Soldato
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Bit the bullet and gone for the Asus strix non OC version, should arrive early next week hopefully, probably go for a monitor upgrade next to get the best from it.
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Bit the bullet and gone for the Asus strix non OC version, should arrive early next week hopefully, probably go for a monitor upgrade next to get the best from it.
Nice. Enjoy. I want a monitor upgrade too for mine. Looking at a 1440p 27inch GSync. Should be a nice combo.
ive just bought the Dell S2716DG my first G-Sync monitor and it's amazing, i thought 120hz was the nuts but G-Sync![]()
Why? I mean I game, and I'm fine at 60hz so why is it so good to get mire?
I'm not being a d1ck, I just really want to know if its beneficial or not as I play at 4k 60hz.
Im still considering sli myself, but worried about spacing on my board. For sli with dual cards it states slots 1 and 3, which are too close together. Unsure if i can use 1 and 5 with a 5820k which would leave a much better gap.
That's reassuring and nice to hear.
Probably not the best choices for SLI and cooling but I currently have a MSI 6G gaming with the twin frozr cooler and have just bought the Gigabyte G1 gaming. I know these types of fan designs can cause problems with cooling in SLI but we shall see. My MSI runs ok even overclocked to 1470 (never above 71degC while 4k gaming) I have a double space mobo too which should help a little, I am hoping.
Can always work something out if needs be.
Im still considering sli myself, but worried about spacing on my board. For sli with dual cards it states slots 1 and 3, which are too close together. Unsure if i can use 1 and 5 with a 5820k which would leave a much better gap.
A custom bios reduced your temps by 44c?! Is that a magic bios? - ignore, i see you went from air to water with the bios too
You won't regret it. I did have 2 msi Ti's. I ended up swapping for reference and water cooling. They did get a little warm for me 82c on bf4 vs 38c now with custom loop and bios. But I wanted to water cool anyway. They should cool better with them being different cards. And both having good coolers.
Tell me a bit about your watercooling setup. I like the sound of those WC temps. My new windforce arrived today and not only is it a lot noisier than my MSI it reaches mid 80's which is not good enough. Not really the cards fault it just happens to be the top card and I'm sure the same would happen with the MSI if I was to switch them.
As it stands scaling is as expected pretty reasonable but as I feared the top card temp is a little too high for comfort.
I need to either consider a wc loop or send it back and hold out for pascal.![]()
What MoBo and in which slots, i.e. how far apart are they?
Tell me a bit about your watercooling setup. I like the sound of those WC temps. My new windforce arrived today and not only is it a lot noisier than my MSI it reaches mid 80's which is not good enough. Not really the cards fault it just happens to be the top card and I'm sure the same would happen with the MSI if I was to switch them.
As it stands scaling is as expected pretty reasonable but as I feared the top card temp is a little too high for comfort.
I need to either consider a wc loop or send it back and hold out for pascal.![]()
You could put a hybrid cooler on the top card quite easily. But if you want a full custom loop etc. you can see pic in my sig.
Took advantage with as much space as I could in my 900D. Which is 2x 480mm rads and a 240mm. That cools both Ti's and my 5930k. Both Ti's have EK full cover blocks to cool the core, memory and VRM's. Both cards are set to 1500mhz while gaming with 121% power limit, 1.25v bios.
Very quiet, hard drive spinning up is loudest thing in the system.
You don't need that much rad space to get similar temps truthfully. Even half that would keep you mid 40s. 1000w is a lot of cooling.
Unless you really want a wc loop. I would just get a hybrid cooler for the MSI and keep the G1 on the bottom.
That's brilliant. Thanks a lot.