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[Dicehunter]

haha no s**t brother ! divorce, uncle died of cancer, getting evicted soon etc. I am hopeful that 2018 will be better, though tbh I don't believe in all that fanny. It's just another day closer to death lol. Which is no bad thing, I guess

BTW you have to vertical mount that GPU. You just have to, no matter what it takes.

Edit. Good stuff ! that will teach me not to read the last page of posts before posting

Lolz XD

But yeah, I'm just using a snipping tool to cut out the mesh bit by the PCI-E brackets of the 570X and using that then filing any edges, Will probably take 5 minutes to do.

 

[AlienALX]

Lolz XD

But yeah, I'm just using a snipping tool to cut out the mesh bit by the PCI-E brackets of the 570X and using that then filing any edges, Will probably take 5 minutes to do.

I was going to do mine. I looked at it earlier but man it would take some savage hacking. My case has three layers FFS.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Shuttup Meg !

What did you sell to get it?

I'd also not even use it. I'd keep it pristine and pretty so in 5 years I can sell it to some old fart who's desperate for some Star Wars and make profit

 

[Damien c]

Picked up a 2nd copy of Elite on the PC, through Steam.

Also got over the Xmas period a H100i with 4 EK Vardar 1850rpm fans, to use on my recently de-lidded 7700K, temp's with 1.216v being put through it are not hitting low 60's so might have a play with overclocking it.

 

[Tolemac]

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I thought I would treat myself and go this route as I won't pay ram prices atm for a platform change. It should last me a while and my 4690k can go into mrs Tolemacs rig I just need to find another Z97 motherboard

 

[trawetSluaP]

Shuttup Meg !

Probably the best looking GPU I've seen. I wish Nvidia made more of an effort to make them cool better!

 

[AlienALX]

Probably the best looking GPU I've seen. I wish Nvidia made more of an effort to make them cool better!

Slightly OT but ever since the Titan XP (big pee, the one I have) and the 1080Ti the founder's cooler has been inadequate and they need water or a tip top air cooler. This isn't small fry either, we are talking 10-30% gains with water being able to hold your card at 2ghz or above.

Nvidia need to address this. Badly. It's funny because my TXP is far hotter than my GTX 480 was and also due to the heat was noisier, too. It used to ramp up to 100% constantly even with the stock driver and no overclocking. Which was unacceptable.

They should have given the Titan V something more like the twin GTX Titan card (forget the model name now.. Z?) with three fans.

Problem is then you fall foul of "server land" where everything has a blower or a pass through for the stupid noisy fans. So hopefully the 1180Ti or whatever the heck they call it will be mostly after market with a proper cooler on.

Just bought an A4 mirrored 3mm acrylic sheet. Hoping to re-plate my Asus D2X and be able to see the coolant flow in the GPU above. Will need lots of edge polishing which is a PITA but probably worth the aggro

 

[Bartacus]

I just bought an Oculus Rift and Fallout 4 VR. I was unexpectedly blown away, and I mean COMPLETELY blown away. The Rift and FO4 is one of those seminal PC experiences, like the first time you ever played Wolfenstein or Doom. You're seeing something that you have no comparison point to, it's an entirely new experience. So you're jaw hits the floor, and stays there for a while!

Mind = blown!

 

[AlienALX]

I just bought an Oculus Rift and Fallout 4 VR. I was unexpectedly blown away, and I mean COMPLETELY blown away. The Rift and FO4 is one of those seminal PC experiences, like the first time you ever played Wolfenstein or Doom. You're seeing something that you have no comparison point to, it's an entirely new experience. So you're jaw hits the floor, and stays there for a while!

Mind = blown!

I am waiting to see if they release a patch for it so you can use a controller. If they do I will get it for my DK2. I have some Steam credit, too. Does the controller work yet? I haven't been keeping up on it.

 

[Dicehunter]

What did you sell to get it?

I'd also not even use it. I'd keep it pristine and pretty so in 5 years I can sell it to some old fart who's desperate for some Star Wars and make profit

I actually this time bought it out right which for me is odd as I do usually sell older hardware, A little frugal that way but 2017 was an epicly crap year and wanted something cool to cheer me up

I just bought an Oculus Rift and Fallout 4 VR. I was unexpectedly blown away, and I mean COMPLETELY blown away. The Rift and FO4 is one of those seminal PC experiences, like the first time you ever played Wolfenstein or Doom. You're seeing something that you have no comparison point to, it's an entirely new experience. So you're jaw hits the floor, and stays there for a while!

Mind = blown!

Elite Dangerous, Just WOW in VR, Everyone that has tried my Rify CV1 has said 1 thing "Holy sh** this is amazing".

 

[Daiyus]

Elite Dangerous, Just WOW in VR, Everyone that has tried my Rify CV1 has said 1 thing "Holy sh** this is amazing".

Elite Dangerous has completely changed all my PC plans. The only PC based projects I had was liquid cooling my current gaming system and modding my HTPC to be quieter.

Now I find myself redesigning my gaming case concepts to be complete cockpit-desks and tracking second hand CV1's online. Trying to use flight controls with my current desk is awkward and painful after a decent session. But once I have a cockpit and a CV1? Well, the real world may just go bye-bye for a while...

