well, Zotac coolers are never known as darn good ones anyway

but my point still stands, the PCB may not fit. ASUS custom design their PCBs alot (or maybe mostly on the high end stuff only)

Akright, thanks for the input. Might try to see if it fits once I get my hand on a thermal paste.

try arctic mx-4

Thanks for the suggestion. I have used it before and it really drop the temps of my CPU and GPU Will be hunting for it again.

Below is my test

card + setting	load temp on Furmark BIT
Palit GeForce GTX 960 Super JetStream (auto)	72
Palit GeForce GTX 960 Super JetStream (manual – full)	61

1. burn in card makes the card run warmer than usual.
2. the above is using a higher clocked card with custom cooler
3. above temps are taken with room temps around 25c.

From my experience the GTX 960 even on reference cooler shouldn't be reaching 80c on games unless
1. fan set to auto (not always the best setting)
2. casing airflow is not good
3. room is really really warm, as in above 30c.

Reference cards often run at lower clocks too, much lower than the one as on the Palit JetStream.

I'm currently running the card on folding@home with room temperature, fan duty at 42%. temperature holding at low 70s.

and what was your ASUS HD7850 was using? DirectCU II Top?

My room temperature without aircond hovers around 30-34C
It really sucks not to have any airconds.

wow your room is HOT! which state u live.. wanna make sure i never move near yours.. i recco you get air cond.. i heard May, Malaysia will be getting heat wave or some sorts heat blast..

Nope mine is the normal version . I agree with you that the gpu should not reach 80 degrees since this is a very power efficient card.

the above, i missed out one minor detail - room temperature for the above is estimated 28 - 30c now. air cond not in use.

that is still the DCU II cooler, TOP usually means higher factory overclock

You are correct. I seemed to forget that the difference was only the clock speed and also the price

wow that temperature , does your room have windows? if got you should definitely put heavy curtains to block the sunlight. But yeah the recent heat haze doesn't help things either..

Just bought GTX 680 for mere RM550, gotta say this old soldier still strong. Its much better value to buy these old flagship cards rather than buying new GTX 960 because it costs more (even reference one costs RM200 more let alone those custom cards that costs twice as much). People might argue about power consumption but GTX 680 isnt a power guzzler to begin with.

Casing, air cooling. Try ft02. You will nvr look back.

Previously with my pushpull thermalright venomous black with two noiseblockers beat all aio coolers n having a reference blower gpu doesnt affect case temps.

That's cheap for a second hand GTX680.

Anyway,tomorrow is the announcement..on the "future of gaming" from NVidia.Kinda curious what's it gonna be about.

I usually wait for fireworks code can knock off more

i would say mostly attributed by the Silverstone AP fans

those are damn good stuff, rocking 3 120mms atm

Three 180 ap, vertical heat rises, segmented cooling. But it works best on reference blower gpu.

I can tell ya the difference in air n custom water for cpu not much difference. N you can tune the ramp up speeds etc. My air setup last time was quieter than my panasonic yuragi ceiling fans until the gpu hits 80c.

Wc makes a big difference only on gpu.

It is cheap, cant find a better offer than that. The card looks brand new too.

Most probably just announced 960Ti to screw up 960 buyer