Power, Temperature and Noise
600W seems like PSU overkill as we run the Eagle OC with a Ryzen 9 3950X, 32GB of memory, all wrapped inside a full chassis.
More good news as the twin-fan cooler keeps second-rung GA104 below 70°C.
What's going on here, then? Logs reveal that by default the card's fans spin at 2,000rpm to achieve that sub-70°C temperature. Compare this with 1,000-1,300rpm we see on most leading coolers. Nvidia's FE board, for comparison, also uses two fans that never exceed 1,300rpm.
The upshot is a noisy card that doesn't need to be that way. Manually tweaking the fan profile to 1,300rpm increases temperature to 74°C, which is a positive trade-off in our opinion. Eagle OC needs a new BIOS that doesn't prioritise cooling at the direct expensive of clear and obvious noise.
