WYP
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EVGA GTX 1080 Superclocked edition has been pictured with EVGA's new ACX 3.0 cooler design.
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EVGA GTX 1080 Superclocked pictured with ACX 3.0 cooler
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Dicehunter
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I can only imagine how amazing the Classy is going to look 
WYP
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I can only imagine how amazing the Classy is going to look
Indeed. I'm loving the new design.
I can only imagine how amazing the Classy is going to look
What about a £900 Kingpin edition
Nice looking.
However, here is hoping someone will make a really really fast card, where all the money is spent on quality, not bling.
A few of us looks at our monitor, not the PC.
Or am I the only one, with a brand new build in a case without window/glass?
Seriously, my case is super neat (for airflow purposes) and looks 'nice' if I open it but only because it so functional.
The more chrome, LED's and whatnot, the less it looks like a powerful engine, and the more it looks like a toy.
However, here is hoping someone will make a really really fast card, where all the money is spent on quality, not bling.
A few of us looks at our monitor, not the PC.
Or am I the only one, with a brand new build in a case without window/glass?
Seriously, my case is super neat (for airflow purposes) and looks 'nice' if I open it but only because it so functional.
The more chrome, LED's and whatnot, the less it looks like a powerful engine, and the more it looks like a toy.
SparkleDJackson
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Id like to see a vendor put out a card with no cooler whatsoever for watercooling. Save money on not having a cooler so that you can fit whatever waterblock you desire.
RickPlaysWarr
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Sign me up. I have probably at least a couple of stock coolers I have taken from cards in plastic bags in my closet. Shoot, I might have coolers for cards I don't have anymore. Note: Time to go through the parts/bits.
--Rick--
SparkleDJackson
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I mean fair enough to the people too lazy to fit a block themselves buying the preblocked version ie the hydrocopper versions but to ke it makes sense. For the consumer. A little more troublesome for the retailer having to keep an sku extra but then again if the vendors put out one less version of the cards that would free up the shelf space do people really need the choice between (hypothetically) the standard evga acx an acx sc and an acx sc+. Never mind the classified and kingpin editions. Excluding the super duper special editions that are extra exclusive and carry the price tag to show it there is potentially three gpus and the only difference is the clocks. Three shelf spaces for one model is crazy.
It's actually a pretty silly idea from a marketing department point of view. They'd have to deal with all the parents who bought their kids the cheapest 1080 they could find not knowing that it's cheaper because it's unuseable out of the box unless you have a watercooling loop which is something a pretty small subset of the already small subset of GPU buyers that crave the high-end segment want.
Better to put out a version with the cheapest possible cooling solution, basically just a radiator and fan so the card can at least be used out of the box.
steverebo
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Your basically saying all parents are morons who don't read product descriptions!
You advertise a card as pcb only no cooler and you show an image of just the pcb no cooler I'm sure even the thickest of people could work that one out.
Small subset???????????????
Right ok so watercooling UK, EK, Aquatubing, XSPC, Bitspower, Alphacool and the huge number of WATER COOLING companies are all supported and make a profit from a small subset??
xnax2802
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Am I seriously the only person who thinks this cooler looks REALLY tacky? All the little "screwed in" parts just make it look gaudy to me. I really like that LED logo display on the side of it, but I much prefer the old cooler with the sleek black design instead of this "oh look at me, I'm a tough piece of military grade electronics" thing.
SparkleDJackson
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word.
not that the coolers matter to me in the first place as im all about the water cooling. im interested in whats underneath the fan and radiator. and what is annoying about that is that if i want the best guts sometimes oyu have to pay for the best cooler and strobing rgb leds. id rather get the best guts and save 30 pounds on a card that has only guts and no pretty shroud so i can add what i want to add . if a person has a budget and they are determined to sli then if each cooler costs a hypothetical 30 quid thats a saving of 60 which could mean the difference between a set of corsair vengeance and a set of dominator platinums. i know this is a silly point as its part of the risk when watercooling or even simply applying superior thermal material but if you dont have to disassemble the card and only add the block then that is 50 percent less work you have to do handling the thing and therefore 50 percent less time to do something stupid and wreck the thing and reassemble it as original for a false warranty claim (loljk). and while i under stand what you are saying elo i would like to think that if a parent was spending 600 pounds on a graphics card that they would either be knowledgeable about what they needed to buy or the child had previously informed them.
its like the difference between buying a road worthy car and buying a rolling shell of a car for you to add your own engine of choice. the person with the cash should know whether or not the car runs or requires an engine.
Well, if those "naked" versions were only sold at particular outlets and/or through specialized shops like the aforementioned UK-based boutiques, then it would be fine. Then again, all that would be yet another SKU for not just the retailer but also the manufacturer (and that means a need to deal with all sorts of issues,RMAs and whatnot, which they do anyway, in a proportionally larger volume because it is guaranteed that a percentage of buyers would not have a clue about not being able to use the card out of the box). Also, it would allow said manufacturer much less freedom in differentiating their product from the others. You may say "they can compete in PCB design". Yes, they could. Then again, is custom PCB design something that can be done quickly and cheaply? If so, then all power to them. Just means you'd still be paying for the card about the same as you would for one without a cooler.
On the subject of "informed buyers" - there is a reason the packaging of these video cards is to this day mostly all covered in pictures, specifications and other marketing stuff. If all the buyers were as informed as some here seem to think they are "if they're dropping so much money on such a card", then it could be argued that the manufacturer could, potentially, save a few quid on packaging and not bother.
Make no mistake, people are idiots. You are guaranteed to have angry letters and calls from people who got a coolerless card that went in smoke as soon as they turned the PC on.
The idea of a coolerless card may be good for those (who are still pretty few, if you compare their numbers to the general GPU-buying populace, for the entire GPU market not just high-end) like people here, who know what they are doing and are prepared to put a waterblock on their cards themselves but the savings would not be as big as may seem (if any) and it would definitively not be viable for many manufacturers (again, if any) to actually release such an SKU in volume. So we can forget off-the-shelf coolerless cards and only hope someone decides to try and offer them through less popular channels.
SparkleDJackson
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i know its never going to happen. i also did mentionthat it would be a hassle for another sku but i also said that there are too many versions of each individual. if you go on scan uk for exampleand filter the 980ti to just evga there are 7 options. SEVEN. most other manufacturers have 3 options. fair enough 3 or 4 is cool. but 7.
