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Indeed. "Future proof" has me sold. This forum discussion has led me to sell my 2x980 SLI on EBay and order a Fury X (currently a 4 week waiting time on Amazon.de)

Has anyone tested 2x 980/980ti on this in SLI? (or whatever the DX12 equivalent of SLI is). Could you have one of the cards running in Compute mode?

Thanks everyone for your help. You have prompted me to find and read through a few old forum discussions on the Silverstone FT02 and it indeed seems like "blower" type fans are the way to go with this case. I have ruled out 290(x) reference cards based on noise/heat. I would get a GTX 780...

Yes, that's right. Thanks everyone for your help. You have prompted me to find and read through a few old forum discussions on the Silverstone FT02 and it indeed seems like "blower" type fans are the way to go with this case. I have ruled out 290(x) reference cards based on noise/heat. I...

Thanks, that's what I have read in some places, but then also have read of people doing fine with an FT02 and open air coolers... don't know what to do, too many choices... sigh...

True that. BUT with my case, my GPU fans will be perpendicular to the ground. This is exactly why I chose the Silverstone FT02 :-)

Thanks (again). Am now thinking maybe the best thing for me is to get a pair of reference R9 290X cards (which apparently have ball bearing fans) and underclock them to the "silent" mode. Would be powerful enough for any games I am likely to throw at them (especially since 1440p doesn't need...

Thanks for all the info. I got the specs on Sapphire Vapor-X having ball bearings from their website, press releases and a few "independent" reviews. Guess I have to take their word for it. But you have actually had Vapor-X card fans fail, have you? Hmmm, maybe I should go for a reference NVidia...

Anyone know where I can find out if this is still true? I have had no luck so far trying to confirm if NVidia reference cards have ball bearing fans...

For example: Sapphire Vapor-X on AMD or EVGA ACX on NVidia. I am buying two new GPUs and have sort of decided that I will only buy from these two ranges of GPUs because their fans will last longer. I assume it is important that ball bearings will wear out less quickly because a worn sleeve...

New questions: 4) Does anyone here know what the heat/noise is like in a well-ventilated crossfire setup of 2 x Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X but with only a 13mm gap between them? (i.e. a one-slot gap of 20mm, minus the 7mm extra card width) That would be *really* handy to know...! (I want the...

Exactly - we have to pay 40% more for NVidia! I can't decide...

Yeah, I was thinking I should get the 780 too. Is just that the price/performance ratio is so attractive on the R9 290. And the 290's memory bandwidth is much better, which I sense could be quite an important bottleneck in my planned setup with two quite powerful GPUs and 4gb or 6gb in each -...

Thanks a lot monkeydelmagico. Much appreciated. Isn't Afterburner an MSI app? Will it work with other cards? Or are you saying there are similar, easily available, apps for all brands of card? Also, please can you tell me your thoughts on the 20mm gap between cards in CF/SLI? And what about if...

I am building myself a gaming rig, after about 25 years away from computer games - i.e. the age of the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST! Am trying to decide on which GPUs to purchase. I plan to end up with an SLI or CF setup, but will probably only get one GPU to start with if it is powerful...