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Are the heatpipes on both coolers the same diameter? Maybe the ones on the stock cooler are thinner?
If I remember correctly, the heatpipes on the base GTX400s are made of aluminium, those heatpipes are of copper...
nope, both are copperQuote:
Originally Posted by KingORoff
the fins look a bit longer than the original 470's, and the heatpipes are slightly bigger too, also different capacitor's are used
Better voltage regulation to reduce power draw, perhaps? Still got the full complement of PCIe power connectors though, but the look of it...Quote:
Originally Posted by HW_90
Nope, I've got no idea what they're doing with that... :O_o1:
In-house/preferred manufacturer, rather than using nVidia's specified manufacturer?
Going by the writing on the side of the cooler and comparing it to the reference heatsink, I'd say they were made by the same company.
I'll ping our contact at Inno3D and see if they're willing to talk about it.
The reference card's 5 heatpipes are inefficient. The outer two barely make direct contact with opposite corners of the GPU, so it will effectively function as a 3 heatpipe solution.
As the Inno3D card only uses 4 heatpipes, the outer two will have better contact - and therefore be more efficient at transferring heat away.
I can't imagine what Nvidia's engineers were thinking... :confused:
Rip the cooler off this card and stick a Danger Den water block on. The results will be much better than air cooling.