Never seen this GPU

[Mugenjynn]

I’ve never seen this GPU, does it perform like a 1080 should? If it does, it matches my builds color a lot better so if it performs as good as the windforce I might switch.

[Slottr]

Its a blower cooler so unless youre doing a cramped itx build I wouldn't get it

[CTR640]

It's because PNY is not very well known brand. I've seen a lot of PNY as pro like Quadro series.

[iRileyx]

PNY make decent cards, but as it's a blower cooler it won't be the best cooled and definitely not the quietest card that you could get

[Mugenjynn]

5 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Its a blower cooler so unless youre doing a cramped itx build I wouldn't get it

I’m sorry but you need to elaborate I’m not too sharp

[supremedutchgamer]

as the two before me said, pny mostly makes quadro's, i have two of their products and while they function completely fine their blower style cooling is pretty meh. unless you have a case with great airflow i suggest going with a different card.

[Mugenjynn]

Just now, supremedutchgamer said:

as the two before me said, pny mostly makes quadro's, i have two of their products and while they function completely fine their blower style cooling is pretty meh. unless you have a case with great airflow i suggest going with a different card.

My case is a h500i so airflow is ok I guess

[Slottr]

1 minute ago, Mugenjynn said:

I’m sorry but you need to elaborate I’m not too sharp

Blower style coolers don't cool the same way something like the windforce might. You'll find it getting significantly hotter in an ATX or MATX case rather than one of the two fan gpus.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

3 minutes ago, Mugenjynn said:

I’m sorry but you need to elaborate I’m not too sharp

The card's cooling is not very good

[CTR640]

1 minute ago, Mugenjynn said:

My case is a h500i so airflow is ok I guess

It's not about getting guessing wether it's okay or not. Those GPU's are not cheap so you'll have to be very sure if the airflow is good or not.

Looks are not really important, the cooling solutions, they are first priorities. And blower styles are louder.

[Mugenjynn]

1 minute ago, CTR640 said:

It's not about getting guessing wether it's okay or not. Those GPU's are not cheap so you'll have to be very sure if the airflow is good or not.

Looks are not really important, the cooling solutions, they are first priorities. And blower styles are louder.

Yeah and it seems like it’s not as good as the windforce so far and they are the same price for me . The answer seems fairly obvious

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CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor	$174.00 @ Amazon
Motherboard	ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard	$69.99 @ Newegg
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Storage	Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$45.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card	$439.99 @ Newegg Business
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[Neo-revo]

17 minutes ago, Mugenjynn said:

Yeah and it seems like it’s not as good as the windforce so far and they are the same price for me . The answer seems fairly obvious

blower style cards try and exhaust air out the back pcie bracket area,  they compensate the lowered performance (fans dont stack pressure wise in series, but may prevent backflow in some situations)  by having a turbine do the wind tunnel through the shroud covering the entire block, the exposed spiny bit suck air in from inside your case to blow out the back,

 

other cards with 2 or more  fans just exhaust hot air into the inside of your case and will cause poor performance in size restricted build and or poorly thought out airflow/case design

[Mugenjynn]

9 minutes ago, Neo-revo said:

blower style cards try and exhaust air out the back pcie bracket area,  they compensate the lowered performance (fans dont stack pressure wise in series, but may prevent backflow in some situations)  by having a turbine do the wind tunnel through the shroud covering the entire block, the exposed spiny bit suck air in from inside your case to blow out the back,

 

other cards with 2 or more  fans just exhaust hot air into the inside of your case and will cause poor performance in size restricted build and or poorly thought out airflow/case design

Are you saying the windforce is bad for my build now? Since it has 3 fans?

[Neo-revo]

no,   just the difference of the  fan type: the PNY is a blower-exhaust,   if you have enough  exhaust fans blowing out, your interior will be fine with the windforce

 

and possible reasons for going exhaust-blower instead of open air dissipation to the interior

[Mugenjynn]

2 minutes ago, Neo-revo said:

no,   just the difference of the  fan type: the PNY is a blower-exhaust,   if you have enough  exhaust fans blowing out, your interior will be fine with the windforce

 

Oh I get it now, sorry for my lack of understanding.

[Neo-revo]

8 minutes ago, Mugenjynn said:

Oh I get it now, sorry for my lack of understanding.

no problem,  it was kind of TMI and vague at the same time.

 

i only call a blower  style over compensating for lower performance  is cause 3 fans like your will cool off the heat sink faster and more evenly hopefully, but to the inside (hence needing better exhaust),   but if you added another fan to  'make more air exhaust through it (a blower),  physics of air don't allow air flow to be added or multiplied by adding additional cfm in this situation.  But say in a long, long tunnel,  you could space out fans along the distance to prevent backflow and encourage uniform movement in one way.