It looks like a Single Stage Phase Change cooler, they were a big thing a few years back, not cheap though.
MOTHER OF MARY! That is INCREDIBLE MyDog. Is that a Liquid Nitrogen setup? Looks like the gpu loop is water cooled but that sleeve on the cpu blck tells me something else!:thumbsup:
It's a good chip but the cooling helps, using SS
Looks like a old style phase cooling unit,liking it.No one really is doing this no more last i heard cause of compatibility issues with adapters and the overall expenses.
Digging it.
More or less an air conditioning compressor. Does it use Freon? Or other?
I remember when those were all the rage. I think they fell out of favor because of condensation.
Is the insulation on that sufficient out of the box, or do you need to modify your case/bench table further?
I just don't understand the exuberance; AIB's have offered liquid differentiation for some time.
Hardly, and whatever AIO CLCs were available came way later in that GPU's life-cycle, not to mention at high prices that made them pointless against a waterblock. Again, it's completely different when NV/AMD release AIO CLC in large quantities which means much lower price, much higher market availability across many different markets in the world. A small firm like Inno3D offering AIO CLC in some Asian countries means such product is simply not even available in most of Europe and North America. Titan X has proved that blower air cooling is not sufficient anymore for 250W TDP cards and NV/AMD need to think of the next generation of cooling options or embrace open air-cooling design as reference. Essentially Titan X OC is as loud as a reference R9 290X which makes it unusable. For a $1000 product, that is simply unacceptable.
That is utter BS. I have my Titan X OCed to 1354, which is 16% OC from stock boost of 1164, with pretty conservative fan curve that tops at 63%. It is no louder than my old OCed 780 Ti ACX, which was open air. Far, far cry from reference 290/x noise. And yes, I also owned 2 reference 290s personally.
At 50% fan speed the Titan X cooler is loud. The experience of silence is a big positive vs a loud rushing of air out of your case when you game. Air cooled GPUs are noisy, particularly blower style, and whether one is just slightly louder than another doesn't change that.
AIO cooling is a great addition for such a noisy component.
Titan X has proved that blower air cooling is not sufficient anymore for 250W TDP cards and NV/AMD need to think of the next generation of cooling options or embrace open air-cooling design as reference.
Russian you are very knowledgeable and I always learn something when reading your posts, but I must disagree with you here. As an owner of the Titan X myself, the card can be as quiet or as loud as you like it. For 1k$ it would have been awesome to have an AIO come with the card stock, but I would hardly call it's current situation unacceptable.
Russian you are very knowledgeable and I always learn something when reading your posts, but I must disagree with you here. As an owner of the Titan X myself, the card can be as quiet or as loud as you like it. For 1k$ it would have been awesome to have an AIO come with the card stock, but I would hardly call it's current situation unacceptable.
This thread was going so well with pictures of sweet setups and fast benchmarks...
Guess some people just can't help themselves.
I think RS is referring to the Anandtech review with the oced Titan X. Noise levels were almost identical between the Titan X and the reference 290X in "quiet" mode.
This thread was going so well with pictures of sweet setups and fast benchmarks...
Guess some people just can't help themselves.