Originally posted by: eyk03
Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
Thanks, but I thought I was... I am glad you enjoy blowing hot air into your case! So, yeah, I would call you crazy if you don't know the different between dual slot cooler and a single slot cooler and the reasons people prefer one over the other...
Now wait a minute, professor. If that Tweaktown article is going to be indicative of the whole run of cards, it doesn't look like it makes much of a difference...less than 3 degrees at stock speeds.
http://www.tweaktown.com/artic...sound_tests/index.html
Did you mean to quote me?
I am totally lost if so...
Here, lets get back to the facts.
Dual slot coolers have large fans and exhaust the hot air outside of your computer case. Generally speaking, the larger the fan, the less RPM it needs to maintain CFM. This means that the noise level of a dual slot cooler is lower than that if a single slot. The only disadvantage to a dual slot cooler that I can see is that it takes up 'two' slots. I don't see this as an issue for most people, but no doubt, there are people who need single slot cooling soltutions and some people just don't care. Nothing wrong with that... So lets rehash here..
1) Dual Slot coolers are not louder than single slot coolers when dissapating the same ammount of heat.
2) Dual Slot coolers eject the hot air outside of your computer case. This can be a serious issue if you are air cooling as the heat inside the case will perpetually get hotter and hotter unless you have great case air flow. The hotter the air inside the case, the hotter everything else becomes that is cooled with air.
When dealing with a single slot cooler that dumps the air inside the case, it doesn't matter how good of a cooler you have in regards to raising case temperature because the heat output is the same on the card regardless. In other words, if this new revised single slot cooler runs 3c cooler on the chip itself, that does not mean that your case temperature will drop 3c, it will in fact remain the same temperature because the video card itself is still generated a certain wattage of heat.
Hope this clears the confusion here. I am open to hearing why others may feel single slot is superior to a dual slot, of course, already assuming that we agree in the space savings of the single slot cooler.