gsorin

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Do you have the fan In push or pull?? Usually fans are load in pull unless you add a half inch spacer in between the fan and rad.

Could try push/pull using the stock fan in push and the other fan in pull or try it the other way.

The fan I have it on push.
I do not have any place to put another fan. I dropped the idea having a regular P12 on it. After 2 hours of Origins, the card was running hot on 76 C.
There is no coil whine or pump buzz. However, the card is, overall, quite noisy - so it's not just the fan, somehow there has a noise like a small engine or so.
I am a silence freak, so this card is a no go for me.
 
I bought it from Romania, but the store does not accept refunds, since it was brought special for me from an overseas supplier.
I just hope that I can sell the stuff to a miner or something.

gsorin
Few generations back I had only EVGA, but from 980 Ti they were not so good anymore (they were very hot compared to other models), so from 980 Ti including I had only MSI cards (Lightning or GamingX ), so I forgot what it was like to be a real bundle.
EVGA is the Stuff, and I’m happy to be back :D


With default settings and the standard fan, temperatures are quite decent: 36C idle, 48C in Unigine Superposition, 53C after 5h gaming in AC Origins.
In general the card is alrite: noi coil whine/coil noise and the pump is really silent.
The video card stays around 1999MHz more or less. From the OC point of view, I couldn’t run above 2050 MHz no matter what, as many of FTW3 hybrid users reported pretty much the same (who knows, maybe our cards are leftovers from Kingpin's binning P); however, but the vram goes over 12000MHz.
But obviously the big problem is the radiator fan, and I do not think it's running 100% all the time, as some say, I noticed that there is clearly a noise difference when the computer is in idle or gaming.
In the end of the day it is not a surprise, the fan is designed to cool a 120mm radiator, so the static pressure needs to be high, but frankly I do not feel very comfortable with its noise 😊

I replaced the fan with a Noctua F12 PWM, connected to the motherboard. I've been struggling to make a profile in bios (I have IX Apex ROG), unfortunately I cannot create a profile depending on the temperature of the video card and frankly I hate using Windows utilities for this. 

With Noctua F12 PWM, in idle the fan stays up to 4-500 rpm (damn silent), and the temperature of the video card is 45C +/-, then in superposition it goes more than 63C (but that's because the processor is not so used in this benchmark, therefore the fan does not go to the maximum), but in AC Origins it stabilizes at 56C after several hours of play (1400 rpm +/-, there is some sound at that speed, but during gaming it does not bother me).

The test system  
Asus Maximus IX Apex
Krappy Lake i7 7700K @ 4.6 GHz, 1.21 V
G.Skill 16GB DDR4 3000MHz 14-14-14-34
Samsung 960 Pro 1TB
Corsair H105 & 2 Noctua F12 PWM
Corsair HX1200i 1200W
Creative Soundblaster Z Retail
Fractal Design R2 Midi
Monitor PG 279Q, 1440p, G-Sync, 144Hz

Some results on out-of-the-box mode, default mode.
firestrike:
Graphics Score 31118 / Physics Score14 557 / Combined Score 9705
time spy:
Graphics Score 10438 / CPU Score 5852
Unigine Superposition (1080p extreme setting)
Default:  core 1569 (max boost 1999MHz) / mem 1376, 7700K @ 4.6 GHz -> 6024
Max OC:  core 1620 (max boost 1999MHz) / mem 1501, 7700K @ 4.6 GHz -> 6306
 
@ebs2013, @tanil could you please share more details about your fans (exact models, rpm, temps, noise etc)?

rightwingpsycho
My two are on the way....  Not to brag or anything. But, I should be in SLI heaven by Monday night.   Cause.... well.....  'Murica
(and maybe a tweet from Jacob Freeman at EVGA)

gsorin
I replaced the fan with a Noctua F12 PWM, connected to the motherboard. I've been struggling to make a profile in bios (I have IX Apex ROG), unfortunately I cannot create a profile depending on the temperature of the video card and frankly I hate using Windows utilities for this. 

With Noctua F12 PWM, in idle the fan stays up to 4-500 rpm (damn silent), and the temperature of the video card is 45C +/-, then in superposition it goes more than 63C (but that's because the processor is not so used in this benchmark, therefore the fan does not go to the maximum), but in AC Origins it stabilizes at 56C after several hours of play (1400 rpm +/-, there is some sound at that speed, but during gaming it does not bother me).