EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC with ACX Cooling Review

Name: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC with ACX Cooling
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, July 19, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT

Before bringing this article to a close, we'd like to cover a few final data points--namely, power consumption, temperatures, and noise. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored acoustics and tracked how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each configuration used while idling and also while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not just the power being drawn by the graphics cards alone.

Total System Power Consumption

Tested at the Outlet

As you'd expect, considering the card has dual fans and is clocked higher than reference models, the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC w/ ACX had somewhat higher power consumption than the reference GeForce GTX 770. But we're only talking a few watts here.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC w/ ACX's temperatures, however, were clearly better than the reference card. In fact, the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC w/ ACX never even approached its GPU Boost 2.0 temperature target under normal conditions.

We should also point out that the ACX cooler is very quiet. Even when running under load, over extended periods, the fans never spun up to a point we'd consider noisy. In fact, the card wasn't really audible over the CPU and PSU fans in our test system.

Tags: GeForce, Gaming, graphics, GPU, evga, ACX, GTX 770

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com