Installing vga cooler on XFX HD5770: My question is simply this: if I install a vga cooler (such as the Arctic Cooling Accelero L2) will I have to remove the plastic case of the card and leave it off?
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accelero s1 passive cooler also a good choice...drop 35 deg. off of stock. For the money the XFX is the best card for the buck...if you got the XXX version. ....and do you care what the card looks like in the case, or on your screen?
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the cooler is excellent. What I meant in my bad english, was that I had trouble installing it on my Asus Sabertooth motherboard with an Intel i7 and one case from Cooler Master. In my case it will be necessary to disassemble the entire PC to install it correctly. Can you understand what I'm trying to explain in broken English of poor quality? Best regards
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The default (and preferred) setup is for the top radiator to be an exhaust. The 6"x9" front intake has a filter that easily pops out for cleaning. The PSU has its own intake and exhaust and its airflow is isolated from the rest of the case. When I first setup my case, I reversed the fans such that the radiator became the cold air intake, since this provides maximum cooling to the CPU. That led to a dirty radiator and dusty case. I restored the default airflow (which requires pulling the motherboard and hard drives) and have never had a problem with CPU cooling using my Corsair H100 radiator. Nor have my GPUs ( NVIDIA GTX670 and GTX640) ever overheated. The only place I've had temperature issues is with what ASUS Thermal Radar identifies as VCORE, which does overhead, exceeding 90C at 4.5GHz, with real loads (not synthetic benchmarks). This happens regardless of whether the top radiator is exhaust or cold air intake.
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Hi,the cooler is not suitable for your card. Please use the Accelero Xtreme IV 280 (X). Thanks and best regards,Jens
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You'll want to get a cooler just to keep the temperature down when gaming, especially with some of the more demanding titles. The graphics card can get very hot. There is actually a model of cooler out there that has detachable fans that you can move to target specific portions of the computer, so that would be a good choice, since most of the heat seems to come from the rear right part of the laptop (where the gfx card is). The dual fans work well, but I use a cooler just to extend the life of the laptop and be sure that it is sufficiently cooled during gaming. Plus, if you're buying a $2300 laptop, a $30 cooler is really no big expense. You'll want to get a cooler just to keep the temperature down when gaming, especially with some of the more demanding titles. The graphics card can get very hot. There is actually a model of cooler out there that has detachable fans that you can move to target specific portions of the computer, so that would be a good choice, since most of the heat seems to come from the rear right part of the laptop (where the gfx card is). The dual fans work well, but I use a cooler just to extend the life of the laptop and be sure that it is sufficiently cooled during gaming. Plus, if you're buying a... » Read More You'll want to get a cooler just to keep the temperature down when gaming, especially with some of the more demanding titles. The graphics card can get very hot. There is actually a model of cooler out there that has detachable fans that you can move to target specific portions of the computer, so that would be a good choice, since most of the heat seems to come from the rear right part of the laptop (where the gfx card is). The dual fans work well, but I use a cooler just to extend the life of the laptop and be sure that it is sufficiently cooled during gaming. Plus, if you're buying a $2300 laptop, a $30 cooler is really no big expense. « Show Less
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Works fine with my sapphire radeon 5770 with 1 gb gddr5 I don't see why it shouldn't. Pick up an aftermarket cooling unit though as some of the newer games have taken me up near 220 degrees farenheit.
