Intel_man
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Not all of us are born with a silver spoon in our mouths.Looks nice for a cheap case
Not all of us are born with a silver spoon in our mouths.Looks nice for a cheap case
Looks nice for a cheap case
Sometimes we are broke but still have to feed the modding bug
Not all of us are born with a silver spoon in our mouths.
I don't think so. The 7950 completely covers them! Also, the ports are facing downwards towards the bottom of the case, not outwards towards the front.Right angle SATA cables won't work for him to get access to the other sata ports?
Not my 7950 but yeah they are big! In 2011 I used an MSI TwinFrozr II GTX 560 Ti for a build I did for somebody else and this 7950 (with a similar cooler, looks like this 7950 has the TwinFrozr III) dwarfs that. It's definitely bigger than the MSI GTX 970 I used for a client's machine last year and my MSI GTX 760 (both with the newer 'Gaming' coolers from MSI - are they still TwinFrozrs?) I'm not sure if it's as big as my old Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 though - that was a big card! I was amazed at the size of the PowerColor R9 390 when I built @SpriteMidr's PC - huge! High-end Radeons are always big cards!@spirit My 390 snickers at your puny 7950.
In all seriousness though you're right, those cards were huge. My 7970 was almost as long as the 390, which in itself was bigger than the 7990 even!. That 7950 looks to be similar to my 7970(s).
To AMD's credit, or discredit depending, those Phenom's still game alright in comparison to the Vishera chips. Particularly if you crank them up.
MOAR FANZI never understand what the point was for those triple fan heatsink designs. Totally unnecessary.
It's totally totally not. My 390 runs noticeably cooler than my friends MSI 390 (dual fans). Like 5-8oC cooler at load, if not more. That's pretty significant, and those MSI coolers are one of the better ones too. I was able to clock mine higher due to thermal headroom that he didn't have.I never understand what the point was for those triple fan heatsink designs. Totally unnecessary.
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!
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!'
My statement blanket covers any video card with the triple fan designs. If EVGA's 980 ti kingpin can manage with a dual fan setup... the triples are just a bit over the top.
Two slotI'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!
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!'
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.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.
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.
- 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
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.
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.
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)
tl:dr The triple fan design vs dual fan design isn't all that different.