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like the stuff you need for gaming can be confusing to buy with all the
marketing fluff that gets thrown at Gamers in fact soon we'll be helping
Gamers narrow down their chair choices but today something a little bit more
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more now often the most obvious difference between one video card and
another is the cooler and this can have a tangible impact on the noise from your
PC the lifespan of your card and even
the performance of your gaming rig thanks to the way that modern graphics
cards turbo up their speeds when they're running nice and cool and throttle them
back down when they're overheating now there are marketing names for the
coolers used by the various card makers windforce Vapor X direct CU etc etc and
some of them are bound to be a little bit better or worse than others but today's video is going to tackle this
from a broader perspective how does the OEM style rear exhaust blower design
that you'll find on a reference video card one with a cooler design by AMD or
NVIDIA and then simply produced and rebranded by the manufacturer compare to
the open air designs that are typical of
a a nonreference video card where they blow the air kind of around in the case
versus blowing it out the rear panel so
let's walk you guys through the test we'll be using we wanted to examine this
from the perspective not necessarily of the most extreme PC Enthusiast but
rather a more typical PC Gamer so instead of using a Corsair 900d case we
went with a bit Phoenix Shadow a midtower chassis with decent but
decidedly unexceptional cooling with 12
20 mm fans at the front and at the rear on the inside we didn't do any special
cable management we installed a quad core core i7 non overclocked on a
passively cooled ASUS motherboard and we installed our power supply fans side
down so it would intake its own fresh air and exhaust it directly out the back
without affecting the other components in our test for our cards we chose a
GeForce GTX 780ti wind force from Gigabyte and a reference GTX 780 Ti that
we got directly from NVIDIA we chose these cards because as a high-end card
the 780ti generates a fair bit of Heat giving us a worst case scenario where
the difference in the results will actually be measurable and because our
780ti windforce uses the same PCB design
as our reference card eliminating board efficiency as a variable we also
overclocked our reference card to put it roughly in line with the rated clock
speeds of the wind Force card now we tested each configuration at idle and
and under load with Crisis 3 no unrealistic synthetic benchmarks here
and took temperature readings with our kype probe at the front intake rear
exhaust and inside the case near the stock CPU Cooler then we also took CPU
GPU motherboard and motherboard vrm
temperatures with aa's AI Suite monitoring software and MSI afterburner
now normally when we Benchmark graphics cards we do it on an open air test bench
for the ease of swapping them in and out but it appears that we may need to
re-evaluate this practice at some point in the future because while we did still
observe lower temperatures and therefore marginally higher boost clocks on our
open air graphics card just like we do on an Open Bench the internal
temperature of our case and therefore the temperature of every other component
inside went up significantly we're talking an increase in the neighborhood
of about 5 deg and on top of all this
the noise advantage that we normally observe with open air cool
was nowhere to be found our windforce
card was actually noticeably louder well the entire system was noticeably louder
with our windforce card than with our reference card so there you go
non-reference coolers might let your GPU run a little bit cooler but the rest of
your system will run hotter and possibly even louder unless you take the
appropriate precautions because remember this test scenario was designed to show
maybe not quite the worst but a very bad bad case scenario a mid-range GPU with a
lower TDP will not affect your case temperatures to nearly the same degree
degree like degrees of temperature sorry and adding more cooling fans or using a
better ventilated case like a fractal Arc series Corsair graphite series or
Cooler Master half series would help as well so the real Point here is make sure
that you use open air coolers responsibly and work to keep the rest of
your case temperatures down let us in
the comments if you thought this was interesting and if you'd like to see us tackle this topic again with maybe a a
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