Evga GTX 980 Ti vs Evga GTX ACX 2.0

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I was wondering if any of you guys could let me know your experience with reference cards with the blower design compared to the aftermarket GPU's. I know that the reference card makes the GPU suffer a little bit more, but isolates its high temperatures from the rest of the system with the rear exhaust. On the other hand, the aftermarket one keeps the GPU cooler and allows you to push it more when overclocking, but increases the temperature of all of the other components.

I will be overclocking the GPU in the future, so I wanted to know what experience did you guys have and your opinion on which one is better overall before doing any purchases. Another thing, which card makes less sound?



 
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Enthoo pro is a great case, go aftermarket for the added benefits such as custom PCBs, better cooling, better overclocking, etc.
I do however, recommend you look into MSI cards, EVGA didnt bring anything special to the table with maxwell, but MSI has really stepped up.
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Unless you are in a compact case with low airflow, the reference card is not worth while.
Any case with moderate airflow can handle the exhaust into the case without issue, the ref cooler is good when in compact cases/sli configurations, where the heat has nowhere to go.
 
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What case do you have, if you have decent airflow you don't have to worry about an open cooler design making your other parts hot. The aftermaket gpu's are much better for the majority of builds, and its not just cooling you should consider a lot of the aftermarket cards have non reference upgraded pcb's, capacitors, chokes, more phases etc. I usually prefer msi for nvidia cards, evga has been not going as far as they used to with their aftermarket cards, they just slap a cooler on it and call it a day i believe the new evga 980 ti's with the ACX 2.0 cooler use the reference nvidia pcb but im not entirely sure on that.
 
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Well I'm planning on using the phanteks enthoo pro
 
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Phanteks Enthoo Pro, so I have pretty decent airflow with a ton of fans so they can go at very low rpms and stay quiet without compromising my airflow.
 
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Enthoo pro is a great case, go aftermarket for the added benefits such as custom PCBs, better cooling, better overclocking, etc.
I do however, recommend you look into MSI cards, EVGA didnt bring anything special to the table with maxwell, but MSI has really stepped up.
 
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MSI, Zotac, Asus. They told they were pretty go aftermarket ones, any others?
 
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