Monday, March 30th 2015
Japanese OEM Tosses Out GTX TITAN X Heatsink for AIO Liquid Cooler
Japanese OEM gaming PC builder Sycom addressed the biggest shortcoming of reference NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X - heat (which runs into a thermal throttle too often), and the resulting noise (rivaling that of a Radeon R9 290X reference), by innovating a new all-in-one liquid cooling solution. Found on the company's G-Master Hydro series gaming desktops, these modified GTX TITAN X cards look reference, except a cut-out on its top, through which coolant tubes pass through.
The loop itself appears to be basic Asetek fare, with a round pump-block cooling the GPU, with its heat being dissipated by a 120 mm x 120 mm radiator. The memory and VRM is cooled by a base-plate that's ventilated by the NVTTM (NVIDIA time-to-market) reference cooler's main blower. Given that the GPU will run cool, we imagine that the blower will not be as noisy. NVIDIA restricts its add-in card partners from coming up with custom-design cards, but this mod appears to be by an OEM, and these cards won't be sold in the retail channel. It could fall into the same gray area that allows EVGA to sell its HydroCopper variants.
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Hermitage Akihabara
The loop itself appears to be basic Asetek fare, with a round pump-block cooling the GPU, with its heat being dissipated by a 120 mm x 120 mm radiator. The memory and VRM is cooled by a base-plate that's ventilated by the NVTTM (NVIDIA time-to-market) reference cooler's main blower. Given that the GPU will run cool, we imagine that the blower will not be as noisy. NVIDIA restricts its add-in card partners from coming up with custom-design cards, but this mod appears to be by an OEM, and these cards won't be sold in the retail channel. It could fall into the same gray area that allows EVGA to sell its HydroCopper variants.
31 Comments on Japanese OEM Tosses Out GTX TITAN X Heatsink for AIO Liquid Cooler
But your point is valid, silly placement of the tubing.
And these Noctua Color discussions are getting old. Noctua changing Color is like Ferrari painting their Cars Pink instead.
To me, as long as it does what it's supposed to and it performs well, it's good enough. I don't give a rat's ass if it's color combines or not with the rest of the gear.This on the other hand is a different story. I suppose as long as it's for a single card system it's OK: not so much for multi card configs.
Though it does beg the question why they that that tubing spot was acceptable, I mean it makes it even a bit difficult just for basic SLI (Not impossible just a bit more difficult). I think they are intending this to be for a serious quiet single GPU solution or dual at most with heavy clocking being a viable option without the noise. Still though, they should think about things like that from the beginning instead of making them restrictive as it limits your customer base and ideas people can do with the cards.
It sure looks like one.
noctua.at/main.php?show=redux
noctua.at/main.php?show=industrialppc
EDIT: just read the page - they are actually for industrial usage. Tesla/Firepro to Nvidia/AMD equivalent then....
The Industrial Fans are well, Industrial. Noisy, Expensive and Extremely Durable.
how the fck pipes are blocking for you SLI bridge let me ask, I think guys you created this hybrid more cleaver than you, if you going dual gpu, one rad, mouth at botton case, in middle, second one rad going at back, next to cpu, and you can easy mouth your bridge.