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We have built a system inside a Lian Li chassis with no case fans and have used a fanless cooler on our CPU. The motherboard is also passively cooled. This gives us a build with almost completely passive cooling and it means we can measure noise of just the graphics card inside the system when we run looped 3dMark tests.
We measure from a distance of around 1 meter from the closed chassis and 4 foot from the ground to mirror a real world situation. Ambient noise in the room measures close to the limits of our sound meter at 28dBa. Why do this? Well this means we can eliminate secondary noise pollution in the test room and concentrate on only the video card. It also brings us slightly closer to industry standards, such as DIN 45635.
KitGuru noise guide
10dBA – Normal Breathing/Rustling Leaves
20-25dBA – Whisper
30dBA – High Quality Computer fan
40dBA – A Bubbling Brook, or a Refrigerator
50dBA – Normal Conversation
60dBA – Laughter
70dBA – Vacuum Cleaner or Hairdryer
80dBA – City Traffic or a Garbage Disposal
90dBA – Motorcycle or Lawnmower
100dBA – MP3 player at maximum output
110dBA – Orchestra
120dBA – Front row rock concert/Jet Engine
130dBA – Threshold of Pain
140dBA – Military Jet takeoff/Gunshot (close range)
160dBA – Instant Perforation of eardrum
The triple fan cooler is silent when idle, or under low load conditions – the fans disable.
At higher demand settings around 58c) the fans start to spin up to maintain the thermal curve. The card however is extremely quiet and I was hard pressed to hear it above other fans in my system. An excellent result and a card you should consider if maintaining low noise levels are a primary concern.
Coil Whine is not an issue, which is important to note.
beast card, cant wait for the 480 to compete with this one if ever.
I would have liked to see a witcher 3 benchmark, but hey that’s just me.
Just wanted to point out that the table in the introduction for the Memory speeds is wrong.
oh yeah and the 1440p benchmark for GTA 5 shows the g1 1080. wut
I think they should have had some proof reading done on this. lol
Just a suggestion, but the release of this new generation of card with plenty of VR specific stuff could be the perfect opportunity to include a VR test in your review.
I’m quite interested in 1070/1080 despite no game using the SMP features yet, but there is almost no VR review with “real” games on most of professional reviews on the internet.
sorry, its fixed. ive been testing the new AMD card alongside this for another review and that was a code error showing a graph from an earlier review — no excuse, but fixed!
THe 480 is a 200$ card, which AMD has said will offer 970 / 980(non-Ti) performance levels. That’s pretty good for a 200$ card, but can’t compete with this…which is a 380$ card.
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I think AMD’s idea is to crossfire the 480’s to give you just a bit better than the 1070.
(Though with the AMD driver issues it may not be ideal. eg The division)
That would be 400 dollars (2x4gb model)
Yes, but it is nothing interesting SLI 960 for cheap will beat expensive 980. So cheap 480 will bet expensive 1070 even 1080.. same as future SLI 1060 will beat 1080
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And? SLI / Crossfire performance isn’t 1:1, and 7/10 games don’t come with support.
Hell, some games don’t get Crossfire support for up to 6 months.
STILL more expensive than the NVidia stock 1080 RRP! Jeeez!
I think I’ll buy this, for me the extra 10 fps you can get with a 1080 is not worth the extra $200.
You dont help enough when you mesure the power consumption from the whole system. There are many complaints if the card with only 1×8 pin connectord draws all 150 watt from the connector and stays safely within limits from the power also needed of the pci -e slot. Other vendors like evga and msi making cards with 8+6 pin connectors doesnt need to draw from the pci slot at all? Because the way i see it that would be a better design than the reference one
Nott in my country. The stock 1080 costs around 250 euros more here.