Monday, April 30th 2012
GIGABYTE GTX 680 SuperOverclock WindForce 5X Pictured Some More
Unveiled earlier this month, GIGABYTE's GeForce GTX 680 SuperOverclock has been an attention magnet thanks to its WindForce 5X cooling solution, which you'll either love or hate. Coolaler.com got to spend some time with this card, more importantly, to dissemble it. The cooler is found to occupy 3 expansion slots in your system, which isn't exactly new, no thanks to ASUS and its DirectCu II solution. The entire volume of card's cooling area is occupied by a gigantic heatsink.
At the base of WindForce 5X cooling solution is a vapor-chamber plate, which draws heat from the GPU and memory chips. This plate makes contact with five 8 mm-thick copper heat-pipes. These pipes pass through the gargantuan heatsink in a closed loop. There are five 40 mm fans arranged on top of the card to ventilate the heatsink. These fans occupy extra space on the top-side of the card, since as we mentioned, almost the entire volume of the cooler's space is occupied by the heatsink. The back side of the card was also shown, fitted with a back-plate, with as many as four NEC Tokin proadlizers peeking out of a cutout. Other components on the back side are hard to make out.
Source:
Coolaler
At the base of WindForce 5X cooling solution is a vapor-chamber plate, which draws heat from the GPU and memory chips. This plate makes contact with five 8 mm-thick copper heat-pipes. These pipes pass through the gargantuan heatsink in a closed loop. There are five 40 mm fans arranged on top of the card to ventilate the heatsink. These fans occupy extra space on the top-side of the card, since as we mentioned, almost the entire volume of the cooler's space is occupied by the heatsink. The back side of the card was also shown, fitted with a back-plate, with as many as four NEC Tokin proadlizers peeking out of a cutout. Other components on the back side are hard to make out.
47 Comments on GIGABYTE GTX 680 SuperOverclock WindForce 5X Pictured Some More
I know I performed a mod a long time ago like I am showing and ... while it was ugly as hell.... I saw temps in the max of 56c highly overclocked with a gtx 280
vr-zone.com/articles/gigabyte-gtx-680-oc-windforce-3x-2gb-review/15433.html
It was a good business decision to use several noisy fans.
Fortunately in this case there are plenty of alternatives.
Same reason as people bought the dustbutser in the past: because it's fast
and same reason people buy cases with 10 mind-bending fans like the CM HAF series, noone in their right mind would buy that for accoustics, yet it's one of the most popular "high end overclocker" cases
i'll tell you more, searching in Delta(pretty much the only good fan maker) yields interesting results:
for 40x40x10 fans the mightiest one can barely push 0.55 CMM(~9CFM) @8000rpm and the noisiest one is no more than 35.5dBA....
the fans i thought it had where 40x40x48 and those are server fans that work at 13000rpm and those push .850 CMM (30 CFM)
but for design (minus the fans) it looks OK for me
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Palit/GeForce_GTX_680_Jet_Stream/27.html
This Gigabyte card is just a curiosity to me. Will be interesting, but I will be surpised if it doesn't have a server whine to it.