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GTX 780 Ti Specifications Leaked – Full Blown Gk110 Core with 2880 SP
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The brackets holds a fan just above the vrm and mem chips, the 620 mod is really effective and so cheap, def worth it for people with smaller budgets and don't want loud GPU's. I can't hear the Kuhler fans over the case fans, really nice and quiet. Yeah really not want one for noisy PC. I remember back in the day I had a 6990, the noise was unbearable
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Any hints on pricing yet? Can't believe I'm actually considering it
$700 dollars has been doing the rounds for the 3gb version.
Caporegime
The brackets holds a fan just above the vrm and mem chips, the 620 mod is really effective and so cheap, def worth it for people with smaller budgets and don't want loud GPU's. I can't hear the Kuhler fans over the case fans, really nice and quiet. Yeah really not want one for noisy PC. I remember back in the day I had a 6990, the noise was unbearable
I was always concerned with the VRM temps but unless you are doing suicide runs, it isn't or at least shouldn't be a concern. The one constant with water cooling is when gaming, that quiet hum stays the same and doesn't ramp up at all like air cooled GPU's do.
I'll see your 6990 and raise you a venting blade serverThe brackets holds a fan just above the vrm and mem chips, the 620 mod is really effective and so cheap, def worth it for people with smaller budgets and don't want loud GPU's. I can't hear the Kuhler fans over the case fans, really nice and quiet. Yeah really not want one for noisy PC. I remember back in the day I had a 6990, the noise was unbearable
Caporegime
Thanks Boom
The brackets holds a fan just above the vrm and mem chips, the 620 mod is really effective and so cheap, def worth it for people with smaller budgets and don't want loud GPU's. I can't hear the Kuhler fans over the case fans, really nice and quiet. Yeah really not want one for noisy PC. I remember back in the day I had a 6990, the noise was unbearable
Told ya.
£701 then, I'm out.
I hope nvidia at least can manage another £50 off of 780's, otherwise a couple of 290's under water is looking the more tempting offer. Another 780 & a pair of blocks is looking close to £600 alone, moving to 290's on water would see me with an extra £100 in my pocket when all is said and done.
Soldato
Gibbo has said somewhere that nVidia aren't budging any more. The prices are set for the Christmas period now.
EDIT:
Soldato
The best is always out right now. If it wasn't it wouldn't be right now it'd be back when. Back when it was the best but it's not right now. You follow?
The betterer comes later
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If you don't already have a water cooled pc and starting from scratch you can add another £300 for rad pump and block ect which makes the bargain vfm card £600.
AMD made a super card for super price but that cooler undoes all the good work.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-review-benchmark,3659-18.html
And that new driver that pushed the fan speed up makes it just way too loud to think about buying this unless you are going to fit water block.
AMD made a super card for super price but that cooler undoes all the good work.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-review-benchmark,3659-18.html
And that new driver that pushed the fan speed up makes it just way too loud to think about buying this unless you are going to fit water block.
Unless you have the fans voltage controlled by the mobo according to CPU temps, then they range from "inaudible" to "quiet hum drowned out by game"
Caporegime
Unless you have the fans voltage controlled by the mobo according to CPU temps, then they range from "inaudible" to "quiet hum drowned out by game"
Meh!!! but yer, that is true
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Did anyone see the R290 review where they put a custom heatsink and fan on it ? They said it made a massive difference. heatwise and speedwise. If a 290 or 290x was out now with a custom fan design I'd buy it now. At the moment swayed between R290 crossfire or one Titan. Both have pros and cons
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I still can't find that exact link but heres another site that did something similar
Update: Based on your feedback, I took the IceQ X2 cooler off the HIS Radeon R9 280X and stuck it on our R9 290 sample. Cooling was dramatically improved. The FurMark stress test maxed out at 76 degrees while the card never exceeded 63 degrees in Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4. So it seems as expected the board partners will be able to solve the heat issues of the reference card.
http://www.techspot.com/review/736-amd-radeon-r9-290/page8.html
Update: Based on your feedback, I took the IceQ X2 cooler off the HIS Radeon R9 280X and stuck it on our R9 290 sample. Cooling was dramatically improved. The FurMark stress test maxed out at 76 degrees while the card never exceeded 63 degrees in Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4. So it seems as expected the board partners will be able to solve the heat issues of the reference card.
http://www.techspot.com/review/736-amd-radeon-r9-290/page8.html
Caporegime
Interesting.
Soldato
Great temps, I can see 290 non reference cards flying off the shelves.