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I would honestly trust Gibbo more than the official website .
I had both a Gaming X and a Strix 980ti
The Gaming X was quieter, the strix did better clocks. The heatsink on the strix was much larger than the gaming X.
Out of interest, how does the FE cooler do at roughly 80%? Much throttling?? I think this is the loudest I could stand tbh (had a 1080 Reference before). Thanks.
As far as 970s went, it was the other way around. Keep in mind that each GPU is slightly different due to ASIC and such (AKA silicon lottery). It could have been a bad luck on the Gaming X, but a golden chip on the Strix. I remember reading an article where they gathered up multiples of certain cooler types to see which did better on average. MSI Gaming was up there. Of course, that's just a 970, things were probably a lot different on 980tis and different still on 1080tis.
I want to know how the different coolers compare on the 1080ti, could be that Gaming X now is terrible for 1080ti for all we know.
I was one of them to help it get from 5 to 2, I had an evga on order but missed out Friday so was a bonus when I saw these and changed my order to the msi.Looks like we got the same batch of cards. I got an alert it was in stock and bagged one asap, refreshed the page and it went from 5 to 2 so they were going quick.
How are msi for cooler removal?
That's good I'm sick of chewing on with cf and I haven't really been playing lately because of cf issues.They allow it as far as I know. It's the main reason why I also cancelled my evga order and went with msi. As for the performance jump from your current 290s, yes you should see a nice gain.
How come the EVGA FE card is so expensive? I've been on two other sites and seen it going for 719.99 and even 699.99. How is it 739.99 from OC?