ixi7600 coming out but lets upgrade 6650xt, wut?

Double-Click180W card with a triple fan cooler slapped on it...because of course :rolleyes:

DemonicRyzen666Gamers want a quite card, the simplest solution is bigger chunkier heatsink that can use lower Rps fans that a two fan could not do.

DemonicRyzen666Gamers want a quite card, the simplest solution is bigger chunkier heatsink that can use lower Rps fans that a two fan could not do.

ymdhisNo, that's just the cheapest solution.
Quietest solution would be a decent cooler design with 4-5 heatpipes and a 120x25 fan. And then you wouldn't need the card to be so long either.

DemonicRyzen666No, it wouldn't, a single fan would have to spin at higher rpms to beat 2 or 3 fans. All heat pipes do is move heat to the fins better than just a block of copper would.
The amount of surface area for 2-3 fans is far higher than a single fan. Larger surface area for both Heatsink & fan will make it quitter be by having a large volume of air flow at lower rpms.

Double-Click180W card with a triple fan cooler slapped on it...because of course :rolleyes:

Darmok N JaladI think they do that just to help sell them. A big cooler makes the card look more powerful that it is. Plus I'm sure they like recycling certain cooling setups on as many models as they can. The shrouds just get different looks.

NordicI have a 6750xt that uses more power with a smaller heatsink. Running on the quiet fan profile the GPU doesn't get hotter than 65c. I do enjoy overkill on cooling so who am I to judge.

ymdhisA 120x25 fan would move a ton more air at far less noise than the itty bitty pancake fanse on most modern cards.
I used this on a 200W card (HD6950), with a Noctua NF-P12 zip tied to the heatsink:
www.fudzilla.com/20999-scythe-setsugen-2-shows-off
The same setup also worked on my RX580 and kept it at ~70C at most, while being way quieter than the factory cooler (I think it was a Sapphire Pulse).

That was with a single fan, with the card being 2.5 slots high, and the card did not need to be as long as a full sized ISA card. Now imagine if it was big enough to hold two fans.
Only problem is that modern cards put the memory slots so close to the mounting positions, that you can't put big enough heatsinks on the memory to use a cooler like this.

Current cards just have horrible, inefficient designs (they waste both space and thermals), so they need triple coolers and 3 slots to keep the card cool, that's all. But it's the only thing available at the chinese OEMs, so it's what they use on every card.