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petmic10

zlpw0ker

petmic10

zlpw0ker

yep,thanks for the info:)


have you tried the fan at 100% regarding noise?
since you have the seahawk aswell.
 

No, I haven't.
 
The first thing I did was replace it with a Cougar fan and connected it to my fan controller on my case.

hmm,okay.
But didnt that void your warranty on the seahawk?

Not sure why. The Corsair fan cabling is not connected to anything. It's a simple 3 pin connector. I unbolted the 4 screws holding the fan to the radiator and installed my new fan.

you lucky son of a gun.I hope its possible on my seahawk aswell,you meant you used a star screwdriver to remove the corsair fan?

A phillips head screwdriver is all I needed.

The cynic in me says that nVidia purposely trickled out their Pascal chips, to sell as many overpriced Flanders as they could before the AIB's came in and undercut them with their variants.
 
 

Someone on another forum says that it is totally unnecessary to buy a watercooled 1080 since they are almost dead silent at full load with aircooling anyway. He compared to his own Palit GTX 1080 Super Jetstream card and said that it is a waste of money to pay more. I have no idea myself. Will it really be any benefit to get watercooling on this card?

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Someone on another forum says that it is totally unnecessary to buy a watercooled 1080 since they are almost dead silent at full load with aircooling anyway. He compared to his own Palit GTX 1080 Super Jetstream card and said that it is a waste of money to pay more. I have no idea myself. Will it really be any benefit to get watercooling on this card?

he's kind of right and kind of wrong because watercooled 1080's do have some benefits. they're just not as big as previous generations.
 
AIB air coolers are pretty quiet at full load, but that level of noise has alot to do with how good your case's airflow is. for example: my GPU is dang near dead silent and only goes up to the high 40's to mid 50's during hours of gaming in my setup. my Strix rarely ever throttles. IF it does, it only lasts for a split second and shoots right back up to 2101. but there are some guys out there that are still getting temps in the 70's and 80's from their 1080's.
 
watercooled GPU's will provide a consistently lower operating temp across various setups because case airflow is less important. an AIO watercooler should theoretically eliminate throttling all together and it just looks awesome. it'll especially wow people that have never seen watercooled components before. it also doesn't expel any additional heat back into the case like an air cooled GPU does.

Watercooled cards are for low temps actually....That aircooled card be getting 15 to 20 degree hotter than the watercooled cards

PasTecHi
Watercooled cards are for low temps actually....That aircooled card be getting 15 to 20 degree hotter than the watercooled cards

as i stated in my post above your's. AIB air coolers really depend on your case's airflow.
 
my Strix GPU has the same temps as alot of watercooled 1080's that i've read about. like right now, i have this browser, CPUID, Afterburner, the CAM software, and the League of Legends game client open. my card is currently sitting at 29*c. it'll go down to the mid 20's during a fresh boot up or if i let the computer goto sleep. it'll hover in the low 30's during less graphic intensive games like League of Legends and the fans don't even spin up until my GPU goes past 34*c. in games like GTA V and Rise of the Tomb Raider (near max settings, no AA, 3440x1440 resolution), i've only seen my card max out at 55*c or 56*c. in those 2 games, the card is usually in the high 40's to low 50's range.

hehehippie

PasTecHi
Watercooled cards are for low temps actually....That aircooled card be getting 15 to 20 degree hotter than the watercooled cards

as i stated in my post above your's. AIB air coolers really depend on your case's airflow.
 
my Strix GPU has the same temps as alot of watercooled 1080's that i've read about. like right now, i have this browser, CPUID, Afterburner, the CAM software, and the League of Legends game client open. my card is currently sitting at 29*c. it'll go down to the mid 20's during a fresh boot up or if i let the computer goto sleep. it'll hover in the low 30's during less graphic intensive games like League of Legends and the fans don't even spin up until my GPU goes past 34*c. in games like GTA V and Rise of the Tomb Raider (near max settings, no AA, 3440x1440 resolution), i've only seen my card max out at 55*c or 56*c. in those 2 games, the card is usually in the high 40's to low 50's range.

Well on aircool my old 970 gpu gets to 72degree on full load while a watercooled one probably gets around 55.
My 1080 should be delivered this week i hope....

PasTecHi

hehehippie

PasTecHi
Watercooled cards are for low temps actually....That aircooled card be getting 15 to 20 degree hotter than the watercooled cards

as i stated in my post above your's. AIB air coolers really depend on your case's airflow.
 
my Strix GPU has the same temps as alot of watercooled 1080's that i've read about. like right now, i have this browser, CPUID, Afterburner, the CAM software, and the League of Legends game client open. my card is currently sitting at 29*c. it'll go down to the mid 20's during a fresh boot up or if i let the computer goto sleep. it'll hover in the low 30's during less graphic intensive games like League of Legends and the fans don't even spin up until my GPU goes past 34*c. in games like GTA V and Rise of the Tomb Raider (near max settings, no AA, 3440x1440 resolution), i've only seen my card max out at 55*c or 56*c. in those 2 games, the card is usually in the high 40's to low 50's range.

Well on aircool my old 970 gpu gets to 72degree on full load while a watercooled one probably gets around 55.
My 1080 should be delivered this week i hope....

Every single aircooled GTX1080 is reaching +80C easily under full load when benchmarking, whereas the MSI GTX1080 Sea Hawk X (Hybrid) maintains ~56C or cooler (depending upon ambient room temperature) under full load when benchmarking.  So, it's not just a small difference.  In most cases, it's a +30C difference!  Meaning that MSI Sea Hawk owners are NOT experiencing the dreaded thermal throttling that the aircooled cards get when pushed past 80C.

petmic10

zlpw0ker

yep,thanks for the info:)


have you tried the fan at 100% regarding noise?
since you have the seahawk aswell.
 

No, I haven't.
 
The first thing I did was replace it with a Cougar fan and connected it to my fan controller on my case.

Got lucky and snagged an MSI GTX1080 Sea Hawk X off of Newegg while on backorder.  It arrives Wednesday.  The first thing I plan to do is replace the EVGA GTX980Ti Hybrid with the Sea Hawk and will replace the stock radiator fan with a Noctua NF-F12 industrial PPC-2000 fan.  The fan is specifically designed to have a very high static pressure specifically for radiator applications.  I already have the fan as I've been using it on the GTX980Ti Hybrid and it has been working great.  Temps never passed 56C under full load benchmarking (ambient temperature 28C).  I can only hope the temps on the Sea Hawk will be even lower ;-)

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petmic10

zlpw0ker

yep,thanks for the info:)


have you tried the fan at 100% regarding noise?
since you have the seahawk aswell.
 

No, I haven't.
 
The first thing I did was replace it with a Cougar fan and connected it to my fan controller on my case.

Got lucky and snagged an MSI GTX1080 Sea Hawk X off of Newegg while on backorder.  It arrives Wednesday.  The first thing I plan to do is replace the EVGA GTX980Ti Hybrid with the Sea Hawk and will replace the stock radiator fan with a Noctua NF-F12 industrial PPC-2000 fan.  The fan is specifically designed to have a very high static pressure specifically for radiator applications.  I already have the fan as I've been using it on the GTX980Ti Hybrid and it has been working great.  Temps never passed 56C under full load benchmarking (ambient temperature 28C).  I can only hope the temps on the Sea Hawk will be even lower ;-)

sorry to burst your your bubble tho:p.
But I talked to someone on chat via the online shop and the person said if you change the fan that the seahawk comes with that you will fully void the warranty.