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Extreme add-on designed to assimilate multiple high-end GPUs.
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Extreme add-on designed to assimilate multiple high-end GPUs.
Ugly and no doubt expensive, if you have the money for three high end cards,i would imagine you would also own, or be able to afford a tasty custom internal loop.
Pointless, will be too expensive and a custom loop will be much much better.
Wow that is ugly! Agree with bigstu - the venn diagram of people with enough money to run 3 graphics cards but not enough money (or inclination) for a custom water cooling loop probably has a VERY small intersection...
IBM have chip coolers piping water through nanotubes on the chip itself... maybe intel/nvidia should catch up.
Why do people need water-cooled PCs any more?
I'd be interested in something like this, anything that stops me having to actually engineer/design my own watercooling setup is welcome in my books!
And I'd only have 1 or 2 graphics cards...
shaithis: three reasons
1. Better cooling gives more room for overclocking
2. If you cool GPU and CPU (at least) without overclocking you get a quieter PC
3. Because it is FUN!
It actually doesn't seem like an awful idea, it appears to basically be a closed loop type solution to cooling multiple things in small spaces, with the advantage of not having to bodge coolers designed for CPUs onto GPU mounts. (although I suspect it probably still does this).
Like anything it depends a lot on price/performance. For £200/250 I can see a lot of people going for it over 2 closed loop coolers.
e-Peen and lower noise, it's usually easier to quietly dump heat to the environment if you transport it away from the source and into a much larger radiator (with big & slow fans) than you can fit on top of a chip.Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
youre right,i for example bought the 290 an not 290x just because its 100 euros cheaper an kept all in limit ,but that pc will cost 4000 euros and +- 500 for the cooler its not so much for a pro in the bussinessQuote:
Originally Posted by bigstu
Is it really that easy to run three air-cooled cards side by side in a system without them overheating?Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
Yup and cards are sold to be able to do that......Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
I love how they left a crappy-looking heatsink and fan on the cpu and that monster of a rad just for the graphics cards :)
Typically, cards either exhaust or draw in air from the top of the card, which is exactly where the second card goes when you go SLI, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
And for tri-SLI most of the motherboards I've seen ram the cards so close they're virtually touching.
1 rad for 3 cards ?? never... defeats the object cool and quiet ..
@shaithis r9 290 running at 44 deg c at load and quiet and a 5ghz cpu also quiet ..
could be people like the quiet side of it ..
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Originally Posted by shaithis
Used to be obsessed with water cooling in an attempt to overclock and have a silent system. Now use a £20 Gelit CPU cooler and decent GPU card custom cooler and my system is silent with a CPU/GPU that doesn't need overclocking and runs silent.
With CPU's and GPU's getting cooler, smaller and less power hungry..... I agree with shaithis, water cooling is not required to achieve overclocks or silence anymore.
Although I do miss the look of tubes and water in my PC.
Also, that demo machine is terrible looking - would have thought they would have spent some time on cable management.
Well that looks like something I could never afford
to annoy people who ask why instead of how.Quote:
Why do people need water-cooled PCs any more?
I wonder who was in charge of their cable management... Catweazle, perhaps?
The extra pic on vr-z that shows the radiator shows that it's not your standard water rad, looks to me like a bunch of heat pipes and heatsinks. There is also 3 pumps and 6 water lines so each card has it's own loop.Quote:
Originally Posted by flearider
It has potential but we'll just have to wait and see.
How many 'custom' loops are designed by thermodynamic experts ? diy doesn't automatically make it better than the experts. I have seen some truly awful designs in my time where components haven't been matched together. Mainly pumps & tubing that are totally out of kilter with the rest of the system.
I'd like to see more about how it works, but this could be right up my alley.
I upgrade a lot, and have done full water loops before, but don't like thm because t turns the fun expereieence of getting a new graphics card or cpu into a days work usually filled with lots of swearing.
I would love a custom water loop that would allow me to upgrade and drop in components without ever having to drain the loop and re-do the tubing.
_Why_ attach via the front panel? That's fugly as hell.