Nvidia not the only one using extreme cooling...

Humus said:
Nagorak said:
Humus said:
Did anything happend to them?
There's one such board laying around over here. My roommate had such a card for a while but is selling it now that he took over my old 8500.
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You mean your "new Radeon 9100". ;)
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That confused me ... not sure what I'm supposed to reply on that. :-?

My roommate has a passive cooled Radeon 9000. Nothing particularly special going on here, they should be available to buy pretty much anywhere.
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LOL, looks like I accomplished my daily goal of spreading chaos and confusion. I guess I just shouldn't have mentioned something as pointless as that, since it has almost nothing to do with the topic at hand. Oh well. :LOL:
 
That cooling system doesn't look very 'extreme' at all.
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What about this one then Cellarboy? :)

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Heat pipes? Aren{t they based on phase changes by definition? Otherwise they{d just be heatsinks. Or have I got it wrong again? I think of a heat pipe as something which uses heat to evaporate a liquid, with the high effectiveness coming from the high latent heat. The evaporated liquid then heads off along the pipe to somewhere it can dump the heat, recondensing and returning to the hotspot down the bottom.

You mean this isn{t what{s being implemented in these various heat pipe solutions? I am crestfallen.

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The problem I have with those coolers for gfx cards are that they use separate circuits for RAM and core. That means one PCI slot lost due to the L-shaped connectors to the core waterblock.

That's stupid. RAM doesn't produce enough heat to warrant an entirely separate circuit. If someone made a one-piece design at a reasonable price that did not eat a slot, I'd buy it.

*G*
 
if someone's bothering to put waterblocks on their ram(or anywhere for that matter), they're likely going to be trying to o/c it by quite a bit..
 
Why are people talking about "eating slots" so much? I've got 5 hard disks in my case, an IEEE 1394 firewire card, a USB slot providing 2 extra ports, ethernet card, AGP card, 802.11 card, and I still have empty slots left. And this is on a standard ATX el-cheapo case.

My case has a total of 7 slots. With today's system chipsets having lots of integrated features, who the hell can't spare an extra slot?

Even if you wanted to put in a audio card and raid controller, you'd still have the space. Slots aren't a precious resource these days.
 
DemoCoder said:
Why are people talking about "eating slots" so much? I've got 5 hard disks in my case, an IEEE 1394 firewire card, a USB slot providing 2 extra ports, ethernet card, AGP card, 802.11 card, and I still have empty slots left. And this is on a standard ATX el-cheapo case.

My case has a total of 7 slots. With today's system chipsets having lots of integrated features, who the hell can't spare an extra slot?

Even if you wanted to put in a audio card and raid controller, you'd still have the space. Slots aren't a precious resource these days.
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This si especially true because the slot that gets "eaten" is the one right next to the AGP slot. And i can tell you in the last 3 mobos i have had, it shares an IRQ with the AGP slot. Most people prefer NOT to do this - so they recommend not putting anything in that slot anyways.
 
Isn't it true that when you die shrink something like a GPU you actually need better cooling even thought the power req's decrease? Because when the chip gets smaller the heat becomes more conentrated so you need to move it away faster...

Atleast that is my understanding... I would not make any assumptions on how far NV is pushing NV30's clock...
 
DemoCoder said:
Why are people talking about "eating slots" so much? I've got 5 hard disks in my case, an IEEE 1394 firewire card, a USB slot providing 2 extra ports, ethernet card, AGP card, 802.11 card, and I still have empty slots left. And this is on a standard ATX el-cheapo case.

My case has a total of 7 slots. With today's system chipsets having lots of integrated features, who the hell can't spare an extra slot?

Even if you wanted to put in a audio card and raid controller, you'd still have the space. Slots aren't a precious resource these days.
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Seriously...I have just about every type of card I could conceivably use and I still have two spare slots. Not to mention I can just chuck the modem if necessary, since I only use it once every two years (or less).
 
Its funny I've always had a system exhaust fan anyway below my GPU taking up that not so precious PCI slot 1.

At least an OTES style cooler would be more effective.
 
I didn't put anything in my PCI slot next to my GF4, so it wouldn't bother me. But i can see problems for people who have all the slot taken. Does that happen often? Don't know :-?
 
I dont think you'd see any system builder etc advise you to use PCI slot 1. It shares the same IRQ as the AGP slot. It should only be used if you have a PCI graphics card. Therefore losing it to cooling is no biggie.
 
What if i want to put my fire wire card that plugs into my audigy there? it doesn't use the slot just the opening in the back. that would take up room. Excuses or not its still a fugly cooler .
 
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