GTX 780 Owners Club

[tdream]

Anyone want to chime in on how quiet Asus Directcu ii coolers are?

 

[Fanatic]

Very

 

[Drollic]

Really looking forward to my 2 wind-force ghz 780's arriving on Tuesday...great to hear they are as quiet as you have reported...what are your idle and load temps?

With a quiet side fan and 20c room, mine idles at 26c at 28% fan and runs around 67-70c at 57-60% fan @ 1024 (1176 boost) and 6500.

 

[thefogo]

Anyone want to chime in on how quiet Asus Directcu ii coolers are?

Usually the quietest.

 

[Noxia]

I'd challenge that, not having had an ASus one mind but the 780 Twin Frozr (Gaming OC) card was soooooooo quiet I didn't even know if it was on at times.

 

[chaparral]

finally got round to installing my GTX 780 Classified and one of the fans is... iffy.

Sounds like a bad ball bearing >: (

It is fine when the fan is at 57% and higher, but anything below that is really annoying

Have a read here http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1978902

There seems to lots of owners with problems with the evga coolers suffering from rattles from loose heatsink fins or fans......
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1978902

 

[thefogo]

I'd challenge that, not having had an ASus one mind but the 780 Twin Frozr (Gaming OC) card was soooooooo quiet I didn't even know if it was on at times.

Yeah they're both great and perform similarly. The new Twin Frozrs are very quiet. Some of the old ones weren't, though.

 

[ancientmariner]

I can testify to that, the fans on my twin frozr 580's are like jets on take off. One of the reasons i avoided msi this time round, that and the other issues i have had with msi fans.

 

[systemerror]

My asus 560ti's in sli are quieter than my 780 is classified.

 

[Gripen90]

I have an Asus Direct CUII 7950 which, when my system was idle, was the only thing that could be heard. It wasn't an unpleasant sound by any means, and under load it never bothered me at all

I have an Twin Frozr 780 coming from the store sometime this week hopefully, so I'll update with my experiences.

The TwinForzr 4 cooler is very silent (compared to TwinFrozr III) ! I can't hear it at all on my TwinFrozr Gaming OC in idle or in load...
But for that matter the reference cooler is almost as silent .. it's the best radial blower style cooler ever made IMO.

 

[AssaTM]

Final question for you lot before I hit buy, is it worth buying the Ghz edition of the Windforce when I plan to overclock both as much as I can anyway? is it a newer stepping, better anything else? or not worth the £40 increase in price? thank you

 

[MoodyB]

The Ghz is a B1 stepping, but apparently other cards have been using this revision already.

For a comparison, I've had my Rev2 Windforce to 1254 / 7212. Wont go any further though without an unlocked bios for more vcore.

You might get an extra 50-100mhz out of the Ggz edition?

The backplate is nice though...

 

[AssaTM]

You're right, it is a nice backplate , maybe i'll stretch a little more then

 

[Venares]

Better stepping (B1).
They run at 1010Mhz core right off the bat AFAIK so should in threory have more OC headroom.

Beaten by MoodyB

 

[reiyushin]

OcUKs testing of the B1 cores have shown no more overclockability just a higher out of the box frequency.

 

[reiyushin]

Lightning ordered

 

[AssaTM]

Well thats two completely differing opinions in the space of a post of each other, that doesnt help me at all! haha

 

[starmanwarz]

780 Classified ordered, my rig is now complete

Goodbye 560ti

 

[MoodyB]

Well thats two completely differing opinions in the space of a post of each other, that doesnt help me at all! haha

Unless you're going to be heavily benching I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Most 780's seem to clock within 100mhz of one another, which on the grand scheme of things is only around 8% higher / lower fps. Not exactly a deal breaker.

And if you were into benching, then the MSI Lightning, EVGA Classified and KFA2 HOF would probably be better choices as they have improved power circuitry.