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humbug said:
With a somewhat beefy cooler like that it will be, they only pull about 160 Watts, thats nothing, certainly nothing for a cooler like that.
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Well if leaks of it's 1.4Ghz clock is correct I hope the cooler off sets it well. I'm more concerned about 3 smaller fans, hope they don't sound annoying under full load.
 
humbug said:
In that case there are a lot of gimmicky fans out there.

I don't think its as simple as that.
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Oh for sure you get different lengths of blade, degrees of tilt, thin blades and fat blades, etc, etc...

But this? I've never seen this before on anything.

If a double-bladed bizarro fan had some advantage, like I said, it would be widely used by now, not only on aircraft but in many uses.

The fact that we've never seen anything like this before, suggests to me it is just a aesthetic move.
 
I placed an order for the Gigabyte Nano today, which is still on pre order status. Any idea when these might land?

Going to be using it with the Acer Predator XR341CKB. I did consider going for the Fury Nitro, but my reasoning for the Nano is that I plan to get one of the Vega cards eventually and then the Nano will swap out into another mini ITX computer that I have. So it will still be useful.
 
nlyh said:
I placed an order for the Gigabyte Nano today, which is still on pre order status. Any idea when these might land?

Going to be using it with the Acer Predator XR341CKB. I did consider going for the Fury Nitro, but my reasoning for the Nano is that I plan to get one of the Vega cards eventually and then the Nano will swap out into another mini ITX computer that I have. So it will still be useful.
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According to the site it's in-stock now. So they probably got the shipment rather late in the afternoon.
 
David Bisset said:
Design constraints are pretty different between the two so not sure it's particularly relevant.
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I'd quite happily bet £10 that it's nothing more than an aesthetic gimmick.

All those blades are are two adjacent blades fused together at the tip.

For one I'm pretty sure PowerColor aren't the kind of company to be on the cutting edge of fan blade design :p

It's far more likely that their marketing team decided they needed to do something to differentiate their product.

"Fans are a bit boring, they all look the same. Why don't we make the fans look high-tech?"
 
FoxEye said:
I'd quite happily bet £10 that it's nothing more than an aesthetic gimmick.

All those blades are are two adjacent blades fused together at the tip.

For one I'm pretty sure PowerColor aren't the kind of company to be on the cutting edge of fan blade design :p

It's far more likely that their marketing team decided they needed to do something to differentiate their product.

"Fans are a bit boring, they all look the same. Why don't we make the fans look high-tech?"
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I was assuming it gave reduced manufacturing costs due to allowing less rigid plastic than if they didn't join at the tip or similar but whatever. :p could easily be aesthetic. Or maybe it'll turn out to be lovely and quiet, who knows? :p
 
So I received my card last night and to my dismay it has coil whine. I purposely bought this card because of the fans stopping at idle with the aim of making my system very quiet. It was replacing a coil whine less 290X which had loud fans. So I have swapped loud fans for coil whine.

It whines even when locked at 60fps.

I emailed overclockers last night and the reply I got today was:

"Unfortunately coil whine is not classed as a fault, it doesnt effect the cards performance in any way, shape or form.

Regards,

James B"

I bought from Overclockers because of the supposed legendary customer support. All I can say is I feel gutted.
 
DPD didnt deliver my Fury today and they were supposed to. The status hasnt even updated on their site since it was picked up on Monday. Im going on hols on saturday for a week so I can sense a whole faff coming on :(
 
humbug said:
With a somewhat beefy cooler like that it will be, they only pull about 160 Watts, thats nothing, certainly nothing for a cooler like that.
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RX 480 throttles even at stock clock due to power limit and to maintain stable clock speed you need to increase it which increases power consumption.
My RX 480 needs additional 10-20% power depending on the game to maintain the clock even when undervolted to 1045mv.
Obviously people will buy these cards to overclock them to the max which will require increase in power limit and additional 50% will make this card pull ~250W.
50% power limit increase is allowed on reference RX 480 with stock bios.
 
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