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EVGA FTW ACX 3.0 VRM fixed?

terley

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I am purchasing a build next week and i've got my eyes on the EVGA FTW card, as aesthetically it appeals to me and i don't need to faff around with overclocking it out of the box.

I've heard numerous horror stories about the cards with the ACX 3.0 coolers, with the VRM's hitting 110 degrees and some even catching fire.. I'm aware that EVGA have come up with a fix of a firmware upgrade to increase the fan RPM slightly as well as sending thermal pads out for the VRM's for customers if they wish to apply them to their cards.

Question, I've rang OCUK and a batch of 50x EVGA FTW cards came in on the 12/12/2016. Will these have the fix pre-applied to them? or am i just being hopeful.

This is the build:

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Personally, I wouldn't take the risk this time around - I've had EVGA for my 680/780 and 980 but I went for the ASUS Strix for my 1080 with no regrets.

250GB also might be a bit small now for gaming to be honest with games being close to 40-50GB each now.
 
Plenty O'Toole said:
Personally, I wouldn't take the risk this time around - I've had EVGA for my 680/780 and 980 but I went for the ASUS Strix for my 1080 with no regrets.

250GB also might be a bit small now for gaming to be honest with games being close to 40-50GB each now.
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I don't like installing games on an SSD, at least not yet. I'm fine with the smaller OS drive and a big HDD :) might change it to WD black.

And thank you Gibbo!
 
You would be better waiting for zen at this stage. You may get a 6 core 12 thread CPU for around that price point or not a great deal more. I'd also up your ssd size for not much extra outlay.
 
Drollic said:
You would be better waiting for zen at this stage. You may get a 6 core 12 thread CPU for around that price point or not a great deal more. I'd also up your ssd size for not much extra outlay.
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Doubt it would match a discrete gpu though, best ZEN claim yet ;)
 
terley said:
I'm not sure really, i just prefer storing all my games on a HDD rather than the SSD, i feel like the SSD is the one drive i want zero clutter on.. to ensure the OS works at maximum efficiency.
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That's fair enough. If you have a 120Gb or even 250Gb SSD, you can't really install all your games on disks that size anyway. But there's nothing wrong with storing games on an SSD, especially with the quality of them these days.

What I would do is store the games that take longest to load on the SSD, but that's just me. However, with the way you have it, Windows will still be nice and snappy and games will run fine. It's only usually load times that benefit from flash memory, FPS tend not to unless a game takes a particularly long time to load certain textures. But I've only ever heard one or two cases of that occurring.

If ever you find yourself with 500+ Gb of SSDs, that'd be the time to store all your games on SSD. I currently have 120, 250 and 500Gb SSDs so tend to install all my games to those.

It also helps to only have games installed that I actually play :D
 
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