- Oct 24, 2005
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Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to post a quick review of the 480 with an Accelero Mono Plus. Now, before I get to the review, I wanted to quickly talk about the reference cooler and clocking results.
At default settings, with no fan adjustment:
I do not find the fan to be noisy at this setting. However, I did notice that the GPU core was throttling. Meaning, it was not reaching the boost clocks of 1266. I modified the fan speed as shown and ran 3dmark again.
At this RPM speed, the fan does become noisy and a little obnoxious. I could set the fan to a lower RPM speed, but my office room is at 76F and I didn't feel comfortable with lowering it. Additionally, I wasn't annoyed until the levels posted.
I'm using this case: http://www.legitreviews.com/nzxt-classic-series-h2-silent-pc-case-review_1574
I read over and over that under-volting allows the card to reach 1266 mhz because of ability for the gpu to use less power, which equals not getting as hot, allowing for boost clocks to kick in. I try not to get my GPU over 85C in any scenario, so that was my goal.
Here are my settings and 3dmark firestrike score:
I thought that was pretty good, but I ordered an Accelero Mono Plus from Amazon with my $30 gift card. It wasn't out of a need per se, as I managed to get the reference fan to a good hum along with boost clocks clicking in whenever I played games.
I did not put any thermal paste on the memory chips, they are running bare with the cooler on. I would be missing two of the ram chips anyways. *The fan does cool the memory by pushing air directly over the chips.
I decided to turn all the dynamic voltages back on and ramp up the GPU core to 1350. I lowered the fan speed to 1600 and 2100 max (max temps never went above 65C). Yes, power usage went up, but my motherboard has a separate PCIe power port.
In summary, buying a reference card and under-volting is the definite way to go. I wouldn't wait on AIB cards at all (unless a little noise bothers you) as the increase in score is minimal. The Mono Plus does an AMAZING job at cooling the GPU core, all while being near silent.
Specs:
Haswell V3-1231
ASROCK Z97 Pro4
32GB Mushkin Enhanced ECO2 DDR3 1600
Windows 10
Just wanted to post a quick review of the 480 with an Accelero Mono Plus. Now, before I get to the review, I wanted to quickly talk about the reference cooler and clocking results.
At default settings, with no fan adjustment:
I do not find the fan to be noisy at this setting. However, I did notice that the GPU core was throttling. Meaning, it was not reaching the boost clocks of 1266. I modified the fan speed as shown and ran 3dmark again.
At this RPM speed, the fan does become noisy and a little obnoxious. I could set the fan to a lower RPM speed, but my office room is at 76F and I didn't feel comfortable with lowering it. Additionally, I wasn't annoyed until the levels posted.
I'm using this case: http://www.legitreviews.com/nzxt-classic-series-h2-silent-pc-case-review_1574
I read over and over that under-volting allows the card to reach 1266 mhz because of ability for the gpu to use less power, which equals not getting as hot, allowing for boost clocks to kick in. I try not to get my GPU over 85C in any scenario, so that was my goal.
Here are my settings and 3dmark firestrike score:
I thought that was pretty good, but I ordered an Accelero Mono Plus from Amazon with my $30 gift card. It wasn't out of a need per se, as I managed to get the reference fan to a good hum along with boost clocks clicking in whenever I played games.
I did not put any thermal paste on the memory chips, they are running bare with the cooler on. I would be missing two of the ram chips anyways. *The fan does cool the memory by pushing air directly over the chips.
I decided to turn all the dynamic voltages back on and ramp up the GPU core to 1350. I lowered the fan speed to 1600 and 2100 max (max temps never went above 65C). Yes, power usage went up, but my motherboard has a separate PCIe power port.
In summary, buying a reference card and under-volting is the definite way to go. I wouldn't wait on AIB cards at all (unless a little noise bothers you) as the increase in score is minimal. The Mono Plus does an AMAZING job at cooling the GPU core, all while being near silent.
Specs:
Haswell V3-1231
ASROCK Z97 Pro4
32GB Mushkin Enhanced ECO2 DDR3 1600
Windows 10
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