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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 Gigabyte GTX980 Ti G1 Gaming is a relatively quiet card under load, although fan noise will be evident. When idle, the card is basically silent as the fans disable. We noticed that less demanding games didn't raise the core temperature enough for the fans to spin. Once temperatures of the core reach 55c, the fans kick in.
We tested for coil whine by running via software at up to 500fps, we are happy to report, while the reference design produced some noise the Gigabyte GTX980 Ti G1 Gaming doesn't.
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Weak review. You have got to do better than this.
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Why wouldn’t you have run the card in its stock OC mode?
Also, good job throwing on things like msaa x4 for GTA 4 at 4k. Nobody is going to play with that enabled and it destroys the framerate.
To anyone who who has not tested 4k in that game and may see this and think these cards can’t run the game at that res: I have a EVGA superclocked 980 and with msaa off and grass turned to very high from ultra and the advanced graphics settings not being on or maxed (so basically things that offer little visual improvement), I can get 40 in the city and a drop to the high 20s in heavy foliage at 4k. The 980 ti will probably then get one above 50 in the city and in the mid-high 30s to maybe even the low 40s range in heavy foliage.
GREAT REVIEW, Zardon
GTX980Ti with its 6GB of VRAM is the Biggest 4k Gaming Future Proofing Bang for your GPU Buck.
This why I make GIGABYTE G1 GAMING GeForce GTX 980Ti a MUST HAVE BUY, I’m also looking at the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Extreme, its a bigger card (3 slots vs 2) and there will be many more 4K future proofing 980Ti from NVIDIA’s partners. We will be placing a order soon for my many happy customers who buy our custom gaming rigs.
I agree with wowgivemeabreak, msaa is a performance killer, and AA isn’t needed at high res.
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the result are nothing but fraud
here are 2 other reviews from other sites:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_980_ti_g1_gaming_soc_review,13.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_980_Ti_G1_Gaming/18.html
this is for kitguru:
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/gigabyte-gtx980-ti-g1-gaming-review/16/
& there is not that big difference between r9 295×2 & g1 on other 2 reviews
how on earth all of a sudden this one is so different with that other 2,!!!!?????
i rather read more reliable reviews not kitguru’s which is different from all resources by large margin,
no thanks, i was wrong looking here.
Shut the fuck up.