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This card is absolutely amazing! I will actually write a lot more and ...
I have had this card now for a couple of weeks. I don't even know where to begin. This card is absolutely amazing!
I will actually write a lot more and post more information about this card with more reviews in the future. So bear with me as I won't make this terribly long.
If you are like myself and game @1080 then this is the best no holds barred card for that I have seen. Yes there are other 1060's that are cheaper. But believe me that this is the cream of the crop. It crushes all games at 1080. I have everything at Ultra or very near Ultra and I have amazing frame rates and consistency. The dips in FPS are few and most amazingly it sips power.
One thing though. The moment I installed the card; I started to play and the temp of the GPU shot up as high as 90 degrees C. That was not acceptable. On average playing CS:GO I was getting up to 80~ degrees C. I had the settings at max, but this cooler is meant to cool even the mighty GTX 1080. SO something was not right.
I So I removed the heatsink, cleaned off the paste and used new thermal paste. I put it back together, and INSTANTLY the temperatures dropped!!!
When running the benchmarks I was hitting 82-88 degrees C with the fans spinning up to 85-100%. Now It is pushing 62-64 degrees C after running it for 30 min!
So if you buy this card, do yourself the favor and get new thermal paste and change the GPU's thermal paste.
October 2016 · Electronics · verified purchase