Thursday, January 24th 2019
Colorful Announces GeForce RTX 2080 Sans Cooler for Waterblock Afficionados
Colorful will be offering a cooler-less version of their RTX 2080 iGame Vulcan Advanced graphics card. The engineering effort on this graphics card is simple: just take off the entire triple-fan cooling solution that usually ships with the graphics card, lower the pricing by the appropriate reduction in BOM costs (or close to it), and offer a slightly cheaper alternative for users that would be investing in a watercooling solution anyway.
Colorful, being one of the biggest players in the Chinese market, where iCafes are all the rage, offers these particularly interesting cooler-less versions for those businesses that want to keep heat dissipation through the room to a minimum. It seems the graphics card' design closely mimics that of NVIDIA's reference deign, which should maximize waterblock compatibility.
Sources:
Cowcotland, via Videocardz
Colorful, being one of the biggest players in the Chinese market, where iCafes are all the rage, offers these particularly interesting cooler-less versions for those businesses that want to keep heat dissipation through the room to a minimum. It seems the graphics card' design closely mimics that of NVIDIA's reference deign, which should maximize waterblock compatibility.
14 Comments on Colorful Announces GeForce RTX 2080 Sans Cooler for Waterblock Afficionados
Somebody buys this, puts it in the case, powers it on.... watches the magic smoke come out.
Extract from tech support call:
"Oh, I needed to put a cooler on it???"
I do like the idea, it's just kind of like Intel the processors without the iGPU historically leaving features out of IT equipment doesn't usually reduce price as much as it should (or at all in the case of Intel).
I'm surprised no one has done this before... perhaps lack of demand and watercooling being relatively niche. Good idea though.
Are the multiple fans on a rad quieter than the multiple fans on a video card? Since rtx series is just pascal with rt sewn in, I doubt they oc much better. So it just for the noise factor?
Only reason I ever tested hardware because of the worry of removing that big air cooler and then the hardware not working. This shouldn't be an issue with this card because you don't have a cooler to remove.
It if doesn't suit then...don't buy it