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

I only buy the reference blower cards, they tend to be better at exhausting heat over circulating the hot air inside the case, yes when ramped up they are louder, just turn the audio up louder :D
 
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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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.
 
@Boomstick777

Some oldy but goldy vintage blowers:

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2X 7950 HIS ICE Q 7950's custom bios flashed to whatever I wanted basically, the 7950 were truly insane overclockers via bios flashable custom clocks, I'm talking from 850Mhz to 1.2Ghz+ on air in CrossFire, bottom one still has the og blower on it at that point.

Here's where I point out the 7950 oc'ed like crazy, it was ridiculously cheap at that time and it done absolutely nothing for market share.

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290 bios flashed to 290X cooler lasted less than 24hrs before it got replaced with an AC Extreme.

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varkanoid said:
Back in the day some of us mavericks took the blower cooler to bits
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2010ish, Dremel'd my case to fit 2X reference 6950 bios flashed to 6970's running custom cooled AC Extremes in CrossFire, AMD's reference were better built than most AIB boards but those ref coolers, noisy as.



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varkanoid said:
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.
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2X 290X in CrossFire, top one was an Asus 290X DCUII using the NZXT aio adaptor, bottom one is the reference one above.

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Might have thrown out the NZXT bracket, still have 3 AC Extreme coolers which saw use on 6950>70 CrossFire, 7950 CrossFire and 290X CrossFire, what a purchase they were.

Unfortunately, Nv/AMD have locked down and ripped the life out of the fine art of OC'ing these days so no need to prize coolers off of gpus with custom cooling/modding anymore.
 
tommybhoy said:
@Boomstick777

Some oldy but goldy vintage blowers:

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2X 7950 HIS ICE Q 7950's custom bios flashed to whatever I wanted basically, the 7950 were truly insane overclockers via bios flashable custom clocks, I'm talking from 850Mhz to 1.2Ghz+ on air in CrossFire, bottom one still has the og blower on it at that point.
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Those HIS IceQ 7950s were great, had a couple of them myself. Not the best looking but cooled well and were quiet for a blower design too.
 
Good design in principle I have compared temp of exhaust fans in gaming and idle, it's noticeable warmer in gaming, so that GPU heat is going past VRM/CPU which isn't ideal- but with blowers it's going straight out.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Those HIS IceQ 7950s were great, had a couple of them myself. Not the best looking but cooled well and were quiet for a blower design too.
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Nearly kept the OG coolers on as it was really good noise and performance for a blower but the AC's were whisper quiet.

Went through a few 79s, started with an MSI reference 7970, bought a 7950 XFX Black for CrossFireX but sold it on as it was bios locked although it was even cheaper than the rest for a 7950 Frozer II but it was returned for a grinding fan settled on the HIS IceQs as they had a great PCB and heatsink that was fully compatible with my AC Extreme coolers, built like tanks!
 
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