Yea I wanted the ftw3 but after the fan issues I was surprised. I think I have a unigen score somewhere in this thread. If not I'll post one when I get home. I barely hear my card, my CPU cooler makes more noise.A lot of people waited on Vega... I got the 1080ti FTW3 in the end, and will gladly buy the second one to put the final nail in the productivity coffin, I hardly even need a single one for gaming, only do 1080p at 75hz (hopefully 2x Ultra-wides 1440p 100hz in the near future) and that's absolutely fine for me. But when it comes to productive work, I really need the extra horsepower for renders.
Playing DOOM doesn't even start spinning the fans until after 10 minutes or so and even under full stress test load, fans @50% never exceed 65C on full overclock after 1h, I guess I have good airflow and can take a second card on air easily - the next rig I do will be a full AMD one though: Threadripper and Vega for sure.
Guys, please post UNIGINE Superposition 1080p Extreme results, I am really curious to see where everybody sits with their card, not a competition, just share the info
Now, I do have a gripe with something, and that is the shitty PrecisionX OC software, has more bugs than a homeless den. My PWR temperature is no longer being registered and is stuck on the value that it has when starting the software, therefore the PWR fan curve is no longer useful. EVGA support have not been very helpful so far unfortunately.
A lot of people waited on Vega... I got the 1080ti FTW3 in the end, and will gladly buy the second one to put the final nail in the productivity coffin, I hardly even need a single one for gaming, only do 1080p at 75hz (hopefully 2x Ultra-wides 1440p 100hz in the near future) and that's absolutely fine for me. But when it comes to productive work, I really need the extra horsepower for renders.
Playing DOOM doesn't even start spinning the fans until after 10 minutes or so and even under full stress test load, fans @50% never exceed 65C on full overclock after 1h, I guess I have good airflow and can take a second card on air easily - the next rig I do will be a full AMD one though: Threadripper and Vega for sure.
Guys, please post UNIGINE Superposition 1080p Extreme results, I am really curious to see where everybody sits with their card, not a competition, just share the info
Now, I do have a gripe with something, and that is the shitty PrecisionX OC software, has more bugs than a homeless den. My PWR temperature is no longer being registered and is stuck on the value that it has when starting the software, therefore the PWR fan curve is no longer useful. EVGA support have not been very helpful so far unfortunately.
Well I just ordered a 1080ti but here is my Fury X benchmark for reference.
My Poseidon 1080 Ti came in and I need to build the rest of my rig.. thinking of a 7700k and 32GB of Gkill DDR4. Motherboard will be Asus, was considering the Maximus IX Extreme;
For the case I prefer a mid-tower such as Corsair 460 RGB - can I go even smaller while water cooling my 7700k + 1080 Ti? (My Ti is 11.73" / 29.8cm in length)
That's not a bad score for Fury X considering it is slightly older and a respectable card! My 1080Ti FTW3 got 5600 out of the box, had to push it to 6207.
To make things fun, although not necessarily fair, my Vega FE just came in today so I'll play around with it and see what I can milk out of it.
You can go as small as the Define Nano S if you got the patience - it was actually MADE for smaller case water-cooling. Check it out, worth a look. NZXT are also very good for water cooling although the s340 is under-vented for the purpose.
Here you go DaQuteness my superposition benchmark with a Gigabyte aorus gtx1080ti xtreme edition and ryzen threadripper 1920x. Everything is vanilla. The card is using the default clocks/clock mode.
You can go as small as the Define Nano S if you got the patience - it was actually MADE for smaller case water-cooling. Check it out, worth a look. NZXT are also very good for water cooling although the s340 is under-vented for the purpose.
My H115i pump makes more noise... then again, card runs freakin' passively right up until it hits serious load! Your strix has beefier cooling, I just wanted to keep to 2-slot for airflow reasons, to try and keep as much distance between the cards (when the 2nd one goes in).
I still have my Evo 212 but I snapped the fans since they were so brittle while I did upgrades. I'm fine with the h100i for now. I was tempted to try other cooling solutions but I got it during a sale so I went with it. Next time the cpu cooler may get changed when I get a new cpu that requires another mobo.I haven't used one of the AIOs since I bought a Corsair H50 ages ago, and I decided to try one again. I went with an NZXT one (I'd have to look up which one it is), and man... I can't say that I've been that satisfied with the noise levels. For a 280mm radiator and variable speed pump, it's just way too noisy. It also has excessive air bubbles in it, which they recommend taking apart just to clear. If I take it off, it's staying off. On that note, I'm tempted to go back to the tried-and-true Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO as it never gave me problems. My video card has usually been the noisiest thing in my PC, and in this case, it's my CPU cooler. Although, I did have to put a fan reducer between my 1080 Ti Hybrid and its fan to reduce the noise.
I haven't used one of the AIOs since I bought a Corsair H50 ages ago, and I decided to try one again. I went with an NZXT one (I'd have to look up which one it is), and man... I can't say that I've been that satisfied with the noise levels. For a 280mm radiator and variable speed pump, it's just way too noisy. It also has excessive air bubbles in it, which they recommend taking apart just to clear....
All that makes a difference is assembly quality, sorry to hear you're not so happy with yours. And don't take it apart, that's condemning it...
Yea I'm glad I didn't wait for Vega which was initially what I was going to do. I'm more than happy with my 1080ti. It really helps out in VR too.
Mines pretty quiet and it's an Asus. Evga is good too if they fixed the fan issues. I would probably go with Asus or msi.Which card has the best cooler/noise? I've heard some complaints about the EVGA and Asus, even tho the Asus seems to be the most popular. MSI or Zotac maybe?