Installed an MSI GamingX 1080 yesterday, so I thought I'd give some impressions here: Performance is satisfying, currently running a curved undervolt for 2000mhz at 1V, although Afterburner seems to weirdly shift the curve around depending on temperature for some reason, which is quite annoying. Hop...

Asus Strix Techpowerup:

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASU ... IX/23.html

Waiting for an actual acoustic review, but the Palit/Gainward one seems nice from this review (german): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0lj0nmKHYw . According to the reivewer, the quietest 1080 they've tested so far and I'm liking the Fan%/RPM. Looks like it may be similar to the good acoustic perf...

Thank you very much for your advice. I think I'll get the other parts I definitely need/want, and tinker around with it a while once I have the space to work on it again. Afterwards if I'm still unhappy I'll come back and ask again.

Thank you for the warm welcome! I'm fine with the PSU swap not changing anything about the noise levels, I just think I'd feel better. Thank you for the SpeedFan guide link, that's a fantasic tutorial and I'll try to apply it once im on my PC. Howeve, for this post I guess I was interested in someth...

Hello, sorry for the long title but I wanted it to be descriptive ^^. Here is the story: A few months ago I got a tinnitus that sounds like a malfunctioning PSU. That, combined with some issues with what I assume to be hard drive isolation for specific slots on the R4 which lead to occasional rattli...