GIGABYTE Readies GeForce RTX 4070 Ti AORUS Xtreme WaterForce Series

[btarunr]

GIGABYTE released liquid-cooled graphics cards based on the performance-segment GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. The company is catering to both the DIY liquid cooling and turnkey liquid cooling market segments with the RTX 4070 Ti AORUS Xtreme WaterForce series. The RTX 4070 Ti AORUS Xtreme WB comes with a factory-fitted full-coverage water block that you connect to your own liquid-cooling loop; while the RTX 4070 Ti AORUS Xtreme lugs an AIO liquid cooling solution.

The AORUS Xtreme WaterForce WB uses a nickel-plated copper full-coverage water block that's been tailored for the PCB layout underneath, with an acrylic top, and some vinyl decals. The acrylic top is studded with addressable RGB LEDs. The AORUS Xtreme WaterForce (AIO based) card, on the other hand, uses an AIO cooling solution with a design resembling that of the company's RTX 3080 AORUS Xtreme WaterForce. This card uses a purely-liquid cooling solution (unlike some other brands with an air+liquid hybrid design). The pump-block in the card is responsible not just for the GPU, but also the memory and VRM (over secondary base-plates). A 240 mm x 120 mm radiator is used, which should be just about enough for a 300 W TGP graphics card. GIGABYTE could formally launch these two cards very soon, as the press images are already out.



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[Chaitanya]

Why? as it is no one is buying these overpriced midrange cards to begin with.

 

[eidairaman1]

Crack goes the gigabyte

 

[watzupken]

Water cooled mid range cards makes no sense whatsoever. And people willing to go to the extreme of going custom cooling are least likely to buy a mid range card.

 

[ZoneDymo]

yeah I would love to see the total financial background of this.

Wasnt it a thing that boardpartners make only very small margins?
So why would you go for a card like this that is supposedly unpopular, how is this profitable enough?

 

[Nephilim666]

Wonder if these are 'copper' like the previous ones were 'copper' (actually aluminium).

 

[N/A]

Water cooled mid range cards makes no sense whatsoever. And people willing to go to the extreme of going custom cooling are least likely to buy a mid range card.

if you have the rest of the loop for the CPU it makes sense. the pump block rad and tubing should be around 160 eur. Same for the full cover. That's as much as one of those premium air coolers that barely fit in any case. That said they have made the PCB needlessly big. the FE or reference is delimited only by the height of the PCIe bracket and the slot width but this is double the surface probably because the bigger it looks sells more.

 

[Deleted member 185088]

Why? What for?
RTX4000 are very efficient why not make tiny graphics cards and lower the price accordingly, especially that they aren't selling very well apparently.

 

[claes]

Efficient for their performance? Sure. But otherwise they’re some of the highest TDP consumer GPUs ever made…

 

[HOkay]

Why? as it is no one is buying these overpriced midrange cards to begin with.

Came to the comments to say pretty much this. Who the hell is buying a 4070ti with an AIO strapped to it?! Imho watercooling a GPU only makes sense for the top end GPUs, or maybe if you have some sort of unique SFF build. Not to mention that the secondhand price will be terrible because by the time you sell it'll be old gen & no one wants a watercooled old gen GPU. You want the stock air cooler to swap back on for resale. These products completely baffle me.

 

[jesdals]

Xtreme overkill?

 

[randomUser]

I am looking to buy a mid range water cooled GPU. Been waiting for it for ages now.
The reason is: The pulsating ON-OFF fans are horrible.

I switched cpu cooling from air to AIO and i am not regretting it. The better cooling is just a bonus, but the main point is it is super silent.
I would expect the same from water cooled GPUs. I have air cooled 2080Ti and its performance is enough for me, so 4070Ti would be much faster and thus no point in buying top of the line.
There is only one concern about this card. It seems to be super wide. Might not fit in the Fractal define C.

 

[HOkay]

I am looking to buy a mid range water cooled GPU. Been waiting for it for ages now.
The reason is: The pulsating ON-OFF fans are horrible.

I switched cpu cooling from air to AIO and i am not regretting it. The better cooling is just a bonus, but the main point is it is super silent.
I would expect the same from water cooled GPUs. I have air cooled 2080Ti and its performance is enough for me, so 4070Ti would be much faster and thus no point in buying top of the line.
There is only one concern about this card. It seems to be super wide. Might not fit in the Fractal define C.

