ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Strix review

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/09/2014 08:17 AM [ 18 comment(s) ]

Hot on the heels of the ASUS GTX 970 Strix review, we test the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Strix. Armed with that h00t of a cooler, a custom PCB, quality components and a factory overclock this product is bound to perform, whilst staying very silent. Heck, the DirectCU II based cooler won't even spin with GPU temperatures up-to roughly 67 Degrees C. The card has 4 GB graphics memory, is energy efficient and factory overclocked for you. Oh and hey, it overclocks nicely as well to almost 1500 MHz on the GPU boost frequency.

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vg24a3
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Posts: 94

Posted on: 10/21/2014 03:38 PM

20 watts increased over the reference design, only 1 frame gain in BF4, really?

You took it out of my mouth! 1 fps is literally non experienceable in gaming at all

1stcowgirl
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Posts: 85

Posted on: 10/22/2014 07:31 AM

Am i the only one that went WTF on the VRM temps?
Asus card seem to always have very high vrm temps, seriously the DCU II cooler can't cool them properly.

I've owned 2 top of the line ASUS cards (GTX780ti DCU II OC and a GTX780ti Matrix), both had VRM temps exceeding 100c.
No I don't have a tiny air flow restirictive case, I have Enthoo Primo with 6 front intakes.

Now I can see the same happening on the Strix in a closed case (Tests in the review are on an open test bench).

Personally I went with the Gigabyte GTX980 G1 Gaming, look at the vrm temps in the review 65c, add about 10c for an inclosed case and it's still much cooler.

My question is why do Asus cards have such high VRM temps, is the the type they use?

No Your NoT!

W T F ? ? ?

some of us did dug about the vrm issue.
the componants are built for the heat, they are rated to 125C. it is so hot cause of the phases.
when we tested those pcb's, we found out that the par between the gpu and VRMs is 15-20C, so when temp target is set to 82c..... the vrm will touch the 100c.
we also tried all kind of method to try and cool the vrm (without removing the heatsink or installing loops), NOTHING HELPED !
only solution was to keep the GPU under 75c (so the vrm will live in the 90c-95c area). and to achive that all we had to do is to set a custome FAN Profile.
p.s.
it is very understandable if some of you are still worried about this, but please remember that THIS IS ASUS!
asus use quality materials and each of their products go through very strict and heavy quality control (dont forget that the 980 and 780Ti have a 14 layers PCB, thats one THICK M0ther FvCKER!)

p.s.s...
look at 4790k... (its just that todays hardware.. is so.... juiced?)

till69
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