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The founders edition ones that I had were not great gpus. They were both under cooled and over cooled. They had one squirrel cage style blower that was quite lo
by grogenaut 2y ago
The founders edition ones that I had were not great gpus. They were both under cooled and over cooled. They had one squirrel cage style blower that was quite loud and powerful and ran bascially at no speed or full blast. But being that it only had the one airpath and one fan it got overwhelmed by dust or if that blower fan had issues the gpu over heated. The consumer / 3rd party made ones usually have multiple fans at lower speeds larger diameter, multiple flow paths, and more control. TL;DR they were better designed, nvidia took the data center ram as much air as you can in there approach which isn't great for your home pc.
- 6SixTy 2y agoFounders cards being worse than board partner models hasn't been true in like 8 years. They switched to dual axial rather than a single blower fan with the 20 series, which made the value of board partner models hard to justify. Since then, Nvidia is locked in a very strange card war with their board partners, because Nvidia has all the juicy inside details on their own chips which they can just not give the same treatment to their partners, stacking the deck for themselves. Also, the reason why blowers are bad is because the design can't really take advantage of a whole lot of surface area offered by the fins. There's often zero heat pipes spreading the heat evenly in all directions, allowing a hot spot to form.
- grogenaut 2y agogood to know, I have a 980gtx, I had to rma it after a summer of overheating. good to know they've gotten better on their own cards.