Nvidia RTX 3080 Heatsink Uncovered - Design Confirmed?

[WYP]

Nvidia is investigating this leak.



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[Greenback]

I don't know if I'm looking at this wrong, but if both fans are intake, isn't the back fan going to blow warm air out which the case fans will blow towards the back of the case and thus into the front fan

 

[AlienALX]

That is a 3d print. That doesn't mean I am saying it is fake, it may just be another piece of the prototyping puzzle.

 

[Warchild]

If thats a 3D print then its resin. No way thats FDM. The cooling plate is too smooth, and those fins with no stringing or irregularities? Unless its a high end metal print.

im skeptical because even if it was resin, washing this design would be a nightmare.

I honestly think it was staged. Leak the images, create hype, get opinons on the cooler (which the populace mostly hate) and then fine tune or change where needed.

 

[AlienALX]

Look at the bigger image. Look closely, especially at the back of the GPU cooling plate etc.

It's a total mess.

And yeah, it probably is a resin. I wouldn't imagine Nvidia printing with a £200 3d printer lol. I am not saying it is fake, but probably another prototype design.

 

[Warchild]

Look at the bigger image. Look closely, especially at the back of the GPU cooling plate etc.

It's a total mess.

And yeah, it probably is a resin. I wouldn't imagine Nvidia printing with a £200 3d printer lol. I am not saying it is fake, but probably another prototype design.

there are FDMs that cost £10,000 too.

Ive zoomed right in and dont see anything wrong. It looks cleaner than many CPU cooling fins ive looked at. The perpendicular lines just look different because of the camera angle.

 

[AlienALX]

You are not looking into it. There are so many errors, clear out nasty areas, bits missing and fuzzy edges from printing that it's unreal. I have circled the most glaring ones.

 

[AlienALX]

Look at where I have put numbers. Compare them to the one next to them. 1 and 2? LOL the fins don't even aim the same way. 100% print.