GIGABYTE WindForce 5X Cooling Solution on GTX 680 SOC Pictured - 5 Fan Mayhem

PLAfiller · Apr 21, 2012

What an awesome product this card is

It makes a mini-ITX MB look insignificant

. There are some silent 40mm fans from Scythe, so until I actually hear this at 30%-100% speed, I say it's a very cool thingy

M.Beier · Apr 21, 2012

Sure, 40mm fans can be noisy.

But from the pictures we see, it could just as well be very low restrictive heatsink design with a crazy huge surface area....?

20*4cm^2 to be more exact

Also... IF it was high rpm fans, they would have turned them the other way, to blow air through the card.

Just my 10 cents.

NB: Would really be suprised if it is noisy, I have had 3 SOC cards over the last 2 years, and they have been the most quiet VGA's I've had.... Using the GTX580 SOC daily, this might replace it though.

... Fingers crossed that Gigabyte VGA doesnt read this, but, all the sales and marketing women in that division, look really cute

NdMk2o1o · Apr 21, 2012

So are these sucking away from the card?

M.Beier · Apr 21, 2012

NdMk2o1o said:
So are these sucking away from the card?

From the look on this picture they do.
On the right side, you see SLI connector, and the backside of the fan facing towards the cam.
They are sucking air through the card.

neliz · Apr 21, 2012

M.Beier said:
From the look on this picture they do.
On the right side, you see SLI connector, and the backside of the fan facing towards the cam.
They are sucking air through the card.
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/12-04-20/191a.jpg

How would that work out in a Z77 Sabertooth with thermal armor?

M.Beier · Apr 21, 2012

neliz said:
How would that work out in a Z77 Sabertooth with thermal armor?

I do not have the VGA here, hard to tell, but from another picture, it looks like there are holes (oval) near PCI-e, which also allows air passage, but dont think that is suffecient..

But personally, I'd rather eat a hat of hay, then own a Sabertooth product... They are fugly, and perform nowhere near what I expect from a motherboard... A big bang, G1, Extreme6/9, ROG is more likely to be paired with this beast of a card.
... And I have not had a ROG that didnt break within 6 months, so rule that one out too, I am not a big fan of loosing DIMM or frying CPU...

micropage7 · Apr 22, 2012

sad, its more like ghetto mods

Kast · Apr 22, 2012

The fans looks like they just it threw together. Kinda like something we would see in the ghetto mods thread.

Depth · Apr 22, 2012

Why not put 5 fans on the opposite side as well? It would go very well in this case:

dude12564 · Apr 22, 2012

Kast said:
The fans looks like they just it threw together. Kinda like something we would see in the ghetto mods thread.

Yeah, needs to be straightened.

mamailo · Apr 25, 2012

Unlike previous Nvidia chips; the 680 is not a furnace and the heatspreader fins are huge.Therefore the 5 fans will have a very low RPM making the card among the silents IMO.
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GIGABYTE WindForce 5X Cooling Solution on GTX 680 SOC Pictured - 5 Fan Mayhem

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