I wanted a blower type card for ~$200/250, but the reference 480 was a pretty big flop, I know it sold like hotcakes but the cooler was shit and the power draw issue is being memed to hell and back.
Will the 1060 FE have a better cooler than the 480? Even with a similar cooler it should run better because it's only 120w, right?
Things I'm looking for in the 1060 >run cooler than 75 degrees in games >not be massive >bigger, or more effective, heatsink than the 480 >no power draw issues
What does Sup Forums think? Will the premium they charge for the founders edition have them put in a semi competent cooler for once?
>Paying for a reference blower cooler that costs more Don't do this
Ryan Sullivan
Looks much nicer than nvidia FE cards, but how's the internals?
Dylan Morgan
I want a blower card, and I want one that isn't a cheap piece of shit.
If the 1060 FE isn't an overheating piece of shit like the reference 480, then I'll gladly pay the premium for it.
I'll never understand why it's so difficult for manufacturers to make a decent blower type cooler. The 480 would have performed closer to a 980 if it had an 8 pin for better power management and a bigger heatsink, which they could have easily fit in. A coppet heatpipe at the very least for fucks sake!
John Kelly
If it comes off that I'm anti AMD, it's because I'm really fucking disappointed with the reference 480 which I was looking forward to buying.
Brody Wright
The 480 reference blower isn't as bad as you're making it out to be. I have one running full tilt mining eth when I'm not using the computer, and it stays in the low 70's if I turn the fans up in Wattman. Unless your case has zero airflow, the reference blower works just fine.
Kayden Rodriguez
Expect there to be a bit of a premium (Early Adopter Tax) until AIB versions hit the market.
Carter Jackson
>Will the premium they charge for the founders edition have them put in a semi competent cooler for once?
The extra cost of the founders edition means absolutely nothing concerning build quality. It is the same old reference trash as always. The 1080 FE was a power starved overheating piece of shit
The whole premium components meme is just Nvidia lying through its teeth to justify the price markup
Anthony Russell
Problem with that is, turning up the blower fan gets loud.
I used to have a 5970, which I know is in a whole other class thanks to its massive heat output, but that got loud when I turned the fan up and I'm expecting the same from any blower card.
Some noise is ok, but not jet engine loud.
Sebastian Turner
exactly the same
Ayden Russell
Well, shit.
Does it carry the same premium? I'm not fussed about looks since once it's in my pc I'll only be opening it up for dusting and shit every once in a while, but if it's the same price I might as well go for the one that looks better to me
Noah Martin
Who the fuck buys reference cards?
Dominic James
OP here.
I want a blower cooler, that's usually only reference.
Lincoln Hughes
that's not true asus has one of their own for the 970 i'm sure there's more for other cards offered
Oliver Wood
EVGA offers blower cards even factory OC'd versions.
Landon Reed
>founders edition >decent buy
no.
Bentley Diaz
Why you want a blower op SLI? Or are you simply stupid
Cameron Brooks
Blower is good for preventing the GPU heat from affecting your other components.
A blower GPU can actually reduce the temps on your CPU, motherboard, etc.
Isaac Peterson
Not the OP but I prefer blowers because I have an FT02 case. The mobo rotation makes the air flow move in one direction to work in cooperation with natural heat convection to rise. Non-blowers which dump the hot air in the case works in opposition rather than in cooperation.
Michael Roberts
I suppose depends on the use But almost anything other than CPU and gpu temps should be a non factor
Bentley Ross
Blowers push heat out of the case, if you have a tower heatsink and a large graphics card, that's a lot of heat inside a small enclosed space.
I got a single rad clc to blow the heat out of the case instead and I was amazed at how much gpu temps dropped.
Austin Nguyen
There are some SSDs that overheat and throttle, a blower GPU can actually help with that
Blake Nguyen
Same guy Hence almost 950 pro actually throttles, I have one but I simply installed some ram heatsinks onto the chips Fits perfectly and temps are fine
Noah Cox
Problem with blowers is that they're usually half assed because not enough people care about them.
If we had an rx480 with a bigger heatsink it would be perfect and 2x 6 pin. I agree with op about the 480.
Ryder Cook
Are you stupid?
Hunter Edwards
Maybe it's for a compact PC, where blower style coolers are better
Luke Flores
I wish they'd actually put some effort in with the reference cards...
Luis Russell
Yeah blowers make more of a difference in ITX systems because the parts are all so close together.
Blake Garcia
>jet engine loud The extreme hyperbole loses effect after a while.
Lincoln Green
so let me get this straight
you want a blower style(WHY?) the ref 480 was a flop (80c is a flop?)
also you must consider few important things..
a)the driver fix since yesterday already shows 2 c less and +12 %decrease on power draw in general (more balanced not magically gone..) b) the 1060 doesnt have the peg connector on the pcb....its on the cooler and that limits quite a lot the card...
Oliver Parker
1060 is almost 100W less power than the 480, 1060 produces way less heat and uses way less power (and is also faster)
Liam Jackson
ok i know paid shills are on the loose since 480 laucnhed but come on get real for once.....
480 had a max tdp of 150watt and was on 164 watts at the most demanding games..
1060 has a average tdp (because nvidia never measures max) of 120 watts and you think that magically its going to draw less than that on games heavy as last light or crysis?
Jaxson Martinez
Check the benchmarks, even a 1070, which is ridiculously faster than a 480, uses less power than the 480.
The 480 is shit at power efficiency.
Jayden Kelly
Hey there, I'm not biased at all (I own a graphics card) but I'd advise you to always buy Nvidia™, because Nvidia™ runs faster, cooler, and gives more frames and GHz when overclocked. Nvidia™ let's me play games The Way it's Meant to be Played™, and with Nvidia's innovative GameWorks™ development framework powering over 90% of up and coming titles this year, you'd be a fool to even consider a card from an inferior company. I could talk to you about drivers (AMD has none, not one driver) but you're probably already sold by now. Buy any Nvidia™ card at any price point and you will NOT be disappointed!
Caleb Brown
You are not going to find one for less that 300, MSRP is 249, FE is 300, so you might be able to find a FE for 300 if you are lucky, but for a aftermarket cooler its gonna be 350+, because of nvidias dddumb pricing.
