Question 1

How is the pump noise on this? I've seen mixed reviews about it and personally experienced some watercooler pump noise in the past that bothersome. Thanks.

Accepted Answer

For 99% of the time mine is almost silent. I have to put my head against the case to hear it. But on occasion there are some minor gurgling sounds, which I've seen on other AIO coolers in the past. I've only had the card setup for about two weeks but in that time the gurgling has almost completely stopped. I think that as it shifts around during shipping and installation bubbles get caught in the loop and it just takes some time for it all to even out. That all said this is a total beast of a card. I haven't seen another 980ti that can OC as high or be able to perform so well while still having such a low temp.

Question 2

What is the 6-pin connector on the card for? In the specifications, it states that you need two 8-pin connectors, though the pictures show a third 6-pin connector.

Accepted Answer

I've never seen anyone use it but it's there for extreme overclocking. There is a button next to the connector used to enable the LN2 bios which allows for overclocks that could potentially benefit from the extra power. But it's optional and you can get amazing performance without it. The main 8-pin connectors have small LED lights that should always be solid white when in use, if these start to flicker or change then you're either getting bad output from your PSU or you need the extra 6-pin.

Question 3

What size fan/radiator? Are you able to change out fans with others brands?

Accepted Answer

The fan/radiator are 120mm . Unfortunately Gigabyte decided to wire the fan directly into the block without a standard connector. If you want to replace it you need to cut the wires of the original fan. I don't know if you would need to re-wire the new fan to the old wires or if you even can. You would probably be able to plug the new fan into a fan port on your motherboard and control the speed using software that can read the GPU temp and adjust the fan speed accordingly since Gigabytes software won't be able to.

Question 4

How is the stock fan for the radiator? Should it be replaced with a better one or is it a really high quality fan? For example, the H75's fans are already really good and so they don't exactly require a replacement for better fans etc. Thanks.

Accepted Answer

This fan is pretty good when it comes to AIO fans. Under 1000RPM it's very quiet but above that it starts becoming audible, not too bad but still it's there. The only time it ever got annoyingly loud is when running simulated extreme loads for OC testing. Under normal/heavy gaming I never noticed it.

The issue with replacing the fan on this card is that the fan cables are directly connected into the block. There is no header. You would likely have to break then re-solder the connections to the new fan. Not extremely hard or anything but it's an annoying hurdle and probably my biggest complaint about this card.

Hope that helps.

Question 5

So it says it's $99,999.00.... is this an error or are they really trying to sell a card for 6 figures?

Accepted Answer

Error or probably set to discourage back order volume from increasing.

Question 6

Hello, can anyone tell me what the fan size is? Is it 120mm or 140 mm? Thanks!

Accepted Answer

120mm, Techpowerup had a review of the card, and mentions this on page 4 of that review. Newegg won't let me post the link to the answer source because it doesn't like us.

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