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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:13:00 No.51032199 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51032432 >>51032457 >>51032475 >>51032800 >>51033083

So /g/, why isn't there a bigger market for aftermarket GPU coolers?

I have a GTX 670 which I want to OC, but it already sits at 86C under load. I can't really find any decent coolers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:24:16 No.51032321 Report Delete

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Going by /g/'s obsession with AMD, I can only deduce none cares about the sanity of their ears.

86C is nothing to worry about. Temps below 97C are safe.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:34:17 No.51032432 Report Delete

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>>51032199
because other parts of the card besides the GPU need to be cooled and this usually requires a custom solution for non reference cards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:37:09 No.51032457 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51032813 >>51035796

>>51032199
There used to be, back when the things didn't need to dump as much heat. A whole generation of gamers had Thermaltake Blue Orbs on their Voodoo 3s and GeForce 256s. But those things needed what, fifteen or twenty watts of cooling? They were like those tiny 486 heatsinks with 40mm fans. Nowadays you need a pound of metal on the thing instead of just two holes with a standard spacing, and it has to cover the VRMs and memory, so every card has it's own mounting scheme. And OEMs found out that custom heatsinks were a good differentiator.

I am a bit surprised the passively-cooled market is completely gone now, though. Either as aftermarket sinks or as standard on any card more powerful than a GF 610.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:38:57 No.51032475 Report Delete

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>>51032199
because most non-reference cards have decent enough stuff nowadays so there's not much of a market for aftermarket stuff

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:49:38 No.51032611 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51032652 >>51032760 >>51035946

There is but only for people of a certain niche. Overzealous overclockers who don't want to go liquid or slend the money to do so. People who want to make their card just run cooler/quieter. People who bought reference cards and the squirrel cage fan is starting to rattle but they're still don't want to get a new card. Etc.

Pic related. This is a powercolor r9 290 pcs+ model. Pcs+ is far from a slouch when it comes to cooling, but gets loud as fuck. Tied into the fact that 1 of the 3 fans atarted to develop a rattle, it was annoying the piss out of me.

This cooler and card are currently in storage now because powercolor sent me a free r9 390. Cooler and default fan curve are so good I don't see the need to swap my morpheous over yet.

For anyone intereated in price, morpheous cooler is $60, 2 120mm fans of your choice.

I also bought an optional mini 4 pin to 2 way PWM 4 pin splitter so I can power the 2 big fans off the same curve as stock.

>cooler was so efficient, I was able to play games like Dark souls 1 & 2 maxed out and fans wouldn't even spin past 500 rpm keeping the card at 50C.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:53:01 No.51032652 Report Delete

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>>51032611
>6 slot cooler

lmao

should've gotten those clc coolers fag

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:01:53 No.51032760 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51032855 >>51032939

>>51032611
>morpheous cooler
I'm going to look into this, thanks.
Anything I should know, from your personal experience?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:04:47 No.51032800 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51032899

>>51032199
Because you can sell your 670 and buy an R9 280 for less than the cost of a 1/2 decent cooler.

Hence why aftermarket coolers are a thing, but only for high end cards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:06:01 No.51032813 Report Delete

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>>51032457
I also don't understand why there aren't passive 750 Ti. 75w shouldn't be too hard.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:08:51 No.51032855 Report Delete

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>>51032760
Its heavy. It does take up room in the case as the one anon mentioned. With 2 standard 25mm thick fans, the cooler almost takes up 6 full slots so not ideal if you're looking for xfire or multi gpu solutions.

I got it because I only run 1 powerfule gpu and want the card to run cool, quiet, even when overclocked. Plus the cooler is compayible with 99% of video cards because it uses the standard 4 bolt pattern with several hole mounts for different cards. Lastly, since it can accept any standard 120mm fan, if a fan ever dies you can just replace it with whatever you want. None of this waiting 3 weeks to get a fan assembly replacement from the company. Paying shipping both ways, RMA bullshit etc.

The pciesl support bracket you see in the pic is pulled from another cooler kit I had laying around. Would highly recommend supporting the card in some way because as I said, the cooler is heavy.

>R9 290 with morpheous pictured left. R9 390 pcs+ stock on right. Fans are cooler master jetflos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:12:14 No.51032899 Report Delete

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>>51032855
It's really tempting, but as >>51032800 says, the price just isn't right.
If I could get it for $50 AUD and no shipping I'd probably jump onto it. But I'll wait until next year when I get a new GPU. Hopefully there will be something better by then.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:15:42 No.51032939 Report Delete

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>>51032760
Also takes some patience and know how on your part. Trial and error to see what height passive heatsinks fit where etc. The cooler comes with a larger heatsink for the VRM section of card but my pcs+ cooled card has a good sink on that section already so it didn't seem necessary to swap. This is when I removed the stock cooler.
>>51032813
Because even thought the 750 ti is a small and not power hungry card, to completely passively cool it even when the card is at 100% load, the cooler would either be stupidly long or thick. Completely killing the point of a tiny compact card. People drastically underestimate how much of an impact even a slow spinning fan has on cooling.

Not to mention some dumbass would probably stuff the passive card into a no air flow case shoved under his desk/tv set and the card would idle at 70C. Passive cooled anything usually goes hand in hand with at least a moderately cooled case.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:26:03 No.51033083 Report Delete

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>>51032199
1. voids most mfr warranties to install
2. more parts to cool that you can fuck up by not cooling
3. reqiuires a reasonable amount of skill/confidence to install
4. rarely less expensive than a non-reference card
5. rarely better performance than a non-reference card
very small niche, really

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:15:05 No.51035689 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51035990

>using smaller, runtier coolers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:21:05 No.51035745 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51035881

Here is a nice comparison between the trix cooler and the Acellero xtreme IV, using the midplate mod.

https://imgur.com/a/1pqe4

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:26:33 No.51035796 Report Delete

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>>51032457

The passive market is still alive. With offerings as high as 750ti directly from the vendor (Or the Sparkle GTX 680, if you wish to count that)

And several large aircoolers that will do great as passive coolers on their own

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:38:50 No.51035881 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51036013

>>51035745

I honestly wonder if the midplate makes much of a difference in that setup - especially as it limits putting monster heatsinks on vrm1.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:46:43 No.51035946 Report Delete

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>>51032611
Mount SSD to bottom or back of case and pull out the bottom cage for more airflow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:52:56 No.51035990 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51036167

>>51035689
rip card pcb
rip pcie slot

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:56:28 No.51036013 Report Delete

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>>51035881
It was done because the stock backplate offers much greater stability for the card, and means there is no need to glue on additional heatsinks (since it mounts to the stock screw holes), that can fail.

The heat from the VRMs will spread to the entire metal piece, and will be dissipated from the air leaving the cooler itself

Cheers

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 08:16:15 No.51036167 Report Delete

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>>51035990

Nyet comrade - I have it supported.

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