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I can't be the only one who finds blower style graphics cards attractive?

I think there may be an element of nostalgia with the design at play as well, a throwback to old times.

It's true that some of the blowers are noisy as hell, but with a decent fan profile curve on Afterburner, honestly they are okay. Recently picked up a RTX 3070 ASUS Turbo, very aesthetically pleasing blower style card lol. At default it sounds like a plane on takeoff but man that Afterburner makes it nice and quiet and all the heat is thrown out the back of the case. It's fast too!
 
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Rob_B said:
Attractive? No, that's weird and you should be ashamed of your kink :D
But there is something to be said for exhausting hot air out of the case asap, a blower/passthrough hybrid could work well, perhaps send heat from 1 or the other out of the case and have passthrough for the other.
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Just to clarify, not that kind of attractive, aesthetically attractive :D
 
rare said:
I always liked blower cards. 1080Ti FE is probably peak blower.

They were always loud, but useful in SLI setups, and also particularly good for small ITX builds.

Some lower end cards like a 4060 could easily be a blower without thermal issues.
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Nathlm said:
The gtx 480 just looked so raw and one of the best designs for a blower card, looks-wise, anyways
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Hell yeah totally agree, those versions of 1080 Ti and GTX 480 just have an awesome look to them. I'm hoping for a throwback style RTX 5070 in the upcoming launch, something that looks cool and a bit retro, bored of the same triple fan behemoths that modern GPUs have.. (Mind you they do cool well lol).
 
varkanoid said:
They were the initial template for AIO GPU coolers believe it or not. Back in the day some of us mavericks took the blower cooler to bits, left the fan on there and tie wrapped (yes tie wrapped) the heatsink pump to the GPU from a CPU AIO cooler. Added heatsinks to the RAM and VRM and voila very cool GPU's. I did it to an EVGA 580 blower card the post used to be on the old forum but sadly long lost the pictures. I wasnt the first or only one think the trend started over at overlock.net. Then eventually the likes of NZxt etc thought hey thats good idea and started marketing official solutions. Now I`m not saying I was the cause of it but thats where the AIO GPU manufacturers got the idea from.

Not mine but similar to this

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This brings back memories, I did a bunch of these mods as well. I remember it was needed on the VEGA cards, worked great on older Nvidia cards, you could clock the hell out of them.
 
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