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I've not played it, but the reviews have been rather bad. repetitive and lacking content was the last i heard.

Agreed, Phantek enthoo Evolv --- here --- Hardware Canucks Agrees, see video --- here ---

The H440 is considered to be one of the best Mid tower atx cases, it has some peculiarities with certain things. For example: The top fans vent only out one side and the back which can cause noise or airflow issues depending on the way you will position the case, also I believe the door will only open one direction and cannot be reversed, the Fan filter on the bottom can only be removed from the back, the front panel intakes only on one side of the case. Here is a good review of the H440 vs R5 A similar case that would have less peculiarities but is less "stylish" would be the Fractal Design R5(I have and I love) One of the nicest cases i've seen period would be the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv

Have you tried a Clean Installation of the drivers? There is an option to completely remove the old drivers before the new ones install, this could help eliminate any possibility of any thing being leftover causing the issue.

can you put the radiator from the top card in the top of the case and the radiator from the bottom card in the back of the case?

Happy to help anyway I can, Hope that it makes a difference but if it doesn't... remember your temperatures are well within the safety zone. Good Luck!

do you have a radiator in the top of the case? can you put the rad there? that would be my first inclination.

Two cards of the same, make, model, processor do not guarantee identical performance. It's possible that the ASIC scores on the chips could be vastly different, lower score ASIC cards tend to produce more heat for the same performance, it's possible that the TIM (thermal interface material) between Chips and plate could have a problem, it's possible that the location of the card and the airflow to the radiator could be the difference. To eliminate the variables of the cards being in different PCI-e slots, and to see if the temperatures are caused by the locations of the cards, it may be worthwhile to swap the positions of the cards on the motherboard and the positions of the radiators. If the temperatures are still the same but for the opposite card then you know it is simply because of the location of the card and not the fault of the card itself.

I will say however, EVGA recommends having the radiator located above the pump, keep in mind that the AIO will have some air in it, air will rise to the highest point in the system, if that highest point is in the pump/GPU block it could prevent effective heat transfer to the coolant if it becomes airbound. It may be worthwhile to try moving the radiator to a spot that would position it above the pump.

With a temperature of 62c under load, You have absolutely nothing to worry about when it comes to GPU temperature. It's fine.

GTX 760 is a very nice card, but as you said is starting to run into difficulty playing some AAA titles at higher resolutions and graphical settings. The cards out now are really nice, and would serve you well. The AMD cards offer better performance per dollar but tend to consume much more power and can run hotter, the Nvidia cards tend to be a bit pricier for comparable performance but have better driver support and software features while consuming much less power and tend to run cooler and overclock very well. However... If you can wait 6 or so months, it appears as though we should have some real news on the new Polaris AMD cards and the new Pascal Nvidia cards It appears VERY likely that we will see a Significant performance increase over current gen cards, The current cards will drop in price when the new ones arrive and the new cards will offer better graphical performance and likely better thermal performance(especially for AMD) which would help keep your PC quieter.

Found it, --- Here --- Nvidia offering DX12 driver support for ALL DX11 cards.

I agree, historically Nvidia has been by far the best at driver support. I believe I read recently they've promised driver support all the way back to Fermi.

I've got the solution! (IMO my favorite) My personal favorite case --- Here --- the Cooler Master Elite 130 plus this 5.25 drive bay USB adapter --- Here --- with --- Here --- this will give you 6 correction 7 total USB slots.

I'm guessing you're referring to upcoming release of DX12 and the titles associated with it supposedly being much more favorable for AMD. I would say that that is a personal guess at best, DX12 currently only has games in beta. We have very little data about what DX12 will do for current graphics cards because we don't have all the pieces of the puzzle. Many of the initial results were definitely in AMD's favor... But again, those tests are still half baked and missing huge pieces of the puzzle. For example ---Here--- ANAND Tech recently did a star swarm test with some new, recent and older GPU's. As you can see the 980 performed Significantly better than a 290x, by a factor of roughly 1/3... 33%. A 970 generally performs better than 66% of a 980.

It's not that big of a difference, but a 970 is very slightly faster than a 290 or 290x in many games, they will swap places however depending on which title is being used. Overall very similar cards as long as gaming is the primary focus, if compute performance is needed then the AMD's are far better. If cooler, quieter, more power efficient and some great overclocking are more desirable then the 970 would be the preferred choice.

Stick with the 970, it would be a definite downgrade switching to the 290, even a 290x is more of a side grade/lateral pass.

Nvidia did not allow any modification or changes to be made to their reference design Titan X. They wouldn't allow custom coolers or PCB's, Nvidia wanted their flagship card to be only what they wanted. EVGA and others got around not being able to install custom coolers themselves onto the Titan and Titan X by offering custom coolers that the customer could put on on their own. Like the ACX 2.0 cooler and the Hybrid cooler(which I have and I Love).

The fans that came on my H100i GTX were good at static pressure and cooling but were Loud. I replaced them recently with the Fractal Venturi HP line, awesome fans, I highly recommend them. You can find them ---Here---

Well, I think it is Highly relevant, I'm not sure what "Power" is summed up to be, but to drive the level of graphical processing needed to match a 980Ti and provide the same level of performance in a game (i'm not talking folding or theoretical paper numbers here) it would take 3 or 4 gtx580's combined performance(without SLI scaling issues) to match a single gtx980Ti's performance. So, if 2.2x the power equals 3x to 4x better performance, then yes I agree. Just looking at some quick pixel fill rate numbers: 8800 = 14.7 Billion pixels/sec 580 = 37 Billion pixels/sec 980Ti = 96 billion pixels/sec Which one had the largest performance increase? Going by percentage increase from one to the next, the increase is almost identical(if i'm managing to do my math right) despite the percentage being similar, the sheer amount of data being processed grew by leaps and bounds more from the 580 to the 980Ti. This despite the change in node size being staggering in the jump from the 8800 to the 580 (90nm vs 40nm = 50nm lithography drop) compared to the 580 to the 980ti(40nm vs 28nm = 12 nm lithography drop).

Seen JayzTwoCents video? ---Here--- I'd say the gains have been pretty significant especially given the lack of smaller manufacturing nodes over the past few years. Simply putting two 580's together does not equal the playability of a 980Ti.

well, a 780Ti is roughly equal to a gtx970... which when put into SLI is a bit more powerful than a 980Ti... so from 780ti to 980ti is maybe 1.7x the performance? not quite double but thats darn impressive on the same manufacturing node!

Agree on the performance on the same wattage... but i've fully switched over to LED bulbs sooo.... at 7 watts per bulb (lets say 150 watts reduction(1/2 of 300watts) that puts me at 21 light bulbs of more power usage)

100% agreed, I would be incredibly annoyed by the problem as well. I am however, out of ideas at the moment. Sorry.

Gen 2.0 lanes are through the chipset, but, there are other peripherals that use pci-e 3.0 lanes. I'm assuming by your comment that that implies you have no other devices using pcie 3.0 lanes. HOWEVER, regardless of whether the card is operating at 16x or 8x with PCI-E 3.0... it will NOT affect GPU performance remember, in SLI or X-fire the GPU's operate at 8x with NO reduction in performance. PCI-e 3.0 at 8x simply has more bandwidth than a GPU needs to communicate with the CPU.