Galax HOF WC edition to launch jan 2015! white water block+PCB

[Jumper118]

 

if your into white pc's then this might be your thing. it should look good on asus's new white board or add a bit of contrast to black boards. 

[Thecrazyswede]

Looks good, they should've made the screws all black as it would've looked amazing imo.

[SolvingJunk]

Looks like some high school robotics students made it on a 3D printer. Hope the official release looks a bit classier than that.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Why do I expect it to smell like the dentist's office when it gets hot?

[Norwegiantweaker]

 

if your into white pc's then this might be your thing. it should look good on asus's new white board or add a bit of contrast to black boards. 

he looks so stoned holy shit

[SirSquid]

(Not to spread gimics) graphics cards should have RGB lighting so you don't have to choose cards souly on color.

[Poohy14]

Still wont buy one after the 780 my friend had caught on fire.

[dalekphalm]

Still wont buy one after the 780 my friend had caught on fire.

What...

 

Can you elaborate on that slightly?

[HerEscutcheon]

Still wont buy one after the 780 my friend had caught on fire.

 

 

What...

 

Can you elaborate on that slightly?

 

Hot fire.

 

 

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[dalekphalm]

Hot fire.

 

 

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Haha nice... Well no, he says his friends 780 caught on fire... The 780 is one of the most reliable GPU's out there at this point. What brand is his friends GPU? Aftermarket or Reference cooler?

 

Sounds like the heatsink was seated incorrectly, or it was OC'd way too much. Or perhaps he got really unlucky and his particular unit was defective?

 

I'm more of a fan of AMD GPU's, and even I call BS on that NVIDIA GPU's, even Galaxy ones, are not bad at all.

[NannerBeans]

Haha nice... Well no, he says his friends 780 caught on fire... The 780 is one of the most reliable GPU's out there at this point. What brand is his friends GPU? Aftermarket or Reference cooler?

Sounds like the heatsink was seated incorrectly, or it was OC'd way too much. Or perhaps he got really unlucky and his particular unit was defective?

I'm more of a fan of AMD GPU's, and even I call BS on that NVIDIA GPU's, even Galaxy ones, are not bad at all.

Some of the HOF ones were able to ramp up insanely that the power delivery couldn't keep up and blew caps and set the pcb on fire.

[dalekphalm]

Some of the HOF ones were able to ramp up insanely that the power delivery couldn't keep up and blew caps and set the pcb on fire.

Define "some of the HOF ones". Are we talking 5? 10? 300? How many reported failures? What percentage compared to total number of them sold?

[Poohy14]

What...

 

Can you elaborate on that slightly?

 

One of the transistors blew up. The PC wasn't turning on so we disconnected everything, The PSU worked. hooked cables up to the mobo, pc turned on. Then we hooked the GPU back up PC didn't turn on then a transistor exploded (pretty sweet to see). Then we called Galaxy, they said they will fix it since it was a problem with some if the HOF 780 cards. The card was never OC'd at all, it was brand new from the box.

[dalekphalm]

One of the transistors blew up. The PC wasn't turning on so we disconnected everything, The PSU worked. hooked cables up to the mobo, pc turned on. Then we hooked the GPU back up PC didn't turn on then a transistor exploded (pretty sweet to see). Then we called Galaxy, they said they will fix it since it was a problem with some if the HOF 780 cards.

Interesting. I hope they fully covered all damage (if there was any) to components, and replaced the GPU under warranty!

 

Still, I wonder how widespread the issue was.

[NannerBeans]

Define "some of the HOF ones". Are we talking 5? 10? 300? How many reported failures? What percentage compared to total number of them sold?

Not quite sure the exact number but it was enough that they pulled them from the shelves according to this guy on Tom's.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2178361/sli-galaxy-78xnh5dv8pxv-geforce-gtx-780-hof-3gb-evga-superclocked-03g-2783.html

If you Google it you'll find some cases pretty easily. I think they fixed them already though.

[Poohy14]

Interesting. I hope they fully covered all damage (if there was any) to components, and replaced the GPU under warranty!

 

Still, I wonder how widespread the issue was.

 

Must have been a common thing since they said they have had a few of them back and Galaxy knew exactly which transistor it was. The thing that saved the PC was the EVGA PSU since the over voltage protection on the PSU tripped and turned everything off before anything really went bad. 

[Maslofski]

the slight transprarency it has makes it look cheap

[DevanArianne]

I'm still waiting on the AC HOF editions to hit shelves. I can't find the 970 anywhere, but you can buy the 980 directly from Galax it looks like. Makes me sad as I wanted to do a white theme build for my next PC

[DildorTheDecent]

I'm going to try and get the HOF 970. 

 

Ready the valley thread. 

[OlekKing]

[Octagoncow]

It looks pretty good. Maybe a little bit of black would have been good too though.