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Nvidia patents a turbofan to cool the upcoming GPU

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http://www.bitsandchips.it/9-hardwa...-una-turbofan-per-raffreddare-le-prossime-gpu

The present invention provides a turbofan and a graphics card with the turbofan. The turbofan comprises: a turbofan assembly which admits air in an axial direction and dispenses air in a radial direction; an inlet fan assembly disposed at an inlet of the turbofan assembly and disposed coaxially with the turbofan assembly: and a driving means for driving the turbofan assembly and the inlet fan assembly to rotate. The turbofan provided by the invention gathers the ambient air to the inlet through the inlet fan assembly disposed at the inlet of the turbofan assembly, so as to change a negative pressure state at the inlet. Consequently, the cooling efficiency of the turbofan is improved effectively and the noise of the turbofan is reduced.
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Nice idea Boom , Only issue i could see would be how deep it would need to be for efficiency ,on a Reference card it would have plenty of room
 
So they've taken a standard turbofan based cooling system, but because they are going to stick it on a graphics card that's now a patent?
 
how can you patent something that already exists, i dont get what's new in this !
and how thick the card will be ? 3 slots ?
 
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Gregster said:
Quieter and more efficient? Yes please :)
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Always a good thing, though tbf current nv coolers are pretty good. Theyve came a long way from the turbine fans on the 400 series, loud is an understatement when describing them.:D
 
Wouldn't it be cheaper for Nvidia to just produce cheap, barely capable cooling solutions for the reference cards and leave their board partners to produce the decent cooling solutions?

The board partners will do that anyway so is there any need for Nvidia to put any effort into this?

I fear the cost associated with this will be recouped by increasing the cost of their future cards.
 
Looks like an amalgamation of cooling fans, an axial fan like on the 690 or 7990 and one of those squirrel cage fans like off the 290 or 780 around it.

Cooling is one area NVidia are quite aways ahead of amd, the past 2 dual gpu (6990 and 7990) launches from amd we've had the same guy in the promo video flapping his gums about how the cards both cool and quiet and its turned out not to be the case. It only recently changed with the 295x2 because of amd basically copying what a third party company did to one of their cards with a aio watercooler. Its about time they put more effort into their "fansinks" as they call them, they've been annoying since the 850xt using the same dinky fans over and over and they've done little if anything to change it.
 
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GoogalyMoogaly said:
Wouldn't it be cheaper for Nvidia to just produce cheap, barely capable cooling solutions for the reference cards and leave their board partners to produce the decent cooling solutions?

The board partners will do that anyway so is there any need for Nvidia to put any effort into this?

I fear the cost associated with this will be recouped by increasing the cost of their future cards.
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It's good news for people like myself who only buys reference cooled cards. I'm not a fan of aftermarket cooling solutions, and I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for a better cooling on a reference card.
 
Thinking the next ref Nvidia cards with a Titan'esk shroud, light up Nvidia logo and this new fan design are gonna be very purrty.

Hurry up and drop 20nm already ! It's been at least a week since I changed my GPU !
 
setter said:
Always a good thing, though tbf current nv coolers are pretty good. Theyve came a long way from the turbine fans on the 400 series, loud is an understatement when describing them.:D
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Very true. The Titan cooler is very good at cooloing and gives quite a pleasing whoosh.
 
Titan Z is grossly overpriced regardless of how Nvidia market it. Which by the way is along with having compute features still being marketed as the best 'Gaming' GPU.

It's a shocking price by anyone's standard, not something any PC enthusiast should be happy about regardless if your an AMD or Nvidia fan.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Don't think you are intelligent enough to understand the main purpose of the titan z.
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Its clearly aimed at Gamers.

GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GeForce® GTX™ TITAN Z is a gaming monster, the fastest graphics card we’ve built to power the most extreme PC gaming rigs on the planet. Stacked with 5760 cores and 12 GB of memory, this dual GPU gives you the power to drive even the most insane multi-monitor displays and 4K hyper PC machines.
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http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-titan-z
 
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