AMD Radeon R9 390X cooler leaked

[Make]

They would not include watercooling as a stock cooler with there cards as that would push the price up and not fit in many PC cases..

On the contrary, most, if not all PC cases have a 120mm/140mm fan at the back. That can usually mount a 120mm rad on the same spot, even if it's not mentioned in the case specs. I mean, the holes are the same.

It would, however make Crossfire very hard for most cases.

 

[varkanoid]

What you’re looking at is probably the first prototype of future Radeon R9 300 series cooling.

It could be for anything.

 

[snips86x]

Fake. Looks like a high quality render (on my TN at least).

HAHA - ^^ made me laugh. High quality & TN in the same sentance

Looks very much like the Titan cooler!

 

[Gerard]

HAHA - ^^ made me laugh. High quality & TN in the same sentance

Looks very much like the Titan cooler!

Just a down scaled 295x2 cooler, same as the titan cooler was a scaled down gtx690 cooler.

 

[ubersonic]

Hmm, while I see the point of it on a dual chip card I think on a single card its a bit much.

The Asetek AIO cooled GTX580 and GTX680 were very good noise/temp wise, as are the tens of thousends of AMD/Nvidia GPUs with aftermarket AIO's fitted. The is obviously a market for it and if it means the reference card runs cooler/quieter I'm all for it

 

[SkeeterUK]

Looks like a titan cooler to me just less silver and a bit more black to it.

 

[smogsy]

if they do go water cooling as standard for high end cards, they will lose a fair amount of customers. (people who don't like water) like me.

lets hope they still can offer air cooling.

but if its just a better air cooler then wicked their last one was the one of the worst coolers (look) wise to date

 

[wazza300]

die shrink FIRST please,then release new cards otherwise what's the point?

 

[Kaapstad]

die shrink FIRST please,then release new cards otherwise what's the point?

Winter is coming, you may want one of these new cards to heat your house.

 

[gareth170]

if they do go water cooling as standard for high end cards, they will lose a fair amount of customers. (people who don't like water) like me.

i agree. i don't really like the idea of water cooling as standard for high end cards

 

[TwsT]

Have to love the assumptions made in that article ha

 

[smogsy]

i agree. i don't really like the idea of water cooling as standard for high end cards

it just would so how inefficient they are oh we cant save power
& give it FPS

give it so much FPS it turns into nucluer reactor.

uses 5000W, Heat output 4500W

 

[BaDBoY_uK]

Having had awful experiences with aftermarket coolers, I prefer suck+blow (wayhay!) coolers like those on EVGA SC Nvidia cards. AMD's don't usually work, cf. 290X reference models hitting 95

I like the design

 

[Rexton]

Even if watercooling does become standard (I hope it doesn't)- I'm sure a few third parties will release air cooled variants.

 

[Orangey]

See: Devil13 295X2

 

[kaku]

Looks ugly as hell, hopefully means there's a new card coming that's a bit of a monster though.

 

[Kaapstad]

Even if watercooling does become standard (I hope it doesn't)- I'm sure a few third parties will release air cooled variants.

It won't make much difference to me, I will still rip off the AIO solution and put a proper waterblock on the cards.

If you are going to watercool do it properly.

 

[MrMarvelous]

Is this a WC unit or a bloody hairdryer one like my 290?