Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 ROCK 8G comes with older WF3 cooler

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Hilbert Hagedoorn, Dec 20, 2016
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  2. cryohellinc

    cryohellinc Ancient Guru

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    Had such cooler on my 980's. ROCK i guess because its Rock Solid card, and PCB is a bit longer.
     
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    zettajhony Active Member

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    whether 'ROCK' it means that the GPU than use "older WF3 cooler" can be interpreted as strong as stone or resilient so .., hopefully it seems ..:)
     
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  4. mahanddeem

    mahanddeem Master Guru

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    Excellent shroud and fans. Had them on my 980G1 and miss them for my 1080 xtreme with its garbage cooler plastic quality!
     
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  5. Cyberdyne

    Cyberdyne Ancient Guru

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    I personally will never buy from Gigabyte again specifically because of that exact cooler.
    I had one on my GTX 470, every fan died within a year. Strapping a 120mm case fan was more effective then all of those fans in working order. That 470 was also the worst coil whine ever. Oh, and it overclocked like crap.
     
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  6. Neo Cyrus

    Neo Cyrus Ancient Guru

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    You're forgetting that compared to others, which cool just as well, it's loud as a jet at equivalent cooling. All all bark, no bite.

    And I'm still furious that they pulled a fast one and switched out the A grade Samsung RAM that all review samples had for reject C grade Hynix RAM with little OC room.
     
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