Verifizierter Kauf
Building a new pc I decided to go full silent and this was the card to get! It performs great with all current games in full hd and under load you can't hear the fans or just barely if the case is open and standing near you. I'm a silent freak and this card blew my mind.
Under the full load fans spun around 1000rpm and temperatures were in the 60s zone, sometimes touching the low 70 (I don't have any case exhaust fans). If you're not into silence but performance, cranking the fans up will make the card quite loud but the temperatures dropped to 40 something, incredible what a massive heat sink can do! Just for the reference, the WD Red 3GB NAS (the most praised "silent" HDD) is more loud when just idle spinning then the graphic card.
What also blew my mind the card overclocks like crazy. It runs flawlessly Valley benchmark with +210 on the core and +950 on the memory. A few games were more sensitive and didn't like such high clocks but +180 and +900 worked fine for them. Didn't even go into fine tuning, just dropped both frequencies a bit, it works - done. The memory could probably stay at 950 but I like stability more. The card in this state combined with i7 7700k gets over 5000 score in Time Spy. Absolutely incredible.
With all this brilliance there is a negative part, the coil whine. In some games/tests more, in some less but it's noticeable and after trying a different PSU, and even a different pc it was still there. High or low clocks had only minimal effect. I had to put my mITX case from the table to the floor to minimize the noise. It's ok now, but I was hoping to avoid that. Hopefully others don't have this problem or simply don't care about it. Comes to a personal preference.
The other bad thing is the card is quite big. That massive heat sink takes space so it might not fit in all cases, especially mITX. On the more positive side I managed to fit it in my Thermaltake Core V1 so miracles do happen!
All in all I'm really satisfied with the card, it's worth every single euro, especially over the competition, but I removed 1 star because of the annoying coil whine. Without it I would give it 6 stars.
Pros:
SILENT, amazing overclocks (+180, +900!!), low temperatures and great performance
Cons:
Big, can't fit in all cases, noticeable coil whine with my specimen