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What, if any, LEDs does the MSI 970 have?
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Hi, quick and simple question for the MSI 970 owners out there. When powered does the card have any LEDs or lights on it at all and if so what colour are they? Need to know to ensure full colour co-ordination in my case
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I think you can probably get away with these custom cards as long as you have decent airflow in your case. These Maxwell cards are much cooler and more efficient.
There has been quite a few reports of the stock blowers being too loud and not really keeping low temps. I think people need to adapt the generic advice of "if you're using SLI then get blowers" for these Maxwell cards.
You can get the MSI or Asus with big 100mm low spinning fans and the heatsinks are so well made that they can passively cool up to 67 degrees with the Strix.
My Windforce hasn't been above 68 degrees when under load afaik even with 1500mhz OC.
There has been quite a few reports of the stock blowers being too loud and not really keeping low temps. I think people need to adapt the generic advice of "if you're using SLI then get blowers" for these Maxwell cards.
You can get the MSI or Asus with big 100mm low spinning fans and the heatsinks are so well made that they can passively cool up to 67 degrees with the Strix.
My Windforce hasn't been above 68 degrees when under load afaik even with 1500mhz OC.
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damn, they look beautiful!
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Yes they are my cards.
Top card gets to around 70 initially with the bottom card being 10 degrees cooler.
After a bit the fan on the top spins a little quicker and drops to below 70. That's with auto fan profile. I think the top fan gets up to 60% and the bottom 50% while gaming. At that speed I can't hear them at all.
They boost to just over 1300Mhz without any overclocking from me. I did try +200 on both cores in MSI afterburner, but they wouldn't go that high. They will individually. Didn't try any lower as the performance from them at the factory speeds is plenty.
