5-slot GPUs are here

[BFG10K]

ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on

ASUS showed us its GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card that it formally announced yesterday. To call this card thick would be an understatement, as it's possibly the first graphics card that is 5 slots thick! The card easily overshoots what constitutes 4 slots, and is technically 4.2...

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What an absolutely nasty furnace-slab, the result of vendors red-lining products from the factory to push the last 5% on benchmark graphs.

Reminds me of 40 year old video cards that were slabs too and also had trouble fitting into cases of the time.

That one flexes his case's sides just like those ridiculous firestarter 12VHPWR plugs that impede closing side panels on modern cases.

We're heading in the wrong direction, folks.

 

[WelshBloke]

Personally I don't understand why people are obsessed with AIO on the CPU, but not on the GPU. The modern high end GPU needs it far more than the CPU.

I'm guessing the CPU AIOs were a bit of a reaction to the massive air coolers that were popular. I know that I got uncomfortable with hanging that amount of weight off my motherboard socket. An AIO CPU cooler took up much less space, it's a tiny CPU block, a couple of hoses and a radiator. The radiator is sitting above two fans that were already there.

We are pretty much at the same stage with GPUs. I just fitted an RX6950XT and I'm not hugely comfortable with the weight of that even though it's supported at the back of the motherboard as well as just the PCIe socket.

Theres a lot of GPUs with AIOs available and, tbh, they make a lot of sense if you have the space for another rad. Fitting an after market AIO to a GPU is a bit more involved than fitting one to a CPU though so I can see why that isn't so popular yet.