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Asus GTX 1080 Strix Cooling mod.

Cyborgsmith
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So I bought Asus 1080 Strix, hot, loud, broke a fan etc..
So I added some Noctua fans b/c why not?

 

Test Rig is my Gaming machine
Define R5 2xFractal Intake Fans, 1xNF-A14PWM Rear Exhuast . Top and side ModuVents installed.

6700k

Noctua NHD-15

 

Testing Procedure was to take the system from idle and run furmark for 20 minutes with the GPU power limit @120% to simulate a worst case scenario 

The stock strix cooling solution did fairly well topping out @78C

Repeating the process with 2x NF-A14PWM fans @75% and 100% I saw 65C and 58C respectively. 

 

The big difference I noticed was overall noise. Running the Noctuas at 75% they are almost inaudible, even at 100% its not excessively noisy unlike the stock cooling solution. 

In Summary I'm sorta glad one of the fans broke on the stock cooling solution b/c if it hadn't I might not have bothered trying this out. 
 

And for those who will probably bring this up, went with 140mm fans over 120mm fans b/c In the future if I were to watercool this system I'd rather have the larger fans for larger rads. 

 

 

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Doesn't surprise me really. They probably have higher airflow and static pressure than the fans that come with the card.

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Just now, DaBeggad said:

never saw anyone complaining about asus strix... now its ugly af :D

I cant see it unless I open my case.

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1 minute ago, Cyborgsmith said:

I cant see it unless I open my case.

normally the strix's are pretty good at staying cool and also shouldnt be that loud... 

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Any card that has been in my pc has gone through that mod. It works more effectively on cards with smaller pcbs. Thats also why my 390x managed to stay cooler than my 980 Ti.

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52 minutes ago, Cyborgsmith said:

-snip-

 

so you just took the "chassi" off and attached them to the gpu with zip ties?  can you build the chassi back without any evidence, in case of warranty issues? :o 

looks strange but sounds great, maybe trying this with my evga 980ti

 

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23 hours ago, Bl00dgod said:

so you just took the "chassi" off and attached them to the gpu with zip ties?  can you build the chassi back without any evidence, in case of warranty issues? :o 

looks strange but sounds great, maybe trying this with my evga 980ti

Ya I can replace the stock cooling without issues, its just ziptied in place. 

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On 12/3/2016 at 12:04 AM, Cyborgsmith said:

Ya I can replace the stock cooling without issues, its just ziptied in place. 

now use liquid metal

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On 12/2/2016 at 12:05 AM, DaBeggad said:

never saw anyone complaining about asus strix... now its ugly af :D

had a 770 and 980 nvida strix, quite damn loud(mom hates noise)

On 12/2/2016 at 12:08 AM, DaBeggad said:

normally the strix's are pretty good at staying cool and also shouldnt be that loud... 

LOL, decent for cooling but so damn loud

On 12/2/2016 at 12:46 AM, Bl00dgod said:

so you just took the "chassi" off and attached them to the gpu with zip ties?  can you build the chassi back without any evidence, in case of warranty issues? :o 

looks strange but sounds great, maybe trying this with my evga 980ti

yea it's quite easy, i just did this yesterday with the stock corsair fans actually for the h115i and its working the same temps but quieter, going to add the second fan today(on a windforce 770 though). my noctuas are currently being shipped

 

 

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On 10/21/2017 at 2:50 PM, poopy said:

now use liquid metal

At this point thermals aren't an issue, holding steady at 2060mhz on the core. I'm having a bigger issue with CPU bottle-necking in some of the brand new titles. Assassins Creed Origins for example, pins all cores and threads at 100% 

 

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My strix was hot and loud too. Returned it and got an evga sc and put a blower on it. Better in every way. 

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On 12/2/2016 at 6:05 AM, DaBeggad said:

never saw anyone complaining about asus strix... now its ugly af :D

Strix is not perfect by any means.

 

5 hours ago, Cyborgsmith said:

I'm having a bigger issue with CPU

Hard to believe an i7 6700k is not being enough for Ubishit titles already... but like me I strongly advise sticking to it until Ice Lake 10nm processors, as much as the i7 8700k sounds interesting it's literally just an i7 7700k with 2 extra cores, true IPC gains should come with the node shrink, not to mention it will bring 8 cores to the mainstream flagship.

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12 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Strix is not perfect by any means.

 

Hard to believe an i7 6700k is not being enough for Ubishit titles already... but like me I strongly advise sticking to it until Ice Lake 10nm processors, as much as the i7 8700k sounds interesting it's literally just an i7 7700k with 2 extra cores, true IPC gains should come with the node shrink, not to mention it will bring 8 cores to the mainstream flagship.

My plan was to wait for 10nm or later, Id like to do an all new build with Icelake, Volta etc. 

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