EVGA 980 Hydro Copper - pics

[ChrisD.]

Thought I would share some pics of my recently purchased card.

For those interested, I'm seeing low 20's idle and high 30's load, sometimes creeps into the 40's during longer session. In the loop is a triple EK rad and a quad, the CPU is a 5960X.











And with the case moved from off the floor onto the desk.

 

[ChrisD.]

Forgot to mention that the tubing is bodged in after taking out two 290X's so the routes aren't the best.

Yeah I would love another but I get enough performance out of the single card (without OC), so a bit of a waste of £630 at the moment I think.

 

[ChrisD.]

Really nice build ! Where did the desk come from may i ask ?

Thank you. It's an Ikea desk and it's huge.

 

[ChrisD.]

Thanks for the comments. I'd love to get a second one, but two things put me off:

1) They're £630 each.
2) At 3440x1440 I can play anything smoothly, without overclocking it.

 

[ChrisD.]

Is that at medium quality?

No, max in the games I play. The card boosts to 1500/1900 or so on its own.

 

[ChrisD.]

SWTOR.
BF4
Titanfall.

All I've tried so far to be fair.

 

[ChrisD.]

I'm sure if you send him a matching card he will indeed post more pics

I was just about to say this.

Awesome looking machine! Beautiful.

What's the fluid you've got in there? Who made it, and what's the colour?

It's Mayhems Pastel, I had yellow before with my M77 M Power and liked it so I went with orange to match the SOC Force.

 

[ChrisD.]

Nice looking system sir!

But are you really playing games smoothly with just one 980? When you say smooth, what fps are we talking here?

Least I've seen is 40. Most of the time fps is over 60.

Let's put it this way - everything is more smooth than it was with two 290X's.

 

[ChrisD.]

Very nice, would look even nicer with two of them beasts in there.

Very nice indeed

Just one problem - the card looks very lonely in there, you really should get another

I agree with the above, it needs more than 1 card.
I tend to watercool two cards, aesthetics is important.

You are all bad bad people.

Expect updates before Saturday.

 

[ChrisD.]

 

[ChrisD.]

Keep an eye on temps, no need for that second tube link between cards with them running in serial. Could cause a flow by pass and an increase in temps.

45 max so far in Heaven.

 

[ChrisD.]

Cheers guys. It looks better that's why I used parallel.

 

[ChrisD.]

Temps are fine too, mid to high 40's after several loops in Heaven with heavy overclocks, so nothing to worry about.

I tried BF4, smooth does not do it justice. Except I died, so alt f4'd.

 

[ChrisD.]

Yeah looks awesome.

What's the connector fittings you use between the cards, who makes them, and what's the spacing between the cards/PCI lanes?

I bought EK tubing but it doesn't fit as although the blocks are EK, the fittings/spacings etc are Swiftech. So I cut two short lengths of tube to sit between the cards.

 

[ChrisD.]

Seeing 170 fps in BF4 lol.

Not even overclocked.

 

[ChrisD.]

33 or 45, is it much of an issue? I could maybe make it cooler by changing to serial, by using a more powerful pump, by using more rad's, by using higher fan speeds, more fans, push pull yaddy yaddy ya. But I don't want to, temps are perfectly reasonable and the loudest thing in my whole case is the pump itself.

 

[ChrisD.]

nope but 70 to 80 isn't much of an issue either and they keep cool enough on air

No case can run two 980's with a 5960X in there and run cool and as quiet as mine when all on air, especially when running 1600/2000 benchmarking.

 

[ChrisD.]

I'd get annoyed with the noise in the end, I always do.

Plus water looks good. I think I want to try acrylic next.