Graphics GTX770 +780 pictured! Titan cooler anyone?

Thought I'd ask as I'd never seen the material being utilised on a GPU cooler and wasn't aware of its properties. Good to know, thanks.

 

I, for one, really like the look of the cooler. Shame underneath it's nothing more exciting than a glorified re-brand!

 

You no longer worried about it melting then.

Years ago I had a Danger Den Acrylic top Maze 4-1 waterblock. The acrylic upper was 3/14 of an inch thick. The block had a TEC below it and the TEC sat on the CPU along with a coldplate (Pentium cpu would idle at -7c and hit 14c full load).

My water pump plug was disconnected by a niece and the PC was on at the time. I was out of the room and only came upstairs because I could smell something burning (the neoprene insulation and acrylic on the waterblock) The TEC melted and warped the acrylic part of the waterblock. Amazingly my CPU and motherboard were undamaged by this!

 

You had put my mind at ease, that and I presumed Nvidia would know its limits.

However, given your episode, you trying to put me off again?

Amazed by your temps on that block though! Blimey.

Thanks.

 

I'm interested to see what the 780 brings to the party; I'm itching to upgrade my current card.

 

I'm curious to see if the cooler layout is the same as my GTX670 and if I can BIOS flash it to the GTX760Ti.

Because if the cooler layout is the same, sod it, I'm going to change that out for the sake of the sexiness. And because I'm a total sucker for shiny metal things.

(May paint it black though).

Also, I'm curious if you can SLI the 760Ti and a 670 or a 770 with a 680.

 

You definitely won't be able to do this.

That would be awesome, but I can't see the PCB layout being the same, I'd expect the GPU die to be different even if the shader count etc is the same.

Almost certainly not, in the same way you can't SLI a GTX460 with a 560.

 

I really like the Titan air cooler, it's well made and is actually pretty quiet - It also lights up when the GPU is running; if you like that sort of thing.

In the couple of days I used the air cooler (before water cooling it) I was impressed with the fact that it was quieter than both the GTX 580 & 680 air coolers.

 

I am such a sucker for that cooler as well! I'm guessing I'll never make it fit my gtx 660. Who am I kidding? What's the point

 

I don't know why they'd make a new PCB though. I'd figure they'd be using the original GTX680 PCB instead. Or they would use Titan PCBs given that making one that is entirely different would be a rather expensive use.

As to the GTX460 point, there is a fundamental die difference though. The GTX560 die is not only bigger but a modified respin. In this case, if rumors are true, the dies are the same (GK104) but the clocks are slightly different.

Just some thoughts anyhow. I just want that cooler.