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I was responding to the other thread but figured I had too long of a story to integrate it in there.
I got mine today. I was iffy on what brand to buy (refer to thread: http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/7857...uld-i-get.html) . EVGA for the reference cooler look, step up, and lifetime warranty, but worse cooling and louder. That left Gigabyte/MSI left over for nonreference cooling.
I have the worst buyer's remorse in history. I bought the MSI first through newegg, cancelled it like 1 hour later (I ordered at like 4AM and that's when they restocked only 1 lol! and I bought it, but cancelled and it came back in stock a couple of hours later). I then ordered the gigabyte because it was cheaper and had a mini-hdmi -> adapter (which turns out to suck because it WONT FIT on the case, so now I can't use my tv as a media monitor right now...). Then I had second thoughts again, but the ordered shipped by the time.
Ordered yesterday, got it today. STILL iffy on keeping it or not (will sell to friend) and reordering either the EVGA or MSI. I am only reconsidering the MSI because I heard it's better in general cooling and unlocked voltage. EVGA because I have a 20% coupon from the gamestop SC2 launch which shaves off a good ~45$. Too bad EVGA direct is OOS again and so is the MSI + no more newegg 10% BCB.
On top of that, noise is really objective. The gigabyte is quiet at 40%. Until 70% can I actually start noticing it over my Hyper 212+ 120mm cooler that is running at 62.5% (never hits the 40C threshold) most of the time. From maybe 80% I can tell it's the loudest component in there.
Temperatures won't lie though. Im sure the EVGA will be hotter compared to the two others in my CM 690ii case. Pics will be posted. Basically front/bottom intakes, side, rear, 2x top exhausts. This means extremely good airflow.
Anyway. That story aside, let's get to the meat.
Here are a couple of pictures of the unpacking. Came in a normal box with a bunch of foam peanuts.
BOX:
Size comparison:
Here we go:
Here's the card, glossy frame:
This is my old asus 5770 cucore installed:
Now go crossSLI!
lol i wish
To my dismay, the mini HDMI -> HDMI cable did not fit. I need an adapter like EVGA's, not this
Here's my CM 690ii now. I got A LOT of shipment today. About 6 boxes. Amazon shipped me over some case fans and my new window side panel:
This is the direction of my airflow:
So installed it. Booted into windows, uninstalled ATI drivers. Restarted. Ran driver sweeper, restarted. Then I downloaded drivers from Nvidia and installed and restart. Looks good.
I went to check if the mini HDMI adapter was working being only half plugged in, but no luck. There wasn't any other monitor recognized.
Then another problem arrived:
I started having problems with mozilla freezing on me which froze the whole computer. Nothing was responding and I had to wait for a minute or so before things became responsive again. I have now switched the chrome. It might be a problem with mozilla, but I wasn't having problems before so I don't know.
Checked stock temps. Was about 34C during the day, about 3C lower than my 5770.
Later on during the night, I underclocked it from the factory OC to stock clocks. At this point, I don't need the power. Stock clock will do fine for me as i'm only playing SC2, which it runs fine at max settings at 1920x1200 windowed fullscreen mode (stresses the system quite a bit more in fullscreen mode).
Here are my idle temps with that clock:
27C. Amazing. No tweaking of other kind. I did not set the fan to 100% or anything. Standard 40%. Outside temperatures are 19C (San Diego) so it's not freezing here.
At this point, I have not really OC'ed too much. I set it to 900/1800/2100 at 1.087v and it ran fine for 7 minutes on stability test 1280x1024. Hit max 81C, fan went up to 82%.
That said, my temps are pretty good, so I'm considering just going with EVGA and messing with the fanspeed if its too loud for my taste.
Edited by Chango99 - 7/29/10 at 4:38am
I was responding to the other thread but figured I had too long of a story to integrate it in there.
I got mine today. I was iffy on what brand to buy (refer to thread: http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/7857...uld-i-get.html) . EVGA for the reference cooler look, step up, and lifetime warranty, but worse cooling and louder. That left Gigabyte/MSI left over for nonreference cooling.
I have the worst buyer's remorse in history. I bought the MSI first through newegg, cancelled it like 1 hour later (I ordered at like 4AM and that's when they restocked only 1 lol! and I bought it, but cancelled and it came back in stock a couple of hours later). I then ordered the gigabyte because it was cheaper and had a mini-hdmi -> adapter (which turns out to suck because it WONT FIT on the case, so now I can't use my tv as a media monitor right now...). Then I had second thoughts again, but the ordered shipped by the time.
Ordered yesterday, got it today. STILL iffy on keeping it or not (will sell to friend) and reordering either the EVGA or MSI. I am only reconsidering the MSI because I heard it's better in general cooling and unlocked voltage. EVGA because I have a 20% coupon from the gamestop SC2 launch which shaves off a good ~45$. Too bad EVGA direct is OOS again and so is the MSI + no more newegg 10% BCB.
On top of that, noise is really objective. The gigabyte is quiet at 40%. Until 70% can I actually start noticing it over my Hyper 212+ 120mm cooler that is running at 62.5% (never hits the 40C threshold) most of the time. From maybe 80% I can tell it's the loudest component in there.
Temperatures won't lie though. Im sure the EVGA will be hotter compared to the two others in my CM 690ii case. Pics will be posted. Basically front/bottom intakes, side, rear, 2x top exhausts. This means extremely good airflow.
Anyway. That story aside, let's get to the meat.
Here are a couple of pictures of the unpacking. Came in a normal box with a bunch of foam peanuts.
BOX:
Size comparison:
Here we go:
Here's the card, glossy frame:
This is my old asus 5770 cucore installed:
Now go crossSLI!
lol i wish
To my dismay, the mini HDMI -> HDMI cable did not fit. I need an adapter like EVGA's, not this
Here's my CM 690ii now. I got A LOT of shipment today. About 6 boxes. Amazon shipped me over some case fans and my new window side panel:
This is the direction of my airflow:
So installed it. Booted into windows, uninstalled ATI drivers. Restarted. Ran driver sweeper, restarted. Then I downloaded drivers from Nvidia and installed and restart. Looks good.
I went to check if the mini HDMI adapter was working being only half plugged in, but no luck. There wasn't any other monitor recognized.
Then another problem arrived:
I started having problems with mozilla freezing on me which froze the whole computer. Nothing was responding and I had to wait for a minute or so before things became responsive again. I have now switched the chrome. It might be a problem with mozilla, but I wasn't having problems before so I don't know.
Checked stock temps. Was about 34C during the day, about 3C lower than my 5770.
Later on during the night, I underclocked it from the factory OC to stock clocks. At this point, I don't need the power. Stock clock will do fine for me as i'm only playing SC2, which it runs fine at max settings at 1920x1200 windowed fullscreen mode (stresses the system quite a bit more in fullscreen mode).
Here are my idle temps with that clock:
27C. Amazing. No tweaking of other kind. I did not set the fan to 100% or anything. Standard 40%. Outside temperatures are 19C (San Diego) so it's not freezing here.
At this point, I have not really OC'ed too much. I set it to 900/1800/2100 at 1.087v and it ran fine for 7 minutes on stability test 1280x1024. Hit max 81C, fan went up to 82%.
That said, my temps are pretty good, so I'm considering just going with EVGA and messing with the fanspeed if its too loud for my taste.
Edited by Chango99 - 7/29/10 at 4:38am
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