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Speed said:
As nice as the G1 is, you'll always be overclock limited by the temperature which will throttle the card long before you are by the card itself. If you are spending £650 on a GTX980Ti the hydro is a much better option if you have a place to put the water cooler unit.

That is of course assuming you can actually get one.
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Looking at the G1 temps in reviews its so far away from peak TDP that it throttling wont be an issue.

Heck of a cooler on it.
 
stulid said:
Looking at the G1 temps in reviews its so far away from peak TDP that it throttling wont be an issue.

Heck of a cooler on it.
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It does look like an impressive cooler, but with only one review giving a fairly low room temp (a critical oversight on many reviews) it is a bit hard to judge what it will be like in a more real world setup. I suspect it'll be nearer to 80c than what most of the reviews have quoted.

Would also be interesting to see how it copes with an SLi setup, that is the real test of an aftermarket cooler and where most reference coolers are the preferred choice.
 
Speed said:
It does look like an impressive cooler, but with only one review giving a fairly low room temp (a critical oversight on many reviews) it is a bit hard to judge what it will be like in a more real world setup. I suspect it'll be nearer to 80c than what most of the reviews have quoted.

Would also be interesting to see how it copes with an SLi setup, that is the real test of an aftermarket cooler and where most reference coolers are the preferred choice.
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jayztwocents reviewed very recently and with his overclock of 1529Mhz on the core it was still low 70C.
 
Speed said:
It does look like an impressive cooler, but with only one review giving a fairly low room temp (a critical oversight on many reviews) it is a bit hard to judge what it will be like in a more real world setup. I suspect it'll be nearer to 80c than what most of the reviews have quoted.

Would also be interesting to see how it copes with an SLi setup, that is the real test of an aftermarket cooler and where most reference coolers are the preferred choice.
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It is absolutely fine, when I ran it at home in a close case and my test room was very stuffy/humid it was hovering around 70c and fans were around 55% I believe.

This card will never throttle, the cooler is more than capable, all that might happen is in hot environments it could become loud as fans spin up more.

In my testing, full voltage, maximum OC, 100% fan on an open bench and it is hot right now, it still remains around 58c loaded. :)
 
stulid said:
jayztwocents reviewed very recently and with his overclock of 1529Mhz on the core it was still low 70C.
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I watched the same review, but it was done on an open bench with no mention of the room temp or noise levels. I suspect you'd have to add 10c to that once it is in a closed case with a non-AC cooled room.

On the flip side his 980Ti Hybrid review with cards clocked at 1400MHz (and the Hybrid clocked 84MHz higher) showed the standard reference cards hitting 86c and the Hybrid hitting 50c at load. Not 100% comparable to the G1 test but it gives you a good idea of what you can expect.

Gibbo said:
It is absolutely fine, when I ran it at home in a close case and my test room was very stuffy/humid it was hovering around 70c and fans were around 55% I believe.

This card will never throttle, the cooler is more than capable, all that might happen is in hot environments it could become loud as fans spin up more.

In my testing, full voltage, maximum OC, 100% fan on an open bench and it is hot right now, it still remains around 58c loaded. :)
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Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Gigabytes cards and coolers, they are some of the best in the business. I'm just pointing out that if you want true temperature values with fan profiles that won't get on your nerves in day to day use, you have to take these review sites temperatures with a pinch of salt. Almost all use bench setups, don't record the room temperatures, making the results in the comparison tables misleading and hard to compare.

I still think @ £650 price point, that the EVGA Hybrid will give you the best value for money and overclocking headroom.

Anyways, we are getting off topic now...
 
Speed said:
I watched the same review, but it was done on an open bench with no mention of the room temp or noise levels. I suspect you'd have to add 10c to that once it is in a closed case with a non-AC cooled room.

On the flip side his 980Ti Hybrid review with cards clocked at 1400MHz (and the Hybrid clocked 84MHz higher) showed the standard reference cards hitting 86c and the Hybrid hitting 50c at load. Not 100% comparable to the G1 test but it gives you a good idea of what you can expect.



Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Gigabytes cards and coolers, they are some of the best in the business. I'm just pointing out that if you want true temperature values with fan profiles that won't get on your nerves in day to day use, you have to take these review sites temperatures with a pinch of salt. Almost all use bench setups, don't record the room temperatures, making the results in the comparison tables misleading and hard to compare.

I still think @ £650 price point, that the EVGA Hybrid will give you the best value for money and overclocking headroom.

Anyways, we are getting off topic now...
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The EVGA Hybrid is 6+8pin power, G1 is 8+8pin so i guess the boards has better power supply to the core and so does better there to.

Is the EVGA even a reference PCB? so the G1 already is better again?
 
So what's the deal with OC'ing these... never going to happen, or will it simply be a firmware/driver update that will allow it? Seems really odd (and somewhat concerning) that this has been locked out. Surely AMD would know prior to releasing the card if it was able to be safely overclocked, not least because they made a big deal of talking about its massive OC potential at the launch event. All very confusing. :(

Reading the reviews, it would APPEAR as though a hefty overclock and driver updates could see the Fury X doing a FAR better job against the 980Ti than it is capable of now.
 
Wgt is it thast nvidia manage to make theire gpus lower power with every generation and still maintain good speed improvements but amd now have gotten to the point they need sodding water coolers! im not usually to bothered about power consumption but that's a bit much!
 
Personally i like the water cooler, much better than my dual fan 780 that just dumps most of the heat into the case. Reviews say the water cooler lets the card run cool and quiet...something new for a high end AMD card.
 
This is a thing of beauty, and I'd love one, but at only 4GB? it's not enough of an upgrade from the R9 290X for me to warrant the price, maybe if there was an 8GB or even 16GB in the future
 
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