I just ordered 2 Titan XP's

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It's not so much to deal with the heat, although it should help because the stock cooler is so inefficient, it's more to do with the ridiculous amount of noise the stock cooler makes when gaming.


EDIT: The only consolation is that @ 60fps you might not be pushing 2 of them hard enough to really heat them up.

I am excited to see how it works out. My case is the Streacom F12C which is a really minimalist case. There are no fans on it except for the 2x intake fans on the radiator and the power supply fan as an exhaust. The top at the sides of the case has intake meshes so I think the case would work well with blower type fans that pull air in from top/side of case and exhaust on the back. My current video cards just kind of cook themselves due to lack or circulation.

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I am excited to see how it works out. My case is the Streacom F12C which is a really minimalist case. There are no fans on it except for the 2x intake fans on the radiator and the power supply fan as an exhaust. The top at the sides of the case has intake meshes so I think the case would work well with blower type fans that pull air in from top/side of case and exhaust on the back. My current video cards just kind of cook themselves due to lack or circulation.

That's a cool setup. I think it'll work fairly well. Are those Noctua iPPC fans? I have 2 on my radiator and I love them.
 
That's a cool setup. I think it'll work fairly well. Are those Noctua iPPC fans? I have 2 on my radiator and I love them.

Yup, they crank up to 3000 rpm with my Corsair Link curve but barely ramp up in most cases. They are 120mm fans on a H100iV2, but will be replaced tomorrow with dual 140mm fans on a H110iGT (280mm radiator). Great fans!
 
Next you can order two more on an alternate account to get around the limit per customer. Cheaper than from a 3rd party. And have the 4 Titan setup we occasionally see pics of on the net.

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i7 6700 3.4ghz || Titan XP || Win 10 Home || ASRock H110M-DGS || DDR4-2133 Crucial 16gb || Toshiba HD 1tb || Cooler Master 750W || Onboard Sound
27” Samsung Lcd 1440 res
 
Haha, I laughed at the 2 per customer limit. Like oh boy, I better hurry up and buy these.
 
One of them puts out more heat than both my 980s did. With my friend and I both playing Overwatch in my computer room/office and both running Titan XPs, the room turned into a sauna after a couple hours. That was with the A/C running and a ceiling fan on.

I can't imagine running SLI Titan XPs. It would be hot. It would be loud. It would be miserable. Only way I would do it is water cooling them.

I run 2 TitansXP in SLI and i never hit 80'C on stress test. And this is with heat in my room cranked the fck up (ambient temp 25'C / 77 F')

Blower coolers are definitely the way to go if you get SLI setup.

And no, I don't hear them when gaming and they chew through everything at 4k. So please stop spewing nonsense.

I got an Obsidian 900D case with fantastic airflow and 460mm radiator hybrid CPU-pump. Everything works like clockwork. I guess the whole setup matters. If you stuff components into a shitty case, you're gonna get shitty performance.
 
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Titan XP's are sauna makers? Hahahahaha! GFTO. I've run real heat monsters like 580s in sli or 290x Lightnings in quad. That's some fucking heat. TXP's are nothing in comparison.
 
I run 2 TitansXP in SLI and i never hit 80'C on stress test. And this is with heat in my room cranked the fck up (ambient temp 25'C / 77 F')

Blower coolers are definitely the way to go if you get SLI setup.

And no, I don't hear them when gaming and they chew through everything at 4k. So please stop spewing nonsense.

I got an Obsidian 900D case with fantastic airflow and 460mm radiator hybrid CPU-pump. Everything works like clockwork. I guess the whole setup matters. If you stuff components into a shitty case, you're gonna get shitty performance.

Are they pretty quiet in idle?
 
Titan XP's are sauna makers? Hahahahaha! GFTO. I've run real heat monsters like 580s in sli or 290x Lightnings in quad. That's some fucking heat. TXP's are nothing in comparison.
These kind of comment are probably coming from people who've seen Titans only on internet websites.
 
Are they pretty quiet in idle?
I don't hear them at all when idle. Hell, i hardly hear them when they're in action.

Maybe because my case has good airflow. ASUS has released new motherboard BIOS a few days ago and now their (fantastic) fan software automatically fine-tunes all the fans in the case. You can also fine tune everything manually which gives you great flexibility. I can hit "Silent" button and i can't tell if teh PC is even on. When gaming i hit "Standard" or "Full speed" (and still it's not so loud that you feel uncomfortable. You hardly hear anything over game sound.)
 
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Not knocking you down. If you have the money then do it, but why not wait a few more months for the 1080ti and get 90% of the performance for like HALF the price?

Anyway, enjoy.

I've been building PC's for 15 years and everyone always says "just wait a few months for the next great thing". And those are probably going to be about $800-$900 based on what I've read, not $600 like you're hoping. Oh, and I don't want 90% performance, I want 100% (maybe a little more after I OC them). ;)
 
lol, so you can see the future?
Just Google it. Everything is pointing towards March at PAX. Not confirmed I know but we can count on it coming very soon to compete with Vega 10. Buying a Titan now is literally giving money away in my opinion as the extra 2gb of RAM? Or extra few hundred cuda cores over 1080ti won't have much extra value. Like I said, if you can afford the cards and don't care about 1080ti, then great. If it were me, the 1080ti IS the obvious choice if getting a card within the next several months. The TI cards have never been $900. They've always been $649-699 ish so why would it be any different for 1080ti especially considering AMD would never price Vega 10 that high. We have competition now so pricing should be lower this round.
 
