With my system now having an SLI configuration, I thought it was time to monitor all temperatures in my system. I wanted to do that also because when I had my system case open, a lot of warmth was coming from it, and not only from the 2 GPU's inside it... So I installed the ASUS Probe II mainboard monitoring program again, and it did get me worried a bit. Okay, that HUGE fan on my CPU does keep the CPU still cool enough at an 45C maximum. Compared with the 65C that the CPU used to be with it's factory default fan, that's a very good drop in temperature But the RAM temperature did go up a bit as well with the SLI configuration. The RAM used to be around 40C, even when my system was working hard, but now it's up to 55C. I know that it still is not overly warm, but it did make me wonder what the macimum temperature for DDR2 RAM would be. Well, I'm still within range of safety. After a bit of googling, I learned that DDR2 has a savery limit of around 85C... And then both GPU's... As I said 3 days ago when I installed the SLI configuration, the temperature did get rather high, up to 85C. Asking questions about this temperature on the EVGA forums, I learned that they are indeed a bit high, but not alarming. Not to mention, the 85C is only when the cards are pushed to maximum performance... When playing games I'm still using the EVGA on-screen display to monitor the temperature and work-load of the GPU's, and so far, the SLI configuration didn't cross 60% work-load, and with that the 65C I'm used to. And I think (hope) that most games I play won't push the cards to full work-load for too long...

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