Nvidia patents a turbofan to cool the upcoming GPU

Gerard · 1 Jun 2014 at 14:58

Boomstick777 said:
Titan Z is grossly overpriced regardless of how Nvidia market it. Which by the way is along with having compute features still being marketed as the best 'Gaming' GPU.

It's a shocking price by anyone's standard, not something any PC enthusiast should be happy about regardless if your an AMD or Nvidia fan.

The real joke is lambchop is running about trying to inform us all that a lot of the price premium has to do with the cooler, so apparently extending the fin stacks on the reference 690 cooler to make it triple wide to dissipate more heat is worth 900 quid....Quite obviously this is where the cost premium is and has nothing at all to do with NVidia burying the arm in.....I really despair about this place.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:01

Not sure if all Nvidia reference coolers are any good. The GTX760 one at least had throttling problems according to one major German website,and the one on the GTX660TI was a bit meh too.

Geeman1979 · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:02

Gregster said:
Very true. The Titan cooler is very good at cooloing and gives quite a pleasing whoosh.

Agreed.

That's why i'm in no rush to water cool the cards at the moment as the reference coolers are doing a fine job.

humbug · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:02

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Not sure if all Nvidia reference coolers are any good. The GTX760 one at least had throttling problems according to one major German website,and the one on the GTX660TI was a bit meh too.

We may never know because Nvidia did not give a sample to mainstream reviewers, most of whom warm up the card before benching.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:04

humbug said:
We may never know because Nvidia did not give a sample to mainstream reviewers, most of whom warm up the card before benching.

Reference GTX760 and GTX660TI cards were tested.

shankly1985 · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:04

GoogalyMoogaly said:
3K?

Haven't you heard?
They can be had for

And that's still a good price lol

humbug · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:06

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Reference GTX760 and GTX660TI cards were tested.

Sorry, i'm talking about the Titan-Z

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:06

shankly1985 said:
And that's still a good price lol

It bad enough the Geforce Titan and GTX690 were daftly priced for gamers,and then the R9 295X2 and Titan Z make it even worse.

I thought the 8800 Ultra and X1950XTX had stupid pricing back in the day.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:07

humbug said:
Sorry, i'm talking about the Titan-Z

It will be interesting to see what happens when the card is heavily loaded when running compute orientated stuff.

setter · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:09

Ive heard a reference 670 cooler and was pretty impressed with it. Not sure about the 760 though, a card that i never seen much point in anyway tbh. A step down from the 670 that it replaced. Iv used mainly non ref cards lately, gb wf models. However in looking at a reference 780 to pair up with my current 780 wf. Bit wary of having two of the latter in sli on this board. 670 wf cards ran ok but top card ran 15c higher than the bottom one, 70c and 55c.

humbug · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:09

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It will be interesting to see what happens when the card is heavily loaded when running compute orientated stuff.

It will probably throttle under any heavy load once it warms up.

melmac · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:15

Ayahuasca said:
Don't think you are intelligent enough to understand the main purpose of the titan z.

It's main purpose is gaming.

nitram100 · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:18

Turbo fan edition.

Gerard · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:26

Ayahuasca said:
Thanks mate it's ok to be upset at nvidia because no women will sleep with you as your daily hobby is sitting on here trash talking anything they do

Ever heard the phrase "when in hole stop digging"? Nuff said son.

dacads · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:29

Will it increase gpu 0-60 time?

Boomstick777 · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:35

Back on topic.

The Titan style coolers were already excellent, had two ref 780 Ti's in SLI and the cooling was awesome.

If they can improve this further good on em.

melmac · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:37

Ayahuasca said:
I'm not defending anything it's just quite clear you don't buy a card like that for standard gaming.

I don't think you are intelligent enough to answer judging by the last few posts you have made. But I am still asking you to show some evidence that it's main purpose isn't gaming.

If Jen-Hsun Huang says its a gaming card how can you say it's not?

setter · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:40

This one went badly off topic, what has a new nv fan patent design got to do with the titan z. A card that's already released, and more importantly has its own discussion thread. :rolleyes:

LtMatt · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:41

Rusty0611 said:
Ho ho ho!

Only kidding - keep on trucking lads.

Nothing wrong with Its Rusters. :cool:

Geeman1979 · 1 Jun 2014 at 15:43

setter said:
This one went badly off topic, what has a new nv fan patent design got to do with the titan z. A card that's already released, and more importantly has its own discussion thread.

This^