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Fury X question

ALXAndy

ALXAndy

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So now that I am getting mine tomorrow can some one please answer some questions?

Can you remove the fan easily? I have my own fan I want to use. Are there screw mounts in both sides of the rad?

Basically I just want to bolt the rad onto the 120mm PCIE intake fan in my case, getting rid of the AMD one. I must do this as my fan has a special sensor in place and is 4 pin PWM and controlled by my PC.
 
Given that the fan on the Fury X is one of, if not THE best fan you can buy for a radiator, I am not quite sure why you would want to swap it out, maybe put the 4 pin fan on the back f the rad and leave the normal one in place?

But yes you can remove it, however you need to remove the cover to disconnect it from the GPU.
 
I agree with above having owned couple gentle typhoon 1850 they isn't much better out there. Even at 1850 rpm I had to check they was spinning super quiet, and they push a lot of air..

You be silly to change the fan tbh unless you have very good reason for it.
 
Never try to upgrade from a GT fan. They are the best period for this purpose. Add another one if you can find one on ebay!
 
The only thing you might want to do Andy is set a relaxed curve on the fan(on the assumption the stock profile is aggressive), iirc it's a 5000 or 5400 rpm gentle typhoon (under oem servo branding) and it will get loud screaming past 3000 rpm.

Outside of throwing a couple of gt1850's or ek vadars/other gt clone you won't do much better then the stock fan - amd do have to be thanked for the fan choice, they could just as easily thrown on a cheap generic 5000 rpm fan.
 
Yes the fan is on with 4 phillips screws and can be reversed easily. Removing it entirely will be trickier as its connected to the card under the front plate of the card. On stock profiles the fan runs very quiet, only spins at around 950 rpm.
 
I think you need to go for a push/pull config Andy. I didn't study the card too much but I don't think getting the fan off is an easy task.

The fan is superb for what it is worth, so I would mount it on your case fan if that is possible.
 
Yeah, I wanted to mod it too. Take the stock fan off and replace it with a white one to match the rest of the case.
 
andybird123 said:
Yes, but he's planning to crossfire it
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In games and most notably GTAV I am seeing a good 10-15% boost over the TBs and getting practically none of the annnoying "Driving stutters" that I used to get.

At 4k the Fury X is pretty much bob on with the 980ti, so in gaming it's actually an upgrade.

I'm not taking huge overclocks/£600+ 980tis into consideration here. The Fury X has a better cooler than all air cooled GPUs. I know because I put one on the hottest GPU ever made (the 480 Lightning) and I couldn't make it break 47c at stock clocks. On air that was more like 70c.

I will give Fury X and Fury time to mature, but what I will probably do is wait for them to become more plentiful and then get a Fury of sorts (not an X, just an air cooled card) and Crossfire with that providing I see enough evidence to support Crossfire as I simply have no trust of AMD for support.

So right now? in the games I play I am seeing better FPS. My average FPS in Metro 2033 has dropped by 3 FPS but it's far smoother than it was before because SLI does stutter (just not very often).

I can't say I really miss Gsync either. I will take improved FPS and no dual GPU issues any day.
 
Huge overclocks being the out of the box performance on a £550 card I showed you?
Mate, pretty much all of the 980ti's are hitting 1450-1500, even the £509 ones, and anything £550 and over (£575 in my case) is hitting 1500-1550 (1535 in my case, at 69C and 80% fan which on the MSI is barely audible and no louder than anything else in my case).

Even at 4K, its not "bob on", its a good 20-30% faster, more in some games. And that is with a card boosting to 1420 out of the box.

The £600+ cards are just overpriced, for no extra benefit unless you plan on going LN2. They are completely irrelevant to the choice you were trying to make. The only reason to even mention a £650 980ti is if you are really reaching to make a "ooh aren't 980ti's soo expensive" point and failing.

I'm glad you got the card you wanted at a price you wanted to pay, but burying your head in the sand that a 980ti isn't faster at pretty average overclocks is just laughable. And then you'd have had all the benefits you have now, but higher fps as well as keeping gsync.

I have a pair of gpu blocks sitting here if I could even be bothered, but there would be no benefit, the stock cooler is very quiet and I've already determined that being any cooler / editing the bios wont get me any higher overclocks, so a watercooler would be a wasted effort.
 
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"but muh future voltage mods" - FuryX owner.

Given the OC headroom on the 980ti I don't really see any reason to choose a FuryX over it. Get a £499 980ti, if you really get upset with the cooler add an EVGA Hybrid kit to it later (or an NZXT Kraken mount and cheap CLC).
 
shankly1985 said:
I agree with above having owned couple gentle typhoon 1850 they isn't much better out there. Even at 1850 rpm I had to check they was spinning super quiet, and they push a lot of air..

You be silly to change the fan tbh unless you have very good reason for it.
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Really? I found them too loud over 1200rpm and prefer to run them as close to 1000rpm as possible.

I hope my FuryX cards (if I ever get them) won't push the fan faster than 1200rpm. Might have to tweak the fan profile if they do. Unless they run quieter than the 1850rpm models that is.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Really? I found them too loud over 1200rpm and prefer to run them as close to 1000rpm as possible.

I hope my FuryX cards (if I ever get them) won't push the fan faster than 1200rpm. Might have to tweak the fan profile if they do. Unless they run quieter than the 1850rpm models that is.
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Each to there own. I run them full speed and like I said I had to double check they was spinning.
 
andybird123 said:
Huge overclocks being the out of the box performance on a £550 card I showed you?
Mate, pretty much all of the 980ti's are hitting 1450-1500, even the £509 ones, and anything £550 and over (£575 in my case) is hitting 1500-1550 (1535 in my case, at 69C and 80% fan which on the MSI is barely audible and no louder than anything else in my case).

Even at 4K, its not "bob on", its a good 20-30% faster, more in some games. And that is with a card boosting to 1420 out of the box.

The £600+ cards are just overpriced, for no extra benefit unless you plan on going LN2. They are completely irrelevant to the choice you were trying to make. The only reason to even mention a £650 980ti is if you are really reaching to make a "ooh aren't 980ti's soo expensive" point and failing.

I'm glad you got the card you wanted at a price you wanted to pay, but burying your head in the sand that a 980ti isn't faster at pretty average overclocks is just laughable. And then you'd have had all the benefits you have now, but higher fps as well as keeping gsync.

I have a pair of gpu blocks sitting here if I could even be bothered, but there would be no benefit, the stock cooler is very quiet and I've already determined that being any cooler / editing the bios wont get me any higher overclocks, so a watercooler would be a wasted effort.
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You still trying to sell 980ti's to the OP even though he's got a FuryX?

didn't you try hard enough in the other thread? Why troll this one too. :rolleyes:
 
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