This is Gigabyte's Super Overclock GTX 680 With 5 Fans
A quintuplet of fans.
We've shown you Gigabyte's Windforce 3X card before based on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680. Now at Computex, we found the Gigabyte GV-N680S-2GD packing a cooler with five fans.
As seen in the pictures, it's a triple slot design that uses five small fans and a metal cover to shape airflow across the card. Air is drawn through the heatsink and blown upwards, not pushed onto the board for what is "Anti Turbulence Cooling". Cooler feature include nine 6mm copper heatpipes plus a king-size vapor chamber cooler. According to Gigabyte, this can dissipate up to 500 Watts of heat.
The fans appear to be independent from one another too. In 2D mode, the card will be silent with all fans idle. With increasing load, individual fans will turn on.
As for the GTX 680 itself, it'll be built on a 2 ounce copper PCB with Japanese solid capacitors, ferrite core metal chokes and 8 phase GPU digital power regulation. No clock speeds were given, but it will come with a factory overclock and OC Guru II overclocking software. Gigabyte says to expect 8.5% better performance than the reference card.
It will be available in the July 2012 to Q3 time frame.
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Gigabyte: Add more fans!!
any bets on fan count in 10 years?
This and this.
And some supper quiet?
I don't think Gigabyte would go and embarrassed itself by making the card louder
than is the average for this kind of GPU.
Maybe 20% more expensive for only 8.5% more performance.
You pay for having more fans. I don't care about the fans, what I'm interested is performance.
Gigabyte: Add more fans!!
Small fans are louder than large fans because they have to spin much faster to move the same amount of air. Maybe the fact that there's five of them will mean they never have to spin that fast to keep the card cool, but if they're spinning at max RPM that thing is going to sound like a jet taking off.
I love Gigabyte my mobo and both of my 460's are their brand and I have been using them as a preference for many years but this is a bit hard to take seriously. That video-card will be the loudest thing in my house if I get one. I am guessing the price will be considerably higher too, I just couldn't justify buying it for a 8% performance gain.
4.5 cfm vs 65 for 140mm fan from the same company. And I DO like fractal cases for the price.
YES!
I hope that with so much heatsink(3 slots worth without space taken for fans on the top of the heatsink), they will be able to get away with less air flow.
Anyone remember the Accelero X2, that thing used a very small blower and was a very quiet cooler. It was not noticeably louder at full speed either and cooled so well. It was a case of more heatsink = less fan needed.