Gigabyte Announces WindForce 3X-Cooled R9 280 Card

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Gigabyte's new R9 280 graphics card will be cooled by the mighty WindForce 3X cooler.

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[Morbus]

I have that cooler on my 760 and I can tell you, having heard a stock cooled 760, that it is NOT overkill.First off, the fans don't tell the whole story: the pipes that connect to the GPU are also very important, and not all WindForce 3X are born equal. The first version of the 760's, for example, is badly optimized (two pipes don't touch the GPU).But anyway, I say it's not overkill mostly because of the silence. It's fantastic how silent the card is. Fantastic piece of hardware.

 

[Ahmadjon]

I have that cooler on my 760 and I can tell you, having heard a stock cooled 760, that it is NOT overkill.First off, the fans don't tell the whole story: the pipes that connect to the GPU are also very important, and not all WindForce 3X are born equal. The first version of the 760's, for example, is badly optimized (two pipes don't touch the GPU).But anyway, I say it's not overkill mostly because of the silence. It's fantastic how silent the card is. Fantastic piece of hardware.

What about MSI cards?

 

[Morbus]

I have that cooler on my 760 and I can tell you, having heard a stock cooled 760, that it is NOT overkill.First off, the fans don't tell the whole story: the pipes that connect to the GPU are also very important, and not all WindForce 3X are born equal. The first version of the 760's, for example, is badly optimized (two pipes don't touch the GPU).But anyway, I say it's not overkill mostly because of the silence. It's fantastic how silent the card is. Fantastic piece of hardware.

What about MSI cards?

From what I've seen, they're even better on the silence front, and they're temperatures are about the same as Gigabyte. MSI does tend to have slightly lower stock clocks though.

 

[Ahmadjon]

I have that cooler on my 760 and I can tell you, having heard a stock cooled 760, that it is NOT overkill.First off, the fans don't tell the whole story: the pipes that connect to the GPU are also very important, and not all WindForce 3X are born equal. The first version of the 760's, for example, is badly optimized (two pipes don't touch the GPU).But anyway, I say it's not overkill mostly because of the silence. It's fantastic how silent the card is. Fantastic piece of hardware.

What about MSI cards?

From what I've seen, they're even better on the silence front, and they're temperatures are about the same as Gigabyte. MSI does tend to have slightly lower stock clocks though.

My GTX-760 under load doesn't go higher 70C and 45% fan speed!

 

[Morbus]

I have that cooler on my 760 and I can tell you, having heard a stock cooled 760, that it is NOT overkill.First off, the fans don't tell the whole story: the pipes that connect to the GPU are also very important, and not all WindForce 3X are born equal. The first version of the 760's, for example, is badly optimized (two pipes don't touch the GPU).But anyway, I say it's not overkill mostly because of the silence. It's fantastic how silent the card is. Fantastic piece of hardware.

What about MSI cards?

From what I've seen, they're even better on the silence front, and they're temperatures are about the same as Gigabyte. MSI does tend to have slightly lower stock clocks though.

My GTX-760 under load doesn't go higher 70C and 45% fan speed!

My Gigabyte 760 doesn't go above 65C. I I stress it artificially, it will reach 69C. On a hot day.

 

[Adela Pop]

Cool! Hopefully, the Thermal Design Power will also be improved, taking into account that the TDP for the current AMD Radeon R9 280 is 200W, which is quite high compared to other GPUs: http://versus.com/en/amd-radeon-r9-280