The graphics card with the hottest looks!

Tatty_Two · Jul 29, 2015

My Recent acquisition, Sapphire R9 290X VaporX OC..................

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RealNeil · Jul 29, 2015

I just love the look of all of these three fan Sapphire GPUs.

Tatty_Two · Jul 29, 2015

RealNeil said:
I just love the look of all of these three fan Sapphire GPUs.

And considering the reputation the reference 290X's had for heat and noise on launch, in contrast this thing never goes above 65C at load and is inaudible, it even shuts down 2 of the fans at stock/2D, says a lot for the cooler.

By-tor · Aug 6, 2015

A pair of these mmmmmm sexy!!!

They don't make noise or get very hot...

RealNeil · Aug 6, 2015

I have two of these GTX-690s for a WACO Quad SLI setup.

And three of these recently. Using two of them until the X99 is ready, then it's three together!

terroralpha · Aug 7, 2015

I love the look of the recent MSI "Gaming" GPUs, especially the GTX 980 Ti Gaming card. It feels more amazing in hard than it looks in pictures. makes my EVGA ACX cards feel like fisher price products. but I don't know if I would call it "hot."

but i will tell you what the CREEPIEST looking GPU ever made is, the AOpen 6800 Ultra. the first discrete GPU I ever had. I think that just by looking at this card you can figure out why AOpen was bumped out of the GPU market.
I can't say I remember much from those days, but I'm pretty sure I was too terrified to open the computer case and seeing this thing.

However, looking at this thing now make miss short, single slot GPUs...

By-tor · Aug 7, 2015

Back in the days of old...

JunkBear · Aug 7, 2015

HIS Ice-Q HD4670

gameboy3800 · Oct 16, 2015

don't let this thread die!

i've always loved the xfx 7990 ghost triple dissipation.

also loved the powercolor devil 13 290x/390 dual core. also 4 8-pin connectors. because 3 was clearly not powerful enough.

and how could i forget the gtx 680 2win Gemini? (was this card ever released, or was it just a proof of concept of a quad (YES, 4-SLOT) cooler? techpowerup's gpu database has it as released, but i can't find any other pictures of it other than this little bunch here.) if there are any other 4-slotters out there, please let me know. i dig that sh*t.

my all time favorite though is the Galax (Galaxy?/KFA2) GTX 980 Ti Hall of Fame LN2 GOC Edition. just ordered me one of these. i also have the normal LN2 Edition. with the amazing backplate. ln2 editions have 3 8-pins, which is the most power ever being delivered to a single gpu if i'm not mistaken. they use their own power board to give some insane power to it. 19 (16 + 3) phase power delivery system. up to 960 amps of power. GOC edition has Thermal shutdown/Power Limit Dip Switch to get max oc when using ln2. amazing.

GreiverBlade · Oct 16, 2015

gameboy3800 said:
don't let this thread die!

agreed...

rtwjunkie · Oct 16, 2015

All those power input plugs...

Welcome to TPU!

gameboy3800 said:
don't let this thread die!

i've always loved the xfx 7990 ghost triple dissipation.

also loved the powercolor devil 13 290x/390 dual core. also 4 8-pin connectors. because 3 was clearly not powerful enough.

and how could i forget the gtx 680 2win Gemini? (was this card ever released, or was it just a proof of concept of a quad (YES, 4-SLOT) cooler? techpowerup's gpu database has it as released, but i can't find any other pictures of it other than this little bunch here.) if there are any other 4-slotters out there, please let me know. i dig that sh*t.

my all time favorite though is the Galax (Galaxy?/KFA2) GTX 980 Ti Hall of Fame LN2 GOC Edition. just ordered me one of these. i also have the normal LN2 Edition. with the amazing backplate. ln2 editions have 3 8-pins, which is the most power ever being delivered to a single gpu if i'm not mistaken. they use their own power board to give some insane power to it. 19 (16 + 3) phase power delivery system. up to 960 amps of power. GOC edition has Thermal shutdown/Power Limit Dip Switch to get max oc when using ln2. amazing.

RealNeil · Oct 16, 2015

XFX's Double and Triple Dissipation coolers are a thing of beauty. Nice clean lines coupled with awesome cooling potential.

Welcome to TPU, gameboy3800. Thanks for your pictures.

N1GHTRA1N · Oct 16, 2015

I like my new MSI GTX 970 4G GAMING cards. If only they had backplates

natr0n · Oct 16, 2015

minimal and pretty hot

RealNeil · Oct 16, 2015

N1GHTRA1N said:
I like my new MSI GTX 970 4G GAMING cards. If only they had backplates

The GPUs are great, but I like your use of those Noctua fans.
I used them on one of my builds too.

N1GHTRA1N · Oct 16, 2015

RealNeil said:
The GPUs are great, but I like your use of those Noctua fans.
I used them on one of my builds too.

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Yeah. I love those fans. I wish I had a top exhaust for a couple more 140mm ones. Someday I'll cut my case I guess. I'd like to just drill a bunch of holes to recreate the look of the front of my case but I don't know how it would turn out.

I'm thinking of moving to a x99 sabertooth board, if I do I might get the Noctua Redux fans, I think they'd look awesome with that board.

How do you find the NZXT cooler?

RealNeil · Oct 16, 2015

It's a Kraken X41 cooler and it's doing a great job on the i7-4770 I'm using.

Idle is at 32c according to the NZXT software, load is at 52c max so far.

FordGT90Concept · Oct 16, 2015

So hot...

Edit: Where is it getting power from? :|

No, seriously, I like my card (not my pic):

Black, no frills, with an emphasis on cooling.

Kanan · Oct 17, 2015

my three jewels.

N1GHTRA1N · Oct 17, 2015

Another one from me... old and new... I love the look of the MSI 6970 Lightning too. Twin Frozr III is when MSI really got their heat sink design looking great.

peche · Oct 17, 2015

N1GHTRA1N said:
I like my new MSI GTX 970 4G GAMING cards. If only they had backplates

what a beautiful case!
indeed!

and also you are right... goood question ... why no backplates... ?

N1GHTRA1N · Oct 17, 2015

peche said:
what a beautiful case!
indeed!

and also you are right... goood question ... why no backplates... ?

That's awesome...

gameboy3800 · Oct 18, 2015

going off of my post from the other day, has anyone ever heard of or seen another card with a quad slot cooler like the (unreleased?) EVGA GTX 680 2Win Gemini? i'd love to build a matx bould of it for the lols.

darkangel0504 · Oct 18, 2015

N1GHTRA1N · Oct 18, 2015

I remember when I got my old Asus 4870 Dark Knight edition they were so badass.....

I also remember the ATi All in Wonder cards. It was all I bought for a few generations. The 9800 Pro was my favorite I think, but it's been so long it is hard to say but I remember being blow away but it at the time. The x1900 was my last one. The X800 XT was my last AGP card. Love that purple pcb

If you look closely you can see it installed in my system from this very old picture.

And check out my awesome all in wonder 128 pro in an even older shot. baller

Way way back in the day I used to roll with Matrox, I used to think they were king of 2D, the Millennium was awesome

especially when I paired it with Canopus Pure3D. It was so aweome it had 6mb of memory, most if not all over 3dfx cards only had 4mb...

And who can forget the Voodoo 2 in SLI, 12MB of memory on each card!!! I remember being impressed with having a total of 28mb of video memory (12+12+4) and wondering how things could ever get better.

If you were rich you got the Quantum 3D X-24, two voodoo 2's in SLI on a single card....

And just for fun... how many of us wanted this card??? The almighty Voodoo 5 6000 that failed to get released... the ultimate badass card...

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