Sycom Releases GeForce RTX 50-series Silent Master Graphics Cards with Noctua Fans

[btarunr]

Sycom is a Japan-based OEM that specializes in build-to-order (BTO) gaming PCs and components such as graphics cards. Last year, the company released the Silent Master GeForce RTX 40-series "Ada" graphics cards that come with a custom cooling solution that uses an aluminium fin-stack heatsink, and a pair of large 120 mm Noctua case fans for ventilation; and this week, they launched the Silent Master RTX 50-series "Blackwell" graphics card series.

The series includes three models, the RTX 5070 Ti, the RTX 5070, and the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. At this point, it's not known if Sycom designed the heatsink or PCB—there's a possibility that these are sourced from a graphics card OEM without the cooler shroud and fans, and topped up with a custom cooler shroud, backplate, and a pair of Noctua-sourced high-end fans. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 cards come with larger coolers that use a pair of 120 mm NF-A12x25 (25 mm-thick), while the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card comes with a pair of 92 mm NF-A9x14. All three cards lack any form of factory overclock, their main claim to fame is their low noise. Unlike the ASUS Noctua Edition graphics cards, the three cards have relatively well managed card thickness of 3.5-slot or under. All three cards are being sold under the BTO (build to order) model, exclusively in Japan.



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[Tartaros]

I'm wondering if these style of cards could house thicker fans like the Phanteks T30 and how would they perform

 

[_roman_]

Noctua Marketing Hype. 92% according to Amazon.de keep their Noctua Product. Well I'm one of the 8%. noctua fail on the german text email support. the offset brackets for my previous am4 socket with the noctua nh-d15 with ryzen 5800x is also a hoax.

I give them credits for their market and for their high price strategy.

 

[TheDeeGee]

First SilverStone and now another, please let the adoption for this grow!

These dinky 10mm thick fans need to go.

 

[Chrispy_]

These dinky 10mm thick fans need to go.

Yeah, especially when there's a thick, dense finstack they have to work against.

For these 3-slot, triple-fan GPUs, the issue isn't even the quality of the fan, it's the fact that a puny little 10mm fan is being asked to push air through an extremely dense 40mm thick heatsink, riddled with heatpipes to block the flow of air, and then a PCB blocking the backside of the heatsink. It's a worse-case scenario in terms of static pressure for an ultra-thin fan impeller.

There's a better balance of fan-to-heatsink depth and I don't know what it is, I just know that what we have on most GPUs isn't optimal, not by a long shot!

 

[TechLurker]

I'm wondering if these style of cards could house thicker fans like the Phanteks T30 and how would they perform

Going by the blow-up image, it looks theoretically possible, though one would have to use either a longer screw, or screw the lower fingers/tabs of the fan to the lower shroud baseplate and then secure the shroud top to the upper fingers/tabs with self-tapping screws.

 

[trsttte]

YES!!! more of this please, standard fans! With some luck they migth start selling outside japan, or someone else might pickup that this is a market worth exploring

I'm wondering if these style of cards could house thicker fans like the Phanteks T30 and how would they perform

If you have space you could always put them on the outside and enjoy a decrease in noise from having the fans away from the fins, with some bits of duct tape on the inside to make the frame airtight.

 

[DudeBeFishing]

Those look like gentle typhoons. Have we gone full circle with fan design?

 

[RaceT3ch]

What I'm seeing are ASUS Noctua GPU's that aren't ASUS.

 

[Hereticbar]

Looks like they sourced their graphics card from Manli.

 

[Random_User]

Yeah, especially when there's a thick, dense finstack they have to work against.

For these 3-slot, triple-fan GPUs, the issue isn't even the quality of the fan, it's the fact that a puny little 10mm fan is being asked to push air through an extremely dense 40mm thick heatsink, riddled with heatpipes to block the flow of air, and then a PCB blocking the backside of the heatsink. It's a worse-case scenario in terms of static pressure for an ultra-thin fan impeller.

There's a better balance of fan-to-heatsink depth and I don't know what it is, I just know that what we have on most GPUs isn't optimal, not by a long shot!

Indeed. The presence of a bigger and thicker fan, would partly enliminate the need of bigger heatshink. At this point, even slim verions of regular120mm fans would have more pressure, and be much superior to custom, thin ones, integrated into the shroud. And that's outside the serviceability of said custom fans and VGA coolers.

Also, the companies try to substitute the µ-arch and manufacturing flaws, with higher clocks, and thus unreasonably higher thermal footprint. There would be no need in e.g. tripple-slot tripple fan 560 non-ti 8GB abomination. Thus is great to see, that this time more dual-fan dual slots, or even single fan dual slot cards are present, at least for nVidia. This trend should go on.

However, there should be more thrird-party "universal" GPU coolers availables. Actually the stuff like Accelero was popular in times of blower reference coolers. And It could be a factor, for the AIB companies to begin making their own alternatives.

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Though I wasn't quite impressed by both performance and built quality of said Arctic VGA coolers. The same goes to MX4 thermal paste.

But that require for the companies to allow the right repair and maintenance, without losing of warranty. Which won't happen. As much as selling cooler-free cards, with price cut accordingly the price of the cooler.

 

[Chrispy_]

At this point, even slim verions of regular120mm fans would have more pressure, and be much superior to custom, thin ones, integrated into the shroud.

Yeah, every mm of thickness added to the fans is a mm taken away from the fin stack, unless you want the GPU to balloon in width - but "slim" 120mm standard fans are 120x15mm or 92x15mm and I feel either of those would be a big improvement over the 7-8mm garbage fitted to most 2-ish slot coolers.

Like I said, I don't know what the optimum balance of fan thickness to heatsink thickness is, but I suspect that it lies squarely in between regular 25mm thick standard fans , and the 7-8mm thick fans AIBs include. a standardised, commodity 15mm fan would likely fit the bill by providing most of the airflow and static pressure performance of a 25mm fan, without robbing an additional 10mm from the heatsink thickness.