Cooling, Noise, and Power

The reference GTX 750 Ti came in to our Cooling, Noise, and Power testing and really impressed me with its performance so I had high hopes when testing the GTX 750 Ti Strix. What makes a Strix card special is because they actually focused on low noise output, the biggest thing they did to support this was designing the card to run cool enough at low power usage that the fans actually can turn off. This explains the results I saw when I did the first test, power usage. At idle the GTX 750 Ti Strix pulled less power than any other card on our charts. This includes the original GTX 750 Ti, beating it by 5 watts. This helped I’m sure by the fans turning off. Under load it was the second lowest card tested, 8 watts lower than the reference design. This is especially interesting because the Strix actually has a fairly nice overclock and was noticeably faster than the reference card in my testing.

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Moving on to the noise testing, I ran the GTX 750 Ti Strix through the same test three times, once at idle, the next at 50% fan speed, and the third with the fans turned all the way up to 100%. This way I can get a good idea of noise levels through any use. The most noticeable thing is obviously the lack of an idle result. As I mentioned before, at low power usage the fans actually turn off and this includes at idle. When testing with the fans manually turned on I was still just as impressed. The Strix doesn’t best the reference design, but the reference design only had a single fan where the Strix does have two fans. It still came in second with impressive numbers.

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In my last test I run Heaven Benchmark 4.0 on loop until I get a stable temperature and document it. The GTX 750 Ti Strix was down near the bottom of the charts with an impressive 57 degrees. I should also note that while the fans were on during this testing, they were running at less than 50% fan speed at most making this a very quiet run as well.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #35733 06 Oct 2014 14:25
Now that the main Maxwell launch is out of the way I spend a little time with a more budget friendly Maxwell card, the GTX 750 Ti Strix from Asus.

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