I am interested in knowing the load temperatures for both the Standard and the PNY version of the card. Please mention your ambient temp as well!
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I have the reference card model wit the stock cooler. My ambiant temp is 30C while the card temp is on 40C on zero load with the fan speed on 26%. Opening a demanding game quickly torches up the temp to 90C, which the temperature limit I set for GPU Boost 2.0 using MSI Afterburner.
868814
I'm running this card with an i7-3770k, 16GB RAM, HDD, blu ray drive, loads of fans using a 300W PSU. All is well. It's about 65w for the card.
980755
I have two of them using SLI, I have never had a problem of overheating or any noise at all from either of them. I highly recommend this card for the money.
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Might want too r.m.a that my only goes up to 45 c degrees friend. Msi will replace it or so will Amazon. That is a little warm there. Just side note use evga precision app it may help u out.
67513
The card does get very hot. You can increase the max fan speed to help cool it off. This will make the card louder but it's a trade off.
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I can only comment on the Asus...The Gigabyte does have the tri fan setup and supposedly quiet and runs cool. For me I have a large plexiglass window and asthetics are important and didn't like the lattice on the side and the Asus worked with my current theme. The Asus over clocks to 1300mhz and 8000mhz on the vram raising the voltage up to 1.21v. Runs not over 81*C. Not sure what the Gigabyte card does. Although I did have to RMA the Asus card twice for no display and was not an easy process. I now have the Asus GTX 770 4GB.
1957448
I own the A10-5700 and it cools the APU pretty good. I have not looked at the temps in a while, but I believe it was the high 40s C° when streaming.
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I have a PCI 2.0 board and have seen zero issues. I have owned it for about 6 months, and I can play Metro: Last Light on maxed settings (PhysX off) and I get 55-60fps at full 1080p. Enjoy it, it's a great card.
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Have had no issues with heat or noise , bought this card for my son's gaming ... he plays high res games and have had no issues with no noise and runs cool ... great gard! great and reliable so far ... had it about 6 months
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The biggest difference is the extra cooling fan, which allows the card to work harder while still staying at a safe temperature. I personally think this is worth the extra $15
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The card will use the fans depending on the temperature. You can override the settings using the provided application or MSI Afterburner
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I have this card on 3 different computers and have had absolutely no temp issues with any of them.
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Also friend is running same card on a 600W 80++ platinum certified and no issues.
21663
Yes on the PSU and temps dont seem to ever be a problem with this card. Make sure you have a good size tower and case fan speeds to maximize performance.
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I believe the documentation calls for a 750W power supply, though the power usage of this card fluctuates a lot. I haven't seen the card draw more than 410 watts from the wall, putting my total system under 650W at full load. I have been using an EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750G 80PLUS Gold and it has been running fine.
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I am using 400W power supply with this card and it works just fine. This card has pretty low power requirement especially since it has no cooling fans. This card is designed to be fully fanless by using bigger heat sinks. I mainly used it for the good performance, smaller profile and fanless design. Please let me know if you have further questions.
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I have this card on a 280w- core i5 machine - without any problems for about an year! Worth to mention: I use a pair of ssd's instead of hdd - there is significantly less power drainage from hard disks....