Blower vs Open-air?

[DJMasHup007]

Hello guys!

 

I am planning a Mini-ITX build in a Fractal Design Define Nano S. The psu blocks some of the ventelation for the gpu. Should i consider buying a blower style graphics card or go with an open air design?

[ClobberXD]

2 minutes ago, DJMasHup007 said:

Hello guys!

 

I am planning a Mini-ITX build in a Fractal Design Define Nano S. The psu blocks some of the ventelation for the gpu. Should i consider buying a blower style graphics card or go with an open air design?

As your case gets smaller, you start losing the amount of ventilation for the air to move in and out of the case. Your open-air GPU's gonna heat every other component in the case like mad! Definitely a Blower-style cooler!

[DJMasHup007]

Just now, anandgeforce said:

As your case gets smaller, you start losing the amount of ventilation for the air to move in and out of the case. Your open-air GPU's gonna heat every other component in the case like mad! Definitely a Blower-style cooler!

I am going to have 2 140mm fan intake and 2 120 mm exhaust. still?

[ClobberXD]

2 minutes ago, DJMasHup007 said:

I am going to have 2 140mm fan intake and 2 120 mm exhaust. still?

Open-air will work fine, but still a blower-style is recommended.

 

BTW, liquid cooling your CPU?

[DJMasHup007]

1 minute ago, anandgeforce said:

Open-air will work fine, but still a blower-style is recommended.

 

BTW, liquid cooling your CPU?

yeah a with a 240mm rad

[ClobberXD]

2 minutes ago, DJMasHup007 said:

yeah a with a 240mm rad

Those are your exhaust fans, right? If your GPU's open, it takes cool air from outside, and dumps the hot air inside your case. Your 240mm exhaust rad will try to cool your CPU, by using the hot air, and so your CPU temps are bound to skyrocket! And air-cooling your CPU is even worse, as the cooler directly pushes (or pulls) the hot air through the CPU heatsink, leaving your CPU to die of hypothermia, at around 95^oC. The rest of your system suffers from the same 'hypothermia' too.

 

But in the case of an blower-style GPU, only your GPU tends to get slightly hotter than normal, but the rest of your system stays cool. That's why I recommend you get a blower-style GPU.

 

Best wishes!

[DJMasHup007]

1 minute ago, anandgeforce said:

Those are your exhaust fans, right? If your GPU's open, it takes cool air from outside, and dumps the hot air inside your case. Your 240mm exhaust rad will try to cool your CPU, by using the hot air, and so your CPU temps are bound to skyrocket! And air-cooling your CPU is even worse, as the cooler directly pushes (or pulls) the hot air through the CPU heatsink, leaving your CPU to die of hypothermia, at around 95^oC. The rest of your system suffers from the same 'hypothermia' too.

 

But in the case of an blower-style GPU, only your GPU tends to get slightly hotter than normal, but the rest of your system stays cool. That's why I recommend you get a blower-style GPU.

 

Best wishes!

Ok thanks for helping me! Going with a blower style card. Should i go with a gtx970 or 980? are those card "future proof" at 1080p? 

[DXMember]

6 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

Those are your exhaust fans, right? If your GPU's open, it takes cool air from outside, and dumps the hot air inside your case. Your 240mm exhaust rad will try to cool your CPU, by using the hot air, and so your CPU temps are bound to skyrocket! And air-cooling your CPU is even worse, as the cooler directly pushes (or pulls) the hot air through the CPU heatsink, leaving your CPU to die of hypothermia, at around 95^oC. The rest of your system suffers from the same 'hypothermia' too.

 

But in the case of an blower-style GPU, only your GPU tends to get slightly hotter than normal, but the rest of your system stays cool. That's why I recommend you get a blower-style GPU.

 

Best wishes!

lol what... it's not like the air will be 90*C if your GPU is at 90*C

also dying of hypothermia is dying because of too low body temperature, not too high...

 

you will be just fine with an open air cooler in that configuration

[ClobberXD]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

lol what... it's not like the air will be 90*C if your GPU is at 90*C

also dying of hypothermia is dying because of too low body temperature, not too high...

 

you will be just fine with an open air cooler in that configuration

The 'hypothermia' thing was intended...

 

Anyway, open-air GPU cooler is definitely more problematic to the rest of the system, than the blower-style ones, right?

[ClobberXD]

8 minutes ago, DJMasHup007 said:

Ok thanks for helping me! Going with a blower style card. Should i go with a gtx970 or 980? are those card "future proof" at 1080p? 

The 970 is perfectly futureproof for 1080p, effortlessly pushing more than 60fps. But if you want high FPS, then the 980 will be able to push more than 100fps.

[DXMember]

3 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

The 'hypothermia' thing was intended...

 

Anyway, open-air GPU cooler is definitely more problematic to the rest of the system, than the blower-style ones, right?

the difference is negligible if you have proper airflow

and two 140mm as intake and two 120mm as exhaust is considered to be a proper airflow

 

if open-air GPU coolers were such a problems then my system with two open-air GPUs would should be dead by now and running at like 3821737978132*C if we go by your previous post ))

just to remove any confusion, my system is perfectly well and is not dead nor is it running at 3821737978132*C

[DJMasHup007]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

the difference is negligible if you have proper airflow

and two 140mm as intake and two 120mm as exhaust is considered to be a proper airflow

 

if open-air GPU coolers were such a problems then my system with two open-air GPUs would should be dead by now and running at like 3821737978132*C if we go by your previous post ))

just to remove any confusion, my system is perfectly well and is not dead nor it is running at 3821737978132*C

Please keep in mind that the PSU in the case blocks 60-70% of the gpu intake

[DXMember]

6 minutes ago, DJMasHup007 said:

Please keep in mind that the PSU in the case blocks 60-70% of the gpu intake

can you give pictures?

in what way does it block the intake?

and it will not block the intake for the blower?

 

if and open air cooler is blocked off it's not the end of the world as long as the fans are not jammed and can spin

if the blower cooler is blocked off well then RIP in pepperoni

have you considered mini ITX cards like 970 Mini from Gigabyte?

 

c'mon if you know it does then use common sense and go with the appropriate solution

 

here's an open-air cooler "completely" blocked by PSU shroud

 

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[DJMasHup007]

1 hour ago, DXMember said:

can you give pictures?

in what way does it block the intake?

and it will not block the intake for the blower?

 

if and open air cooler is blocked off it's not the end of the world as long as the fans are not jammed and can spin

if the blower cooler is blocked off well then RIP in pepperoni

have you considered mini ITX cards like 970 Mini from Gigabyte?

 

c'mon if you know it does then use common sense and go with the appropriate solution

 

here's an open-air cooler "completely" blocked by PSU shroud

 

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[sapphirethunder]

That's plenty of space for Open-Air cooler. So definitely go with one.

As long as your air-flow is fine, you are not seeing higher temperatures and your gpu will stay cooler as well.

 

+ it's more silent than blower style.

[DJMasHup007]

Ok than i am going with some evga gtx 970 acx2.0

[DXMember]

as said above, that's plenty of space, get a triple fan cooler