It's a few years old Corsair HX1050. It's due a replacement anyway since before today it was the loudest thing in the room.
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The Pascal GTX 1080 Ti Owners Thread
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It's a few years old Corsair HX1050. It's due a replacement anyway since before today it was the loudest thing in the room.
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Roll up a bit of paper into a cone and listen around your case. If it's the psu then the noise will come from there. If it's the gpu the noise will come from the card.
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Well that's a fail
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I'll try that tonight.
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Yes its certainly a shame, one thing I hate about reference cards is the cheapout on good chokes and caps etc.
Literally just cut out and stuck some of this onto the back of the case (back of the card while its fitted into the pcie slot). On the unused ports, exhaust port and missing pcie lanes etc.
All i could find with a decent width without waiting a while. Larger width possibly a bit thicker would be better if you can get it although this stuff works well.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015LLSAUO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I'm not sure why you guys on water are waiting?
My understanding is that if the 1080ti is anything like the 1080 then there will not be too much difference between the custom card clocks and FE which leaves the difference between the blocks which I'm assuming will be small if anything. The cost outlay you would pay for the custom card and new EK block is not worth the incremental clocks when compared to the FE and Titan block combo
My understanding is that if the 1080ti is anything like the 1080 then there will not be too much difference between the custom card clocks and FE which leaves the difference between the blocks which I'm assuming will be small if anything. The cost outlay you would pay for the custom card and new EK block is not worth the incremental clocks when compared to the FE and Titan block combo
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Custom cards are easier to sell on to someone who has no interest in water cooling.
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Ah ok I see what you have done, I have some of that stuff laying about. I just hope this new card which is meant to arriving on Monday is whine free, I am going to check it out properly before blocking it. That is if I can work out how to keep the stock cooler as quiet as possible.
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I thought the same thing but my reference 980Ti sold for allot more than most custom cards, I was really surprised. I put it on at a higher price as I wasn't ready to sell but wanted to take up the £1 selling fee offer on ebay and was planning on reducing it later on when I had a 1080ti. It only went and sold, I was surprised.
Mine is not the only one either.Looking on ebay there are so many custom cards that the reference cards stand out a bit more and some people seem to go for them for some reason, maybe to watercool or to use in SLI, I am not sure. Personally if I wasn't going to run a card on air then a card with a custom cooler would be a must for me.
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Thanks and added to the OPs.
The thing about frame drops is it is not always about the card throttling, sometimes some parts of a game are more demanding than others and this is reflected in the fps.
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I've never had any issue with getting good money for reference cards, especially on ebay
I thought the same thing but my reference 980Ti sold for allot more than most custom cards, I was really surprised. I put it on at a higher price as I wasn't ready to sell but wanted to take up the £1 selling fee offer on ebay and was planning on reducing it later on when I had a 1080ti. It only went and sold, I was surprised.
Looking on ebay there are so many custom cards that the reference cards stand out a bit more and some people seem to go for them for some reason, maybe to watercool or to use in SLI, I am not sure. Personally if I wasn't going to run a card on air then a card with a custom cooler would be a must for me.
True but you wouldn't pay a premium for a custom card when watercooling right?
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With the tales of jet engine noise and thermal throttling, I'm not sure why anyone would want a FE on air. Maybe this Gen is particularly worse?
I've never owned an FE or blower style card and the above is why.
With the tales of jet engine noise and thermal throttling, I'm not sure why anyone would want a FE on air. Maybe this Gen is particularly worse?
I've never owned an FE or blower style card and the above is why.
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No I always go for reference cards as I watercool them. The only time I would pay more for a custom card is if I was guaranteed to get an exceptionally higher overclock and there was a custom block out for it on release. Since this has never really happened I always end up going reference.
I agree. I wouldn't want to run a reference card on air. The noise would drive me insane. I didn't even make 24 hours using the stock cooler due to the noise.