Never noticed it on mine, but checked it and there is one there must be some kind of QC mark.
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Never noticed it on mine, but checked it and there is one there must be some kind of QC mark.
Kind of a silly place to put it when you've got the card on show through a case window
Well I find it is hardly noticeable to be honest, all I can see if the green GeForce LED.
Guys you can do this and your warranty will be intact but not on the led failing.
Any feedback on Whine...so many cards sold no one reporting anything on the forum?
Chop Chop!
Which normally means very happy customers, they only post to complain.
They are all so amazed they are doing a 24hr gaming stint in silence as the rest of the family can sleep due to no crazy fan noises or strange buzzing sounds.
Any chance you can take a pic with the cooler off Gibbo, seen as you did this yesterday?
Its being put back together now and sent of for review.
But if you google 980 NVIDIA PCB you will find plenty of pics and this is identical to that.
No they are still sitting in China was the update and apology they gave me this morning.
installed no whine and whisper quiet
Very nice!
Can I ask which PSU? As if your PSU is not silly high-end then even more impressive.
OK pretty impressed then as we know they have caused cards to whine and even those PSU's themselves have being known to whine. So a good result!
I've just got another one from stock as were sending another card out for review, I shall measure it whilst I've got it to hand and update the specification.
In short you either want NVIDIA reference quality, silence and design, if so buy this.
If you want white PCB, best OC potential, buy the HOF.
This for sure, the G1 is a little louder for sure.
The website does, the original forum post by me is rather old, check the actual webshop.
In short it is a 970 EX OC Black Edition but instead it has an all nickel plated IO plate, heatsink, heatpipe and it is all jet black in colour with backplate. Then it also has the inductors housed in different containers and they are then glued to the PCB. We've also had the factory overclock increased as well to 1329MHz boost minimum which matches the G1 and in my testing it was boosting happily out of the box with no overclock to 1404MHz, which is very impressive.
It is designed with an 8 Pack look/image with all black design, right down to the I/O plate and the look shouts absolute quality, it is all metal construction apart from fans and it being all black in colour means it works well with all motherboard designs/colours.
Overclocking wise, well I have tested one card, so it cannot be taken as what they will all achieve but it was able to run Heaven 4.0 at 1620MHz core and 8400Mhz memory which is a very good result.
If you think it is the card for you we have scheduled our launch time for 12:01 next Friday in UK, Germany and Hungary. We hope to have external reviews going live at the same time also!
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First week of December.
Which is the none-infinity version you are referring too?
Yes correct, that one is a NVIDIA reference card with their very expensive cooler.
Ours is our own design and even though it is expensive it has not cost us as much as NVIDIA reference cooler.