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But even if that goes boobies up like i said before i got you even though you may have forgotten. What colour is your setup black?
White you say? Heh i have 2.....i accidentally order 2 ice cards. One came today and the other is coming sundayAha! Thanks for reminding me, appreciated =]
It’s a white set-up, but not necessarily looking for a ‘match’.
Will post in the wanted forum in due course… inevitably, at this rate! (Assuming my run of luck with new cards continues)
I think this the one for you. I am positive it wll be good.Haha you maniac - you gotta catch ‘em all! Did you set them out on a table next to each other and battle them?
Ended up with a Zotac arriving tomorrow - fingers crossed…!
- I’ll post in the wanted forum etc. as and when 
drop?
Availalbility
It is still very much luck of the draw but you increase your chances of getting one with little to none. It depends on how much you are willing to embark on the gpu merry go round.
Well from my mucking about the ASU’s is the quietest at idle and at load which kinda surprised me as I saw the initial reviews and was hesitant due to the 4th fan. Maybe mine is a different batch like the newer ones and differ from the launch ones. Suprims are similar although i would say the suprim is slightly louder at load.Ahh the dreaded merry go round hate it in real life, hopefully its a 2 seater at worse
Since owning the MSI Gaming trio variant I did find those fans very pleasant at stock curves, I don't expect the same thing from cards I mentioned but they are quite beefy so custom fan curve at very low rpm's should yield great results.
Would be nice to get some samples of noise profiles, I have heard the Palit Gamerock has quite a bit of bearing noise, while the PNY just has some early cases of fan defects but general very quiet and the zotac I heard it has strange high pitch noises.
I generally keep away from Asus due to those reports, but they such great cards bit of a shame.
Yes I have seen a lot of reports for higher end cards having a higher chance of coil whine, main reason why I wont buy.
I have my eye on Gigabye as well, but in my region its abit pricy right now, but they are dropping so im patient.
Thank you for your insight, looking forward to more data on this thread.
Slightly OT, but how is the undervolting capability of your FE?
I would say average. So far, I found the sweetspot at 0.895v, I've been using loops of Steel Nomad to benchmark. At 0.895v I got the same score as stock settings but with 55 less watts (it goes up to 100 watts saved in gaming) consumed and around 5-6c cooler (can go up to 10c cooler in gaming). I tried less voltage and gave up too much performance with scores coming in sub 14k. If I was purely chasing the highest score I can get, it was at 0.975v which got me 14,500ish points (it peaked at 3k mhz) vs 14,100ish points on the 0.895v (peaked at 2.8k mhz) but both were holding a consistent 2.5k to 2.6k mhz. I think I am score limited because I am using the O11 Vision Compact case. Beautiful case, but not the best for airflow, results also show this on TechPowerUp.
Good for the FE. I had same result with Ventus. Astral(15,300 ish, latest driver) just under 3,000 at 0.9 Ive found sweet spot as silent. (Ventus crashed at that).
The memory OC won't go beyond 2k on afterburner, I slid it up and down, did not find any significant impact on scoring or stability
There is a beta Afterburner that allows the 3k. (Will increase mem temp thought a little).
Yep, I am using the beta one, still won't go to 3k
