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spirit said:
I'm pretty sure the PowerColor R9 390 in @SpriteMidr's PC is also a three-slot card. I remember remarking about the sheer size of it when I was building the PC! :D

Mind you, every time I see a high-end Radeon whether it be an old HD 5870, a kind-of-old HD 7950 or a brand new R9 390 I'm always like 'woah so big!' :D
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Two slot :)
 
Darren said:
I don't quite follow. I just said that my triple fan card runs cooler than an identical card with a dual fan design? Yeah it can manage, but if you can get cooler temperatures out of a triple fan setup, why wouldn't you? Also more fans = more airflow = lower overall fan RPM = less noise. My Sapphire is definitely quieter than the MSI 390 too.
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I get where you're coming from with that logic of more fans = more airflow, but it seems to me from the reviews I've seen, it's not as significant as it should be.

You could even argue that under load, the triple fan design would be louder because that's more fans @ 100% rpm. I can see the triple fan would run at lower rpms when the load is not as high and at the lower temperature ranges. But once it reaches a certain temperature, the triple fan setup would be louder.

Overclocking proved both easy and fruitful. For a 24/7 stable overclock, we were able to set the GPU core to 1300 MHz base/1401 MHz boost/1515 MHz actual boost. As is typical with Hynix memory, it too overclocked quite well and landed at 2000 MHz (8000 MHz GDDR5). If you’re wondering what PrecisionX and the Classified offers as far as overclocking options, the voltage can be set up to +50mv, power target to +115%, and temperature target to 91 °C. At the overclocked settings we used, we never ran into any throttling issues.
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  • Base Clock: 1190 MHZ
  • Boost Clock: 1291 MHz
  • Memory Clock: 7010 MHz Effective
  • CUDA Cores: 2816
  • Bus Type: PCI-E 3.0
  • Memory Detail: 6144MB GDDR5
  • Memory Bit Width: 384 Bit
  • Memory Speed: 0.28ns
  • Memory Bandwidth: 336.5 GB/s
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What I'm trying to say is, pushing OC beyond the numbers you're typically going to get with a dual fan cooler, you should really be going liquid. Going triple fan air cooling is a bit overkill.

You can read all about the performance of that card in the article. Neat read though. Not like it matters now that the 1080's released. :rolleyes:
http://www.overclockers.com/evga-gtx-980-ti-classified-graphics-card-review/

To put it into perspective, here's Asus' triple fan GTX 980 Ti STRIX DCIII OC
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/09/01/asus_gtx_980_ti_strix_dciii_oc_video_card_review/1

The OC that they managed with that card is on par with eVGA's classified and the temperatures they were getting is very similar. (The Classified was around 5 degrees hotter than the Asus one)

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tl:dr The triple fan design vs dual fan design isn't all that different.
 
Intel_man said:
I get where you're coming from with that logic of more fans = more airflow, but it seems to me from the reviews I've seen, it's not as significant as it should be.

You could even argue that under load, the triple fan design would be louder because that's more fans @ 100% rpm. I can see the triple fan would run at lower rpms when the load is not as high and at the lower temperature ranges. But once it reaches a certain temperature, the triple fan setup would be louder.



evga_gtx980ti_classified-45.jpg


What I'm trying to say is, pushing OC beyond the numbers you're typically going to get with a dual fan cooler, you should really be going liquid. Going triple fan air cooling is a bit overkill.

You can read all about the performance of that card in the article. Neat read though. Not like it matters now that the 1080's released. :rolleyes:
http://www.overclockers.com/evga-gtx-980-ti-classified-graphics-card-review/

To put it into perspective, here's Asus' triple fan GTX 980 Ti STRIX DCIII OC
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/09/01/asus_gtx_980_ti_strix_dciii_oc_video_card_review/1

The OC that they managed with that card is on par with eVGA's classified and the temperatures they were getting is very similar. (The Classified was around 5 degrees hotter than the Asus one)

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tl:dr The triple fan design vs dual fan design isn't all that different.
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It looks badass as shit.

/argument
 
Personally, I would like to see more vendors come out with single slot flagship cards that's ready for liquid cooling. Those look the most badass.
 
The PCB design by NVIDIA or AMD. The 'standard' if you will, most blocks are made for these cards. Granted they take 2x PCI covers, but the PCB and water block will only take up one :)
 
NostalgiaPC is now operational thanks to a cheap eBay board. :P

Athlon X2 4400+
2x 1 GB Patriot PC3200
Epox 9npa+ ultra

Be afraid! (Probably more afraid of the potato quality photo tbh)

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I should test out my 4200U for comparison sake. It's got pretty solid battery life and is basically the same CPU as that, just a couple generations back.
 
Darren said:
I should test out my 4200U for comparison sake. It's got pretty solid battery life and is basically the same CPU as that, just a couple generations back.
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Bet it can't beat my 3630QM + 950M w/ 6-cell battery, battery life! /s

My damn lappy gets like 1% a minute when on 50% brightness and performing browsing/word processing.
 
The rig with the 1080. I know the front fans are dirty but I can't see them with the side panel on.
 

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