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For the test platform, we went with the Intel 8700K on the Asus Maximus X Formula with Corsair Vengeance running at 3200MHz CL 15. We are running a Thermaltake Triple Radiator cooling solution on the CPU to make sure we don’t get any throttling on the CPU. The operating system is Windows 10 Pro X64 with updates disabled. We make three runs at each test, then average those three runs and report the results here. If we hit a run that we consider being far away from the norm we dismiss that result and run a 4th test. The 8700K has been delidded and liquid metal applied to be sure we get as low of temps as possible to ensure we do not have any thermal throttling issues.
| Test Rig |
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| Case Type | Dimastech Easy XL |
| CPU | Intel Core i7 8700K (Amazon) |
| Motherboard | ASUS Maximus X Formula (Amazon) |
| RAM | 32GB (4x8GB) Corsair Vengeance LED 3200MHz C15 (Amazon) |
| CPU Cooler | Thermaltake Floe Riing 360 (Amazon) |
| Hard Drives | Samsung 960 EVO 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe (Amazon)
Samsung 860 EVO 4TB SATA (Amazon) |
| Optical | LG BD-RW BH16NS40 |
| GPU | Radeon RX 5700 XT
Radeon RX 5700 Nvidia TITAN RTX Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Nvidia TITAN V Nvidia TITAN Xp Collectors Edition (Galactic Empire) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Sounders Edition Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB |
| Monitor | ASUS PG27AQ 4K 60Hz GSYNC (Amazon) |
| Case Fans | 1 x 140mm Mosfet / CPU / RAM cooling fan 1 x 140mm PCI-E Cooling Fan |
| Docking Stations | None |
| Testing PSU | Thermaltake XT 1475W Gold (Amazon) |
| Legacy | None |
| Mouse | Logitech G502 (Amazon) |
| Keyboard | Logitech Pro eSPORTS Keyboard (Amazon) |
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Hot and loud and performance is ok but not great.
It was truly not very hot or loud in my experience. I have seen some who have reported that issue but my card under gaming loading never got anywhere above expected GPU temps. I do wish it had more headroom, but we will find out as WATTMAN was still pretty sketchy when we got a last-minute driver to test it.