I've got a few concerns with the rear cooler fan on the new RTX 30xx cards and would appreciate the thoughts of the peanut gallery.
For ordinary air coolers in standard tower cases, I don't see too much of an issue. We'll simply have to reverse the airflow so that air comes in at the back and out at the front. Users of AIOs will have to put their radiators in the front.
But the issue for me comes with desktop / HTPC cases and non-standard cases like my Silverstone FT05 - where the GPU is mounted vertically - and the Silverstone Temjin where the motherboard is inverted. With desktop cases and the FT05 the rear fan will be blowing hot air directly below the CPU cooler. With the Temjin the fan will be blowing hot air downwards,
Hopefully Nvidia will produce a reversed fan mod.
For ordinary air coolers in standard tower cases, I don't see too much of an issue. We'll simply have to reverse the airflow so that air comes in at the back and out at the front. Users of AIOs will have to put their radiators in the front.
But the issue for me comes with desktop / HTPC cases and non-standard cases like my Silverstone FT05 - where the GPU is mounted vertically - and the Silverstone Temjin where the motherboard is inverted. With desktop cases and the FT05 the rear fan will be blowing hot air directly below the CPU cooler. With the Temjin the fan will be blowing hot air downwards,
Hopefully Nvidia will produce a reversed fan mod.