Graphics cards and cooling 2010
Abdominal pain on a broad front. As clever as the engineers at AMD and Nvidia may find their two-hole cooling, we’d rather punish this idea than cheer it on. What is still good for reasonably usable values in the open test setup, this ensures heat build-up and component hazard in the interior of the housing. No matter if hard drives or CPUs at the power limit – such internal temperatures are therefore not practicable. We recommend a housing in which the graphics card end points directly to an opening in the front panel, which can also be taken out. Moving the hot air in the housing is tedious and difficult to realize.
Conclusion 2010:
Both cards are pure show objects with very limited suitability for everyday use, as long as you cannot and do not want to use water cooling. Here are two (faster) single cards in the SLI or Crossfire definitely the better choice.
We would like to say a few words to the manufacturers: less is more! Why not limit the performance limit, just as some car manufacturers have already voluntarily agreed to a maximum speed for cars? 200 to 250 watts are enough, no one needs more – rather less. Intensifying rather than extensive, that would certainly be a step forward. We don’t want to give the salutary eco-angel here, we are too much player and performance fanatic. But we want at least one point that can be set as a line between usability and power madness. That’s not much, but it would certainly be a start.
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