboard change. Also buying a 970 SC is not an option for me, I can only do option one or two, a 980 blower in my case + r2 powerboard or an upgrade to a new more ventilated mini itx case with the dual fan 970 and a new PSU

O.K.

Have fun.

xNadeemx dude instead of buying a coolermaster case get a silverstone rvz01 case and a psu
 or you can get a reference model card with blower style and keep your awsome case .

do not get the pny 970 because it is rated at 160w and x51 R1 version supports 150w.

but it works fine with the x51 R2 version.

Apparently a user named pengful on this forum thread (http://www.alienowners.com/showthread.php/6325-X51-R1-Power-Board-Replacement-R1-(VFHMM)-with-R2-(D85RT)/page1) has replaced his r1 powerboard with an r2 powerboard and no longer experiences shut downs, I think it's more of the powerboard than the motherboard change. Also buying a 970 SC is not an option for me, I can only do option one or two, a 980 blower in my case + r2 powerboard or an upgrade to a new more ventilated mini itx case with the dual fan 970 and a new PSU

Since you have a R1 version I would recommend installing the components in a new inexpensive case and PSU. Will allow for future, more powerful GPU upgrades.