i think its time to step up to a 980ti and have a look at how this thing works .. is it better? ... and im not asking about the hashrate 
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Looking at the BIOS of that card it has an absolute maximum of 366W power consumption limit if I'm reading it correctly which aligns perfectly with a techpowerup review.
Of course that's with some crazy synthetic test like FurMark and the usual peak consumption is about 300W. But even that is a lot.
I think these bigger cards are all about scaling; they get somewhat inefficient hash per watt at full speed but get pretty great if you decrease the power target like I found with the 970 a while back (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1091755.msg11636995#msg11636995).
With downvolting it could be much more significant but I haven't tried it. So on one hand low profit margins warrants efficiency with lower power target but then the initial card price is too much but from another point of view if the profit margins were to increase in the future pushing the cards to hash as fast as they can would be more profitable. Also, different prices; in my case with the prices I'm presented with it doesn't worth it for me to go for anything above 970s.
Yup you can gain efficiency by lowering the TDP slider. However you lose hashrate and clockspeed doing it to the point where it's not even worth buying the bigger cards anymore. Running a 970 at 960 speeds is kinda pointless.
I wouldn't use wood near any electronic equipment, unless the insurance agent is a friend of yours ;-)
(In event of fire, regardless how much care you took, the insurance will not pay if they know you used wood)
(In event of fire, regardless how much care you took, the insurance will not pay if they know you used wood)
To each his own I guess but I'm absolutely confident the wood wouldn't make any difference that aluminum would in case of major failure.
Yeah I use wood too. Wood has a pretty high point of catching fire. It's a great insulator against electricity and heat up till that point.
unless your cards throw out sparks ( like 7 of the gigabyte 7970 oc cards did ) when they decided to go faulty when i first started out ...
turns out they had a leak in the cooling fluid in the heat pipes and it was dripping onto the board - which shorted a few components and sparks started flying evrywhere - eventually killing the board ...
7 of them in a single batch with the same problem ...
wood maybe a good heat insulator - and bad conductor of eletricity - but there is no protection to raw sparks ...
wood? ... no tanx ...
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