Best Blower GTX 1080/TI

[jb600]

Hey all,

 

Looking for your opinion on the best blower GTX 1080 or TI. Theres the founders edition but other manufacturers have their own blowers too, though not many... Asus has their Turbo for example.

 

Won't be doing any overclocking, or very little of it. Doing a HTPC build with either a GD09B or smaller, so having a blower style GPU is the way to go I think...

 

Thoughts?

[Evolution90]

A blower is a blower...

 

Not much gonna change other than a metal outer shroud.

[jb600]

Just now, Evolution90 said:

A blower is a blower...

 

Not much gonna change other than a metal outer shroud.

Moreso looking at peoples experiences with temps and overall performance

[kreechrr]

2 minutes ago, jb600 said:

Hey all,

 

Looking for your opinion on the best blower GTX 1080 or TI. Theres the founders edition but other manufacturers have their own blowers too, though not many... Asus has their Turbo for example.

 

Won't be doing any overclocking, or very little of it. Doing a HTPC build with either a GD09B or smaller, so having a blower style GPU is the way to go I think...

 

Thoughts?

any you can find closest to the MSRP. AFAIK blower style cards are Founder's Editions with non-nvidia heatsinks. So any third party maker should perform ever so slightly better/cooler.

[RadiatingLight]

don't go for a blower style card.

you will overheat, and it will make tons of noise. if noise is important at all to you, don't get a blower card, especially for such a hungry card.

if there's room, maybe try a hybrid card, or use a kraken G12.

if there isn't room, then I'd personally just get a normal card, and run my case fans a bit faster to cycle the air more.

 

[Damascus]

13 minutes ago, Evolution90 said:

A blower is a blower...

 

Not much gonna change other than a metal outer shroud.

Nope, aftermarket blower are the cheapest they can get away with.  

12 minutes ago, Create585 said:

any you can find closest to the MSRP. AFAIK blower style cards are Founder's Editions with non-nvidia heatsinks. So any third party maker should perform ever so slightly better/cooler.

Or slightly worse generally.

[Zyndo]

19 minutes ago, jb600 said:

Hey all,

 

Looking for your opinion on the best blower GTX 1080 or TI. Theres the founders edition but other manufacturers have their own blowers too, though not many... Asus has their Turbo for example.

 

Won't be doing any overclocking, or very little of it. Doing a HTPC build with either a GD09B or smaller, so having a blower style GPU is the way to go I think...

 

Thoughts?

the TI cards without the DVI ports on them supposedly have better cooling due to less restriction on the exhaust (founders cards have this across the board). Founders cards also, supposedly, have some kind of advanced blower cooler design... some "vapor chamber" cooling design ... forget what the marketing team called the rubbish this time.... but my money on the best blower cooler based on that information would be the Founders cooler, but probably not majorly so compared to a cheaper variant like the Asus turbo... most of the crap like that is just marketing fluff and probably doesn't make a ton of real-world difference but i've also never really looked into it.

[Hunter-97-G]

My 1080 Ti Founders is absolutely fine with a custom fan curve, it mostly stays at 78C under 100% load. I'd get that from a manufacturer such as EVGA (cuz warranty) and because the FE looks 100 times better than the other blowers, tbh.

[LienusLateTips]

Cheapest one.

[TbnrDalas]

And the fact that basically all 1080ti founders are out of stock so get the asus turbo or the zotac blower

[Efari]

the PNY 1080Ti Blower Edition seems to be one of the cheapest available, and also looks to have more and bigger exhaust holes.

note: i did say "looks" because i found no specific benchmarks about this card