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Colorful Unveils Fanless 680!

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http://www.techpowerup.com/167975/Colorful-Unveils-Fanless-GeForce-GTX-680-Graphics-Card.html

'Now see this: a fanless, passive-cooled GeForce GTX 680! Chinese graphics card designer Colorful unveiled the world's first passive-cooled GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, the iGame GTX 680 passive. The card uses a pair of detachable, dense aluminum fin heatsinks, which draw heat from the 3.5 billion transistor GPU using seven heat pipes, and dissipate it using two aluminum fin stacks on either sides of the PCB. The two stacks are joined by six 8 mm-thick heat pipes.

The cooler cumulatively has 20 heat pipes, a surface area of 200 square meters across 280 aluminum fins. The second module is optional, and is only recommended if the operating environment is warm, or if the end user is overclocking. The card is said to use a complex VRM design that draws power from two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, though we suspect the idea behind that to be heat spreading. The design guarantees reliable silent operation at reference clock speeds or mild overclocking. Display outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. Colorful is still assessing the marketability of the design. Watch this space for more.'

Colorful has just became my favoroite AIB!:D

I seriously want one of these bad boys, power with silence, gaming doesn't get any better than that!
 
It's as if a billion motherboards all cried out at once and were suddenly silenced...
 
I don't quite understand the covers, surely you want the heat to get out not trap it in

it seems to mostly be 2 massive solid chunks of metal with the idea that they will just soak up so much heat that some of it will eventually dissipate
 
It may run with acceptable temps under normal conditions (probably >50c idle tho), but what if one was to run FurMark? It would melt :)

Silence is great and all, but you'd have to use in an open case. 200watts of heat is going to make any case nice and toasty.
 
I love how they left the SLI connectors accessible just in case anyone was insane enough to run a couple in SLI :D
 
straxusii said:
I think this is largely pointless, you've still got all the heat of a 680 going into your case which you'll need to vent with other fans anyway
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But bigger, slower and therefore quieter fans.

I see your point though, normal blower coolers don't tend to induce much more heat into the case which is a bonus.
 
this company makes a lot of these wierd and wonderful cards, but i doubt they sell too many tbh - do you guys know anyone with one of these?
 
Pointless card is pointless.

If you have the money for these, then you have the money for decent cooling. I can only see this being used in a build where evrything is passively cooled.
 
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