 

[AlienALX]

My gear all came from OCUK. I opened up my rig, took one look and realised the PSU has never been cleaned. Not since Tom gave it to me ffs. 2015? so yeah, under that looks totally awful so the whole lot has to come out lol. Really looking forward to fitting the 240 rad though. New fans should make it look cool too

Not looking forward to removing that PSU though. It's major surgery, and everything will need labelling before I can take it out. Then I gotta take it apart, clean it all out with my anti static brushes etc. Serious work.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Slightly OT but ever since the Titan XP (big pee, the one I have) and the 1080Ti the founder's cooler has been inadequate and they need water or a tip top air cooler. This isn't small fry either, we are talking 10-30% gains with water being able to hold your card at 2ghz or above.

Nvidia need to address this. Badly. It's funny because my TXP is far hotter than my GTX 480 was and also due to the heat was noisier, too. It used to ramp up to 100% constantly even with the stock driver and no overclocking. Which was unacceptable.

They should have given the Titan V something more like the twin GTX Titan card (forget the model name now.. Z?) with three fans.

Problem is then you fall foul of "server land" where everything has a blower or a pass through for the stupid noisy fans. So hopefully the 1180Ti or whatever the heck they call it will be mostly after market with a proper cooler on.

Just bought an A4 mirrored 3mm acrylic sheet. Hoping to re-plate my Asus D2X and be able to see the coolant flow in the GPU above. Will need lots of edge polishing which is a PITA but probably worth the aggro

But do they REALLY need to change it? Nvidia has been ahead for years despite having mediocre coolers. Ultimately, the Founder's Edition cool well enough for Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal to perform better than the competition at almost every segment of the market. So in reviews when people see Nvidia ahead in performance, they then might look at power consumption. If they see what an EVGA 1080Ti Kingpin draws, they might consider it as a negativism, because an overclocked 1080Ti draws a lot of power. AMD should have done that with Vega, but they couldn't because the architecture was not good enough without an increase in clock speed. Maxwell and Pascal are. They don't NEED clock speed to be the best. So while I agree that I'd love to see Nvidia release an excellent new design, I don't think they have to.

 

[AlienALX]

But do they REALLY need to change it? Nvidia has been ahead for years despite having mediocre coolers. Ultimately, the Founder's Edition cool well enough for Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal to perform better than the competition at almost every segment of the market. So in reviews when people see Nvidia ahead in performance, they then might look at power consumption. If they see what an EVGA 1080Ti Kingpin draws, they might consider it as a negativism, because an overclocked 1080Ti draws a lot of power. AMD should have done that with Vega, but they couldn't because the architecture was not good enough without an increase in clock speed. Maxwell and Pascal are. They don't NEED clock speed to be the best. So while I agree that I'd love to see Nvidia release an excellent new design, I don't think they have to.

I reckon at some point they are going to have to beef it up, yes. I bet Kaap's V would fly on water. In fact I already know it would, that hairy bloke did a AIO test.

I did some checking yesterday before I broke my rig down and I found a post that I made just after I water cooled it in summer. I was barely hanging onto 1800mhz. Now? I can boost to 2000 easy (winter vs summer). I am hoping the double rad improves this so I can maintain that clock all year around. But yeah, Nvidia have to do something. It wouldn't even matter if they made it triple slot, because who runs SLi these days? or rather, who supports it? that would be nay coont

Difference between Nvidia techs and Vega is the scaling and improvement with clocks. With my Fury X it didn't seem to change anything, then it would crash. The gains from OCing Vega are nowhere near as good as Nvidia either, because it is already running quite close to flat out. The Fury X was running flat out, you'd have been lucky to get 50mhz out of one tbh. It really is dire.

Nvidia are in much better stead and a much better position to leave in big clocks though. I mean stock clock for a 1080Ti is about 1560something right? so 2050 on a Titan XP is a pretty large boost. And it scales too. 2000mhz is 25% more than 1500mhz and you get right about that back in performance for your bother.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I reckon at some point they are going to have to beef it up, yes. I bet Kaap's V would fly on water. In fact I already know it would, that hairy bloke did a AIO test.

I did some checking yesterday before I broke my rig down and I found a post that I made just after I water cooled it in summer. I was barely hanging onto 1800mhz. Now? I can boost to 2000 easy (winter vs summer). I am hoping the double rad improves this so I can maintain that clock all year around. But yeah, Nvidia have to do something. It wouldn't even matter if they made it triple slot, because who runs SLi these days? or rather, who supports it? that would be nay coont

Difference between Nvidia techs and Vega is the scaling and improvement with clocks. With my Fury X it didn't seem to change anything, then it would crash. The gains from OCing Vega are nowhere near as good as Nvidia either, because it is already running quite close to flat out. The Fury X was running flat out, you'd have been lucky to get 50mhz out of one tbh. It really is dire.

Nvidia are in much better stead and a much better position to leave in big clocks though. I mean stock clock for a 1080Ti is about 1560something right? so 2050 on a Titan XP is a pretty large boost. And it scales too. 2000mhz is 25% more than 1500mhz and you get right about that back in performance for your bother.

