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EVGA ACX 2.0?

I was sure when the 900 series came on ocuk it said these cards where acx 2.0 lol I would never have checked if not for some posts I have seen lol.
 
Awesome news thanx :) was thinking it would be about a month and I would have to read how everyone else is enjoying their new 900s lol.
 
There will not be any issue. The third heatpipe you can see is a small one and just to spread the heat a little better between the different cooling parts, it is for sure not a design issue. The cooler can handle this chip pretty well. When you watch out for reviews you will see that the card had arround 71 degree with more then 1300MHz on auto fan profile with basic thermal paste. When you set up a optimized fan profile and or put some of a high quality thermal paste on it you could bring this even more down but 71 degree on full load is not a bad number to me.
 
But still, it is by far the worst 970 there is. Quite disappointing as EVGAs are usually a quite solid choice. The PCB and mainly the power delivery is also not that reassuring.
 
Some led lighting would not go amiss either, again this is on the MSI gaming and gigabyte G1. These card have custom PCBs with upgraded power delivery, priced a little more than reference.
 
About the fan: the fan is running the card with 1350+MHz with +/- 71 degree, still some way to the temp target and this is with auto fan settings and the applied thermal paste. I have managed arround 66 with custom fanprofile that was at the end not more rpm then with auto and still the applied TIM. Dont see where this number are not ok.
About the PWM Design: The 4 phases we use can deliver more power to the GPU then this can ever take even with overclocking! We did also take a look into using more phases but the 970 controller is a 5 Phase one, if you do use more phases you will need to run doubler. This do have advantages and disadvantages. We have not seen that the advantages are that big that there is a need for this. 1350MHz+ do also not sound like a bad overclock to me :)
About plastic or metall: We do try to hit reasonable price points for our cards and at this point metall will not help with the performance to have an advantage compare to the extra cost.
About the LEDs and better power management: We do use this for our SSC and FTW models and you can also increase voltage on those models with Precision due to this.
By the way, we do run a 5 year warranty promotion on all new 970s/980s http://eu.evga.com/articles/00877/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-970-FREE-5-Years-Warranty/
@ Gibbo, will let Ben know :)
 
the 2x 8mm ones do exaclty match the GPU. The third small one is to share the heat between the blocks. The 2 big pipes do cover the whole chip. We tried also a spreader above all three pipes but this did not work as efficient as the direct connection of the pipes.
 
Okay. :)

It just looked a little strange because other models have all of the heat pipes across the chip, and I'm sure you have seen the same reviews as I have where they assume it is a design issue. You should get someone to put them right on that. Might deter customers. :p
 
EVGAdominik said:
the 2x 8mm ones do exaclty match the GPU. The third small one is to share the heat between the blocks. The 2 big pipes do cover the whole chip. We tried also a spreader above all three pipes but this did not work as efficient as the direct connection of the pipes.
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Any news on the Classified edition?
 
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