A blower and an axial??
I guess Acer just thought something like:
"What has nobody ever thought of combining to look cool but have dubious performance gains?"

So you now have none of the cooling advantage and all of the noise!

Wait, that was too negative.

Now you can have both "Whoosh" and "Low pitch whining" in your gaming rig for the ultimate factory floor feeling!

Semi-blower design? That is ... ... interesting.

I don't see a separate input for powering the cards RGB, unlike Intels own.

Correct or just a mistake by Acer when rendering the image?

This not their first discrete card for sure.

I remember some ISA cards... acer is really old.

There was some 9500GS also...

_JP_A blower and an axial??
I guess Acer just thought something like:
"What has nobody ever thought of combining to look cool but have dubious performance gains?"

So you now have none of the cooling advantage and all of the noise!

It's similar to the current FE cards from nvidia, half the hot air goes straight out, the other half is recirculated in the case (instead of everything getting recirculated as with other cards).

Pretty neat design concept if they don't screw it up

The Quim ReaperI don't see a separate input for powering the cards RGB, unlike Intels own.

Correct or just a mistake by Acer when rendering the image?

I think it might be correct, Intel solution was just a bit lazy, they could have integrated the RGB on the card instead of having an independent controller like most other components do.

Maybe a blower for the VRM and the axial for the GPU itself? I don't know, seems kind of cool to me.

It's really weird seing who is lining up to do cards for Intel, the initial frontliners are not the usual suspects Asus/Gigabyte/MSI but less known brands like Gunnir and now Acer that doesn't do many discrete components at all (Asrock as well, but they are a pretty common supplier).

trsttteIt's really weird seing who is lining up to do cards for Intel, the initial frontliners are not the usual suspects Asus/Gigabyte/MSI but less known brands like Gunnir and now Acer that doesn't do many discrete components at all (Asrock as well, but they are a pretty common supplier).

Most of these companies already have an partnership with Intel in the OEM market place so most of these cards will most be put into OEM systems and not for sale individually

_JP_A blower and an axial??
I guess Acer just thought something like:
"What has nobody ever thought of combining to look cool but have dubious performance gains?"

So you now have none of the cooling advantage and all of the noise!

Wait, that was too negative.

Now you can have both "Whoosh" and "Low pitch whining" in your gaming rig for the ultimate factory floor feeling!

I think you are indeed being too negative. If they tune the fan RPM profile correctly you can avoid the typical loud blower noise while reducing the amount of hot air dumped into the case. It should also perform better in cases with limited airflow vs a card that dumps all the hot air into the case.

Of course we'll have to wait for a review but it novel design that hopefully proves more than a pretty facade.

This might very well be the first GPU to feature a blower-style and regular fan for cooling. Looks good tho.

Also, another player just entered the GPU AIB market, which is great to see, after recent news from EVGA.

me likey

It actually looks really nice. I've never liked the heatsink / plastic shield recirc hot air in your case design that is so common.

Had an affinity for Nvidia's reference design too, until they turned it into a 4-slot paving stone with the 4090.

Acer-AIB, Intel-GPU.
Now, there's a combo I never expected to see. Really enjoying the unique aesthetic-direction of the Arc cards so far too.

Arc's launch is looking better than it was; better late than never, I suppose.
Volume availability and Drivers development and support will (IMHO) be what makes or breaks Intel GPUs 'catching on'.

trsttteIt's really weird seing who is lining up to do cards for Intel, the initial frontliners are not the usual suspects Asus/Gigabyte/MSI but less known brands like Gunnir and now Acer that doesn't do many discrete components at all (Asrock as well, but they are a pretty common supplier).

Perhaps the regular players weren’t interested in taking the risk, so Intel is doing its “partner” thing where they help with design, perhaps production, and maybe even advertising.

The EVGA replacement that everyone has been waiting for...

RandallFlaggIt actually looks really nice. I've never liked the heatsink / plastic shield recirc hot air in your case design that is so common.

Had an affinity for Nvidia's reference design too, until they turned it into a 4-slot paving stone with the 4090.

yep, that is part of the reason why I got my WX 2100: it is more or less self-sufficient with its cooling and does not pollute my case with hot air. I have no idea actually what my case fan setup is but there is at least one fan that makes a horrible racket and is almost certainly malfunctioning to some degree, so this is a good thing for sure.

I would've put money on it that Dell, RaZer, or even HP would be the next AIB partner after EVGA's demised.

But, Acer?!

What the hell is this nonsense? That is an odd design Acer, damned odd indeed.

lexluthermiester
What the hell is this nonsense? That is an odd design Acer, damned odd indeed.

I want to see that cooler in more detail without the shrouds. It might not be a bad design actually.

lexluthermiester
What the hell is this nonsense? That is an odd design Acer, damned odd indeed.

Dual 8 pin connectors no less. Not what one would expect in this price tier. Save on GPU, spend on PSU.

There isn't anything wrong with the cooling design, it's what all of the Nvidia FE cards are doing, half of the air leaves your case, half of it stays, overall, you'll get a cooler case.

Interesting design I'm sure their primary thought was for their own OEM Desktops which usually don't put alot of thought into decent airflow.

InVasManiI want to see that cooler in more detail without the shrouds. It might not be a bad design actually.

That's entirely possible, it just looks goofy. That's all I'm taking issue with. If it performs ok cool.

Darmok N JaladDual 8 pin connectors no less. Not what one would expect in this price tier. Save on GPU, spend on PSU.

True. Both of the A770 parts from Intel pull 225W(specs from Intel), perhaps the ACER model pulls more for some factory OCing?

It almost looks like they're trying to create a push/pull with the open fan pushing into the covered/exhaust?
Hmmm

maxflyIt almost looks like they're trying to create a push/pull with the open fan pushing into the covered/exhaust?
Hmmm

That might be it. Wondering how well that works..

It seems to me they are exhaust the rear GPU fan bottom up thru the fins while the rear blower fan is pulling and exhausting heat thru fins orientated in a different direction. It's very hybrid of blower and top down. Another way to do similar would be to put a divider in the middle and use two blower fans with standard blower fan orientation and have each blower fan exhaust heat out each side half outside the case half into the case out the rear of the GPU. I'm surprised the twin blower design hasn't been done in such a manner that I know of at least. The power connector could be right in the middle.

A card like RTX 2080 reference would be a ideal candidate for the type of twin blower arrangement I mention though really any dual fan top down arrangement card with proper fin orientation along with a divider barrier wall in the middle could work well.

A saw a neat cooler arrangement on a Sapphire Toxic AIO as well where the rear half of the card had heatsink fins and a fan that exhaust a portion of the heat out the rear of the GPU into the case while the front portion has a waterblock cooling the chip core itself. That design looked quite decent.

I've said it a good number of times that I'd like to see a twin fan setup with a blower fan involved so it's quite cool to see a company finally take such a approach. It looks like it could work very nicely. I have my doubts it would work as well as what I mentioned above in regard to a true twin blower arrangement, but I do think it'll work good in general and allow a nice mix of good heat exhaust outside the case and at more tame sound levels than a normal single blower fan setup would capable of at better temps.

It should scale back much of the bigger complaints with blower fan designs at their most extremes and worst case scenario's of over zealous fan speed RPM's trying to do the work of two top down fans. It's a nice compromise step to resolving that common design issue. I hope they send a review sample to test the cooling functionality. What would be cool is Arctic doing a twin AIO with a pair of it's freeze blowers divided in the middle with a shroud like I mentioned. That's what should be done on the new NVIDIA TITANS MAGMA EDITION cards give sob's a pair of 360 AIO's mounted on it.