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Got sick of waiting, did a full RMA. Got it back Saturday and tried it. And... same issues. PCB still flexing, requiring messing with torque on the screws to get decent temps. Virtually no difference. I also can't even get the temps I got before. I'm getting 80C+ in BF4 now, when I was getting in the 60s-70s. I've messed with this thing for months, spent hours of my life trouble shooting... this is the only product for me where Corsair has utterly failed to deliver. I can't even return this thing as I got it from Amazon, and I'm stuck with a H55 I don't have a use for. I'm sure I'll find a CPU to put it on eventually, but still.

So when will the new standoffs be available to people who already bought the bracket? Customer Support told me today that they're still not available.

Valley is one of the hardest stress tests I've run. Try another stress test?

What is your definition of full load?

Support just told me the updated standoffs aren't available yet. :( You can swap your corsair fan with the nvidia blower fan. It'll fix the problem.

They're off the shelves until the fix is implemented in 2 weeks. You don't want one until then. Also, I'm pretty sure the strix 980ti uses a custom pcb, which means it likely won't work.

So it has been over a month and CES is over. When can we get that fix? I'd love to see 45C on load in Unigine Valley.

I've noticed this too. My 980ti definitely gets taxed on BF4 at 1440p Ultra with a 144hz monitor, stabilizing around 75C at 1350mhz or so. On Fallout4, it barely breaks a sweat probably around 45C. That being said, I can tell that I need the new standoffs because I'm not getting good heat pad contact with the VRAM and other chips.

Here's a pictute of the nvidia blower in the hg10n980: http://i.imgur.com/FDcQPws.jpg Your temps never break 45C and you only have a SP120 at 800rpm? What sorcery is this? What are you doing to push your gpu? Is it overclocked? What is your ambient temp?

Yeah... I remounted it and when gaming my temps immediately shot up to 83C. I guess re-using thermal paste didn't quite work for me :D I got some AS5 from Fry's just now and I was around 74C sustained playing BF4 on ultra at 2560x1440 and getting between 90 and 130 FPS. It was also quiet.

You have to take the entire cooler off.

Well I was about to just completely remove the blower fan and just stick a SP120 Quiet below it to blow on the metal "heat sink" frame, but I took a look at my stock fan and it looked about right for mounting holes, so I tried it. The stock blower fan is slightly smaller in diameter than the Corsair one, but the mounting screws are in the same location. It fits with a slight gap around the edges (so it won't be as efficient as the Corsair blower fan). But it DOES fit. And it's much much quieter. With my 2 gentle typhoons at 1150 rpm or so (70% speed), the computer is completely silent and at roughly 34C for both the CPU (5820k) and GPU (980ti) at idle. The stock nvidia blower fan also has rubber padding on the bottom to prevent vibration, unlike the Corsair one. This is a night and day difference, I'm so happy about the mod, definitely worth the hour or so it took to take everything apart. Now all I need is the new standoffs and I'll be set... are those available yet?

I know zero about electronics. Is there a way to do this without wiring it to an existing fan?

Just benchmarks

75C is well within normal temps for the gpu itself and i cant hear the gentle typhoon 1450, which was my goal. Unfortunately, I CAN hear the hg10 fan, which is by far the loudest component of my system both at load and idle.