NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB

[Fluffmeister]

Custom card reviews are starting to pop up now, Guru3D have posted a review of the Gigabyte G1 SOC:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-980-ti-g1-gaming-soc-review,1.html

Gigabyte is the first to submit a custom 3rd party cooled GTX 980 Ti, and if this is the level that all Nvidia partners are going to offer then I will have a smile on my face throughout the summer. It is a tremendously nice product that ticks all the right boxes. Heaps of performance, plenty of memory and a freaky experience in tweaking and overclock is what I like. The perf is much faster then a GTX Titan X, yet pricing is much better at MSRP is $689.99 USD plus tax. Fluid framerates is what you'll play your games with. It does so while hardly making any noise and keeps itself at nice temperatures. Compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 2560x1440 you can expect an increase of up-to 30% performance (over the reference GeForce GTX 980 Ti), at Ultra HD we have seen that number grown the best.

 

[W1zzard]

Re the coil whine, if the review sample had it, doesnt mean all other 980tis will have it. And vice versa, if review sample did not have coil whine, doesnt mean other Ti's will be whine free.

That assumption is incorrect, many factors are at play for coil noise, like your system's PSU and random variation of components. Unless it's a cheaped out design that has really bad coil noise -> will have it in all situations (GTX 980 Ti is not like that).

 

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That assumption is incorrect, many factors are at play for coil noise, like your system's PSU and random variation of components. Unless it's a cheaped out design that has really bad coil noise -> will have it in all situations (GTX 980 Ti is not like that).

You may be right, but isnt coil whine mainly attributable to capacitors which vibrate at a high frequency which give out the 'whine'? Meaning that regardless or other factors like the PSU or other components coming into play which may 'trigger' the whine, are not the quality of capacitors used on the card (which may vary from one board partner to the next?) be the ultimate factor of whether the whine occurs or not?