Any High End Passive Cooled GPU's out there?

[twilrabbit]

Was looking around google and couldnt find any true silent gpu's out there that aren't mid tier (gtx 750 , 1050ti was all I found),

 

I am not big on watercooling or fans (even the strix smart cool fans on my 950ti are kind of pushing it)

 

I was wondering if anyone knew any ways or any brands that sell passive cooled 1070s or 1080s or even a Titan, that are entirely passive cooled OR if there is some sort of site that manufactures custom fanless aftermarket passive cooled heatsinks for such cards?

 

,thanks yall

[vong]

2 minutes ago, twilrabbit said:

Was looking around google and couldnt find any true silent gpu's out there that aren't mid tier (gtx 750 , 1050ti was all I found),

 

I am not big on watercooling or fans (even the strix smart cool fans on my 950ti are kind of pushing it)

 

I was wondering if anyone knew any ways or any brands that sell passive cooled 1070s or 1080s or even a Titan, that are entirely passive cooled OR if there is some sort of site that manufactures custom fanless aftermarket passive cooled heatsinks for such cards?

 

,thanks yall

Those cards generate too much heat for a small passive cooler. If you want a silent card then get a hybrid one and slap on a silent fan.

[rn8686]

Dont think thats really possible, they're TDP is too high (At least for a practical 2 slot card). 

[twilrabbit]

Would a custom full fitting industrialized gpu block with fins (like on a cpu cooler work) ; assuming I underclock the card; not looking for OCing here or anything crazy, more like a single screen 4k, max graphics playback on not flagship gpu intensive titles

[PSUGuru]

If you want a silent High end card, go for the Strix series of cards. Extremely quiet cards. They're not passively cooled, but they don't need to be.

[Technomancer__]

10 minutes ago, twilrabbit said:

Was looking around google and couldnt find any true silent gpu's out there that aren't mid tier (gtx 750 , 1050ti was all I found),

 

I am not big on watercooling or fans (even the strix smart cool fans on my 950ti are kind of pushing it)

 

I was wondering if anyone knew any ways or any brands that sell passive cooled 1070s or 1080s or even a Titan, that are entirely passive cooled OR if there is some sort of site that manufactures custom fanless aftermarket passive cooled heatsinks for such cards?

 

,thanks yall

they dont exist but the closest is the zotac amp extreme! cooler that comes with the 1080 1070 and 1080ti

the fans close even when on stress test (for some time)

i have it and they are completely silent and cant realy hear them beacouase they run on very low speed

and they sound like a jet engine when you put em to 100%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO64zln8kNg

[Brooksie359]

2 minutes ago, twilrabbit said:

Would a custom full fitting industrialized gpu block with fins (like on a cpu cooler work) ; assuming I underclock the card; not looking for OCing here or anything crazy, more like a single screen 4k, max graphics playback on not flagship gpu intensive titles

That would take a lot of money and engineering just to see if it is possible and the likely answer would come down to its not practical and you would have to create a very custom and expensive solution to even get it to work. 

[rattacko123]

server GPU

[Technomancer__]

Just now, rattacko123 said:

server GPU

it is cooled by those loud jet fans in the case

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

if you are having noise problems and think that the strix cards are too loud, then you got a problem of some other sort or are really sound sensitive. What are your other components? Especially CPU-Cooler / PSU / Case and Case fans

[rattacko123]

10 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

it is cooled by those loud jet fans in the case

shhhh  *wink wink* *nudge nudge*

[Clyne]

There was a passively cooled GTX 680...don't know where it went for sale.

Arctic has a passive GPU cooler, doesn't support high end though.

https://www.arctic.ac/us_en/accelero-s3.html

[DoctorZeus]

49 minutes ago, twilrabbit said:

Was looking around google and couldnt find any true silent gpu's out there that aren't mid tier (gtx 750 , 1050ti was all I found),

 

I am not big on watercooling or fans (even the strix smart cool fans on my 950ti are kind of pushing it)

 

I was wondering if anyone knew any ways or any brands that sell passive cooled 1070s or 1080s or even a Titan, that are entirely passive cooled OR if there is some sort of site that manufactures custom fanless aftermarket passive cooled heatsinks for such cards?

