Soldato
Whats with those 4 fans?
It's two, and I had them on there when the card was on air. They keep the vregs a bit cooler but it's not necessary
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Whats with those 4 fans?
Can I get a mention on the TROH?
I'm running 2065Mhz with no clock drops on my test bed.
Some 3440x1440, along with SLI and various comparisons spread across these Youtube channels:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-45b02OsxBQS2M7f1GfIoQ
https://www.youtube.com/user/DudeRandom84/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=1&view=0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD5amfx8HTx_QwxviiR4JKw
Point is he said he was perfectly happy running the fans at 3000 rpm. WHich is why he got a very high fpi radiator (the highest you can buy) which is pretty useless cooling at low fan speeds and only really starts to shine at 1500-1800rpm and above
SO I would imagine than unlike yourself and me, he will be running at 1500 to 3000 rpm most of the time.
Why would you run fans at 3000rpm with water cooling?? Isn't the whole point of watercooling that you can get good temps and low noise? You could probably run the same setup at 1000-1500rpm and still get more than acceptable CPU and GPU temps. Why run the fans at 3000rpm, making it significantly louder than air cooling, for a few degrees less, when the temperatures are already more than good enough at 1000-1500rpm ?? If I got watercooling it would be so I could get good temps and quiet fans at 600-1200rpm.
Well fans typically are running at 1500 RPM under typical load in game, only did they go up to probably 3000 RPM on a Prime95 cpu stress test.
I did not build my custom loop to be silent, though 1500 RPM isn't overly noisy anyway - I did it because I wanted to overclock the graphics card and there is not any airflow around it in my case.
Also it was fun
Can I get a mention on the TROH?
In fact, there is now only the hard drives and cpu going over to the new build and I keep twitching over the button for a new cpu as well..................
Feels like my bank balance
With the card and the block and pads and then I decided on some new 3200 memory while I was upgrading and then "oh I see there are new cpu blocks out which look nicer so I'll swap that as well" and "oh I see there are new x99 boards out, I think I will have one of them" on top of the £700 of water cooling bits i bought, a simple watercooling swap from flexi pipe to hard tube has now set me back over £2500
In fact, there is now only the hard drives and cpu going over to the new build and I keep twitching over the button for a new cpu as well..................
I know the feeling Lol. It never stops - it is like a disease that has gripped our wallets. I just cant help myself. Perhaps we need to spend a few days in a quiet room somewhere, minus our pc and credit cards. Lol.
Mark
I noticed there are some 1tb SSDs around..