Joe DeFuria
Legend
Almost as sad as counting the posts on page 11 to see when the next post will force page 12....
NV30- the fan will last how long, we must dust it how often?
- Thread starter g__day
- Start date
- Status
Almost as sad as counting the posts on page 11 to see when the next post will force page 12....
I agree sharkfood. All the pictures though show a "geforce fx", none of sites actually said what version of geforce fx it actually is. If that is the standard version of geforce fx and it requires the fxflow, what sort of cooling requirement will the ultra version have.
What I am basically saying is that the standard version of the geforce fx might not need the fx flow and can just get along with the "standard" heatsink and fan. Another big thing is, that is the reference design, companies such as leadtek, asus, abit, etc might choose a different approach to cooling as leadtek did for the geforce4. I think most if not all of them will go along with the reference board design though.
The noise matter is still unknown as you did say that nvidia are attempting to refine the fx flow to be quieter. Too be honest, if I can hear it over the delta on my processor, I would be very much surprised and quite
.
I can't wait though to see how scalable the ultra version really is, and too see that we will have to wait till the review sites get their hands on the boards.
What I am basically saying is that the standard version of the geforce fx might not need the fx flow and can just get along with the "standard" heatsink and fan. Another big thing is, that is the reference design, companies such as leadtek, asus, abit, etc might choose a different approach to cooling as leadtek did for the geforce4. I think most if not all of them will go along with the reference board design though.
The noise matter is still unknown as you did say that nvidia are attempting to refine the fx flow to be quieter. Too be honest, if I can hear it over the delta on my processor, I would be very much surprised and quite
.I can't wait though to see how scalable the ultra version really is, and too see that we will have to wait till the review sites get their hands on the boards.
martrox said:
Pffft. Puny mortals, langishing in the hundreds!
jvd said:DaveBaumann said:martrox said:
Pffft. Puny mortals, langishing in the hundreds!
Shesh over 2000 posts ? Your either single and have no life or married and wish for death every night. Me ? I'm just single . You can tell when i became single cause my posts went up .
Or Dave has to run the site and make sure everything is in order... or he has no life and gets no time to play any games on his super duper system.
Dave I got a Cyrix MII if you are interested with an S3 Virge 3D Deccelerator
sas_simon said:
One thing seems rather certain, if it will result in major problems and people have to RMA their cards...the board manufacturers will address the matter real fast. Given a $400-$500 card (or whatever it will be, likely at least $350 for the high end model though), they aren't going to have to want to RMA a very high percentage of all those sold...
This does give some breathing room to wait to buy (yeah I know...sometimes there is that impulse to upgrade when that new card comes out
) Though if it takes months for dust accumulation to be a problem, peeps might not notice before the itch to upgrade to something kicks in. If it's 2 years, many of us who upgrade our gfx card at least yearly won't notice.The noise matter is still unknown as you did say that nvidia are attempting to refine the fx flow to be quieter. Too be honest, if I can hear it over the delta on my processor, I would be very much surprised and quite
Well I wouldn't expect to hear it over the other 7 fans in my computer, including the high speed fan on the CPU and the 12" case fan pulling air in from the front. If it does manage to get louder then that, then they would have a prob. The noise I'm not so concerned about, though some peeps who decided to liquid cool and do away with many of the fans for purposes of making their PCs quieter, I could see how they'd mind.
Bigus Dickus
Regular
12" case fan!?
I do not see companies stepping away from the fxflow for the ultra version of the card as there aren't many ways to actually "step away" from something that might be needed for the card to run at such a high speed. One option might be to have the intake drawing air from inside the case rather then from the outside, e.g. the otes. This would help me as all of my intake fans do have filters on them already.
I do see the companies stepping away from, or trying their best to step away from, placing the fxflow on the standard card if they deem that it would cause problems with people 1 month or 2 months down the line with clogged up fans and if the large heatsink and fan would not be a requirement.
But in my mind, nvidia engineers have already gone through this discussion months ago and would of weighed up the pros and cons of having this contraption on their card.
How many people would be turned off the card if it did require you to open the case, remove the filter, wash it out and vacumm it and then put it back in every 2weeks - 1month? I see that as a worst case scenario though, so hopefully it wouldn't come to that.
I don't see users who water cool their pcs keeping the fan, they will most likely wait for a commercial water block to be released that supports the geforcefx or build their own.
G
Guest
Guest
Yes
Plz lock this topic
Plz lock this topic
- Status