 

,thanks yall

This might be a video for you lul

 

[Zyndo]

1 hour ago, twilrabbit said:

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There is a production computer you can get which is entirely 100% passively cooled. its technically liquid cooled, but there are no fans involved, and no pump to move said liquid around. @DoctorZeus just linked a prototype version of one of those, but I believe it came to the market about a month or two ago... cant remember what its called though... its stupidly expensive, stupidly biulky, stupidly heavy, but its also stupidly quiet as well.

anywho, point is that is the only kind of truly passive cooling on high end products you're going to get. Its very possible to get EXTREMELY silent water cooling setups or even air cooled setups (with appropriate TDP items)... but there isn't any way to truly passive cool a PC. at the very least you're going to need some case fans to get air moving around in there, and if you're going to tolerate case fans then there is no reason to avoid GPU fans.

[Technomancer__]

2 hours ago, DoctorZeus said:

This might be a video for you lul

 

was thinking of giving the link but it is prototype and it costs over 9000 so it wouldn't be a solution

i bet @twilrabbit is so jealous right now

[twilrabbit]

Saw the vid on LTT a while ago, was hoping something like that endeavor just with a m-itx and less space; basically was looking for m-itx case size like the Steiger Dynamics console sized m-itx but fanless or dead quiet

[othertomperson]

If you got two semi-passive 1080 Tis (MSI Twin Frozr or Asus Strix, for example), and ran them in SLI and played at 1080p they would probably never get warm enough for the fans to turn on. That's one of the more surprising benefits of SLI, actually, that in undemanding games like Life Is Strange my PC is utterly silent, while with a single 1080 at 4K there would be at least one fan running somewhere.

 

It's kind of like PSUs really. The more extreme the hardware compared with what you're actually doing with it, the more chances of it handling the workload passively.

[brittains]

5 hours ago, twilrabbit said:

Saw the vid on LTT a while ago, was hoping something like that endeavor just with a m-itx and less space; basically was looking for m-itx case size like the Steiger Dynamics console sized m-itx but fanless or dead quiet

Remember how large that case was or should I say the cases heatsink? 100 watts is 100 watts (afaik) if I remember right from the video it was cooling a relatively high end CPU so 100+watt range and a relatively high end CPU would draw a comparable amount of energy and thus generate a comparable amount of heat and thus require a comparable size passive heatsink. I think that's why they don't exist. 

I'm no engineer so if I'm way off base tell me and I'll shut up. 

Edited April 20, 2017 by brittains
I'm on my phone and auto-correct

[foamygopher]

An interesting vid on the topic.

 

[RAM555789]

On 4/19/2017 at 2:35 AM, twilrabbit said:

Was looking around google and couldnt find any true silent gpu's out there that aren't mid tier (gtx 750 , 1050ti was all I found),

 

I am not big on watercooling or fans (even the strix smart cool fans on my 950ti are kind of pushing it)

 

I was wondering if anyone knew any ways or any brands that sell passive cooled 1070s or 1080s or even a Titan, that are entirely passive cooled OR if there is some sort of site that manufactures custom fanless aftermarket passive cooled heatsinks for such cards?

 

,thanks yall

The only way I know to get completely silent cooling like this would be mineral oil PC.

[Verrm]

Hey there. Might I add something here? I hope that the undervolting a modern card could be a solution. I am no expert, not at all, but I remember what I saw in the video below. An undervolted rx580 performs great and stays under 60 celcius which makes it silent, passively cooled only. You might think about it!

 

 

[Akshatv]

Well you can check out good passively good graphics cards at https://graphicscardhub.com/best-passively-cooled-graphics-card/. And yes the most powerful passive GPU you can find is the GTX 1050 Ti only.