I like the cooler but I will still be watercooling my next cards what ever they are, just for the sake of temp's and noise.
LOL you do possibly have a point. Though it also makes me think what would happen to that material under high temps?
Acrylic may melt at 160c and given this is not an AMD GPU the operating temp should stay below. (before anyone goes mental over my AMD comment... it's a joke)
interesting, i like the coolers, i waiting to see what sort of money well have to pay in the uk, i want a new card its looking like a 770 or 760ti
Oh yes. Fortunately never owned one. I wonder how many pepes went for SLI setups with the 480? Enough heating for entire house.
I used to have a SLI under water. The cards themselves stayed a decent temps, between 50-55C, but my radiators used to kickout an absolute shedload of heat!
For a minute there I thought you meant submerged PC! 55c is very decent for such hot GPU's. What rads did you have? I got a Thermochill PA 120.3 with fan shroud and 3 fans. CPU and GPU liquid cooled. Rad sits by open window sucking in outside dust and moskeets.
I had two EK 240 XTXs - the extra thick 60mm ones, I use them now with a single GTX 670, and needless to say, it barely hits 42C. Pics of my rig in the sig if you are interested.
Wow! That's a very nice build! Those EK rads fit in there nicely. Nice looking mobo too and you've isolated the pump nicely with that foam sandwich. My own build is completely messy and really needs to be taken apart for a tidy but I will wait until I get a new case. Those fans look like they'd be quite good at shifting air too with those blades.
Meh. I think the all metal coolers from Nvidia are ugly, although, being fair most stock coolers aren't great either (I liked the old AMD HD5xxx series batmobile cooler though).
Yeah, they are Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850s – one of the best for Static Pressure, they shift a hell of a lot of air too. Really! I LOVE the fact that they are using the Titan style coolers on the 7xx series parts. The GTX 480 looked awesome because they were forced to revolutionise the stock cooler due to the massive amount of heat it kicked out. I’ll probably be sticking with the 670 for this gen, but IMO anyone air cooling a 7xx card is in for a treat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPpD1k1iSVc 8 of them on this rad. Re: look of the GPU cooler... It looks quite industrial/scifi with the black and gun metal. I prefer it to the black plastic cover and stupid stick on cartoon art I seem to have had on every GPU purchase.