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Also, I do use the computer multiple hours a day for productivity work for civil engineering projects, graphic design, and web development. I do build PC's as a side job (CAD work stations for engineering firms mostly) as part of my business, so it is nice to have a fairly cutting edge PC that is visible to clients that I can talk about. When I start taking about video cards, liquid cooling, etc. people become interested since they are not familiar with that stuff. I'm not sure if all those things are worth $2400 ($2600 with tax) of new video cards, but it wasn't hard for me to convince myself.
 
Also, I do use the computer multiple hours a day for productivity work for civil engineering projects, graphic design, and web development. I do build PC's as a side job (CAD work stations for engineering firms mostly) as part of my business, so it is nice to have a fairly cutting edge PC that is visible to clients that I can talk about. When I start taking about video cards, liquid cooling, etc. people become interested since they are not familiar with that stuff. I'm not sure if all those things are worth $2400 ($2600 with tax) of new video cards, but it wasn't hard for me to convince myself.

Gotta admit, I'm jealous of anyone who has professionals in their field who are naturally interested in enthusiast PC hardware :D
 
Gotta admit, I'm jealous of anyone who has professionals in their field who are naturally interested in enthusiast PC hardware :D

Yup there are three groups of people that I encounter. People who don't care, people who want great hardware but are really cheap and expect a good workstation for $500, and then the really ambitious ones who want the good shit regardless of cost. I only cater to the last group since it's not really worth my time to mess with the cheap stuff.
 
Yup there are three groups of people that I encounter. People who don't care, people who want great hardware but are really cheap and expect a good workstation for $500, and then the really ambitious ones who want the good shit regardless of cost. I only cater to the last group since it's not really worth my time to mess with the cheap stuff.

It's ironic that most of them don't realize the time that a slow system wastes. And all this time waiting is money they are throwing out the window.
 
It's ironic that most of them don't realize the time that a slow system wastes. And all this time waiting is money they are throwing out the window.

Indeed! The billing rate for a civil engineer to the client ranges between $100-$200/hr depending on what we are doing, so having a slow PC literally costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a year of lost productivity. That is one of my selling points :D
 
Got the Titans up and running! Installed some 2400 MHz memory (running at 2200 MHz) as well. The 280mm radiator didn't fit so I'm back to using my 240mm radiator. Watch Dogs 2 still runs like shit lol. Maybe it needs a patch. Everything else is great.


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I run 2 TitansXP in SLI and i never hit 80'C on stress test. And this is with heat in my room cranked the fck up (ambient temp 25'C / 77 F')

Blower coolers are definitely the way to go if you get SLI setup.

And no, I don't hear them when gaming and they chew through everything at 4k. So please stop spewing nonsense.

I got an Obsidian 900D case with fantastic airflow and 460mm radiator hybrid CPU-pump. Everything works like clockwork. I guess the whole setup matters. If you stuff components into a shitty case, you're gonna get shitty performance.

Your childish response aside, I would like to know what nonsense I am spewing. Playing Overwatch or GTA5 at either 3840x2160@60Hz or 2560x1080@144Hz causes the Titan XP to max out the GPU temp (I have it set to 84C max) and the fan will be extremely loud. I don't wear a headset when I game, as I have a surround sound setup, and the blower fan is clearly audible and rather annoying when playing those games. Now, if I play something non-taxing, like Diablo 3, at the same resolutions, I can max out the game and frame rate and the Titan XP is barely breaking a sweat. It's quiet and cool.

Perhaps your 2 TitanXPs are not fully engaged at 4K@60Hz and therefore aren't putting out the same amount of heat and noise that I experience. I can assure you that 1 TitanXP in my system is hotter and louder than the 2 GTX980s that it replaced. And 1 TitanXP each in 2 different systems is indeed sauna inducing after playing Overwatch for a couple hours.

Lastly, I urge you to please take a moment to look at my system specs before claiming that running shitty components in a shitty case is the cause of my troubles. Before making baseless claims in the future, take a moment to realize your usage patterns and mine might be stressing the video cards and system differently.
 
So I made some changes to my Corsair Link fan profiles, basically I'm using my radiator fans to ram air into my GPU's so they don't thermal throttle anymore. However, I found the secondary reason for mediocre game performance. Watch Dogs 2 has 100% CPU utilization across 8 threads at 4.7 GHz. WTF lol. Either I need to overclock a touch more or they need to optimize their game a little bit.
 
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So I got made some changes to my Corsair Link fan profiles, basically I'm using my radiator fans to ram air into my GPU's so they don't thermal throttle anymore. However, I found the secondary reason for mediocre game performance. Watch Dogs 2 has 100% CPU utilization across 8 threads at 4.7 GHz. WTF lol. Either I need to overclock a touch more or they need to optimize their game a little bit.

Time for a CPU upgrade!
 
Pretty sure this is Watch Dogs 2 not being optimized than a bottleneck in your system.
 
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I can assure you that 1 TitanXP in my system is hotter and louder than the 2 GTX980s that it replaced.

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Then you're doing something wrong. Perhaps your shitty case is shitty optimized. I have no idea what fans setup you've got. Maybe you OCd the fuck out of your titan. Who knows?

I don't game with a headset either and my two Titans are not distracting at all. And they do max out at 4k.
 
Got the Titans up and running! Installed some 2400 MHz memory (running at 2200 MHz) as well. The 280mm radiator didn't fit so I'm back to using my 240mm radiator. Watch Dogs 2 still runs like shit lol. Maybe it needs a patch. Everything else is great.

WatchDogs 2 is a poorly optimized game. It runs like shit on anything. Try something else.
 
Then you're doing something wrong. Perhaps your shitty case is shitty optimized. I have no idea what fans setup you've got. Maybe you OCd the fuck out of your titan. Who knows?

I don't game with a headset either and my two Titans are not distracting at all. And they do max out at 4k.

LOL.
 
I might actually bite on the next Titan (skipped the last one) and try out VR at that point.
 
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