You can set your own fan curve for an air cooled GPU with Afterburner or similar. I used to have it sit at the lowest where it would still spin the fans, & then have basically a wall at the sort of temperatures it would hit when gaming. You can set the temperature hysteresis as well, to stop it bouncing between low & high too much.

 

[GhostRyder]

I mean, I see this as pretty pointless mostly on the card its one. Then again, the 4070ti is basically positioned above even the old X080 cards so I guess it makes sense for the people wanting a waterblock card from factory for their loop and don't want to spend on the RTX 4080+

But for the card itself, I doubt its going to overclock any better like this (At least enough to make a difference).

 

[claes]

I am looking to buy a mid range water cooled GPU. Been waiting for it for ages now.
The reason is: The pulsating ON-OFF fans are horrible.

I switched cpu cooling from air to AIO and i am not regretting it. The better cooling is just a bonus, but the main point is it is super silent.
I would expect the same from water cooled GPUs. I have air cooled 2080Ti and its performance is enough for me, so 4070Ti would be much faster and thus no point in buying top of the line.
There is only one concern about this card. It seems to be super wide. Might not fit in the Fractal define C.

You can set your own fan curve for an air cooled GPU with Afterburner or similar. I used to have it sit at the lowest where it would still spin the fans, & then have basically a wall at the sort of temperatures it would hit when gaming. You can set the temperature hysteresis as well, to stop it bouncing between low & high too much.

What @HOkay said and would add that you should look at the 40xx reviews here — these coolers are so overbuilt that even the 4090 is practically silent at load. Almost every 4070 ti on the market runs at less than 30 dB oob.

Maybe also add that I have no idea how you handle the pump noise but to each their own

 

[HOkay]

What @HOkay said and would add that you should look at the 40xx reviews here — these coolers are so overbuilt that even the 4090 is practically silent at load. Almost every 4070 ti on the market runs at less than 30 dB oob.

Maybe also add that I have no idea how you handle the pump noise but to each their own

That's a good point, I'd forgotten that the air coolers are crazily overbuilt this generation, I'm sure Nvidia must have given the board partners some very high power targets & then reduced everything just before release. I can't believe that all board partners suddenly decided to make coolers that can handle so much more power on their own.

 

[claes]

I’d really like to know what the truth of it is. I think you’re right about partner requirements but, if that’s the case, why did nvidia make a quad slot cooler when there were already better designs on the market?

They basically just added a slot and some width to what AIBs were doing. Arctic did that over a decade ago, and the Morpheus or MK-26 advanced that design with thicker fans, all while being smaller and quieter than the FE coolers.

Better yet, and especially if they were going to design a product that wouldn’t fit in the majority of PC cases, they could’ve built a card pushing ITX, or a vertical orientation, or, better IMO, a whole new motherboard standard to go with the new power standard. Instead we have gargantuan cards that are kind of quiet and have a fancy thicc cable pressed against a wall.

 

[randomUser]

Maybe also add that I have no idea how you handle the pump noise but to each their own

Liquid freezer 2 240 is what i use for CPU.
No pump noise that i could hear.
I can clearly hear how motherboard components make buzzing sounds, but nothing more (unless there is a light GPU load. That's when those fans start pulsating).
As far as i remember, minimal speed GPU fans spin at is around 30%, which is audible. So i can't make it spin from 0 to 100 in a smooth way with afterburner. Its either 0, or 30%. And when there is such a big gap, you will definitely hear them starting up and down.

 

[HOkay]

Liquid freezer 2 240 is what i use for CPU.
No pump noise that i could hear.
I can clearly hear how motherboard components make buzzing sounds, but nothing more (unless there is a light GPU load. That's when those fans start pulsating).
As far as i remember, minimal speed GPU fans spin at is around 30%, which is audible. So i can't make it spin from 0 to 100 in a smooth way with afterburner. Its either 0, or 30%. And when there is such a big gap, you will definitely hear them starting up and down.

That's what I meant by having it fixed at the low end, so I would set 30% for any temperature <70C say, then at 70C having a very steep curve up. So anything but gaming would then have a constant noise profile instead of an annoying variable one. I'm surprised you can hear the fans on 30%, usually they're very quiet at that sort of duty cycle, but then it depends what case you have & where your PC sits, as well as the fans themselves ofc.