Colorful's World's First Passive Air Cooled GTX 680

[SieB]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Now see this: a fanless, passive-cooled GeForce GTX 680! Chinese graphics card designer Colorful unveiled the world's first passive-cooled GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, the iGame GTX 680 passive. The card uses a pair of detachable, dense aluminum fin heatsinks, which draw heat from the 3.5 billion transistor GPU using seven heat pipes, and dissipate it using two aluminum fin stacks on either sides of the PCB. The two stacks are joined by six 8 mm-thick heat pipes. [/font]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The cooler cumulatively has 20 heat pipes, a surface area of 2 square meters across 280 aluminum fins. The second module is optional, and is only recommended if the operating environment is warm, or if the end user is overclocking. The card is said to use a complex VRM design that draws power from two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, though we suspect the idea behind that to be heat spreading. The design guarantees reliable silent operation at reference clock speeds or mild overclocking. Display outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. Colorful is still assessing the marketability of the design. Watch this space for more.

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http://www.techpower...phics-Card.html

 

[Jadarite]

I do like this kind of original concept thinking and the colors would work well with alot of Z77 boards aswell

 

[Computer crazy]

That thing is a beast. Really like the idea and I would love to see how it performs if it becomes available. Personally I think it looks really smart. You could use this with a Nofan CPU cooler for a completely passive gaming rig if you wanted. Might need some support as well as that thing can't be light!

 

[Ru5ty_t00l]

it wouldn't be sufficient unless u live in alaska

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

totally do want, ttl will love it

 

[dipzy]

Interesting design but its to bulky for my liking..however, i wonder how it would do for a quite folding card

 

[epeets]

I'd be too scared that my pci-e slot would rip right off if I try to move my rig with that thing inside.

Jesus!

 

[Big WigglyStyle]

Seems cool but I'd rather see a card that is wider as in instead of 92mm fans have 120mm fans on it so it can be silent and still be cooled exceptionally better than a 92mm or smaller fan. And in reality very few cases will not be able to house a 120mm wide card in the PCI area.

 

[SieB]

This card is for silence though, imagine this card with one of those NoFan passive heatsinks for your CPU, a Corsair AX850, which runs passive most of the time and you case fans on a fan controller at 50% so they were virtually silent.

That would be one silent, yet powerful rig. You could even call it Silent but Deadly

 

[Lollipop]

I can't imagine this hanging in your case without bending the mobo...

 

[yassarikhan786]

Looks pretty beastly

 

[computergeek]

IGame lol more like I have no idea what, I am doing lol.><
Damn colorful what do you do for kicks burn GPU's.
Lol someone maxes out Crysis 1 on the highest resolution currently available and may end up cooking it.
Yes sir or madam your Nvidia fried eggs are right here enjoy.><

 

[cerbrus2]

I can't imagine this hanging in your case without bending the mobo...

Thats why Ravens Win. All the weight is held on the screws

 

[Josh Weston]

I'm pretty sure that if the 'D14 can be held by the motherboard, this should be ok too. Although, the more support the better, I guess.