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***** AORUS DID NOT INVENT THE GRAPHICS CARD, THEY PERFECTED IT! RTX 2000 SERIES!! *****

Charlie. said:
Haha, I have the same cards in front of me right now, bout to swap the Aorus out for the Strix and see what's what!

Have you tested them both/compared them yet?
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Just little bit. But temperatures are sort of 60 in performance bios. Default fans. If you manually adjust fans for example 80% (which in case of Aorus will be instant Hoooooooover !!! ) tems were 51C !! And nowhere near that loud.

Strix will boost to 2100 easy with overclock
 
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thank you revollucion, exactly as I said, the shroud has empty area on the aorus, they made it look the part from the outside but the actual cooling doesnt utilise all the 3 slot space.

It was something I immediately observed when I replaced my palit with my auros, the heatsink is not as high.

I dont think any reviewer has specifically mentioned it probably not wanting to bad mouth the brand, I remember GN took an auros GPU apart, looked at the small heatsink for a moment then kept his mouth shut on it.
 
chrcoluk said:
thank you revollucion, exactly as I said, the shroud has empty area on the aorus, they made it look the part from the outside but the actual cooling doesnt utilise all the 3 slot space.

It was something I immediately observed when I replaced my palit with my auros, the heatsink is not as high.

I dont think any reviewer has specifically mentioned it probably not wanting to bad mouth the brand, I remember GN took an auros GPU apart, looked at the small heatsink for a moment then kept his mouth shut on it.
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I can not Agree more with you ! :)
 
Just ran OC Scanner on my Strix, in Bioshock Infinite, 4K, Highest everything, Unlocked frame rate (99% core load): Boosted to 2,055 MHz to start with and went down to a stable 2,025 MHz where it stabilised at a max temperature of 49 degrees C with the fans stuck at 70%. Granted the room I am in is pretty cold at the moment, but wow. Hopefully manual OCing can get the core clock up a bit higher, haven't touched the memory yet.
 
revollucion said:
And this is exact reason why is Aorus soooo HOT Boys & Girls

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The stupid thing is it looks as if the space that could have been used for a bulkier heatsink is being taken up with that gimmicky overlapping fan setup where you get 2 proper fans and one that's essentially the skeleton of a fan. Makes me wonder why they never used the same setup as the windforce card with 3 proper fans which would enable them to use a larger heatsink. They could have done that and still applied their led fans, but seems like that had some inventory of the 1080ti heatsink left so they went with that instead.
 
For anyone interested, the highest stable manual overclock I can get on my Strix OC is +145, which results in core clock of 2,040MHz under full load and once max temperature is reached, whilst remaining at 50C or below. Overclocking to even +150 results in a crash after about 5 minutes of gameplay, probably a result of the relatively low maximum power limit of just 125% (my non-xtreme Aorus is 133%).

Also memory is currently at +1,000 MHz, making it 16GHz :eek:. Haven't tried higher yet!

Hopefully there will be a new vbios that allows a higher power limit, as cooling is definitely the limiting factor that's for sure.
 
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The base power limit on the strix might be higher than the auros, bear that in mind, this is the issue when people talk about just offsets across different products.
 
Well after playing games all day(8 hrs) only one crash doom but it seems stable enough now after fresh install of windows and updates .
 
scubes said:
Well after playing games all day(8 hrs) only one crash doom but it seems stable enough now after fresh install of windows and updates .
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Glad yours is sorted now as well. I have not had a single crash since putting the new PSU in and both CPU and GPU are overclocked.

I also got a Battlefield V code to boot. It looks breathtaking in 4K HDR with RT on, even with a low frame rate it somehow manages to seem pretty smooth
 
seanyc5 said:
Glad yours is sorted now as well. I have not had a single crash since putting the new PSU in and both CPU and GPU are overclocked.

I also got a Battlefield V code to boot. It looks breathtaking in 4K HDR with RT on, even with a low frame rate it somehow manages to seem pretty smooth
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Might ring them on Monday for the code .
 
revollucion said:
And this is exact reason why is Aorus soooo HOT Boys & Girls

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I don't think the difference in the size of the heatsink is represented that well in this picture. Maybe with them disassembled we could get a better comparison. I feel like the shroud is covering up a portion of the Aorus heatsink.
I have been playing BFV for a while now and the max temps I've been reaching 65oC I got +165 on the core, with stable 2025Mhz in game. The card is reaching the power limit and therefore wont clock higher. I haven't had any major
issues with it and I'm not sure why there is much hate for this card. It is easily the best looking 2080ti available (IMO) and bare in mind that 65oC is with it vertically mounted and a 360mm rad up front. I also have an aggressive fan curve
and the card is not any louder than my old 1080ti FTW3 card.
 
Reckles said:
I don't think the difference in the size of the heatsink is represented that well in this picture. Maybe with them disassembled we could get a better comparison. I feel like the shroud is covering up a portion of the Aorus heatsink.
I have been playing BFV for a while now and the max temps I've been reaching 65oC I got +165 on the core, with stable 2025Mhz in game. The card is reaching the power limit and therefore wont clock higher. I haven't had any major
issues with it and I'm not sure why there is much hate for this card. It is easily the best looking 2080ti available (IMO) and bare in mind that 65oC is with it vertically mounted and a 360mm rad up front. I also have an aggressive fan curve
and the card is not any louder than my old 1080ti FTW3 card.
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You are wrong about size of heatsink. Unfortuanelly I can not take more pictures as I sent card back. But I can confirm that it is actuall size (height) of AORUS Heatsink where Shroud starts. Not visible from picture as some of us might think there might be another ‘portion’ of heatsink hidden behind Plastic cover. But in reality it is not !

Yes card looking good. BUT cooling is not good enough to keep temps down. Well u can keep them down but count with excessive NOISE
 
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revollucion said:
You are wrong about size of heatsik. Unfortuanelly I can not take more pictures as I sent card back. But I can confirm that is actuall size (height) of AORUS Heatsink where Shroud starts. Not visible from picture as some of as might think there might be another ‘portion’ of heatsink hidden behind Plastic cover. But in reality it is not !

Yes card looking good. BUT cooling is not good enough to keep temps down. Well u can keep them down but count with excessive NOISE
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So a bit **** really considering this is meant to be their flagship ti product. They just re-used the 1080ti heatsink, slapped some led's onto the fans and hoped for the best, increased temps with the turing core be damned.
 
I returned mine for several of the reasons above. The cooling was mediocre at best, and it felt like it suffered for the sake of fairy lights, which wouldn’t be seen without a vertical GPU mount. Since vertical mounts don’t help with GPU temps and the fans were too loud, it all combined to make it feel like an ill conceived product.
 
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