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DEAN M.

DEAN M.

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Happy 20th

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Graphics Card GOLD20TH-GTX980-P-4GD5
ASUS GeForce GTX 980 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Graphics Card GOLD20TH-GTX980-P-4GD5

Pros: Day 1. Little tough to get installed, working on a bug with my motherboard and this GPU. But This is one powerful, quiet and energy efficient card. A quick Overclock to 1538 Mhz and only went to 50 C (122 F) Very quiet card using precision x to control overclock and fan speed. Is a very heavy card and somewhat concerned on it's pull on the Pci-e slot. Comes with a great pair of individually sleeved 8 pin power cords. Wish it actually had some more lighting on it. The white leds showing power is good is a nice touch. Coming from a GTX 690 and am very happy.

Cons: Comes with a pretty old driver on the cd show used driver uninstaller to remove all old traces and downloaded the newest drivers from NVidia. Am not using asus gpu-tweak, prefer Evga's Precision X.

Overall Review: You can set the fan speed to run at 0% The next speed up is 35% which is also silent, I prefer that as my slowest speed to to keep some airflow. Using a custom fan profile my speed only got to 61% at 1538 MHz at 50 C and the overclock held rock steady there without throttling. Will update with some more time with card.

Most Critical Review
HIS Radeon X1950PRO 512MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card H195PRQT512DDAN-R
HIS Radeon X1950PRO 512MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card H195PRQT512DDAN-R

Pros: Beautiful Cooling

Cons: Could not get to work on my system, would lock up in 3d apps within 1 minute, had to RMA

Great Processor, 20 Cores and 28 Threads

Intel Core i7-14700K - Core i7 14th Gen 20-Core (8P+12E) LGA 1700 125W Intel UHD Graphics 770 Processor - Boxed - BX8071514700K
Intel Core i7-14700K - Core i7 14th Gen 20-Core (8P+12E) LGA 1700 125W Intel UHD Graphics 770 Processor - Boxed - BX8071514700K

Pros: Love all the cores and working on reducing the voltage used Using a contact frame, very easy to install

Overall Review: Upgraded from a 12700K and can really tell the difference.

10/31/2023

Great Card, replaced my 1080 FE

ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING

Pros: Great card, love the 4 pin fan headers, have 3 fans connected and controls the fan speeds fantastically Runs very cool and very quiet No Coil whine, and love the led lights

Cons: only con is the fan blows hot air directly onto one of the 950 Pro SSD's and warms it up pretty good , going to move that drive into an adaptor away from the video card very hard to plug in the 4 pin fans into the end of the card, easier to plug them in then install the card

Overall Review: Wasn't really looking to buy but it was in stock all of a sudden and had to jump on it.

BSOD all day

SAPPHIRE Radeon R7 260X 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100366-2L
SAPPHIRE Radeon R7 260X 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100366-2L

Pros: good price on the card, cool and quiet. but............

Cons: Will not run for more than a couple minutes, blank screen then right to BSOD. Have tried 3 drivers all same result. Will only run for a few minutes, web pages, youtube videos and mp4 files on xbmc trigger the bsod within a few seconds. If I just sit there on a desktop, will run for a little while but will suddenly crash. Can't even troubleshoot or install different drivers with the card in my system, it won't stay running long enough to finish installing

Overall Review: I take this card out and put back in my hd 5770 and it works perfectly. So it seems I can't upgrade to this card. Even if the card runs for a few minutes it will not pass sound to the right rear speaker on my onkyo 5.1 receiver, just hear crackle in that speaker, but again put back in my hd 5770 card and all is well

Great support ASUS

ASUS GeForce GTX 690 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card GTX690-4GD5
ASUS GeForce GTX 690 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card GTX690-4GD5

Pros: Works absolutely fantastic. If you want to go SLI then this is the card. Am running Microsoft FSX and Railworks TrainSimulator 2013 with custom sli settings and work fantastic. Even if a game isn't sli supported you can set settings in Nvidia Inspector to force them. Example in Railworks with normal setting it runs 57 FPS with core one at 98% and core two at 0% with custom settings it runs 118 FPS with both cores at 96% very quiet card and runs nice and cool. Even turbo boosts rather nicely

Cons: First card failed after one month, no video output on boot. But got to see how good Asus support is. Sent card to Asus USA, they have you send bare card no original box because they say if they repair it or send a refurbished card you won't get a retail box. After trying to repair they sent me a brand new Retailed box card and I am back up and Running. So 5 stars to ASUS support

Overall Review: Really like this card, wish it would have had a back plate but otherwise is nice is only a two slot card. My Asus ROG GTX 580 it replaced was a 3 slot card. If I had to do all over again would purchase again. I am gaming on a single monitor, Korean Crossover 2560x1440 display with a 1920x1200 second display but I don't dual monitor game. Use the second monitor for other during gaming or non 3d map display for FSX If you are gaming on a single monitor with at least 2560x1440 then get this card. Multi monitor gaming hi resolution get the Titan. Single Monitor 1920x1080 get a GTX 670 or 680 or Radeon 7970