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rek981

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Asus has done something ingenious. They have mounted the GPU and memory of a graphics card on the reverse side of the card. That is, the GPU faces the CPU instead of bottom expansion cards.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30166
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=2&l2=6&l3=0&model=953&modelmenu=1


This is a GREAT idea that will make the cooling of a GPU much simpler. Now there is just one "thermal compartment"? with air the cools the GPU and CPU at the same time, and then its flows out the case.

I thought one of the biggest advantages of BTX is that the GPU gets cooled with the GPU in the same thermal zone. Now, ASUS as accompolished this in ATX form. I hope this becomes a standard even if it does look kind of funny.

Ross
 
looks neat I never got why they kept putting the gpu in the old place once they got so hot anyways.
 
The problem with this is that alot on many mobos the cpu cooler comes really close to the video card. This heatsink would interfere with the cpu cooler.
 
It'd be really nice to watercool this bad boy. Just use a block with barbs situated like a CPU block. (I'm thinking a DD Maze4 chipset block would work nicely)
 
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