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Just wondering if, for a second, you considered that repasting or replacing fans is a large effort for normal folks who just want a video card?
by nathanvanfleet 4y ago
Just wondering if, for a second, you considered that repasting or replacing fans is a large effort for normal folks who just want a video card?
- latchkey 4y agoThis sounds like the perfect opportunity to buy a retail off the shelf card with a warranty! What kind of question is that.
- derefr 4y agoPresumably they bought these cards, took the fans off them, hooked up a custom water-cooling setup, etc.; and when selling them, are taking the pile of fans they shucked and putting them back on the cards with fresh paste.
- latchkey 4y agoWe bought the cards directly from an OEM, with heatsinks on them instead of fans. We use a case based cooling system. ie: an enclosed box with fans. 12 cards in a box. This is lower power, fewer fans (5 instead of 12), and better cooling than putting fans on each card. Also easier to replace a fan on a case than a card. At my scale, water cooling doesn't work and isn't cost efficient. Air is a surprisingly great cooling system.
- Melatonic 4y agoWhat does the actual heatsink look like one the card? Wondering if I can do this on my home system assuming I have good airflow on my case
- latchkey 4y agoIt looks just like a heatsink. Big aluminum bladed block. It might work, I don't know... airflow on the box itself wasn't enough, but there were 12 cards in the box, we also had to have external airflow as well. A single card probably wouldn't be too much of an issue though. That said, we aren't parting out single cards... it would be more like if you wanted to buy 5-10k of them. ;-)