How is this beast cooled

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Sathsayin

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just wondering how the heck are the 2 cards in the middle cooled if the fan on the end is pulling air from the side and not the back? Somebody please explain!
 
Yeah, I've seen that pic and others like it before and wondered the same thing. It's obvious not much thought goes into the construction and design of these cards. They should have a cooling solution similar to my old x1900xtx which had a fully enclosed fan and sucked air in from the back of the card and blew it out the front. It was by far the best cooling design I've seen for a card. My guess is that the moved away from that method to cut costs.
 
There is a tag included with the gtx's stating the max recommended ambient room temperature, one temp for sli, another for triple sli. I dont have it avail right now though. Triple sli looks really hot without water cooling, I'm not sure I would run triple on air.
 
You could always just set your computer on top of the air conditioning vent.

:D

Or if you live in a cold climate area....I've heard of people placing their computer in the garage and run the wires through the wall to the inside. This idea sounds genius to me since I use Steam for most my games and would rather just leave it alone in the cold.
 
Well it looks like there's a tiny space between the two cards since the fan is set at an angle, but the clearance is extremely small. Also the air used for cooling the upper two cards would be super heated from the card(s) below. Tripple SLI/Crossfire is a waste of time and money anyway because you only utilize a fraction of the potential of the third card.
 
RamonGTP said:
Yeah, I've seen that pic and others like it before and wondered the same thing. It's obvious not much thought goes into the construction and design of these cards. They should have a cooling solution similar to my old x1900xtx which had a fully enclosed fan and sucked air in from the back of the card and blew it out the front. It was by far the best cooling design I've seen for a card. My guess is that the moved away from that method to cut costs.
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It was also RIDICULOUSLY loud. All of the cards from the Dustbuster age suffered similar problems- FX5800, X1800 and X1900 dual-slot coolers were all similar, and similarly short-lived.
 
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