Tuesday, March 27th 2012
First Single-Slot, Air-Cooled GeForce GTX 680 Taking Shape
Single-slot advocates [in Asia, and select markets], your prayers are answered. Galaxy is working on a single-slot, air-cooled GeForce GTX 680. With a name that translates to "GeForce GTX 680 Warriors' Edition", Galaxy's card takes advantage of the fact that since very compact GK104 PCBs can be made, if dual-slot coolers are used, and since the TDP of the chip is a manageable 195W, the equation can be turned around to make long single-slot graphics cards.
Pictured below is the graphics card, with its [apparently] long cooler that protrudes beyond the length of the PCB. The cooler follows the same design principle at work in coolers of GeForce 8800 GT and Radeon HD 4850, that of a compact lateral-flow fan guiding air through a dense network of copper channels, where heat is dissipated to the air. These copper channels draw heat from a copper plate (probably vapor-chamber, in Galaxy's case), which makes contact with all hot components on the PCB, including the GPU, memory chips, and VRM. Hot air is guided out, from the top of the card. There is no further information about this card.
Sources:
Weibo page, Expreview
Pictured below is the graphics card, with its [apparently] long cooler that protrudes beyond the length of the PCB. The cooler follows the same design principle at work in coolers of GeForce 8800 GT and Radeon HD 4850, that of a compact lateral-flow fan guiding air through a dense network of copper channels, where heat is dissipated to the air. These copper channels draw heat from a copper plate (probably vapor-chamber, in Galaxy's case), which makes contact with all hot components on the PCB, including the GPU, memory chips, and VRM. Hot air is guided out, from the top of the card. There is no further information about this card.
47 Comments on First Single-Slot, Air-Cooled GeForce GTX 680 Taking Shape
but that still wont stop the fan having to spin faster to cool as much as a reference dual slot cooler. bigger fan is an improvement though
Nice thing would be to WC such a card while saving a slot, but custom pcb makes that a remote possibility.
Not spending $500 on a GPU regardless.
;)
I do like that galaxy is trying new things instead of putting out the same thing over and over hopefully they make this work and work well because having a shitload of $600 RMA's will kill them.
I don't like that out of 3 EVGA 8800 gt ko's bought new that I only have one that still works due to now fault of my own.
I’m guessing this single slot GTX680 will cost more then a typical dual slot so I might question the value in that.