blackened23
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I'm having a hard time seeing how neither noise or cooling would be somewhat compromised. Seems like something would have to give, either temps or noise. 120mm is really undercutting it for 500W TDP, even if there's a fan on the gpu block. I mean, on a real water loop - the real deal sort of thing - you would never, ever do 2X GPUs at 250W TDP per on a mere 120mm. Well, technically you could but you wouldn't really even get the full benefits of water cooling as the temps would not be nearly as good as they should be. 240mm is considered the bare minimum for two items in a loop with more being preferable. But then the GPU block itself also has a fan on it. *I don't know, don't see it*. I guess we could look at data concerning the asus poseiden GPU which uses a similar sort of deal, but is designed for a real custom water loop. Then again it is a 250W TDP GPU and not 500W. (is 500W confirmed?)
Guess we'll indeed be waiting on reviews. I'm having a hard time grasping if noise and cooling will be in line - seems like one or the other would have to give? Now I do think it will be below the throttle points easaily but I don't think it's reasonable to expect overclocking beyond that. Just speculating based on how real water loops are done. I can't think of anyone doing a 120mm for 2 GPUs at 250W TDP per or GPU + CPU. We'll see though. Can't really comment more than that because there's no real meaningful data yet. So I guess we're waiting for reviews on the 8th.
If I had to take a wild stab at it, I would say the temps would be rather high for water, with the focus being on low noise. Probably 70C-80C which would be below the throttle points, but I can't see AMD going too aggressive on the fan profile after all the press the 290X cards got for loud fans. It would be a delicate balance between noise and temps there I think. I'll just leave the speculation be until we get real data on the 8th.
Guess we'll indeed be waiting on reviews. I'm having a hard time grasping if noise and cooling will be in line - seems like one or the other would have to give? Now I do think it will be below the throttle points easaily but I don't think it's reasonable to expect overclocking beyond that. Just speculating based on how real water loops are done. I can't think of anyone doing a 120mm for 2 GPUs at 250W TDP per or GPU + CPU. We'll see though. Can't really comment more than that because there's no real meaningful data yet. So I guess we're waiting for reviews on the 8th.
If I had to take a wild stab at it, I would say the temps would be rather high for water, with the focus being on low noise. Probably 70C-80C which would be below the throttle points, but I can't see AMD going too aggressive on the fan profile after all the press the 290X cards got for loud fans. It would be a delicate balance between noise and temps there I think. I'll just leave the speculation be until we get real data on the 8th.
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