EMTEK Launches Blower-Style GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Card

[Raevenlord]

EMTEK has only graced our news feed once before, mostly due to it being a behind-the-scenes board partner for NVIDIA. More than release their in-house designs, the South Korean company usually provides them for other AIBs, such as Palit. However, the company has recently been moving their graphics cards towards the consumer market as well, and the latest in the batch is a custom-designed GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card, marketed under the "Blower Edition" product SKU.

The "Blower Edition" RTX 3090 from EMTEK features a more mainstream dual-8-pin power delivery connector with a twist: the company adapted NVIDIA's PCB design and added a daughter card, which extends the original PCB so as to allow the connectors to be placed in the more practical manner of generations past. The RTX 3090 "Blower Edition" otherwise offers the usual 3x DisplayPort, 1x HDMI connectors, and features a bronze design with a bronze backplate as well; a somewhat subdued design language is used, though the color choice would be a hard one to integrate into most hobbyists' systems.



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[watzupken]

Feels like all these blower style cooler are made for miners not gamers. At full tilt in games or benchmarks, I doubt the single blower fan can cool the card sufficiently without sounding like a leaf blower.

 

[Chrispy_]

I'll take it on a 3060Ti please.
Nobody sensible is trying to squeeze a 3090 into a 7L SFF.

 

[Chomiq]

Just call it a mining edition and be done with it.

 

[Chrispy_]

Feels like all these blower style cooler are made for miners not gamers. At full tilt in games or benchmarks, I doubt the single blower fan can cool the card sufficiently without sounding like a leaf blower.

At least after 20 years of making blower coolers for GPUs, the idiots in charge have finally worked out how to open up the exansion slot cover so that the exhaust air has somewhere to go. I've seen blowers with slot covers that block over 90% of the air. So very dumb (and noisy).

 

[tabascosauz]

At full tilt in games or benchmarks, I doubt the single blower fan can cool the card sufficiently without sounding like a leaf blower.

ftfy

Seriously, with the reliance on temp-dependent GPU Boost these days you may as well buy a lower tier card because something tells me this is just another lazy off-the-shelf GTX 600 series blower design. Not gonna get 3090 performance out of this one.

 

[kayjay010101]

Feels like all these blower style cooler are made for miners not gamers. At full tilt in games or benchmarks, I doubt the single blower fan can cool the card sufficiently without sounding like a leaf blower.

More like for workstations/servers. Or for people who's going to remove the cooler anyway for WCing and want to save a bit of money.
This is a Titan card after all, it just lacks professional drivers. But it's still a great card for workstation tasks because of the VRAM amount. So 4 of these in a workstation would provide better cooling than a regular cooling solution and most of the cooling solutions on the market are more than 2-slots anyhow, so you'd probably be limited to 3 or even just 2 cards in a normal 7-PCIe-slot workstation.

 

[TheDeeGee]

It will literally blow you out of the room.

 

[Caring1]

The water block edition, for those that remove the fan shroud.

 

[Object55]

Ironic, the worst card in the market has the best power connector location. Why can't everyone does it. Why we still need cables coming out of the front of the card ?

 

[Vya Domus]

Just call it a mining edition and be done with it.

They wont, Nvidia has to make sure that in their financial reports all of these sales are part of "gaming revenue" so investor don't get scared. So no "mining editions" for the moment.

 

[Tartaros]

Feels like all these blower style cooler are made for miners not gamers. At full tilt in games or benchmarks, I doubt the single blower fan can cool the card sufficiently without sounding like a leaf blower.

Mine is a 3 slot 3 fan cooler and does sound like a leaf blower already.

 

[Mussels]

Ironic, the worst card in the market has the best power connector location. Why can't everyone does it. Why we still need cables coming out of the front of the card ?

makes the cards fit in less cases, length

 

[Space Lynx]

Just call it a mining edition and be done with it.

all editions are mining editions, now that bitcoin is above 45k and ethereum most likely will hit 2k.

 

[KainXS]

Man, that board

wtf

 

[johnspack]

Titan mining cards. And really, advertising it. I'll be stuck with my 980Ti for a long time by the looks of it.

 

[kodorr95]

At least after 20 years of making blower coolers for GPUs, the idiots in charge have finally worked out how to open up the exansion slot cover so that the exhaust air has somewhere to go. I've seen blowers with slot covers that block over 90% of the air. So very dumb (and noisy).

god the Vega series really comes to mind with this - particularly MSI's Boost model. I remember seeing common mods would be to just dremel the exhaust vent slits off and it would reduce temps by a significant amount.

