What GPU cooling method do you currently use? (With poll)

[exar333]

As there are so many options, and opinions about the best cooling option, I thought it might be interesting to poll the AT crowd on what they are currently using:

 

[MiRai]

I tend to like the blower-style coolers since:

1) My motherboard is rotated 90°
2) I am currently using 3-way SLI

I guess my only other choice is water with this type of setup, but that can be pricey.

 

[exar333]

I tend to like the blower-style coolers since:

1) My motherboard is rotated 90°
2) I am currently using 3-way SLI

I guess my only other choice is water with this type of setup, but that can be pricey.

:thumbsup:

IIRC, RS posted something around this a while ago. I would love to see an apples to apples compare between blowers and triple fans in the same SLI/CF setup, in the same case. Case airflow probably makes a big difference here too...

What kind of case/fan setup are you using?

 

[Gryz]

Best cooling is subjective.

Example: I want my machine as quiet as possible. That means I use water-cooling. That gives me the option to cool the water itself exactly how/where I want to. The result is a very quiet machine. Any other reasoning about cooling is much less important to me.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Blower type due to MiniITX.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Dual fan in two systems and blower in a 3rd one

 

[NTMBK]

Other- neither blower style nor dual fan.

(Wish that single fan was a little larger though, it can get a little noisy.)

 

[DooKey]

Blower style in my Raven case. Motherboard is rotated 90 degrees and air cooling works very well.

 

[exar333]

Other- neither blower style nor dual fan.

(Wish that single fan was a little larger though, it can get a little noisy.)

That's an interesting cooler!

 

[Pandora's Box]

AIO on a Titan X

 

[NTMBK]

That's an interesting cooler!

It's just a low end one like this one from a 750ti, but with some added shrouding for aesthetics:

It's only a HD 7770, so they didn't put much effort into the cooling It's just a single fan and heatsink, dumping heat direct into the case.

 

[exar333]

Best cooling is subjective.

Example: I want my machine as quiet as possible. That means I use water-cooling. That gives me the option to cool the water itself exactly how/where I want to. The result is a very quiet machine. Any other reasoning about cooling is much less important to me.

Thats kind of why I just asked for what everyone was currently using, rather than their preferred method.

I see dual/triple fan cards recommended a lot, and based on the sample, those appear to be the most common.

 

[biostud]

1.5 on each GPU

 

[Azix]

Cooling my GPU with hyper evo 212 right now.

 

[MiRai]

:thumbsup:

IIRC, RS posted something around this a while ago. I would love to see an apples to apples compare between blowers and triple fans in the same SLI/CF setup, in the same case. Case airflow probably makes a big difference here too...

What kind of case/fan setup are you using?

I currently use a Silverstone Fortress (SST-FT02B-W), and will be sticking with the 90°/vertical mount for my next build as well.

 

[Charlie98]

Single or dual fans, plus I add a backplate if they are available.

 

[MongGrel]

Dual fan, still using a ASUS R9 280X DCII TOP on the main, have a few blower types on others.

 

[.vodka]

Other- neither blower style nor dual fan.

(Wish that single fan was a little larger though, it can get a little noisy.)

If that's your card, remove the shroud. It's there for aesthetics only. You'll find the fan noise to be lower pitched after removing that.

 

[bystander36]

:thumbsup:

IIRC, RS posted something around this a while ago. I would love to see an apples to apples compare between blowers and triple fans in the same SLI/CF setup, in the same case. Case airflow probably makes a big difference here too...

What kind of case/fan setup are you using?

I had a mixed setup at one point, also using a 90 degree turned case. 1 blower, and one dual fan setup (twin frzr). I left 1 slot of space between them, and I found the blower style performed a lot better than the twin fan setup on the one with limited air flow. I am using the Silverstone Hawk 2 RV02B-W Case, which has as good of air flow as possible. The twin fan setup just does not like limited air flow.

 

[EXCellR8]

blower style, for CFX... but since I don't CF anymore I may start using different types of coolers. i'd love to liquid cool my cards, but i buy new ones too frequently and don't overclock...

 

[Makaveli]

AIO and don't think I ever want to go back to air.

 

[guskline]

EK full water blocks:thumbsup:

 

[ehume]

Integrated graphics on the Haswell -- zero cooling apart from the CPU heatsink.

 

[thilanliyan]

I always do core only and either custom make or buy separate heatsinks for the VRMs and VRAM.

 

[IEC]

R290X on a NZXT G10 bracket with Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro AIO

I don't even hit 55C load @ 900 RPM fan speed. It's pretty awesome.