Blower style coolers and Pascal or Polaris?

[Midlife Crisis]

Will any of the new GPU's coming out from NVidia or AMD have blower style coolers do you think? Surely a cooler can be designed that will push hot air out of a case without sounding like a hurricane. Got to be better than all the hot air just being blown around inside the case.

 

[Toss3]

Will any of the new GPU's coming out from NVidia or AMD have blower style coolers do you think? Surely a cooler can be designed that will push hot air out of a case without sounding like a hurricane. Got to be better than all the hot air just being blown around inside the case.

TBH I hope they have AIO coolers as standard on the high-end models. I haven't seen a single blower-style card that would actually do a decent job of cooling the GPU. AIO don't take up that much room, and fits into even the smallest of cases.

 

[Midlife Crisis]

AIO would a good choice also dependent on how much it would bump up the price

 

[Simon Belmont]

I hate these AIO GPU cards. The pumps 8 times out of 10 end up being very noisy. Thanks, but no thanks. I'm hoping Nvidia re-do there reference cooler?

 

[Mtom]

Why not? At least on the lower end cards they will have lower TDP and below 200w the blower style is viable in my opinion.

 

[David Bisset]

The HIS iceq blowers were quite good, though generally blowers are inevitably worse for the card temps than ones that vent every which where. The ref nvidia cooler (proper vapour chamber one) is quite decent too.

Honestly though decent airflow and ones that don't vent are fine, you can have nice big quiet exhaust fans rather than a GPU trying to force all the hot air out a tiny slot on the back.

Keep nasty AIOs away please, I like quiet reliable options not noisy pumps with extra bits to break and possibility of leakage.

 

[chaparral]

Will any of the new GPU's coming out from NVidia or AMD have blower style coolers do you think? Surely a cooler can be designed that will push hot air out of a case without sounding like a hurricane. Got to be better than all the hot air just being blown around inside the case.

GPU's with blower type coolers work really great in my PC case as the case air flow was designed to be used only with them type of coolers..

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Yes I think Pascal will have blower style coolers. Hope Nvidia will learn a lot from MSI Twin Frozr V cooler, it would be nice if Pascal blower style coolers fan will not spin at idle.

I got new MSI GTX 970 latest revision 1.3 running over a month now, I noticed a massive difference in temp at idle and load. On old MSI GTX 970 idle temp were 55C with no MSI Afterburner and 75C at full load gaming with MSI Afterburner running background but I was absolutely astonished to see temps on new revision 1.3 saw idle temp were 50C with no MSI Afterburner and between 30C at 40% fan speed and 60C at 60% fan speed at full load gaming with MSI Afterburner running background. I was shocked to see 30C temp while played Star Trek Online and 60C while played GTA V and The Division.

I put my hands under new MSI GTX 970 revision cooler it was very warm at full load saw both fans running during heavy gaming at 60C with 60% fan speed but when ran Star Trek Online and also desktop at 30C with 40% fan speed, I was surprised to see cold air blew on my hand compared to my old MSI GTX 970 it was really very hot at full load that got my hand burnt. MSI did fantastic job on new revision design, I think MSI had learnt alots from improved new revision that will incorporated into next generation MSI Frozr VI cooler.

 

[D1craig]

Will any of the new GPU's coming out from NVidia or AMD have blower style coolers do you think? Surely a cooler can be designed that will push hot air out of a case without sounding like a hurricane. Got to be better than all the hot air just being blown around inside the case.

ofcourse they will. nvidia will try and make out that you can ge tthe titan cooler again for the cheaper cards. obviously it will not have the same parts as titan cooler.

 

[Aretak]

it would be nice if Pascal blower style coolers fan will not spin at idle.

I don't think that'd work with a blower-style design really. The entire point of them is that heat isn't exhausted into your case. GPUs produce heat even at idle, but with an open card it can simply radiate away off the heatsink. A completely closed-in blower design would cause the heat to build up inside the card, which would warm things up quickly. You need the airflow of the fan constantly to exhaust the heat out of the back.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Can see AIOs on the Polaris high-end cards from AMDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.................

 

[Panos]

You do miss the point that blowers are good with GDDR5 VRAM only, and useless with HBM?

Except NVidia pulls another scam off, putting GDDR5 on top of the range Pascal, we aren't going to see any blowers from now own. They make no sense, since all cards going to be smaller in size.

See the Nano. Tiny card, and exactly the same as a FuryX. What makes the latter bigger is the cooler.

 

[Radox-0]

You do miss the point that blowers are good with GDDR5 VRAM only, and useless with HBM?

Except NVidia pulls another scam off, putting GDDR5 on top of the range Pascal, we aren't going to see any blowers from now own. They make no sense, since all cards going to be smaller in size.

See the Nano. Tiny card, and exactly the same as a FuryX. What makes the latter bigger is the cooler.

Why would blower not be possible with HBM? I do not imagine it would be any different to now, except a slightly revised cold plate made bigger to cover the HBM stacks also.

The Nano and Fury X use a different PCB also with the latter using a larger one with extra room for a bigger power delivery system. The Fury X PCB sits part way between the Nano and current Titan X PCB in size so while they will be shorter to an extent, the Nano form factor would not become the norm I imagine.

Separately I hope they do keep the blower style card and expect they will as the design has become easily identifiable (talking about Nvidia here), hopefully just an upgrade or made beefier somehow. For AMD not to sure.

 

[meldarthx]

Why would blower not be possible with HBM? I do not imagine it would be any different to now, except a slightly revised cold plate made bigger to cover the HBM stacks also.

The Nano and Fury X use a different PCB also with the latter using a larger one with extra room for a bigger power delivery system. The Fury X PCB sits part way between the Nano and current Titan X PCB in size so while they will be shorter to an extent, the Nano form factor would not become the norm I imagine.

Separately I hope they do keep the blower style card and expect they will as the design has become easily identifiable (talking about Nvidia here), hopefully just an upgrade or made beefier somehow. For AMD not to sure.

Size of the cards - with GDDR 5 - the way pcb had to be laid out gave the blower style the size to be able to cool the cards properly most of the time. Blower cards are big for a reason. HBM you don't need that extra space; in theory you could possibly make a small blower; but I'm not sure if it would cool as effectively as open with fan stops or aoi.......in fact I'm pretty sure it wouldn't