gtx 980 ti launches

[SirStiggie 63]

One of the biggest challenges I've had with my Ti is the temperature when its under load. It would regularly reach 83 degrees and start throttling, sometimes to under 1GHz. 

 

That issue was resolved today with the installation of the EVGA Hybrid watercooling kit. It's an AIO kit that cools the GPU with water while retaining the air cooler for the RAM and VRM:

 

 

 

So far, my synthetic benchmarks have failed to reach greater than 48 deg C at 4k and my test games at that resolution have not raised temps above 55 deg c. This is with a 200MHz overclock on the card. It is a very impressive kit. I'll report back on its performance with P3D.

[John_Tavendale 453]

Very nice Chris. Can this kit be bought separately?

[SirStiggie 63]

Very nice Chris. Can this kit be bought separately?

John,

 

It can be purchased separately. See http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=400-HY-0996-B1

 

EVGA can't seem to keep them in-stock though. I've been spamming the F5 key on their site for a little over a week before I managed to grab one. It is worth it though.

[John_Tavendale 453]

John,

 

It can be purchased separately. See http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=400-HY-0996-B1

 

EVGA can't seem to keep them in-stock though. I've been spamming the F5 key on their site for a little over a week before I managed to grab one. It is worth it though.

Cheers mate. Hopefully someone is Australia will get some stock of them.

[grandfred29 180]

hi all,

 

i ve done the same thing on my asus titanx cooler who had replaced by an evga acx 2.0 cooler

 

without OC the temperature is 20°c less than before

[SirStiggie 63]

The nVidia reference cooler really isn't very efficient, especially when overclocking the card. 

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

One of the biggest challenges I've had 

 

 

Strange I have a kraken water cooler bracket and a corsair H75 cooler and never goes above 32 degrees Celsius P3D cranking - thinking more and more my gigantic phantom 820 is amazing at dispersing heat  

[OneWhoKnocks53 51]

That issue was resolved today with the installation of the EVGA Hybrid watercooling kit.

 

Great news, looks like that hybrid kit would be a necessity in my little carbide case with sli. Glad they are finally available!

[SirStiggie 63]

Strange I have a kraken water cooler bracket and a corsair H75 cooler and never goes above 32 degrees Celsius P3D cranking - thinking more and more my gigantic phantom 820 is amazing at dispersing heat  

Rich,

 

The issue I had was with the reference cooler, not with the watercooler. My P3D temps are in the high 30's to low 40's when using a 4K monitor with the card OC'd 200MHz. 

 

 

Great news, looks like that hybrid kit would be a necessity in my little carbide case with sli. Glad they are finally available!

 

I would recommend this to anyone with a reference cooler. There is simply no comparison. One of the best decisions I've made for my system.