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AMD's EVGA?

Sapphire & Gigabyte.
saying that my last 4 cards 2x7950, 295x2, R9 Nano all Sapphire because were cheap and good offerings.
But gigabyte were 4 nvidias incl up to gtx780 ghz
 
ICDP said:
I'm not sure why the big EVGA love-in to be honest. I agree they are among the best but their build quality is no better than MSI or Gigabyte and all three have three year warranties that go with the GPU rather than the original purchaser. Having owned all three within the past few years I would say the MSI Twin Fozr was overall better than the EVGA ACX and the Windforce GPUs.
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cannot comment on the old MSI fozr as never owned one but owning the latest fozr on a 390 gaming and a EVGA classified their is a clear winner on build quality, Thickness of materials and audible levels. I had to replace the TIM on my 390 fozr due to it being so naff, I replaced the TIM on my classified 980 ti an got a 3-4c difference (going to IC Diamond) same replacement on the MSI = 23c difference. I think that in its self shows that MSI simply dont pay the same amount of attention to their cards.

Im no EVGA fan boy i just put my money where i feel the best value is so Ben @ Evga keep up the good work producing top notch cards because if better comes along i have no loyalty ;)
 
Randall8686 said:
cannot comment on the old MSI fozr as never owned one but owning the latest fozr on a 390 gaming and a EVGA classified their is a clear winner on build quality, Thickness of materials and audible levels. I had to replace the TIM on my 390 fozr due to it being so naff, I replaced the TIM on my classified 980 ti an got a 3-4c difference (going to IC Diamond) same replacement on the MSI = 23c difference. I think that in its self shows that MSI simply dont pay the same amount of attention to their cards.

Im no EVGA fan boy i just put my money where i feel the best value is so Ben @ Evga keep up the good work producing top notch cards because if better comes along i have no loyalty ;)
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I bought a 980Ti EVGA ACX based on reviews that said it would run at 65-70c at almost silent fan speeds. Mine was hitting 81-82c with 60% fan speed in W3 and no amount of TIM replacement changed that. Mine was hitting 81-82c with stock fan speed (~35%) and throttling quite badly in W3 and no amount of TIM replacement changed that. In order to stop the GPU throttling I had to set a custom fan profile at 60%. I ended up getting a Kraken AIO mount and adding an AIO to shut that crap up. Prior to that I had a 980 reference and a 980 MSI G1 Gaming and the MSI was quiet and cool.

All subjective and down to ones own experiences but for me I will be avoiding EVGA ACX coolers in future.

Edited because to amend factual errors. :confused:
 
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ICDP said:
I bought a 980Ti EVGA ACX based on reviews that said it would run at 65-70c at almost silent fan speeds. Mine was hitting 81-82c with 60% fan speed in W3 and no amount of TIM replacement changed that. I ended up getting a Kraken AIO mount and adding an AIO to shut that crap up. Prior to that I had a 980 reference and a 980 MSI G1 Gaming and the MSI was quiet and cool.

All subjective and down to ones own experiences but for me I will be avoiding EVGA ACX coolers in future.
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Very strange, I have the 980 ti classified and its Much quieter than the X61 Kraken that i purchased at the same time for the Mrs 4690k sounds like you have a hot one. Mine sits around 80c at stock in demanding tittles but the fans are at 27-35% if i start over-clocking it then it get loud. However the classified is HUGE compared to the Superclocked version so the Much bigger heat sink will alone reduce the need for fan speed plus the fans are much bigger on the classified over the SC too. What version did you have? if the SC then it does have a much smaller heatsink and smaller fans.
 
A bit of a mixed bag then, Sapphire, MSI and Gigabyte having fans. Interesting there is no mention of ASUS!

If EVGA haven't spoken to AMD why not? Are there any plans for EVGA to start making AMD GPU's? Seems like a missed opportunity to increase your customer base to me, I'd buy one ;)
 
Sapphire is one of the oldest AMD GPU partners even going back to the ATI days.

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Even going back to the past,when ATI and AMD were very strict with anything apart from reference designs,they were among the few which had non-reference coolers IIRC.
 
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Randall8686 said:
Very strange, I have the 980 ti classified and its Much quieter than the X61 Kraken that i purchased at the same time for the Mrs 4690k sounds like you have a hot one. Mine sits around 80c at stock in demanding tittles but the fans are at 27-35% if i start over-clocking it then it get loud. However the classified is HUGE compared to the Superclocked version so the Much bigger heat sink will alone reduce the need for fan speed plus the fans are much bigger on the classified over the SC too. What version did you have? if the SC then it does have a much smaller heatsink and smaller fans.
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Oops, re-read my post and my memory has escaped me slightly on this one. It sat at 81-82c at stock fan speeds and in order to keep it from throttling I needed to set a custom fan profile at 60%.

I will edit my post to rectify my mistake. Sorry about that.
 
PhoenixUK said:
I'm not sure if HIS does cards anymore as I haven't had one since the ancient 3770xt times but they used to have some of the quietest coolers I've ever seen (the iceQ ones). Other than that it will be whatever has a decent pricetag/cooler on it.

I've had EVGA 6600GTX and it was nothing spectacular so apart from their stupidly long warranty I don't know what the hype is all about. Ended up replacing the cooler with aftermarket one anyway.
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Back in time with 6600 Series we just used ref cards and modded the BIOS a bit while we do now our own cooler and PCB mods, worth to review ;)
 
ICDP said:
I bought a 980Ti EVGA ACX based on reviews that said it would run at 65-70c at almost silent fan speeds. Mine was hitting 81-82c with 60% fan speed in W3 and no amount of TIM replacement changed that. Mine was hitting 81-82c with stock fan speed (~35%) and throttling quite badly in W3 and no amount of TIM replacement changed that. In order to stop the GPU throttling I had to set a custom fan profile at 60%. I ended up getting a Kraken AIO mount and adding an AIO to shut that crap up. Prior to that I had a 980 reference and a 980 MSI G1 Gaming and the MSI was quiet and cool.

All subjective and down to ones own experiences but for me I will be avoiding EVGA ACX coolers in future.

Edited because to amend factual errors. :confused:
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Did you get back in time in contact with EVGA's customer service about this? Which temps do the card run with the Kraken installed?
 
Rroff said:
Dunno what its like on the AMD cards but the GB coolers have been very good for me on nVidia cards - though they do seem to have some batches now and again with less than ideal fitting of the heatsink/poor TIM application.
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Gigabyte's 390(X) is awful. They went with a two fan cooler instead of their usual three for whatever reason, and it doesn't perform well. They also decided to lock down the voltage, which I believe makes them the only 390(X)s to not offer voltage adjustment.
 
Sapphire would be my recommendation too. I've had a few Sapphire cards;
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB
Sapphire Radeon HD4850 512MB
Sapphire Radeon HD7770 OC 1GB
Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB Nitro

Never planned on owning so many cards of one brand. Always went with the reviews and what card had the best price.
No regrets, they've all proved to be solid cards :)
 
I've got a Sapphire Tri-X 290X

Runs a lot quieter and cooler than my old Gigabyte Windforce 3X 7950 did

Both are 3 fan cards, both in the same case
 
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