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EVGA card design fail

Joseph F said:
The thing is, I really wouldn't want the heat from two GTX 560ti's being dumped into my case.
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Yeah, it all depends on your build. You can easily have a panel case with a large fan high CFM/Low RPMs that can easily suck all that heat out.

After living with a blower fan - I'm steering away from those designs. Their airflow is great and they don't drop much heat into my case, but boy can they get loud.

My new case has a 200mm^2 panel fan. That should do fine in helping moving hot air out of the case 😀
 
And here I thought that the OP was going to comment on some of the reviews on the GTX460 "2Win" card, where the fan blades shear off, after some time, when the fan bearings get looser, and touch the shroud.
 
VirtualLarry said:
And here I thought that the OP was going to comment on some of the reviews on the GTX460 "2Win" card, where the fan blades shear off, after some time, when the fan bearings get looser, and touch the shroud.
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LOL really? I think the plastic frame design looks bad enough and slightly impedes airflow for no purpose, but that really tops it. Maybe the shroud is meant to be a cage for the fans so they don't go shredding up other components. I remember having the fan on a 3 year old 9800pro come clean off the HS 😱

What is with the random color stripes and eVGA anyways? I helped a friend build a system a few months ago that was all black, white, and gold except for 1 green stripe on each of his eVGA 560Ti's.

I would really like to see a vendor produce a video card kit with 2 single GPU cards encased in a custom shroud cooled by a single 120mm intake fan. It could be a 4 slot card if they flipped the bottom PCB and had a massive heatsink between the cards. It would exaust out the back. Might just be able to do WC for what the vendor would probably charge lol.
 
I like the designs that dump the heat into the case. However, it requires that you have airflow around the GPU area. The result is usually a quieter setup that can outperform blower setups.

Most new cases have a spot to put a fan over the VGA cards for this purpose.
 
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It's an open-air cooler, the exhaust slot is near worthless anyway. They cool the GPU better but as others noted it also doesn't exhaust the hot air it produces. Not a problem if you have an open air case.
 
superjim said:
It's an open-air cooler, the exhaust slot is near worthless anyway. They cool the GPU better but as others noted it also doesn't exhaust the hot air it produces. Not a problem if you have an open air case.
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Proper fans are better than blowers IMO. I'd take that cooling system in a heartbeat over stock.
 
Does the open fan design make more sense for single gpu cards? I think theres a limit to what blower designs can do for such hot dual-gpu cards.
 
TakeNoPrisoners said:
I like the designs that dump the heat into the case. However, it requires that you have airflow around the GPU area. The result is usually a quieter setup that can outperform blower setups.

Most new cases have a spot to put a fan over the VGA cards for this purpose.
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CrossFire/SLI is the enemy of non-external exhausting GPUs, though. I wouldn't want the card just below to have all that heat dumped into it.
 
LOL_Wut_Axel said:
CrossFire/SLI is the enemy of non-external exhausting GPUs, though. I wouldn't want the card just below to have all that heat dumped into it.
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3-slot spacing and more cooling fans can help with that.

A properly designed system can take care of the hot air from a crossfire setup just fine.
 
I like that design, alot. I would much rather have to deal with the heat with 200mm or 120mm case fans that i can keep slow/quit over those awful jet engine loud blower type fans that seem popular on GPU lately. And i run SLI.
 
TakeNoPrisoners said:
3-slot spacing and more cooling fans can help with that.

A properly designed system can take care of the hot air from a crossfire setup just fine.
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Yep. The spacing on the motherboard PCI-E slots is one of the most important factors for me. Now with water cooling it doesn't matter to me anymore though.
 
LOL_Wut_Axel said:
CrossFire/SLI is the enemy of non-external exhausting GPUs, though. I wouldn't want the card just below to have all that heat dumped into it.
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Erm, it'd be the card ABOVE that'd suffer, right? Besides - larger spacing + having a door fan venting or similar should cover this issue, right?
 
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