Blower Cards?

[Artellama]

I was wondering, if I don't have any fans for my case yet, should I get a blower card? What about if I were to put some fans in there and have airflow being good, my case is Apevia X Sniper2 (blue and white edition) and don't know if I should get a blower card like an NVIDIA founders card for the 10's series. Should I?

[Crunchy Dragon]

They're not completely terrible.

 

I wouldn't recommend a blower card at all if you don't have any intake fans or ventilation that can consistently pump some fresh air towards the card, though.

Back when I ran a reference GTX 780, I saw a nearly 10 degree difference between not having intake fans versus having them.

[Chris Pratt]

A blower card isn't really going to affect your overall system temps one way or another. They're mostly designed as their own environment, taking in air from inside the case and exhausting it immediately out of the back of the card. An open air GPU doesn't generally get hot enough in the first place to need fans, which is why they don't have them. There's still ambient heat soak, but you'll likely get as much of that from a blower card, simply because it will then also be more powerful and run hotter since it is a blower card.

 

You need case fans. Get case fans.

[Artellama]

15 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

A blower card isn't really going to affect your overall system temps one way or another. They're mostly designed as their own environment, taking in air from inside the case and exhausting it immediately out of the back of the card. An open air GPU doesn't generally get hot enough in the first place to need fans, which is why they don't have them. There's still ambient heat soak, but you'll likely get as much of that from a blower card, simply because it will then also be more powerful and run hotter since it is a blower card.

 

You need case fans. Get case fans.

I know about the case fans, I am just wondering, if I were to place one at the back would I have to use an intake or exhaust fan?

[Crunchy Dragon]

8 minutes ago, Artellama said:

I know about the case fans, I am just wondering, if I were to place one at the back would I have to use an intake or exhaust fan?

Generally, exhaust.

 

I would place at least one at the front and back(for intake/exhaust respectively) just to ensure decent airflow.

[Chris Pratt]

28 minutes ago, Artellama said:

I know about the case fans, I am just wondering, if I were to place one at the back would I have to use an intake or exhaust fan?

It depends on your case layout (how many and what size fans it can take, as well as for designing optimal air flow). Generally speaking, you want neutral pressure, which means intake for exhaust and exhaust for intake. Exhaust only will result in negative pressure, leading to greater dust accumulation. Pure intake results in positive pressure, which can cause hot spots.

[Mick Naughty]

If thats want you want, being a 10 series card, go for it. They look good and preform well enough. Good thing about it, you can grab a sc open air cooler from evga and put them on almost any fe card within that gen.

I didnt give them their own fan, just used the regular intake fans on the case. Even running two of them they still ran cooler then open air and didnt cause my cpu temps to suffer like they normally do.