The GTX Titan X owners thread.

Klunt Bumskrint · 17 Aug 2015 at 09:40

Just a small Phillips and a little hex to remove the old one. I have an ifixit kit though

africanos23 · 17 Aug 2015 at 09:47

Klunt Bumskrint said:
Just a small Phillips and a little hex to remove the old one. I have an ifixit kit though

Hm... I think I have both but just to be sure I'm going to pick up a kit.

What should I ask for ?

dessimpson · 17 Aug 2015 at 11:24

I use a cheap Rolston (?) kit that I picked up in Homebase.

africanos23 · 17 Aug 2015 at 11:41

dessimpson said:
I use a cheap Rolston (?) kit that I picked up in Homebase.

I have a similar one to that so I'm good, thanks

Born_2_Kill_83 · 17 Aug 2015 at 15:21

You'll need a 1.5 and 2mm allen/hex key.

BG1980 · 17 Aug 2015 at 17:20

Also be very careful removing the screws, one of mine seemed to be overtightened from the factory and you can guess what happened.

Yep, stripped it and had to remove the offending screw using a power drill. Trust me when I say taking a drill to an expensive GFX card is something I never wish to repeat.

Klunt Bumskrint · 17 Aug 2015 at 17:59

africanos23 said:
I have a similar one to that so I'm good, thanks

Everyone here should own one of these kits, they're awesome.

dessimpson · 17 Aug 2015 at 18:05

Does the job nicely. And cheap as chips.

straxusii · 17 Aug 2015 at 20:12

The 1.5mm hex screw almost caught me out, it's really tiny. Luckily my smallest torx bit fitted, and yes they can be tight so apply good pressure and turn slowly.

Just fitted my corsair sp120, temps now up to 56 compared to 51 with the stock fan but quieter, running at 80% compared to 100% of the stock fan.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 17 Aug 2015 at 21:11

I get 51c with my SP120s on it @ 1500mhz, is it getting enough cool air? As for the orginal fan no need for 80% most people run it at 40% around 50c, its only cooling the vrms now.

Klunt Bumskrint · 17 Aug 2015 at 21:18

I get under 50c in most games on modded bios with stock fans. I haven't changed the rad fans speed so I assume they're at 100%. I run the card fans at 25%. The back plate sits at 50c ish.
I ordered some SP120's quiet edition today from OCUK so hopefully they'll be a little quieter

Born_2_Kill_83 · 17 Aug 2015 at 21:23

Is that black plate only 50c above the vrms? Mine feels much warmer than that but have a temp gun comming through the post so will see.

Watch out for the quiet editions they dont move half the air of the performace ones or standard EVGA ones for that matter nor have the rpm speed.

straxusii · 17 Aug 2015 at 21:40

Ah when I said stock fan I meant the stock fan of the hybrid, so original fan on the card is running at 37%

Gta runs cooler, witcher 3 is the most demanding I've found

straxusii · 18 Aug 2015 at 07:54

Klunt Bumskrint said:
I get under 50c in most games on modded bios with stock fans. I haven't changed the rad fans speed so I assume they're at 100%. I run the card fans at 25%. The back plate sits at 50c ish.
I ordered some SP120's quiet edition today from OCUK so hopefully they'll be a little quieter

I wouldn't run the card fan at 25%, I'd be worried about the VRM cooling. I run at 24% below 32C then 37% above.

africanos23 · 18 Aug 2015 at 09:30

GTX980 ones but I could care less

Klunt Bumskrint · 18 Aug 2015 at 09:39

straxusii said:
I wouldn't run the card fan at 25%, I'd be worried about the VRM cooling. I run at 24% below 32C then 37% above.

Backplate doesn't get above 56c (I measured last night) under load and that's with 100+ on the men.

africanos23 said:
GTX980 ones but I could care less

Boooo, Hisssssss.

africanos23 · 18 Aug 2015 at 10:18

Klunt Bumskrint said:
Backplate doesn't get above 56c (I measured last night) under load and that's with 100+ on the men.

Boooo, Hisssssss.

OCD much

, not being TX branded ?

Gerard · 18 Aug 2015 at 10:23

africanos23 said:
GTX980 ones but I could care less

So you do care that you got these instead of the proper ones? :eek:

africanos23 · 18 Aug 2015 at 10:25

Gerard said:
So you do care that you got these instead of the proper ones?

I've been waiting for 3 months got ****ed off, so I paid 115 euros in shipping + got the GTX980s

No I don't care because I think its better then toasting the cards

RanxZy · 18 Aug 2015 at 10:34

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Watch out for the quiet editions they dont move half the air of the performace ones or standard EVGA ones for that matter nor have the rpm speed.

Yeah the performance SP120s move a lot more air, so more cooling headroom, but also obviously can get louder so I guess it depends what balance you prefer. In this comparison the Quiet Editions ended up with a 2.65 difference in degrees while being 12dB quieter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFi39czpsac&t=5m54s

I have the SP120 quiet editions on a H75+980Ti, but it's the PWM version with 4 pin instead of the usual 3 pin fans. Hooked up to my NZXT Sentry 3 fan controller it displays the correct rpm, though I haven't tried them connected to the motherboard to see if it picks up rpm. At 100% ~1380rpm in push pull they are pretty much inaudible while gaming. Absolute max I've seen is 55c in GPU-Z without any fps cap, but as I have a 60Hz monitor and cap the fps, typical temps range from 45-51c.