Read more.In-house design touted, but we can't make sense of it.
Read more.In-house design touted, but we can't make sense of it.
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...
In-house/preferred manufacturer, rather than using nVidia's specified manufacturer?
Last edited by kalniel; 01-04-2010 at 07:44 AM.
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...
Rip the cooler off this card and stick a Danger Den water block on. The results will be much better than air cooling.
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