- Sep 3, 2000
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Since it appears that with every iteration of GPU's requires less and less overall power consumption due to changes and updates in die size and overall thermal efficiency, I am curious if anyone has ever tried (read this as been brave enough) to run their more recent video cards (NVIDIA, Radeon, etc.) WITHOUT a fan and installed a fanless heatsink.
When I had a Guillemot Maxi Gamer a few years back, Tech Support REFUSED TO replace my video card until I attached a 486 heatsink to the chip on the video card and determined that the issue that I was having with lockups and blue screens was definitely related to the chip overheating - due to the fact that THEY did not include a heatsink on the Video Card. Well DUH, of course it was a thermal related problem. Also, the original TNT was quite a hot running chip, but it still only had a heatsink.
Anyhow, I look at these SUPPOSED thermal solutions on some of these modern GPU's and wonder how much of a difference those almost finless heatsinks make in overall cooling. The dissipation of air for cooling efficiency on what is basically a flat piece of metal appears to me to actaully be NOT very efficient.
Please note, I am not addressing overclocking - I am addressing how something is "designed" to work out of the packge.
When I had a Guillemot Maxi Gamer a few years back, Tech Support REFUSED TO replace my video card until I attached a 486 heatsink to the chip on the video card and determined that the issue that I was having with lockups and blue screens was definitely related to the chip overheating - due to the fact that THEY did not include a heatsink on the Video Card. Well DUH, of course it was a thermal related problem. Also, the original TNT was quite a hot running chip, but it still only had a heatsink.
Anyhow, I look at these SUPPOSED thermal solutions on some of these modern GPU's and wonder how much of a difference those almost finless heatsinks make in overall cooling. The dissipation of air for cooling efficiency on what is basically a flat piece of metal appears to me to actaully be NOT very efficient.
Please note, I am not addressing overclocking - I am addressing how something is "designed" to work out of the packge.
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