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  • Aerodrifting - Friday, April 14, 2017 - link

    Nice add. I always hated how most high end GPU fans spin up to audible level due to heavy load in games. For a long period of time I always thought X70 are the best "overall" cards since they offer very similar performance to flagships while staying around 150W, With aftermarket coolers like Windforce / ACX they can remain <75C loaded while remaining reasonable quiet.
  • Shadow7037932 - Monday, April 17, 2017 - link

    It can keep it cooler than that. I have a AIO water cooler hooked up to a R9 290 and it never goes above 56-58C under normal gaming loads and never go above 63C under benchmark/stress test.
  • nagi603 - Monday, April 17, 2017 - link

    The problem is not keeping it cool. It's keeping it cool enough AND remaining quiet. Granted, the last part is different to almost everyone.
  • HomeworldFound - Friday, April 14, 2017 - link

    Having bought a big phantom in the past, I'm not sure I'd trust NZXT and water in the same computer.
  • Makaveli - Friday, April 14, 2017 - link

    I'm still using a G10 on my 7970Ghz its been great.

    Looking forward to trying this new one on VEGA.
  • wolrah - Saturday, April 15, 2017 - link

    Then you can buy the CLC from any of a number of other vendors. At that point you're trusting NZXT for a piece of stamped steel attached to a standard sized fan.
  • Xajel - Saturday, April 15, 2017 - link

    Damn, this will require 3 slots already... I was hoping to keep the dual slot configuration.. and better single slot but the back IO is already dual+ slots for 99% of these cards ( I saw only one 1070 single slot card )
  • ES_Revenge - Saturday, April 15, 2017 - link

    What do you mean, "adds a white option"? The G10 was available in white, black, red, and blue (blue was the most rare). This seems to be only available in black and white. That means it *subtracts* the red and blue options.

    Only differences really are matte finish instead of shiny, and a different design. This does seem slightly more modern. The slower fan probably makes sense with the lower power requirements (will result in less noise) but the G10s fan wasn't exactly high speed or high noise. In fact, the included fan was not powerful enough to cool some VRM components well.

    Other problem they don't seem to have addressed is a lot more cards have the VRM area "on the other side" now, don't they? Meaning the VRM components are on the slot/bracket side and not the edge side. The problem for the G10 on those type of cards (which were fewer before) was the fan simply doesn't blow over that area at all. This is the same with the G12, only now I think there's more cards designed like that.
  • Dizoja86 - Sunday, April 16, 2017 - link

    Well, I'd seriously hope that most potential buyers looking into aftermarket coolers understood the needs of their hardware. If they had rear VRM's and still really, really wanted to have this specific cooler, I guess they could jury-rig a case fan to the back.
  • CookieBin - Monday, January 15, 2018 - link

    I think that's pretty ridiculous. If your going to buy whatever card, and it has VRMs on the non-heat sinked area. That's on you as the buyer, buying a inferior product not designed to handle high wattage for an extended duration. I suppose we can thank the crypto miners for making manufacturers work harder to keep cards reliable.
  • evilpaul666 - Saturday, May 13, 2017 - link

    Anyone know if this will work with a Gigabyte 1080 GTX G1 Gaming? I'm not sure if it's a reference board with a custom cooler or a custom PCB.
  • mehminer - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    I'm not sure I get it. All he cooling systems I've seen are designed with blocks that fit the CPU. Until now, nobody has claimed that the CPU cooling block fits the processors on GPU cards. Is that so? If so, is that true only of some cards?

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