R9 Nano Passive

[HeroXLazer]

Is there any way I can make the R9 Nano Passively Cooled

[thatguyyouknow75]

Yeah, buy a really big heatsink and mount it somehow 

[desertcomputer]

A really really  large heatsink 

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, HeroXLazer said:

Is there any way I can make the R9 Nano Passively Cooled

Only way is potentially having a custom heatpipe design and a massive fin array to carry the heat away from the GPU itself, but that kind of defeats the purpose of a nano of being a mini sized yet powerful card. 

[Belgarathian]

9 minutes ago, W-L said:

Only way is potentially having a custom heatpipe design and a massive fin array to carry the heat away from the GPU itself, but that kind of defeats the purpose of a nano of being a mini sized yet powerful card. 

And bucket loads of airflow. Lots, and lots of airflow. 

[l_zheng101]

I'm not sure; even with the stock cooler that has a cooling fan, the R9 Nano thermal throttles like a bitch. Even with a really big heatsink I'm not sure the R9 Nano will run well at all passively cooled. If you do manage to get it to work, could you let me know?

[Deli]

175w TDP passively cooled, errr....anyone knows who has passively cool a 5960X?

[Heesleemer]

10 hours ago, Deli said:

175w TDP passively cooled, errr....anyone knows who has passively cool a 5960X?

linus

 

diyperks did a 180tdp gpu sem passively 

[Stefan1024]

Look in my signature, 500 watts passive cooled. So yes you can do it, but it requires serious modding. Also with HBM it gets difficult as you need higth mounting preasure but the big interposer can break easely.

Also the power denisty is higher compared to GDDR.