By the way Andrea87, I'm in the chart twice, you may want to delete the old user name I went by "Tech2" rather than Techtu.
Andrea what paste are you using and could you let me know your temps with old paste and new paste at both idle and full load please?
it's great that someone with a good camera is taking shots of the same card I have, just makes me drool a little more
I will edit the chart soon, adding some other users I've found in the thread.
as for the thermal paste, I'm running prolimatech pk-1 now. I've ordered it some days ago, after discovering I could not find anymore the large 20g tube of Mx-2 that is probably lost somewhere in the mess of my garage. Goddamn, I must recover it! 20g of that paste cannot be just lost that way
Talking about temps idle and full, I'm idling at 24-26°C, load never over 58-60, furmark reaches 70-71°C. This with the new paste, a large fan on the side of my case and 1.075V being put into the core. Before, with the small fan, 1.037V, old paste and such I was idling at something like 30c, load 65 and furmark 76-77°C. Ambient temperature 18-19°c.
If I open the case now, disconnecting the large fan blowing on the card, idle temperatures rise from 24-26 to 30-31°C. indeed the fan has made much.
Next week I'll get also some mx3, aside with an order of parts for a friend's pc. might test it too.
This is the actual inside of the case: (there is a network card between the vga and the sound card, I've removed it to improve air circulation)
as for fans, there are two intake ones on the front of the case, one 8cm near the hard drives, one 12cm suspended with cable ties over the dvd burner, two push-out ones on the rear (12 cm zalman one + power supply) and one intake on the side panel, placed just facing the gpu in the bottom left corner of the panel.