Friday, April 10th 2009
ASUS Formula Series VGA Coolers Detailed
PC Hardware giant ASUS is preparing a the Formula series graphics card air-coolers. The coolers in several shapes and sizes, are designed to streamline air-flow to achieve better cooling performance, and overclocking headroom, as ASUS puts it.
The most distinctive features of these coolers are the F1 car-shaped shrouds, and almost centrally-located, dust-proof fans that blow air onto aluminum fins, or radially-projecting heatsinks. The coolers first caught the eyes of the press during the CeBIT event.
A presentation by ASUS dealing has been sourced by Expreview, that reveals the company's claims of the cooler providing better distribution and dissipation of heat, and quieter operation in comparison to other coolers. It is unclear at this point in time, whether ASUS markets these coolers "as is", or as parts of their graphics cards.
Source:
Expreview
The most distinctive features of these coolers are the F1 car-shaped shrouds, and almost centrally-located, dust-proof fans that blow air onto aluminum fins, or radially-projecting heatsinks. The coolers first caught the eyes of the press during the CeBIT event.
A presentation by ASUS dealing has been sourced by Expreview, that reveals the company's claims of the cooler providing better distribution and dissipation of heat, and quieter operation in comparison to other coolers. It is unclear at this point in time, whether ASUS markets these coolers "as is", or as parts of their graphics cards.
23 Comments on ASUS Formula Series VGA Coolers Detailed
More companies should do this.
Or is it just what they will be using on their own :(
they look pretty neat especially for a F1 Ferrari Project PC:D:D
i dont get how fans can be dust proof, and i dont think thermal dissipation across the heatsink fins really means anything about the cooling capacity if the airflow is being reduced. and finnaly it puts air back in the case. 200W being pushed around other things is a "no way" for most of us, especially if xfire or sli is in question.
Thermals don't show you what the actual temps are. And most importantly, no real life test results. If they say this cools better were are the idle and load temp results? Where are the noise test results?
Im liking the cooler.
By dust proof they mean that the gap between fan and the fan frame is almost nonexistent. That gap is commonly where dust will kill a fan's bearing, and is a PIA to clean, thus making the fan have a dust-proof bearing. It does not mean that the fan doesn't spin, or that the plastic doesn't collect dust.
But yeah that shroud is just stupid. They should instead have just bolted on two or even three fans arctic cooling twin-turbo style. Note that those look like 8mm heatpipes which means that this is potentially a potent cooler. Shrouds don't work well with such low amounts of airflow.
F1 style? F1 isn't engaging in air manipulation sorcery anymore.
On another note:
I subscribe, give us the Matrix cooler ASUS!