Geforce GTX 760 reference, which brand?

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I'm picking up a reference GTX 760 since my case isn't the best for airflow and ideally I'll need a blower type. Do you guys have any suggestions on which brand? I'm seeing EVGA, MSI, Galaxy, and Zotac

My guess is the heatsink and fan are pretty much identical, so I would think it would boil down to quality and the included software.

Also, are there blower aftermarket coolers?
 
All of those are solid brands. Galaxy and Zotac are less known, but they seem to have good reps here and are actually solid brands, they just don't release a slew of products like EVGA, and well EVGA lol. Okay MSI is close, but still distant. Been a avid EVGA person myself since the 8800 and loss of BFG and they really do appreciate their customers on another level.

Almost all reference coolers (blowers) are going to be identical, hence reference design. I don't know of any third-party blower coolers, but I can say with absolute certainty that the ones found in the 600/700 series are like nothing you've ever seen before. Much more efficient and quieter than previous versions and the cards just seem to naturally run cooler all on there own.
 
what case do you have thats that bad off? and what are all your current specs now?

as for reference cards, it will not really matter so go with which ever is the cheapest or you feel has the better warranty.
 
There is a couple blower style aftermarket coolers though their performance isn't all that great TBH, reference is reference, so for most cards AMD or Nvidia that means blower style, in some this is a 1/2 blow through 1/2 blow into case.

Asus, Msi, EVGA, Gigabyte, Zotac(who is part of Inno3D parent holder as well), Galaxy, Gainward(part of palit) PNY technologies. All of them have their own warranty support and customer ratings but most of them are well respected and well know really, none of them are "new"

Galaxy-Gainward-Pny-MSI-Asus have some of the highest clocked best cooled cards of the bunch for their high end editions however they are not blower style, none of them do blower style custom coolers for their cards, maybe ROG based might be different for the liquid cooled editions as essentially all of the heat is directed where you want it.

Many buds of mine that go Nvidia tend to get EVGA for their step up or whatever its called though there certainly are more robust better cooled designs then EVGA normally offers.
 
Appreciate all the responses! I have a Silverstone ft03-mini, and I like to run it as quiet as possible so the fan on the bottom won't push that much air through.
 
i5-3570K, 8gb ram, antec kuhler 620, ssd. 450W SFX PSU. the radiator probably blocks some airflow... only 1 140mm fan
 
I would try to find a used 670 ftw first. Even new it wouldnt be much more. The ftw uses 680 reference cooler which is FAR superior to the 670 and 760 reference cooler. The cooler for 760 and 670 is a complete piece of junk. Problem is less aparent on 760 tho because it has gpu boost 2.0 so it doesnt throttle until 80. My reference 670 broke 70 and throttled at max fan speed. Returned it same day I bought it.
 
tetrismaster said:
I'm picking up a reference GTX 760 since my case isn't the best for airflow and ideally I'll need a blower type. Do you guys have any suggestions on which brand? I'm seeing EVGA, MSI, Galaxy, and Zotac

My guess is the heatsink and fan are pretty much identical, so I would think it would boil down to quality and the included software.

Also, are there blower aftermarket coolers?
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To answer your last question, no, only nvidia provides blower coolers for the Kepler GPU. There really is no difference between reference cards other than customer service and warranty, and even by those metrics pretty much all manufacturers are similar with a 2-3 year warranty. EVGA offers step up as well, but only within 90 days of purchase - so that's basically worthless.

IMHO, get whatever is cheapest if you want a ref board.
 
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