Jacked-Up: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC with ACX Cooling

Name: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC with ACX Cooling
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, May 28, 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

Despite its higher clocks and the inclusion of an additional cooling fan, the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC with ACX cooling consumed only slightly more power than the stock GeForce GTX 780.

This temperature chart is basically pointless because the GTX 780 with GPU Boost 2.0 will ramp up to its target temperature and stay there under load, but the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC with ACX cooling did offer a nice and low idle temperature.

More importantly, the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC with ACX cooling is extremely quiet. At no point did the cooler on this card ramp up to speeds that we'd consider remotely noisy. EVGA's ACX cooler is excellent in terms of its acoustic properties.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, Gaming, graphics, evga, GTX 780, ACX

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