A 1080Ti FE will boost to around 1800Mhz and settle around there. A jump to 2000Mhz is definitely a nice improvement, but as I said, it's not necessary and will result in power consumption graphs appearing worse. Of course, their temperature, noise, and performance graphs would look better, but it's possible that Nvidia are favouring the efficient blower style card because they know they don't need any more power. That said, a cooler GPU usually means less power leakage.

As I said, I'd prefer to see a better cooler, but I don't see Nvidia doing it. They appear to be leaving that for their AIB partners who are doing an amazing job. I personally think AMD would benefit more from a better cooler. They have fewer AIB partners and usually have far fewer GPUs available to the market. Add to the GCN architecture being so inefficient and I could see AMD benefiting from a nice dual fan/dual slot design.

 

[AlienALX]

A 1080Ti FE will boost to around 1800Mhz and settle around there. A jump to 2000Mhz is definitely a nice improvement, but as I said, it's not necessary and will result in power consumption graphs appearing worse. Of course, their temperature, noise, and performance graphs would look better, but it's possible that Nvidia are favouring the efficient blower style card because they know they don't need any more power. That said, a cooler GPU usually means less power leakage.

As I said, I'd prefer to see a better cooler, but I don't see Nvidia doing it. They appear to be leaving that for their AIB partners who are doing an amazing job. I personally think AMD would benefit more from a better cooler. They have fewer AIB partners and usually have far fewer GPUs available to the market. Add to the GCN architecture being so inefficient and I could see AMD benefiting from a nice dual fan/dual slot design.

When you are trying to tame 4k that extra 200mhz makes a huge difference. An absolutely astronomical one, tbh.

Nvidia need to make a card that can run at its full capacity again. They haven't since Maxwell. Well, not a top end card any way.

There is no way you can damage or over heat a Nvidia card, so it really ought to be fully capable out of the box. Water cooling is costly. I reckon around £350 dumped just into cooling my GPU now. Well, maybe not that much but either way it wasn't cheap.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

When you are trying to tame 4k that extra 200mhz makes a huge difference. An absolutely astronomical one, tbh.

Nvidia need to make a card that can run at its full capacity again. They haven't since Maxwell. Well, not a top end card any way.

There is no way you can damage or over heat a Nvidia card, so it really ought to be fully capable out of the box. Water cooling is costly. I reckon around £350 dumped just into cooling my GPU now. Well, maybe not that much but either way it wasn't cheap.

I'm not saying it doesn't make a big difference. I'm saying that for the same reason Volta/Ampere doesn't need to be released for quite some time, Nvidia don't need to increase clock speed for their reference designs to sell a boatload of GPUs. If you want more performance then AIB partners are there, and Nvidia know this. 2000Mhz at quiet noise levels is very possible for a 1080Ti from Aorus or ASUS. Again, Nvidia knows this. If you don't like Nvidia's reference design because it doesn't cool as well as the aforementioned partners, don't buy it; buy the AIB partner cards instead. I did and I gained more performance at lower noise levels. Simple. No need to water cool. If you want the absolute best performance (Titan) then you have to pay for it and you should therefore have no problem adding water cooling to improve that. In my opinion, if you can afford a Titan then you can afford an AIO with an NZXT bracket or even custom liquid. Alphacool have their full cover AIO's and EKWB now have their aluminium series and the reintroduction of the Phoenix range.

Maxwell was very much held back by temperatures as well. A saw many MSI Gaming 6G 980Ti users very disappointed with the cooling of that card. They were topping out at 1450Mhz due to temperatures while the G1 Gaming from Gigabyte could hit 1500Mhz (superior cooler and supposedly binned chips) and the EVGA cards (Hybrid and Kingpin) could hit more than that. This translated to excellent performance gains. 50Mhz with Maxwell was more akin to 100Mhz with Pascal. Compare that to the 1080Ti and the majority of the cards all top out at 2050Mhz.

 

[AlienALX]

Yup, I put a hybrid on my XM before I even powered it on tbh. It's only really the big ones
But they are the ones that need it most being 4k.

Apols for truncated reply am on phone with suggestive and auto correct disabled meaning I end up typing and deleting each word about four sodding times.

Bloody touch screens *moans and grumbles*

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Yup, I put a hybrid on my XM before I even powered it on tbh. It's only really the big ones
But they are the ones that need it most being 4k.

Apols for truncated reply am on phone with suggestive and auto correct disabled meaning I end up typing and deleting each word about four sodding times.

Bloody touch screens *moans and grumbles*

I don't have the patience for forum use on a mobile. I might read a comment every now and again, but I never type one. It's just a nightmare.

 

[Bartacus]

I am waiting to see if they release a patch for it so you can use a controller. If they do I will get it for my DK2. I have some Steam credit, too. Does the controller work yet? I haven't been keeping up on it.

There's a fix you can run for touch controllers, an input emulator that apparently works quite well as long as you're on the non-beta version of SteamVR. I've not tried that yet though, I barely got the thing outta the box. I plan to mess with it later, but I have a lot of reading to do about proper movement.