- Jun 30, 2004
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I have another thread on PSUs that dealt with choosing a PSU for consideration of graphics card peak wattage. I'm looking to replace my GTX 570.
I've reconfigured fans in my case to run at low RPMs with idle CPU. I forgot that this might affect the temperature of my VGA card. Just stuck my hand back there where the card has its little slotted exhaust: it feels pretty darn warm. Meanwhile, the thermal sensor for the graphics card is showing 65C where it once showed 50C. Now the card is getting continuous use because it feeds both HD video and audio to my AVR and HDTV. I think if I weren't using it in this way, it would be a lot cooler. I think I need to plan a little project for running the HT function off my motherboard's HD3000 graphics. It's configured for iGPU mode to use Lucid with the 570 GTX.
But I'm now looking at GTX 770 cards with 4GB, and I stumbled onto this ASUS 780 GTX card with 3GB:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121779
Guru3D has a review dated last June. The card is an "OC" version, is supposed to have excellent cooling, touted to perform almost as well as a Titan. ASUS dressed up their model a lot more than the eVGA offerings, and not only are looks unimportant, but the "bling" would actually make you suspicious. Even so, the Egg cus-reviews seem pretty solid and generally stellar.
But take a look at the backplate shown in one photo in the Newegg image gallery for the card. I can think of ways to use that plate to further cool it in some subtle ways.
Is there some reason that I missed for steering clear of this card? Or does it seem to be a winner?
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UPDATE: Now I'm looking at NVidia Inspector again, after watching TV for a while (the "monitor" connected to my GTX 570). the temperatures are barely between 43 and 45C, and I just played a game for 5 minutes. Very strange to have seen those higher 65C temperatures before. But I'm going to dump this GTX 570 for one of the cards I mentioned. Any insight into the ASUS 780 card will be appreciated.
I've reconfigured fans in my case to run at low RPMs with idle CPU. I forgot that this might affect the temperature of my VGA card. Just stuck my hand back there where the card has its little slotted exhaust: it feels pretty darn warm. Meanwhile, the thermal sensor for the graphics card is showing 65C where it once showed 50C. Now the card is getting continuous use because it feeds both HD video and audio to my AVR and HDTV. I think if I weren't using it in this way, it would be a lot cooler. I think I need to plan a little project for running the HT function off my motherboard's HD3000 graphics. It's configured for iGPU mode to use Lucid with the 570 GTX.
But I'm now looking at GTX 770 cards with 4GB, and I stumbled onto this ASUS 780 GTX card with 3GB:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121779
Guru3D has a review dated last June. The card is an "OC" version, is supposed to have excellent cooling, touted to perform almost as well as a Titan. ASUS dressed up their model a lot more than the eVGA offerings, and not only are looks unimportant, but the "bling" would actually make you suspicious. Even so, the Egg cus-reviews seem pretty solid and generally stellar.
But take a look at the backplate shown in one photo in the Newegg image gallery for the card. I can think of ways to use that plate to further cool it in some subtle ways.
Is there some reason that I missed for steering clear of this card? Or does it seem to be a winner?
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UPDATE: Now I'm looking at NVidia Inspector again, after watching TV for a while (the "monitor" connected to my GTX 570). the temperatures are barely between 43 and 45C, and I just played a game for 5 minutes. Very strange to have seen those higher 65C temperatures before. But I'm going to dump this GTX 570 for one of the cards I mentioned. Any insight into the ASUS 780 card will be appreciated.
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