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When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:36 pm
by JohnC
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:46 pm
by metalhead
At first I thought just a triple slot cooler, no different than the arctic cooling or zalman offerings, albeit uglier. Then I saw the last pic....
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:51 pm
by JohnC
Yea, the last pics tells it all... Although the pic with the open box is also... "impressive" - a tiny
video card and the rest of the box filled with extra passive heatsinks and tubes with thermal paste/glue
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:57 pm
by metalhead
Lol actually I went back and read it, the tubes are actually paint to trick out your card lmao! I'm not making that up either!
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:02 pm
by JohnC
metalhead wrote:Lol actually I went back and read it, the tubes are actually paint to trick out your card lmao! I'm not making that up either!
Yea... That explains the different colors on the tubes... Even more
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:16 pm
by Madman
With such amount of pure metal, one would hope the coolers are running at 0 RPMs during the heavyweight gaming
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:38 pm
by TwistedKestrel
There's not even any contact with any of the memory packages!
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:23 pm
by Airmantharp
We've seen large triple-slot three fan coolers before, but the extra pipes, coolers and coloring are new to me.
Still, what will really make a card like this successful, or even worthwhile, is the quality of it's power delivery system combined with proper binning of the GPUs used.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:40 pm
by bthylafh
That's impressive.
I have to wonder if this is worthwhile compared to a nice liquid-cooling rig, aside from being simpler and leakproof.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:21 pm
by killadark
I wonder if the term "water cooling" crossed their mind when they were designing a mini car radiator
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:22 pm
by geekl33tgamer
I do like how they've left the SLI connectors on the card. Just what PC case are they planning on fitting that into, exactly...?
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:22 pm
by glacius555
Déjà vu.
I swear, I've seen the same being done to a chip, albeit high-end, one or two generations old.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:31 pm
by killadark
glacius555 wrote:Déjà vu.
I swear, I've seen the same being done to a chip, albeit high-end, one or two generations old.
now that you mention it even i think it was done maybe gtx 280?
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:47 pm
by destroy.all.monsters
Not sure why they didn't include the necessary (structural quality) I-beam to hold that thing up in your case.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:53 pm
by derFunkenstein
killadark wrote:glacius555 wrote:Déjà vu.
I swear, I've seen the same being done to a chip, albeit high-end, one or two generations old.
now that you mention it even i think it was done maybe gtx 280?
Well many of the aftermarket coolers are 3 slot coolers, but the extra heat sinks that hang off and around you'll see on Thermalright solutions. They have VRM heatsinks that hang around with heat pipes and fins for smaller fans to fit onto or just to get cooled by air flow in the case.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:28 pm
by ShadowEyez
It looks like a good idea, a logical extension of what other cooling designs have done in the past.
And I wonder how the performance and cooling would compare to water cooled designs or even other custom fan designs.
But taken holistically, it really shows that they are on the edge with air cooling these types of high end GPU's. The chips themselves are generating too much heat, no doubt to hit the performance targets in benchmarks/games, which are in turn programmed to need more and more gfx power. I mean, what's the long term prospect of a card like that - can someone put it in a moderately well cooled machine for 5 years+ without opening the machine every month to clean it out and have it still work, while using it frequently for heavy gaming?
And 3 slots - hope you never want to add any other expansion cards to your machine - cuz you really won't be able to with that card unless you have a 5 slot+ mother board, huge case, and want to add a small thin card. Which is what people with 5 slot+ mother boards and, huge cases want to add - 1 small card?
Still, it does look cool in a geeky kind of way.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:39 am
by killadark
derFunkenstein wrote:killadark wrote:glacius555 wrote:Déjà vu.
I swear, I've seen the same being done to a chip, albeit high-end, one or two generations old.
now that you mention it even i think it was done maybe gtx 280?
Well many of the aftermarket coolers are 3 slot coolers, but the extra heat sinks that hang off and around you'll see on Thermalright solutions. They have VRM heatsinks that hang around with heat pipes and fins for smaller fans to fit onto or just to get cooled by air flow in the case.
There You Go
http://www.colorful-europe.de/germany/p ... Ti-105-K01).pdf
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:59 am
by Arclight
TwistedKestrel wrote:There's not even any contact with any of the memory packages!
Yup, like you, i'm not impressed.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:34 am
by glacius555
Thank you, Killadark!
I knew it, how ironic, Colorful iGame GTX 560 Ti Kudan:
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:34 pm
by killadark
glacius555 wrote:Thank you, Killadark!
I knew it, how ironic, Colorful iGame GTX 560 Ti Kudan:
Thank You
It seems they just changed the cooler from 560 to 680 along with pcb modifications
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:15 pm
by JohnC
ShadowEyez wrote:Still, it does look cool in a geeky kind of way.
That's the only reason for all of these passive heatsinks and paint.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:53 am
by Bocava
This is just crazy. How am I gonna fit it in my case? no way!
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:20 am
by vargis14
Its also a Starship capable of warp 9.5 .I am waiting for smaller ships to fly out of it.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:58 pm
by cynan
If they're going to make something so ridiculously over the top, they could have at least made it a 4GB version. About the only redeeming thing here is the beefed up power delivery. Those appendage heat sinks are just dumb.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:05 pm
by flip-mode
vargis14 wrote:Its also a Starship capable of warp 9.5 .I am waiting for smaller ships to fly out of it.
I'm waiting for the warp 9.9 model.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:18 pm
by Captain Ned
flip-mode wrote:vargis14 wrote:Its also a Starship capable of warp 9.5 .I am waiting for smaller ships to fly out of it.
I'm waiting for the warp 9.9 model.
Why not go for Warp 10 and hot lizard booty with your captain?
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:41 pm
by vargis14
In the world of star trek warp 10 is impossible, But the lizard booty I am all for it as long as i don't get salmonella poisoning from the bimbo:)
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:45 pm
by Captain Ned
vargis14 wrote:In the world of star trek warp 10 is impossible, But the lizard booty I am all for it as long as i don't get salmonella poisoning from the bimbo:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_ ... Voyager%29
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:38 pm
by DeadOfKnight
Meh, I'm still waiting to see a GTX 690 with a passive twin tower cooler.
I won't be happy until the PCIe slot breaks off of the motherboard.
Re: When air cooling goes from "extreme" to "ridiculous"...
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:23 am
by vargis14
I knew it ned!!! i watched that whole series over he last month. I knew someone was going to pull that one out.
Not very healthy
I liked that series almost as much as TNG but Janeway over acted like a mofo!
YUmmie of Nine
The last Episodes shields and transphotonic torpedoes.
Tim e to watch the whole deep space nine series now in order
its the only thing left.