The 290X2 maybe.
I think there may be a reason why the clocked it a little higher and called it the 295.
There may be an air cooled £800 950Mhz 290X2 to come yet, possibly using Hawaii Pro GPU's.
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Nvidia patents a turbofan to cool the upcoming GPU
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The 290X2 maybe.
I think there may be a reason why the clocked it a little higher and called it the 295.
There may be an air cooled £800 950Mhz 290X2 to come yet, possibly using Hawaii Pro GPU's.
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Very interesting Boomyou always seem to hit the forum first with these updates
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Does this design tell us anything about Maxwell as such? (efficiency/power) or is it mainly about design?
Is this a hint at the possible power of the new fan
we'll it could pull in a few buyers
Yep, quite familiar with the heat dump issues on non ref cards, ive owned wf 460's and 670's in sli. The latter were fine as board spacing was good. Not so with the former so they had to go. With a single non ref card, temps aren't an issue at all if your case airflow is properly setup. Temps on my 780 in sig were actually ok in my old shinobi xl, a case with extremely poor air intake. Slightly better now though in the enthoo primo.
Ive had to put a fan behind my 7990 to pull air onto gpu1, was climbing to over 100c because the front fans were sucking up all the air. My case doesn't help matters but its more down to the card dumping the heat inside
I have a HAF 912+, it has a huge 200mm Intake fan, you can take the excess drive bays out from behind it to give it a completely unobstructed intake flow. I have also added a 120mm intake fan under the DVD drive for a clear CPU intake.
Best case i ever bought, its some years old now, i am itching to get a nice shiny new case but Cooler Master still haven't upgraded the styling of it and i can't find another case that has that big unobstructed intake.
I was thinking changing to a 750 d then seen this video
That front panel literally crucifies the airflow by a significant amount, its either mod it yourself by cutting a large square in it and using mesh or leaving it off and having the filter exposed to gather dust quicker. =/ He only had one fan going but still it seemed to at least half the airflow if not more, the candle was barely budging at all with the fan going with the panel on.,
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Interesting. i did look at that case and did wonder if that solid front would cut off the intake flow.
Seems it absolutely does.
Yep, good airflow helps an awful lot with non ref cards, in the primo ive replaced the stock fans with corsair sp's, removed unused hdd cages. It also helps that the psu is in a separate compartment, therefore an unobstructed path for air. Seen in a thread in case central Gerard, you were considering the 750D case, with the front panel left on its a very restrictive case, the 540 air from corsair is an excellent design from corsair, due to the split chamber design the gpu sits close to the intake fans and there's nothing to block airflow.
Cant watch the vid as in on my phone, only youtube text links work on windows phone.
Cant watch the vid as in on my phone, only youtube text links work on windows phone.
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He put a lit candle inside the case and fired it up, the candle flame did not go out, it didn't even flicker, as soon as he pulled back that front cover even just a couple inches the candle blew right out.
Ahh, very much like my shinobi then. Though i tested it by using a ciggarette paper. Front panel on and the fans wouldn't move it at all when i let it go, just fell straight down. Panel off and it got blew right through the case. Basically the front fans might as well not have been plugged in with the panel on.
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All getting a little off topic here with 295X2s and cases!
That said, I quite like the 295X2 look, compared to the other AMD cards of the generation.
That said, I do hope that AMDs new cooler design for all cards doesn't have an inbuilt AIO cooler in order to keep the card cool and quiet.
That said, I quite like the 295X2 look, compared to the other AMD cards of the generation.
That said, I do hope that AMDs new cooler design for all cards doesn't have an inbuilt AIO cooler in order to keep the card cool and quiet.
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Just spent 10mins Googling it but in the intervening time it seems to have been buried in other 7990 news after they doubled back, if you're interested in the story the basic jist was that they saw no point in it and had no intention to do it, even when third party's like Poweroclor/ASUS made their own 7990's (with AMD's blessing) they still originally maintained the would be no official 7990.
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Back on topic-
It's nice that Nvidia decide to try something new, but what I am interested to know is...what impact would it has on the pricing if these were to become reference cooler?
I still remember quite well that the GTX780 with the "Titan cooler" had a £30-£40 price premium over the cheapest AIB partners custom cooler card" at the time (a Gigabyte Windforce x3 GTX780), and the GTX770 with the "Titan cooler" was priced at around £360, and AIB partners' in general their GTX770 with custom coolers were just £320-£340...
So with the new cooling solution implemented, would it not push up the pricing of reference cards on launch (which is probably a good 1-2 months before AIB partner's cooling solution becomes available)?
It's nice that Nvidia decide to try something new, but what I am interested to know is...what impact would it has on the pricing if these were to become reference cooler?
I still remember quite well that the GTX780 with the "Titan cooler" had a £30-£40 price premium over the cheapest AIB partners custom cooler card" at the time (a Gigabyte Windforce x3 GTX780), and the GTX770 with the "Titan cooler" was priced at around £360, and AIB partners' in general their GTX770 with custom coolers were just £320-£340...
So with the new cooling solution implemented, would it not push up the pricing of reference cards on launch (which is probably a good 1-2 months before AIB partner's cooling solution becomes available)?
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I would imagine it would increase the cost, which would be a bit lame for us water coolers, however on the flip side if it does increase cooling and reduce noise like it claims then I would imagine that a 780ti fitted with a turbofan cooler (using it as an example not a product I expect to see) would have increased cooling and reduced noise and therefore have very reduced noise at the same cooling as the current model, or very increased cooling at the same noise however you look at it.
If the performance/quality/etc of reference coolers increase then AIB partners will have to increase their game to match which should be interesting, I think it was EVGA who experienced consumer wrath when their first GTX780 used a cooler that didn't look as good as reference (despite their claims it was the same internals) and were forced to add a reference one lol.
If the performance/quality/etc of reference coolers increase then AIB partners will have to increase their game to match which should be interesting, I think it was EVGA who experienced consumer wrath when their first GTX780 used a cooler that didn't look as good as reference (despite their claims it was the same internals) and were forced to add a reference one lol.
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