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Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:05 am
by blazingmaniac
I already have a water cooling ready MoBo so will be doing a full duel loop and all the trimmings, the great thing with this card is that it can run on air untill such time that I have all the components I need to build the loops.
Oh and it runs ED rather well :D


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Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:36 am
by GlobusDiablo
Sadly that graphics card won't run on your machine. I've checked. :(

I'd be willing to take it off your hands for a token price?...

:D

Sweeeeet!:)

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:45 am
by Walter
GlobusDiablo wrote:Sadly that graphics card won't run on your machine. I've checked. :(

I'd be willing to take it off your hands for a token price?...

:D

Sweeeeet!:)

GD, you must have forgotten all that trouble you had with your kit last year - and there's still that elusive screw. I'm afraid this would just add to your woes.
On the other hand, my hand-built wonder is quite capable of accommodating such a card and I'm quite happy to save your embarrassment by making the same offer.

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:51 am
by TorTorden
Very nice, congrats :D

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:33 am
by GlobusDiablo
Walter wrote:GD, you must have forgotten all that trouble you had with your kit last year - and there's still that elusive screw. I'm afraid this would just add to your woes.
On the other hand, my hand-built wonder is quite capable of accommodating such a card and I'm quite happy to save your embarrassment by making the same offer.


HA! Nice try W! I think we can all see what your game is. :)

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:47 pm
by Walter
GlobusDiablo wrote:HA! Nice try W! I think we can all see what your game is. :)

Elite: Dangerous. What else?

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:52 pm
by GlobusDiablo
Walter wrote:
GlobusDiablo wrote:HA! Nice try W! I think we can all see what your game is. :)

Elite: Dangerous. What else?

Excellent riposte. I yield.:-)

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:18 pm
by Schmobius
I have a GTX 980Ti (it's a PNY, with the standard NVIDIA heatsink/fan setup), and at least a liquid-cooled CPU. I can highly recommend them.

I will say that I still get stuttering in supercruise a fair amount, but I think that has more to do with the game checking the network for something than anything you can solve by upgrading your machine. But when it's not being stupid, I can get 100-800fps with vsync turned off. :D Also, even with a small corsair H55 cooler on the CPU, it tends to stay about 77 Fahrenheit, and even the GPU never really gets above 100 Fahrenheit, even in a PC case barely larger than an xbox one.

You are going to enjoy that full liquid cooling setup.

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:35 pm
by blazingmaniac
Sorry to say the card went in fine without losing any screws or requiring a re homing to someone else at a token cost.... :)

I have a partial water cooling already a corsair H100i for the CPU which does a great job. However I upgraded the motherboard a while ago to a Maximius Formula VII which has the built in ports for cooling the MOSFET components so its only right that I do it full justice and go the whole hog and put the lot underwater.
I'll post some pics before during and after to show progress.

Re: Treated myself.... cause I am worth it :D

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:07 pm
by GlobusDiablo
blazingmaniac wrote:...I'll post some pics before during and after to show progress.


Excellent. What's your screen setup/resolution?