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3rd party 780Ti reviews

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This image is pretty telling, and shows exactly how good the reference NVidia cooler is under load:-
http://cdn.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2013-11-10/soundacx.png

No hotlinking!

Even with all cores activated and higher clock speeds the "stock 780 cooler" still tames the TI's heat and noise better than the opposition. 17% faster than an "Uber 290X" and the old cooler from the 780 vanilla parts bin still runs cooler.
 
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Just buy 2x290's for a similar cost to the 780ti and put it to death..

Damn you could even down clock the 290's by 60% and still be way faster than the Nvidia.

Price performance there is only one winner.

Or wait for the partner boards to give the 780ti and even bigger kicking.
 
555BUK said:
This image is pretty telling, and shows exactly how good the reference NVidia cooler is under load:-
http://cdn.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2013-11-10/soundacx.png

Even with all cores activated and higher clock speeds the "stock 780 cooler" still tames the TI's heat and noise better than the opposition. 17% faster than an "Uber 290X" and the old cooler from the 780 vanilla parts bin still runs cooler.
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Interesting article, there's only 2 dB in it - not exactly something I'd call much considering all the stock cooler hatred AMD are getting!
 
Addicted said:
Interesting article, there's only 2 dB in it - not exactly something I'd call much considering all the stock cooler hatred AMD are getting!
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Ahh, but what would happen if you overclock and overvolt that 290X by ~17% to match 780 TI overclocked performance? Would the stock AMD cooler cope then?

edit: I was inferring that the stock 780 cooler had room to spare when it was released.
 
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555BUK said:
Ahh, but would happen if you overclock and overvolt that 290X by ~17% to match 780 TI overclocked performance? Would the stock AMD cooler cope then?
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There are people on hear overclocking there's to 1250 on air which is a 25% overclock so yea it can cope but to how noisy it gets i don't know.
 
Indeed, but unless said 25% overclocked 290's are running on water they will be throttling like Jack-The-Ripper after 60 seconds.
 
Addicted said:
Interesting article, there's only 2 dB in it - not exactly something I'd call much considering all the stock cooler hatred AMD are getting!
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dB is a strange old beast. Go read this:
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-levelchange.htm

It has some calculators if you want to mess about with Loudness, intensity levels etc.

Suffice to say, 39dB would have a loudness much less than 41 and significantly less than 43dB. Even more pronounced for Sound intensity.

Sound levels are very very hard to represent in numbers in respect of giving a real world perception of 'loudness'.
 
Sound pressure is doubled every 3db IIRC but actual volume you can perceive doubles every 10db, so 2db is actually a very minor increase. AS for a 780ti being 17% faster than a 290x in uber mode... errm, BS.

Seemingly Anandtech stated the 780ti was faster using the 290 QUIET mode numbers and did a bad job of it. Across all results and resolutions Anandtechs numbers vs the 290 in Uber mode, put the 290Uber 1% faster than the 780ti, 17% faster, pull the other one. If you take 3 Nvidia games at a specific res, maybe, across multiple games and multiple resolutions there is barely anything in it.

AS for how good the cooler is, that picture suggests very simply that a 780gtx is much quieter than a 780ti is. The 290x outperforms the 780gtx EASILY, it about matches the 780ti, the 780ti is 6db louder than the 780 non ti with the same cooler.

The 780ti uses more power and almost the same as the 290x uses. The 780ti is 26% larger than the 290x making cooling the later significantly harder. Yet the difference in sound between the 780 ti and non ti is 3 times the size as the difference between the 780ti and 290x.

The non reference 780ti cooler runs quieter, yet is overclocked a decent whack, it's 15% faster and quieter....... that suggests the stock 780ti cooler is as insufficient as the 290x cooler, nothing else.
 
555BUK said:
Ahh, but what would happen if you overclock and overvolt that 290X by ~17% to match 780 TI overclocked performance? Would the stock AMD cooler cope then?

edit: I was inferring that the stock 780 cooler had room to spare when it was released.
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Copes fine pal,

I can run mine at 55% fan with it OC'd @1180/1625 and temps never break 85.
 
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