Galaxy Designs Non-reference GTX 480 with Vapor-Chamber Cooling

[PraxxtorCruel]

Galaxy displayed a new GeForce GTX 480 graphics card that uses non-reference design PCB and cooling. The unique selling point here is a cooler that Galaxy claims to be superior than the reference, making use of the Vapor-chamber technology for quickly transferring heat off the GPU to the heatsink. It also features a very Gundam-styled cooler shroud the company has been toying with on several of its recent designs. The GeForce GTX 480 packs 480 CUDA cores, and 1536 MB of memory across a 384-bit GDDR5 interface. Clock speeds are not known at this point.

 

[JeffyB]

Change the colour and thats pretty much a 5870 cooler

 

[RavenXXX2]

Whoever designs their cooler shrouds needs the boot ASAP>

 

[Greebo]

Can somebody please tell Galaxy their "Airfix" coolers look pants.

I keep looking at it and want to break the bits off to the left of the fan.....

 

[OrphanBoy]

Can somebody please tell Galaxy their "Airfix" coolers look pants.

Well that gives you the option of painting it yourself, and sticking some transfers on it!

 

[Greebo]

Well that gives you the option of painting it yourself, and sticking some transfers on it!

Yeah I look forward to the special "Spitfire" edition.

 

[OrphanBoy]

It would be AMAZING if they added a transparent 'glass' section near the exhaust and stuck a little man in it, holding on to a yoke

 

[Orcvader]

Change the colour and thats pretty much a 5870 cooler

I was thinking the exact same thing!

 

[3t3P]

argh its gonna look out of place in 95% of peoples rigs!

 

[Bubo]

Looks a bit like an old C90 casette gone wrong.

 

[bobert50]

The colour

 

[radar19]

I like it

 

[Ryan-3]

I really like it Not sure why I seem to be alone with radar19!

+ i have no windows in my case, so its invisible!

 

[ubersonic]

Whoever designs their cooler shrouds needs the boot ASAP>

Can somebody please tell Galaxy their "Airfix" coolers look pants.

I keep looking at it and want to break the bits off to the left of the fan.....

Would you guys prefer it if it just looked totally generic? I like it, it looks like they've made it out of surplus star wars toys

 

[3t3P]

Well to really pull this off they'd need just so much more detail plus or minus custom hand paint to make it look repectable, this just looks odd and cheap IMO

 

[Monkeynut]

Getting really impressed with all these designs Galaxy keep churning out. It's like their R&D team are on Speed.