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been bolting full-size case fans to their gpus for over a decade could it possibly be worth buying one of these the ASUS x Noctua rtx 3070 when you could just redneck engineer your own guess we'll find out won't we and we'll find out who our sponsor is thanks to g-skill for sponsoring this video g-skill just announced their latest flagship ddr5 kits the trident z5 series these extreme performance ddr5 kits are designed for 12th gen Intel core processors and the z690 chipset platform find out more at the link in the video description i mean it's kind of cheating isn't it ASUS and not to us performance claims may very well pan out in the end but the thing is comically large look at this i mean it's not like we haven't seen cards with taller pcbs before it's not like we haven't seen cards with long coolers on them before but what i don't know if i've seen before is this appears to be a quadruple slot card and not only that but the thing about a quadruple slot card is you're gonna need at least one next to it for these fans to get any kind of air intake i mean the truly mind-blowing to me is not only did they put full-sized 120 millimeter by 25 millimeter thick nf a12 desktop fans on the thing but they actually made the shroud like taller than them you know it's the kind of thing that i have to look at and go that probably wasn't ASUS's idea that was probably a knock to his idea or something to have this part sticking out here to make sure that under no circumstances would a knock to a cooled graphics card not perform properly because you can see that right there gives these fans quite a lot of buffer to take in air because you can't have anything right next to it you know i actually kind of like the look well yeah i just i think that's going to be a bit of a controversial take it's kind of sexy and like uh an ugly way you know does that make sense you know man it's like that like having a really like scary stuffed animal you know it's like scary cute it's ugly sexy man this is such an obvious collab i can't believe it took this long good on ASUS for getting it together i'd sort of expected october to do more than just strap their fans to a graphics card though now they claim they did but der bauer did a video about this card already and as far as he could tell the claims that ASUS knocked to a you know painstakingly redesigned this heatsink component don't appear to hold any water it seems to be exactly the same heat sink from ASUS rtx 3070 tough gaming let's play count the slots shall we so you got your one two three hold on one two three four four slots but can i actually install a card right next to it in that fifth one holy shnikeys it's actually going to push it a little bit and it's not even this isn't even a long enough card to interfere with the the peak of the bulge it's like it's like 4.1 slots i guess it kind of makes sense i mean you look at high-end motherboards these days and lots of them don't have a full complement of pci express slots like they used to they'll have just one 16x slot up at the top and then maybe a couple of more because so many of the platforms PCIe lanes are taken up by storage now so if you're not going to be installing anything in it anyway i guess you might as well have a thick chunky ass GPU like this one of course you might not as well have it unless there's actually a performance benefit let's get it on the bench although first this is here for reference so we can see what uh i'm gonna call this a regular rtx 3070 with a triple fan cooler on here is gonna get us in terms of acoustic results to be clear this is a thick card and around 44 decibels while turboing to 1950 megahertz and do maternal with GPU temps sitting at 63 degrees on the die and 73 degrees on the hot spot very respectable the Noctua one's just gonna have to do better if it's gonna take up a fourth slot as we shut down the system here we'll get a good opportunity to show you guys our noise floor here in the workshop with the hvac off so i'm gonna shut up for a second here at 28 29 decibels it's not an anechoic chamber in here by any stretch of the imagination but it's good enough for us to pick up a more normal rtx 3070 so it should be good enough for us to tell if this is better this thing looks so ridiculous i know right like the hilarious thing is the CPU cooler back here is what used to pass for you know a big CPU cooler now it looks like a toy getting CPU cooler envy over here ah something to note is that just like the tough gaming card that this is based on there's a performance and quiet mode switch on the back of the card here it ships in quiet mode but my assumption is that even performance mode on this thing would probably end up being pretty quiet i mean this is not my first kick at the knock to a can here i know that they make really quiet fans but damn it's a little awkward we went to get a reading off of it just to show you that it's under the noise floor in the room and the fans went turned off because it has a zero RPM mode so let's go ahead and fire up a light game theoretically this is one of those cards that has such a large heatsink on it that you should be able to run lighter titles without the fans even turning on but we'll see if that actually holds up and immediately there are a couple of observations we can make one is that the fans did in fact spin up so sayonara zero RPM gaming and number two is that roman der bauer observed that there was some coil whine on his card and i can verify that i'm getting some as well yeah i mean it's not loud in a way the product is kind of a victim of its own success because i wouldn't be able to hear that over the noise of a regular cooler it's just that i wish part of the collaboration between noctu and ASUS had been to design a board that managed extremely quiet power delivery i need a piece of metal like a side panel ah my lovely assistant james is over here helping prepare our victim for the thing you saw in the intro