Friday, January 6th 2023
ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on
ASUS showed us its GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card that it formally announced yesterday. To call this card thick would be an understatement, as it's possibly the first graphics card that is 5 slots thick! The card easily overshoots what constitutes 4 slots, and is technically 4.2 to 4.3 slots; but then expansion slot counts are whole numbers rounded to the next digit despite what marketing says.
This card combines an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 PCB with an air-based cooling solution designed by Noctua. The cooler has two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes, and ventilated by a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans that feature fluid-dynamic bearings. The fan-tuning for this card is a Noctua-ASUS collaboration, and promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080 you can buy.
This card combines an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 PCB with an air-based cooling solution designed by Noctua. The cooler has two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes, and ventilated by a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans that feature fluid-dynamic bearings. The fan-tuning for this card is a Noctua-ASUS collaboration, and promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080 you can buy.
44 Comments on ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on
But yeah, can't really afford a 4080, let alone this monster. I mean this will probably cost so much you won't be far away from a stock 4090 price point... so eh. Pointless really
two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes
a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans
promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080
I hope so !
It's the minimum we can expect of this card.
There will be something wrong (or useless) if it's not crushing the competitors RTX 4080
At least those have proper fans (and a noctua\strix face ;)
Slots should be whole numbers, so either 4 or 5 slots.
We live in a made world :kookoo:
I can't wait until number of fans becomes a unit of measurement, too, so we can express it in decimals. :laugh:
Noctua: here's a couple of spare fans we had lying around
Asus: but these are standard thick case fans
Noctua: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Asus: 5 slots it is
The reason it's "5 slots" thicc and not 4.2 or 4.3 is because if it sticks into the 5th slot even a little, it makes that slot unusable, so whether it's 4.1 or 4.99, it blocks 5 slots.
I guess this will not fit into mITX cases with three slots then. Perhaps into some larger mATX depending on the space left below the last slot.
It will cover all PCI-e slots on a mATX MB too.
This ridiculous noctua colour scheme can get stuffed.
This is clearly for silent aircooling enthausiasts and Noctua fans, let us have some joy as well.
For you SFF users there are still 2-slot options out there with shitty heatsinks and noisy fans.