 

[Chrispy_]

god the Vega series really comes to mind with this - particularly MSI's Boost model. I remember seeing common mods would be to just dremel the exhaust vent slits off and it would reduce temps by a significant amount.

For my HTPC (currently running a 5700XT) I have cut out all of the grille at the back, as well as the bar separating the two expansion slots in the case:

To give AMD some credit, the 5700XT's slot cover isn't too bad for airflow but those slats still make extra air noise that simply isn't necessary.

 

[balnazzar]

I got two 3090 Turbo from Gigabyte, that I use for deep learning (see pic below).
They attain full performance with zero problems. Yes, the VRAM heats up to >90C, but then it does the same with AIB cards and even FEs.

Puget tucked four of them in a standard case. No throttling down, full perf: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Quad-GeForce-RTX-3090-in-a-desktop---Does-it-work-1935/

Mine is a 3 slot 3 fan cooler and does sound like a leaf blower already.

Which 3090 did you buy, exactly?
The 3-slot designs I heard about were all silent...

 

[Tartaros]

Which 3090 did you buy, exactly?
The 3-slot designs I heard about were all silent...

The KFA2 SG1, I could find it a it's MSRP and just didn't doubt, I was after a 3080 but it was impossible. I'm waiting for Alphacool to release their AIO for 3080 and 3090, but I think I will change the thermal paste meanwhile. Normally it's ok, but while playing demanding games the thing sounds like a jet taking off. Temps are ok though.

For my HTPC (currently running a 5700XT) I have cut out all of the grille at the back, as well as the bar separating the two expansion slots in the case:

Just be careful with bugs, there are some horror stories of roach nests inside PS4s with similar vents xD

 

[balnazzar]

I'm waiting for Alphacool to release their AIO for 3080 and 3090,

Wasn't aware of that. That would be a good thing!

 

[Chrispy_]

I got two 3090 Turbo from Gigabyte, that I use for deep learning (see pic below).
They attain full performance with zero problems. Yes, the VRAM heats up to >90C, but then it does the same with AIB cards and even FEs.

Puget tucked four of them in a standard case. No throttling down, full perf: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Quad-GeForce-RTX-3090-in-a-desktop---Does-it-work-1935/


Which 3090 did you buy, exactly?
The 3-slot designs I heard about were all silent...

Hot damn those are some sexy 120x38 fans in the front of that Define.
Great for static pressure but are they quiet? (relatively speaking, ofc - I'm used to working a datacenter where all you can hear through the earplugs is tens of thousands of delta fans screaming at 6000rpm)

Just be careful with bugs, there are some horror stories of roach nests inside PS4s with similar vents xD

I'm in a clean, modern, concrete, urban apartment, built to modern regs this century, several floors up. I see maybe a couple of houseflies and perhaps one or two spiders a year - after growing up in a village with a river running through the garden and surrounded by both crop and livestock farms, the lack of critters in my living space is something I will never take for granted.

 

[balnazzar]

Hot damn those are some sexy 120x38 fans in the front of that Define.
Great for static pressure but are they quiet? (relatively speaking, ofc - I'm used to working a datacenter where all you can hear through the earplugs is tens of thousands of delta fans screaming at 6000rpm)



I'm in a clean, modern, concrete, urban apartment, built to modern regs this century, several floors up. I see maybe a couple of houseflies and perhaps one or two spiders a year - after growing up in a village with a river running through the garden and surrounded by both crop and livestock farms, the lack of critters in my living space is something I will never take for granted.

Actually, 140x38
Yes, even if you run them at quiet rpms, they move a lot more air than a standard 140x25. At full steam they are the most powerful 140mm fans in existence (https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=366&area=en). Just 17eur each on amazon.

 

[Tartaros]

@balnazzar

Finally changed the stock paste for thermal grizzly and holy shit the difference is like night and day. I can play in 4k/5k without asking permission to lift off. Definetly the cooler in my card is fine enough but god the paste is terrible. Still, I will go to the AIO when it's launched in march/april.

 

[balnazzar]

@balnazzar

Finally changed the stock paste for thermal grizzly and holy shit the difference is like night and day. I can play in 4k/5k without asking permission to lift off. Definetly the cooler in my card is fine enough but god the paste is terrible. Still, I will go to the AIO when it's launched in march/april.

Glad to hear that ;-)
In my case the fan makes noise not to cool the die. It stays cool, below 70C, with peaks at 72C as absolute maximum. The problem is the VRAM. I think I should try and replace the thermal pads.. Any advice about quality pads would be welcome.

Also, can you link me some news about the possible AIOs? I searched and found little or nothing.
Thanks!