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

[Defy Belief]

I wouldn't hold my breath, as I think the days of blower cards is over

In gaming cards yes, workstation cards will likely always remain blower.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Meh. I can't even see my graphics card.

 

[Zefan]

Yep they're sexy.

 

[Boomstick777]

Yep they're sexy.

 

[Boomstick777]

Just did a Sup run, ASUS RTX 3070 Turbo Blower,

station service near me

Max temp 76c, couldn't hear it over the in bench music. Blowers ftw!

 

[SupraWez]

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

 

[Blackjack Davy]

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

Or do what they're intended for, wearing headphones. Also you can't hear the banging on the wall from the neighbours, bonus!

 

[Kelt]

And this would be the "og" for noise from many years previous.

I used to have one of those Nvidia cards!

God knows what happened to it, I think it just took off one day into the wild blue yonder under its own steam!

 

[varkanoid]

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

 

[Boomstick777]

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

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.

 

[AMDPower]

This has just reminded me of this!

that sums up my gigabyte HD 6990. That thing produced so much heat and was so loud it was unbearable. The fan on it used to spin so fast that at 100% it felt like my pc was going to take off the ground. Never again

 

[tommybhoy]

@Boomstick777

Some oldy but goldy vintage blowers:

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.

Spoiler: OT

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.

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

Back in the day some of us mavericks took the blower cooler to bits

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.

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.

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

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.