I remember that about 7-8 years ago the blowers were lawnmowers and weren't all that effective. Now my girlfriend is turning 21 and I wanna buy her a new GPU for her birthday as she has a 4770k with a GTX 9500 (She mostly uses my computer until she gets a new one to game on). Now I wanna buy an EVGA one because of the amazing things I have heard about there warranty. But the only 4GB EVGA available is the 770 GTX 4gb Classified with a blower. So I wanna know, is this blower any good? And how noisy is it? Should I give up the 4gb and go for 2gb with an ACX cooler? (She loves Skyrim with epicly high textures and stuff[modded], and my current 1 GB 7870 isn't good enough to run the high textures she loves so much ^^)
If its anything like my old gtx470, then yes, Its loud as hell.
It's better than the reference cooler, so yes it's good.
There're also the ASUS DirectCUII cooler and MSI TwinFrozr.
The thing is there is no 4gb Asus in my country, and I don't know MSI at all, never purchased anything from them. Last time I tried that Gigabyte kind of screwed me over. While I know that EVGA support/warranty is amazing. So my question is, should I go for a non-blower with 2 gb or blower with 4gb?
There's no need for 4GB of VRAM unless you're going to run a multi-monitor/surround setup with a single card.
Texture rendering on 4K resolution barely hits the 3GB VRAM mark.
i have the 680 classified which is almost the same card, and at full speed its loud but i barely notice it under normal loads and gaming
I have a friend with that exact card. Actually it's a 680, but yeah, that exact card.
It gets pretty loud, and the temps max out around 85C (in games, not benchmarks). Not an ideal cooling situation.
my 680 classified has never been close to 85c in games, and isnt that loud if you dont turn the fan down and set it to ramp slowly,
The 4gb one has the titan cooler on it.It is quieter and cooler than the older generation nvidia reference coolers.
That being said its still a blower cooler,it will be louder than a dual fan cooler at high speed.
The quietest 770 is the msi tf gaming followed by the asus dc2.
My EVGA 680 FTW+ blower fan is surprisingly quiet below 50%. Then, it starts to sound (almost immediately) like a jet engine nearing explosion. Cools rather well, though.