http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5158This heatpipe seems to move heat from appromately 2cm away from the GPU die, and transfer it to a location... 2cm at the other side of the GPU die, give or take a few millimetres. It's a PCIe card too, so there's no bridge chip under the lower part of the pipe. There's no mention of the heatpipe in the press release. In that case then, given that we can't see how it helps cooling, our guess it's for use as a carry handle.
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It obviously makes it go faster....:S
you need me here for this:
It's a roll cage..in case you put your graphics card on it's roof in the forests of Wales.
It also strengthens the entire chassis of the board its on, hence improving handling, cornering and it allows for stronger spring rates without potential damage to the welds on the card.
Lastly, it's a jolly good place to mount your harnesses.
/tuts
How you tech guys get job, baffles me
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Surely it's a graphics/trombone combo, and that bit's the slider? I've been waiting for a development like this for years - it's such an obvious way to go I'm amazed no-one else thought of it.you need me here for this:
It's a roll cage..in case you put your graphics card on it's roof in the forests of Wales.
It also strengthens the entire chassis of the board its on, hence improving handling, cornering and it allows for stronger spring rates without potential damage to the welds on the card.
Lastly, it's a jolly good place to mount your harnesses.
/tuts
How you tech guys get job, baffles me
Next up, an ATI reference card which is also a perfectly servicable harpsichord while getting 80FPS with all the sliders yanked over to the right at 1600x1200 in Oblivion...
It's a handle to help remove it?
No its a tuning fork to make sure the harmonics of the cards environment is just right.
Flatmate's suggestion: bike lock.
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It would stop people stealing them.
Heatpipes can also be used to ensure an even distribution of heat throughout one heatsink (like the SP97) not just to remove the heat from the source & take it somewhere else. This means that you don't get more heat at the centre of the sink next to the core, & substantially less heat at the edges of the sink.
Though from the looks of that card, that pipe is completely & uterly useless. I think the conversation in the marketing department went something like this;
What can we do to sell this card?
I hear those heatpipe things are quite good...
Yeah lets have one of those!
But we don't need one...
Well lets slap one on anyway, nobody will notice!
You see if it has a heatpipe it "cools better". Even if the heatpipe held on with duct tape, it still "cools better"
Even is the heatpipe serves no purpose it still "cools better" with it. Or so goes public perception. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it has a HEATPIPE!
See System Specs.
One word: Bling
What you all havent realised is that the heatpipe moves in and out - it's a pump!
It's the worlds first manually-cranking GPU that doesnt need to be plugged in to the mains - you get one frame per pump, and the goal is to try to get a smooth running 30 fps.
- Another poster, from another forum.I'm commenting on an internet forum. Your facts hold no sway over me.
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it's a choke to help with early morning cold chipset stutter
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you know what?
this thread is not only funny, but scathingly accurate.
I wonder if marketing depts the world over realise that we think they may be trying to pull the wool over our eyes!
weird card
/serious note
I've sussed it. It's to literally stop you fitting it into a SFF PC, where it may overheat. Therefore, with a bleeding great bit of pipe stickin' out of the end, you cant, reducing RMA problems in a stroke!
/I am being serious
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