Well, I recently upgraded my ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card to an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition model, and while that is a solid GPU upgrade for sure, it is a ...

I tested a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition provided by NVIDIA. ... that's 85% higher than the GTX 980 Ti, ... and the single fan in the blower-style cooler is loud.

It features the same vapor chamber cooler and blower fan as the GTX 980 reference edition cards, as well as a slick backplate (at least on the GTX 1080 Founders Edition). That’s a sexy cooler ...

When doing that, the Founders Edition cooler is a noisy beast, running at 80 dB. The Accelero Xtreme IV keeps things relatively quiet even at full bore, at around 49 dB, according to my measurements.