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Our company group has sold over 1000 now they are proving more popular in Germany than the UK.
The guy in the Ireland was powering it with a 330W PSU, due to his Alienware PC having that, could swear that's what he said, watch the videos in full but a 600W PSU should cope.
Yes these have a similar technology to help reduce it and if you get whine with a quality PSU we will replace it no issue.
Last batch was Manli, this batch Zotac. Cards are identical just different packaging. PNY, Manli, Zotac and Inno3D are all same factory (PC Partner).
Normally Samsung does clock better and has better efficiency. But because NVIDIA are very detailed in what specification the memory must hit the Hynix clocks as good as the Samsung in most cases and the Hynix has and does clock upto around 8800-9000MHz on the best examples so very similar to Samsung.
The cards have Hynix now.
The only card I believe we still have which guarantees Samsung still is the KFA Infin8 card I designed but as of yesterday we dropped under 1000 units of our current batch and as such we will have a new batch arriving in May and right now the factory can only build with Hynix.
I think your figures are off by about 1000 at either end there GibboThey definitely don't go that high for average Joe. The timings are also a lot faster on the Samsung ram based cards.
What I've achieved in my testing.
I think 8 Pack has a King Pin and HOF card which are nearly at 10000MHz, with voltage and some directed airflow such speeds are possible on the best power phase cards with good ram chips.
OcUK will not be offering it if its not on our descriptions, you only get it if it is advertised as such on OcUK.
I shall check and request more games from NVIDIA, but if you order when no game is showing, then you won't get a game.
Just got more codes from NVIDIA, the game promotion is live again, you should now see it showing on qualifying products.
check your account history after you recieve the card.
If a code does not appear email our CS or post on here linking to my reply here and they shall sort you a code.
Yes we shall be ordering no more as we have around 1000ish left which we expect to be sold out around October time.
Makes sense
Any ideas whether there would be price drops at all - is that dictated by Nvidia?
I see there is currently £10 off but not sure whether its worth my while to hold off for a bit then buy later on or make most of it now.
I can't see any future price moves to be honest now, I think we are now pretty much set for rest of year as sales naturally start to pickup August due to entering peak season.
What we might see is new game bundles of course, but nothing is confirmed as of yet.
100% is fine, the card is designed to operate as quietly as possible upto 70-80c and then it will slightly increase fan speed to keep the card under 80c, this is how NVIDIA designed the cooling.
I'd personally set the fan around 60-80% as that should be enough to stay around 60c load whilst remaining very quiet.
I don't know know what the heat threshold on GPU's is so for all I know 70/80c is extremely high.
I'm slightly deaf so I can't even hear it at 100%.
80c is throttle point, won't be any harm but at the same time running it cooler won't do any harm either and also if you keep temps around 60c the card will boost higher giving more performance.