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Acer Announces Entry Into Discrete GPU Market with Intel Arc A770

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It seems to me they are exhaust the rear GPU fan bottom up thru the fins while the rear blower fan is pulling and exhausting heat thru fins orientated in a different direction. It's very hybrid of blower and top down. Another way to do similar would be to put a divider in the middle and use two blower fans with standard blower fan orientation and have each blower fan exhaust heat out each side half outside the case half into the case out the rear of the GPU. I'm surprised the twin blower design hasn't been done in such a manner that I know of at least. The power connector could be right in the middle.

A card like RTX 2080 reference would be a ideal candidate for the type of twin blower arrangement I mention though really any dual fan top down arrangement card with proper fin orientation along with a divider barrier wall in the middle could work well.

A saw a neat cooler arrangement on a Sapphire Toxic AIO as well where the rear half of the card had heatsink fins and a fan that exhaust a portion of the heat out the rear of the GPU into the case while the front portion has a waterblock cooling the chip core itself. That design looked quite decent.

I've said it a good number of times that I'd like to see a twin fan setup with a blower fan involved so it's quite cool to see a company finally take such a approach. It looks like it could work very nicely. I have my doubts it would work as well as what I mentioned above in regard to a true twin blower arrangement, but I do think it'll work good in general and allow a nice mix of good heat exhaust outside the case and at more tame sound levels than a normal single blower fan setup would capable of at better temps.

It should scale back much of the bigger complaints with blower fan designs at their most extremes and worst case scenario's of over zealous fan speed RPM's trying to do the work of two top down fans. It's a nice compromise step to resolving that common design issue. I hope they send a review sample to test the cooling functionality. What would be cool is Arctic doing a twin AIO with a pair of it's freeze blowers divided in the middle with a shroud like I mentioned. That's what should be done on the new NVIDIA TITANS MAGMA EDITION cards give sob's a pair of 360 AIO's mounted on it.
 
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It almost looks like they're trying to create a push/pull with the open fan pushing into the covered/exhaust?
Hmmm
Thought the same thing.

While 'blower' fans do develop a lot more static pressure v. 'axial' fans, they do not move nearly as much raw volume.
I'm thinking the blower is for 'overcoming resistance' of the dense fin stack, and the axial is the 'volume mover'. The axial would be pushing low(er)-pressure(ized) axial-motviated air into the 'low(est) pressure zone' created by the blower.
Low Pressure hot air is also low density, meaning less heat-capacity. Merely 'densifying' the blower's airstream may have a non-negligible positive effect on cooling.

Regardless, these cards are quite intriguing without apparent 'extreme design' choices (like nvidia's hyperdense PCBs and very complex geometry coolers. ...Looking forward to teardowns and reviews, even if they're not the best performers.
 
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EVGA quits the business, Acer enters with Intel dGPUs. If someone said to me 5 years ago that this was going to happen, I would have rolled on the floor laughing.
 
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I wonder if they thought, hey most other expansion cards are short. Let's put a blower there in case another card is next to the gpu. We'll put a more silent but cool looking fan in back. Make the rear fan stay on low rpm and have the blower only ramp up when the card gets hot
 
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The cooler looks good! But, wrong. Either way, it's intersesting I want to see a review!
 
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like............ummm............looks interesting but a bit doubtful
 

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A blower and an axial??
I guess Acer just thought something like:
"What has nobody ever thought of combining to look cool but have dubious performance gains?"

So you now have none of the cooling advantage and all of the noise!

Wait, that was too negative.

Now you can have both "Whoosh" and "Low pitch whining" in your gaming rig for the ultimate factory floor feeling!
I can see that fan implemention being actually pretty clever. The axial fan cools the heatsink and the radial fan pushes the heat out of the case.
 
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Looks like a mixture of a bit more sound in exchange for more heat exhausted outside the case. At least that's impression I get, but never underestimate bad designs it could be a even louder screamer and more people hating blower fans because they don't know how to optimize a proper fan curve.
 
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I am a big fan of Acer Predator, their ram offers both good price and excellent performance.

I'm sure they got Chinese company BIWIN to build their GPU's using quality Samsung memory.
 
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I am a big fan of Acer Predator, their ram offers both good price and excellent performance.

I'm sure they got Chinese company BIWIN to build their GPU's using quality Samsung memory.
Samsung and quality in the same sentence? Uhm... :kookoo:
 

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