Joined on 10/03/14
Excellent Product with a Couple of Quirks
Pros: - Aesthetics - Mine boosts to 1987 mHz stable out of the box. - Individual fan curves. - Detailed temperature monitoring. - Replacing thermal paste, pads, or installing a custom cooler does not void the warranty. - Great customer service. The card came with a free Unigine Superposition license, but I had not received my code even a few days after applying for it. I emailed customer support and had my code within an hour. Same story when I had a question about thermal pads.
Cons: - After I installed the card and drivers, I fired up Unigine Heaven and Mass Effect: Andromeda and was not impressed at all with the noise and temperatures. My fans were ramping up to 60% and my temperatures hovered around 81-82C (22C ambient temperature). I suspected it was the thermal paste and, sure enough, when I took off the cooler the middle of the GPU die had almost no thermal paste on it (I could actually read the "Nvidia" etched onto the silicon!). I cleaned it off and replaced it with Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste and my temperatures stabilized at 72C with 45% fan speed. Much better. I then undervolted the card and got fan speeds down to 35% at the same temperature with a clock speed of 1974 mHz @ 0.931V. The card now runs fantastically and I don't have to worry about a voided warranty thanks to EVGA's great warranty terms. - You can only control both fans with EVGA Precision XOC. If you use another program like Afterburner, you can only control the GPU fan while the VRM fan will remain idle. This wouldn't normally be an issue, but Precision XOC randomly crashes on me, so I can't reliably use it to tune fan curves. Luckily, the default fan curve is pretty quiet and future updates will likely address the issue.
Overall Review: Take my experience for what it is, an anecdote. My guess is that I got unlucky with the thermal paste as I have yet to see anyone else with this card have an issue with it. The card would still have run just fine if I didn't change the thermal paste, but the noise would have been noticeable. Now that I've dealt with everything, I couldn't be happier with this card.
Started grinding after 2.5 years of regular use. Solid product otherwise.
Pros: It runs as advertised and is relatively quiet.
Cons: Disk began to grind even when not reading or writing after 2.5 years. It was a solid product up to that point, but did not last as long as I would have expected (~4 years).
Overall Review: My experience may be an outlier, so YMMV.
Works Flawlessly!
Overall Review: All my other FM transmitters had issues with static and I had to fiddle with the station every week. I haven't had to change anything since Day 1 and music is perfectly clear with zero static. If you are looking for an FM transmitter, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Well designed and easy to work with
Pros: The bottom dust filter pulls out from the front!
Overall Review: It's a great case to work with and I'm happy with it. I carried over two 120mm fans from my first build, so I can't speak to stock performance, but everything runs cool with four fans in it.
No hassle. Does what it promises.
Overall Review: It does exactly what you think it will do. I'm satisfied.
Solid Ether Mining BIOS
Pros: This card has a dual BIOS switch and comes with two different BIOS versions installed. The default is the gaming BIOS and the alternative is an Ether mining BIOS. The mining BIOS runs the card at 1150/0.95V on the core and 2100/1V on the memory. It also has the 1750 memory strap copied to the 2000 strap. All in all, this means that the card runs at 29 MH/s out of the box. All you have to do is flip the switch near the power connector.
Cons: The cooling solution is okay. You won't be anywhere near thermal throttling with gaming or mining, but it's not the quietest cooler you can get.
Overall Review: An excellent card for gaming and mining, especially if you are not comfortable modding the BIOS yourself or worry about voiding the warranty.