time for an extremely scientific experiment i'm going to get within earshot of the coil wine and put this panel in between us confirmed then as long as you've got it in a case like a normal person the coil wind's not likely to be a problem let's all just put the ball down huh huh they done did it they took my stuff get out of here boomer okay let's have a look if it's reached equilibrium yet wow has it ever 55 degrees with 66 on the hot spot and that's clocked at 19.50 just like we saw before my fans are off the fans are freaking off of course rocket league not as demanding as do maternal let's fire that up next and we didn't even check the acoustics okay turn back on come on it's open oh excellent i don't know i exactly know what you wanted i found all the screws yes okay bye no you're not done you want the fans gone too yeah okay because i'm gonna put my own fans on it yeah that's the thing that happens when you pull off the female receptacle and you're trying to remove the male connector uh well it's fine because it's going to go back onto there anyway whoops i've seen dogs get stuck together wow what a weird thing to say um here you go wow that sounds like it's spinning really fast but this is like an 11 blade fan or something like that so it hits your finger a lot more frequently per revolution if that makes sense i don't think it's gonna heat up any more than it did that is outstanding no crazy frequency on this GPU we're at hitting 1860 but that's to be expected this is not the oc version and then in terms of temps and we managed to get up to 57 and 68 on the hotspot and the craziest part is i don't think these fans even spun up anymore at all here everyone shh yeah we're right back to the noise floor you should note though you're not gonna see those kinds of temperatures in the real world because we're in a pretty cool room about 18 and a half degrees and we're running on an open bench which means that the GPU isn't sucking up hot air that was preheated by the CPU or any other components however that's a pretty compelling use case for a card like this if you have a stuffier case maybe a silence optimized one having a card that can run 10 degrees colder than the competition means that your case temps could be 10 degrees higher and the things still wouldn't thermal throttle not to mention the fans hadn't even wrapped up yet honestly this looks fine to me because you've got all the screws for this like heat spreader plate and you've got the four main screws for the actual fins leaving only one question is there truly anything special about this ASUS knock to a collab or could i achieve the same results with a couple of off-the-shelf Noctua fans and a roll of duct tape you ready andy all right i'm uh i'm gonna position my fan i'm doing some careful simulation engineering here i'm going to position my fan right at the edge of this heatsink because i want to take advantage of as much of this pass-through cooling as i can so i'm going to put that to put that right there i'm going to make myself a little uh kind of shroud okay okay so that's gonna go right there so we don't uh wait no no i can't do that no i'm not gonna make myself any kind of shroud the only uh hmm yeah what is the best way to take advantage of this because this is where the air has got to come out wait no no yeah no no not on this side yeah i know i was right in the first place dude okay only on this side where there's pass through this is so stupid stupid like a fox um sure look all right let's see you engineer uh a cooler in 10 minutes what do the kids say podcamp is this popchamp GPU edition i mean in fairness mine really doesn't look that much uglier and and my design is quite a bit more compact okay i think it's only three slots and change it's a full slot less thanks andy i was waiting for somebody to say it they're definitely spinning faster but i think part of the problem is that those are tied to CPU fan speeds ooh i have an idea i could go into the BIOS and reconfigure the fan curves but i got wancho in just a few minutes here so i'll just throw a couple of noise adapters on them let's go ahead and get an acoustic reading now it's not going to change because the fan speed is not tied to GPU temperatures in any way which could be dangerous unless our cooler was way overkill which i suspect this probably is so here i'll shut up let's uh just like the official knock to a GPU we are below the noise floor of this room which is around 29 decibels which is really freaking quiet but what about performance let's check out our canadian engineering here oh it's not as good not even close we suck oh no okay we're still turboing to 1875 1890 megahertz but we've got a problem we hit GPU temps of 83 degrees and a hot spot temp of 96. so to answer the question can you just build one for yourself the answer is no not unless you're willing to compromise on the silence that Noctua and ASUS have achieved with this collaborative product because we have demonstrated in the past that you absolutely can just clip 120 millimeter fan to your GPU cooler and it will perform pretty darn well you just aren't going to get away with using low noise adapters if you want to have proper performance so dang good product jesus Noctua good job guys and good job Linus segwaying to our sponsor ting mobile has new rates that make it easier than ever to see how much you can save by switching they have unlimited talking text for 10 data plans starting at 15 and then there's their set 12 plan which has 12 gigs of data for 35 bucks and they've even got unlimited data for 45 dollars a month if you liked their previous pay for only what you use plans they're still there they're called ting mobile's flex plans now and they charge just five dollars per gig data can even be shared if you have a family plan so you can connect more phones to save more you get the same nationwide coverage in the us and award-winning customer service and pretty much any 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