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Would someone be so kind as to provide a TL;DW for the Hybrid review?
How does the OC hold up against a high end air cooled card like the Asus Strix?
How does the OC hold up against a high end air cooled card like the Asus Strix?
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Would someone be so kind as to provide a TL;DW for the Hybrid review?
How does the OC hold up against a high end air cooled card like the Asus Strix?
Anyone got the Gigabyte water force? thinking of swapping to one from my G1.
It's a 1080, those are the VRMs used.
I am swapping out my 980ti Xtreme Waterforce for the new Waterforce so I will let you know tomorrow evening.
I can see the chip but need more info about the board, how it got to such small board. The specs, costs, vbios modded to allow more than 1.093v etc
It's in a laptop using a pair of cards under a huge combined vapor chamber:
Fully enabled chips with GDDR5X so it's just about cooling.
Vbios will need to be worked on but will likely be more unlocked more than any desktop card when prema is finished with it.
Cost will be little bit less than the new titan each.
Note the mobile cards have been on a high bandwidth SLI bus for some time.
There will be a lot of people looking forward to seeing how the Classified performs.
the news is, it don't perform. at least not at the level it needs to. its a lovely piece of kit, well made and its very quiet. the design team at evga can be rightly proud of what they have built. I am a big fan of the gigabyte cards but the classified is really a cut above. take a bow lads.
the waterforce also arrived today and its virtually identical in build to the 980ti version. which means it's nice but a bit utilitarian. the new led on the top is a nice touch.
both the 1080 classy and the xtreme waterforce which run 10+2 PCB's are both locked at 1.09v actual like a reference card. both will hit the 2.1ghz wall just like a reference card.
waterforce has a 150% power-limit, classy is just over 120%. pretty pointless without voltage increases though.
The classy hovers around 75c and the waterforce sub-50c. I stick a fan on the classy and hit 100% fan the card drops to 45c under load. again very impressive from evga.
I am going to sleep on it but at the moment I will be returning them both. No indication from Gigabyte or EVGA on ETA of any tools to work around the 1.09v limit. Not really good enough for £800+ cards. these are benchers cards, probably better off hard modding a FE edition tbh.
(Couldn't go to sleep without testing it even if briefly )
Thank you, indeed somehow the card when hits 60C starts was throttling.
At least must say was.......
Did a run on Spy, +100% voltage, +121% PL, 85C TL, +186 Core +0 Mem
Got a max of spike 2152, but a constant 2126 during the whole bench. (which what matters). Max temp 44C.
No crashes, no artifacts, no weird whizzing electric sounds, so it looks like everything is properly fitted.
At stock settings, the card now gets to 1956 constant, previously it was 1911 with spikes at 1926.
I will see how much I can get out of it on Sunday mainly
(Saturday going to an Infinity tournament......Panoceania 4TW).
However I need to keep an eye on the cooling, because the EK block for the Armor is a short one, leaving outside some electronics that had thermal pads on the Armor shroud, and the cooler. And since the backplate was warm on that area (back end where the power connectors are), attached an Apache blowing air in the area.
Need to find a way to properly attach it there though. (not that bothers me tbh)
I can stop my moaning now