fast, hot and noisy

Unfortunately, I should have caught a Monday model.

Despite open housing or construction on the test bench the card reaches me in a variety of games and benchmarks at the 93 ° C (Performance & Quiet Mode)

There is nothing change even when an installation in a closed housing. (2 * 140mm intake, 1 * 140mm out, case fan at 12V)

Here the card reaches a peak of 94 ° C. Positive at this point is only to be noted that the cooler is well able to cool the card so that there takes place no Throtteling and 1050MHz can be kept constant.

But there is at all times on the backplate massive burn hazard, and after about 20 minutes of playing time and the fans must Odent revving to keep the card in check (66% fan speed. This corresponds to a turbine engine and is not far from what AMD also with the Reference Design can, with the difference that here the map keeps at least the clock.

As I said, this behavior appears at 21.5 ° C room temperature in the open case and in Case closed (Define R4, HDD tray up away for better intake airflow) and the testbench structure.

The map Reach getting their almost 94 ° C and the fan always turns at the end of 66% (sometimes higher). I suspect almost, that is not clean here lie the heatpipes on which, however, because the card is still new, I renounce the Handicraft and send it back because I do not need additional heating for the CPU and sound card.

Replacement card will probably be a GTX980 ... no memory BUG and hopefully not so hotly.