Wednesday, April 7th 2010
Inno3D iChill GTX 470 Cooler Drawings Surface, Company Tanks Up on Fermi Stocks
Inno3D's quest for the first non-reference GeForce GTX 470 has taken a turn with the company now planning to design its own cooling assembly. First surfaced in late March, Inno3D's non-reference GTX 470 wasn't much more than a reference-design card with green colored PCB instead of black. It also retained the reference cooling assembly, albeit slightly toned down with four copper heat-pipes instead of five.
The new cooling assembly, now in the form of CAD drawings, makes use of an elaborate aluminum fin arrays to which heat from the GPU is fed by heat-pipes. These are cooled by three 80~90 mm fans. While cooling the GPU, the three also blow air onto heatsinks over the memory and VRM areas. Inno3D plans to brand its new card the Inno3D iChill GTX 470 Hawk 1280 MB. The DirectX 11 generation GeForce GTX 470 GPU packs 448 CUDA cores, and addresses 1280 MB (1.25 GB) of memory across a 320-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The company did not share when it plans to get these out.
In related news, Inno3D released pictures from its warehouse where it just received crate-loads of GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards from NVIDIA. This time around you can see the actual cards in the boxes. Ironically, Inno3D released pictures of its branded boxes of GTX 400 cards back in March, without showing pictures of actual cards. It had then claimed to be ready to ship those cards.
From here on, Inno3D, like every other authorized board partner, will place company stickers on those virgin cards, pack them in their shiny Inno3D branded boxes (pictured earlier), and off they go to wherever market demand takes them.
The new cooling assembly, now in the form of CAD drawings, makes use of an elaborate aluminum fin arrays to which heat from the GPU is fed by heat-pipes. These are cooled by three 80~90 mm fans. While cooling the GPU, the three also blow air onto heatsinks over the memory and VRM areas. Inno3D plans to brand its new card the Inno3D iChill GTX 470 Hawk 1280 MB. The DirectX 11 generation GeForce GTX 470 GPU packs 448 CUDA cores, and addresses 1280 MB (1.25 GB) of memory across a 320-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The company did not share when it plans to get these out.
From here on, Inno3D, like every other authorized board partner, will place company stickers on those virgin cards, pack them in their shiny Inno3D branded boxes (pictured earlier), and off they go to wherever market demand takes them.
24 Comments on Inno3D iChill GTX 470 Cooler Drawings Surface, Company Tanks Up on Fermi Stocks
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE DAMN CARDS ON SHELVES, NVIDIA?!?!?! :confused: :wtf: :rolleyes:
Edit: Another AC clone, I do believe.
Half the time they cant make sense and the other half the time is spent telling you how 'blazing fast' something is.
I guess I'm bored of hearing all this Failme news without seeing anything out as of yet.
If your going to shout about a product or some other fine thing your coming out with....at least have something to shout about in the first place. All I see at the minute are boxes in some storage facility and not cards in peoples rig. :shadedshu
When the latter happens, they by all means shout about a new (rebranded) cooling solution.
I stand by my statements and until I see cards they wont change.
Edit:
Can we at least agree on this being yet another AC rebranded cooler??
I think the heat argument is essentially goign away with all of the cooling and board enhancements we're seeign pre-launch.
By the time they hit the shelves it seems liek a wide array of solutions will be avialable to where the argument becomes "Is this card worth the extra cash or should I buy a regular 470 and get an after market cooler?"
seems like nvidia's partners have the issue handled imo.
Now these boxes I can believe.Dunno. Got some pics/drawings of the AC version?
Aside from the fans that are a little different, the entire cooling unit looks the same.
Pretty obvious its a rebrand. :)
Edit: The pictures above are also the "Extreme" edition...so I assume they are slightly different than the AC unit on this Inno3D card.
Edit 2: Better picture added. :toast:
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=118754
Inno3D have used AC products on their cards before...."iChill" for example. :)
Edit: Inno3D GTX260 "iChill"
Instead of seeking solutions do not care because it affects only gain the money.
Besides, here in India, the sales have already begun. Here's a listing: www.lynx-india.com/index.php?categoryID=674&offset=16
Also it looks like middle fan is 92mm and side fans 80mm. Opposed to 3x80mm in Accelero Extremes. That is likely so that it can tame the GTX 480. GTX 280 version is 250W and 4870x2 version was 320W.
Also you can compare the 4870x2 version with the heatpipe X to the cad thing: www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/images/gallery/4870X2_06h.png
www.techpowerup.com/img/10-04-07/25b.jpg
Oh and buy this if you don't want to spend 50€-60€/$67-$77 more later on Accelero ;)
edit: the GTX260 Inno3D iChill came out way before you could actually get Accelero Xtreme on store. They most likely steal the first Acceleros again and leave rest waiting.It'll be 3 slots like all previous Acceleros. So three 16x slots needed for SLI. Can be done on x58 boards and high end P55.
Anyways, that's a real nice cooler, hope they can keep the temps down to a good degree unlike the stock Fermi heatsink.
(fins should be along the axis of the card and the exhaust should be improved to aid in removal of heat rather than just swirling it all over the inside of the case)
(omg, that Inno3D GTX260 "iChill" looks even worse)