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It occupies 2 slots space and you should always plug it into your PCI-E 3.0 which usually is the first full size PCI-E slot. Pretty impressive for the thiness of the card considering how good the ACX cooler is :)
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with no problems, i am running a EVGA GTX 970 SC x-2 on a EVGA Z87 classified board. Water cooler and multiple fans to cool RAM and other components. I really like this case. It is large so be prepared. You can also remove components to make more space. only issue is i had a fan controller LED not working on top (1). Hope this helps
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The fan is actually better than some people say - the default cooling profile never pushes the fan hard. If you download evga's wonderful "Precision X" utility, you can set up your own fan profile. I was easily able to get my card to run at least 10 degrees cooler than it did with default settings, and that includes overclocking the bad boy as much as I can.Be warned, though - blower-style coolers are good but they are also noisy. The reason the default fan profile is pretty tame is to keep noise down. With my custom profile, you will definitely hear the fan when it spins up. I don't mind myself as I never notice it over the sounds of my game. The fan is actually better than some people say - the default cooling profile never pushes the fan hard. If you download evga's wonderful "Precision X" utility, you can set up your own fan profile. I was easily able to get my card to run at least 10 degrees cooler than it did with default settings, and that includes overclocking the bad boy as much as I can.Be warned, though - blower-style coolers are good but they are also noisy. The reason the default fan profile is pretty tame is to keep noise down. With my custom profile, you will definitely hear the fan when it... » Read More The fan is actually better than some people say - the default cooling profile never pushes the fan hard. If you download evga's wonderful "Precision X" utility, you can set up your own fan profile. I was easily able to get my card to run at least 10 degrees cooler than it did with default settings, and that includes overclocking the bad boy as much as I can.Be warned, though - blower-style coolers are good but they are also noisy. The reason the default fan profile is pretty tame is to keep noise down. With my custom profile, you will definitely hear the fan when it spins up. I don't mind myself as I never notice it over the sounds of my game. « Show Less
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I installed this after mine was fully built as well. If your case has a cutout below the cpu on the motherboard, no problem. Most cases have a substantial cutout. My case had the cutout but the cooler mount was slightly larger than the hole, so I had to expand the opening about 1/4 inch which was easy to do as the metal was very thin and I could bend it. Hope this helps.
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I'm not familiar with the X875 series so I don't know how bad the cooling problems were with that series, but my tests on my X75 don't show any major problems (see my review). What I did was run FurMark on it for about 3 or 4 days any time that I wasn't using the laptop to see if it experienced any problems, and I didn't encounter any. This is with the laptop sitting on a wooden table and an ambient temperature of around 72F. I did do some testing to see if a cooling pad would improve performance (the GPU will automatically slow down to keep itself cooler than 80C), and I found that 1) it only improved performance by about 10%, 2) it didn't matter if the fan in the cooling pad was turned on, and 3) simply setting the laptop on top of four 1/2" dice (using them as small plastic blocks to put it "up on blocks") had the same performance improvement as the cooling pad. Even with the cooling pad, the FPS drops slightly (something less than 5%) once the GPU heats up (after maybe 10 seconds). So technically the GPU performance is "thermally limited" as it doesn't have the cooling capacity to run continuously at 100%, but the drop in performance is 1) very slight, even under the worst load and 2) barely noticeable in the benchmark and not noticeable at all to me in real-world use (games) where the capacity is not maxed out all the time the way it is in a benchmark. So I don't even bother to use the laptop with a cooling pad/blocks. Also, here is a 3DMark benchmark result for the laptop with no extra cooling: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1387253 (this is very slightly better than their reference "gaming laptop" from 2013).
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Are you trying to compare this EVGA with the MSI power edition??? If this is OK then choose MSI with eyes closed, it's better. If I'm wrong, I can't help you jejeje maybe this page can help you, but I think it will no answer your question. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
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Hi, if you plan to overclock your graphics card then I strongly recommend this card. If you don't overclock then I would go with the Superclocked edition. You really can't go wrong with any of these cards but I will say the ACX cooling works very well and is super quiet compared to the vapor chamber single fan coolers that some of the models have. I hope that helps enjoy!!
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I have the regular GTX 780 with the ACX cooler and it fits fine. Nothing gets in the way of installing the backplate on these ACX cards. Hope this helps!
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AMD says it's supposed to run hot. To keep cool, turn up fan on card, have well venelated case, or use external fan. Card is so worth it. Buy it.
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Had to dig the box out. The av cooler is an Antec Veris Media Component Low Profile A/V Cooler. Bought the item on Amazon.com. Saw that some people of this website just bought some 120mm fans or 80mm fans also. You might want to look into all of the ideas. Kinda fun. DanW
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There should be plenty of room for a GTX 780 if you remove the angled fan mount which is easy enough. It runs cool enough that combined with the vertical airflow channel it should be plenty cool.