Why hasn't anyone designed extreme cooling for graphics cards?

[FishTankX]

It seems we have vapochill and Prometia for CPUs but often times the key to enjoying a game is having a devilishly fast graphics card. It seems that in modern day graphics cards the biggest problem seems to be the engine clocks. In the directX 9 games that is. Why hasn't anyone 'Extreme cooled' a graphics card, seeing that they seem to be the largest limiter in modern day DirectX 9.0 games?

 

[kayaksurfer]

How extreme? I've got a Zalman heatpipe on mine, and I've seen water cooling kits that include the GPU...

 

[sharkeeper]

Look here.

Cheers!

 

[FishTankX]

By *extreme* cooling i'm talking about -30C on the graphics cards die.

 

[Viper GTS]

IIRC many of the cooling systems you've described do have condensors available for graphics cards...

Viper GTS

 

[FishTankX]

Really? Could you point me to some pages?

 

[Vegito]

if you're willing to sac a pci slot you can do a lot.. check into BTX, i think the slots are space according for better cooling..

 

[LordOfAll]

1 reason is that to truly get better graphics performance you need to bump the memory clock also and cooling all those memory chips on both sides of the pcb would be a trick.

 

[billandopus]

There're probably many factors involved that make it difficult from a cost-effectiveness POV to implement "extreme cooling".

I mean, you have to make it available to many mobo layouts with the pci so you don't alienate a large base of consumers. Niche products that only really appeal to hard core gamers/ethusiasts. It would be too expensive for this group of people to prop up and it would die off eventually.

Look at the ABIT OTES system. It's been held to high regard by many reviewers - but issues like taking up dual PCI slots due to it's size and the noise that it makes cause many to think twice. Because then you run into other issues like people wanting their pci slots or people wanting quiet systems and not willing to take on an OTES system.

So, then you pretty much leave the hardcore gamer who doesn't care about comp system noise and is willing to spend bigger bucks than normal for such a niche product. That doesn't leave many people to justify the expense and the very real probability of failure/non-acceptance.

Anyways, that's my thought on the issue.