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

Boomstick777 said:


Bear with me here guys :cry:

What I mean is, modern GPUs have all kind of crazy designs and advanced cooling, but something about the simple blower design, I just find very aesthetically pleasing?

Here's a few examples I grabbed of a Google search. Tell me I'm not the only one..









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I agree, they do look aesthetically pleasing but I prefer the crazy designs. I still like RGB lol :D
 
Still think there is a place for a blower GPU as it is venting the hot air directly out the case but I doubt it makes huge amounts of difference to the rest of the case temps. I'm not fussed either way to be honest I would buy a blower card if it was the right card for me at the right price. Modern gpu's have the designs like they do because the margin of differentiation of products these days is in bits of plastic. The card itself is the same across every vendor so it comes down to a cooler some box art and some accessories that nobody really wants. You prefer function over form I am sure or you just like the clean industrial lines of a GPU that doesn't need to announce it's presence in your case with flashing lights and more fans than the rest of your case. I exaggerate of course.
 
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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Had two of these in crossfire myself. Clocked really well, and by far the best blower style cooler I've ever used, absolute bargain of a card back in the day.
 
Keplar and Pascal FE/ref blower coolers were beautiful (still have a ref 780ti in my 'server/HTPC' system). I also have a 290 that I acquired from a friend, which I don't love the look of but it's fine.

They were objectively worse for noise and temps though (vs a properly sized 2/3 fan cooler) and I love the 3/4k series FE designs, my 3060ti FE is by far the best engineered (feeling) card I've ever owned.
(7900XT pulse is also great minus the red accents and runs extremely cool with no noticeable noise)
 
I like the lines of a blower.

But it's so much easier and quieter to get lower temps on the card with a wall of low speed fans stripping off heat from the card and dumping it into the case.

There used to be so much moaning about the industrial noise of a blower fan doing thousands of rpm and if it wasn't the noise it was the temperature from not running the blower loud enough.

So now the entire computer case and the case fans are subcontracted as the second half of gpu cooling. It works quieter for sure.
 
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