Thursday, April 11th 2013
GIGABYTE Shows Off WindForce 450W VGA Cooling Solution
For those not sold on the looks and cooling performance of NVIDIA's reference design for the GeForce GTX Titan, GIGABYTE could have an alternative DIY cooling solution concept. The company is working on a new high-performance air graphics card cooler, which it could deploy on upcoming high-end graphics cards. Named WindForce 450W, the cooler is designed to handle thermal loads as high as 450W. GIGABYTE strapped it on to the GeForce GTX TITAN and GTX 680, to show it off, at its "New Idea Tech Tour" event held in Berlin.
WindForce 450W is a triple-slot graphics card cooler. It uses a pair of dense aluminum fin stacks to dissipate heat. Three thick (10 mm thick?) copper heat pipes convey heat to these stacks, which is drawn directly from the GPU die. The two stacks are ventilated by three 80 mm fans. When strapped to a GeForce GTX 680, GIGABYTE claims the cooler keeps its noise below 28.3 dB, with Furmark running. On the GTX Titan, it works to provide higher GPU Boost frequencies, or helps sustain set frequency offsets better. With NVIDIA clamping down restrictions on modifying reference design GeForce GTX TITAN (with exceptions for liquid-based custom cooling solutions), we won't see a card that combines the chip with WindForce 450W any time soon.
Source:
ComputerBase.de
WindForce 450W is a triple-slot graphics card cooler. It uses a pair of dense aluminum fin stacks to dissipate heat. Three thick (10 mm thick?) copper heat pipes convey heat to these stacks, which is drawn directly from the GPU die. The two stacks are ventilated by three 80 mm fans. When strapped to a GeForce GTX 680, GIGABYTE claims the cooler keeps its noise below 28.3 dB, with Furmark running. On the GTX Titan, it works to provide higher GPU Boost frequencies, or helps sustain set frequency offsets better. With NVIDIA clamping down restrictions on modifying reference design GeForce GTX TITAN (with exceptions for liquid-based custom cooling solutions), we won't see a card that combines the chip with WindForce 450W any time soon.
28 Comments on GIGABYTE Shows Off WindForce 450W VGA Cooling Solution
Very surprised they don't have a large back plate or frame to hold it all straight .
Not only should have so no bending of card but wouldn't be bad idea to have a adjustable support for card to take pressure off slot .
As for the bended card, mine has reinforcement bar on the CrossfireX connectors side and while it does bend a bit it's far less. MSI's TwinFrozr III also had such reinforcement. I'm quite sure they'll add one here as well.
Crank up voltage and clocks it just gets better and with custom fan profile its easy to keep it under 60c .
They are not that dumb.
I am too used to seeing beastly gpu's with beastly cpu heatsinks. That stock intel heatsink looks funny to me.
Coolers like this are starting to annoy me, i mean yea it does cool it and yea its quieter.. But what do you expect if its 3 times the size of the original cooler?? If people are going as far as 3 pci slots just for Cooling a single gpu i really think its time the way gpus are cooled, changes. I mean come on!! You can have a cooler the size of a brick sizzling away at sti high temps? :/ i really wish some saviour invents some new way of cooling that dominates fans, they just dont work as good as they used to, i know i may be soundin a little extreme but i can run at 5ghz on my i7 at like 60 degrees with a h60..water cooling is so mucn more effective and sorta around the same price.. And yeea i know thats bigger and that but liquid cooling or another way needs to be available, all the new fans and coolers that come out just look all the same.. What about a graphics card with the radiator (dual 120mm fan one) on top, the side with no gpu, and two fans over it, and then a full body watercooling plate over the other side with pipes from the top radiator going to that... Thats like a independent water cooled card! :0 someone make dis nao :3
Theres a pcb "strengthener" there