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Gigabyte cooling performance *REP POST*

I had a horrible experience with gigabyte amd rx cards 470, and two 480 failure one of which gigabyte denied the fault until it went in for second time.

Anyway I belive they may of been down to heat. However I had at one point the 960 mini oc card you guys did and it was perfect and sold it on works to this day. Cooler was sufficient and nice little card one of best gigabyte cards I had.

If anything and it is just my view since branding to aurous I feel your coolers feel cheap and not built as well in perticular the three fan 1080 where the middle fan is lower than the other two.

Design wise and build wise before aurous I felt you did better.

Your motherboards however are best in the business and loved all them you have ever done
 
Gigabyte cooling performance is fine. In fact their Nvidia cards are good all around. I have had one last so far 1.5 years which is 7 months or so more than any other gigabyte card I've had (R9 290 reference. R9 290 windforce, R9 390 G1) including RMA replacements. But only thing I can't fault really was the cooling. Apart from a card I had to RMA due to thermals (hit 95 in a couple of minutes of gaming in a case with 5 fans) which is a faulty card the working ones have been well within safe limits. If price is right I will still go gigabyte for cards I don't expect to have a use for after warranty
 
Mark1989 said:
I had a horrible experience with gigabyte amd rx cards 470, and two 480 failure one of which gigabyte denied the fault until it went in for second time.

Anyway I belive they may of been down to heat. However I had at one point the 960 mini oc card you guys did and it was perfect and sold it on works to this day. Cooler was sufficient and nice little card one of best gigabyte cards I had.

If anything and it is just my view since branding to aurous I feel your coolers feel cheap and not built as well in perticular the three fan 1080 where the middle fan is lower than the other two.

Design wise and build wise before aurous I felt you did better.

Your motherboards however are best in the business and loved all them you have ever done
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Did a client build with RX 470 windforce, did run hot but no to loud. Do agree the design was flawed in Gigabytes ethos of Chip, VRM and RAM but be directly cooled via the main heatsink, and not some pass metal piece strapped to VRM which gets air flow only when the fans turn on.
They underestimated the heat of the 4** chip and heatsink was to small to cope with the heatsoak.
come along the Aorus 500 series and much bigger fans, heatsink and heat pipes, then rolls in the XTR with double 92mm Fans and 2.5 slot design

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as you can see , tightly packed and fans barely turn on when running FireStrike 1080p benchmark :D

although them and all over vendors use bad paste, dropped further 5c using some Grizzlie on them :D
 
Well seeing as we have resurrected this thread ... I'd like to ask the same question gerardfraser asked about 10 months ago -

Hey, Gigabyte, any sign of a bios update for some more of your 1070 cards? I have the Mini OC and would quite like to see it get the update.
 
Jimmy Weirdarms said:
Well seeing as we have resurrected this thread ... I'd like to ask the same question gerardfraser asked about 10 months ago -

Hey, Gigabyte, any sign of a bios update for some more of your 1070 cards? I have the Mini OC and would quite like to see it get the update.
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why would they need bios updates? normally role out if there has been an error or some one did a bad job on a fan profile - (Like an Asus Dual 1070 i had the enabled fans to stop)
 
orbitalwalsh said:
why would they need bios updates? normally role out if there has been an error or some one did a bad job on a fan profile - (Like an Asus Dual 1070 i had the enabled fans to stop)
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I believe it's to do with memory reliability. Cards either come with Samsung or Micron memory. The Micron stuff has been known not to work so well, particularly where it comes to overclocking. This can be fixed with some sort of bios update. Quite a few of the Gigabyte 1070 models have had updates released, the Mini and Mini OC haven't

All that said, I have no idea what brand of memory is in my cards :)
 
Jimmy Weirdarms said:
I believe it's to do with memory reliability. Cards either come with Samsung or Micron memory. The Micron stuff has been known not to work so well, particularly where it comes to overclocking. This can be fixed with some sort of bios update. Quite a few of the Gigabyte 1070 models have had updates released, the Mini and Mini OC haven't

All that said, I have no idea what brand of memory is in my cards :)
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If it has Micron you'll also have to see what chip the ram is , dont forget the mini's were released later on in the product life span, the 1080 mini is coming out soon . You'd hope that the ram manufactures would have updated and produced better quality chips by then :)
 
I've owned gigabyte 970, 980, 980ti & 1080 cards and the cooling has been first class every single time, so you're definitely getting that right.

However, the coil whine on the 980ti was horrendous to the point I had to RMA. It's one reason I opted for EVGA for my current 1080ti.
 
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