Just done this in paint, not sure why they didn't go with this, just takes them to move the logo forward slightly and take out a piece of the aluminium.
Makes sense as well as it matches the underside of the gpu so you have 2 vents of similar size instead of one being restricted because of a logo.
A single fan cooler would never be enough to handle the radeon vii so it is what it is. And btw, dumping the hot air in the case only increases internal temps marginaly, 4-5 c or thereabouts so its not as bad as people make out.
A single fan cooler would never be enough to handle the radeon vii so it is what it is.
You already talked about this the other day, if it was as easy or as effective as you make out it would have been done a long time ago. Just because we only see 3 main cooler designs from companies (blower, axial and aio) doesn't mean that behind the scenes they haven't experimented with other options.
I want a product which they sell to me, and I see it. What they do behind the scenes you can't know. Maybe they never did it.
They were just ok. Exhausting out only the GPU bracket is too restrictive.
way to save it taking up 2 slots across the PCie lanes.
Now that would have been better, a smaller logo with better heat dissipation.
I don't know. There are double fan designs and I am sure they are better than the reference Radeon VII.
The problem is that they don't design the graphics cards as one unity but slap different parts no one knows from where found and whatever happens.
The fact that a dual blower card has never seen the light of day suggests it was tried and never worked. Do you honestly think companies would try dual and triple axial fans and never have the same thought about the possibility of a dual blower fan card? Unlikely.
Funny thing is the logo is exactly the same size, just moved forward and that piece of aluminium blocking the fins removed. Bit odd why this seemingly never occurred to them, i mean if you look at the pcie power connectors they even have little portions cut out for some fins to show through, yet for the main top area of the card they thought it better to taper it in heavily with aluminium. Nvidia did exactly the same thing with the turing coolers, the geforce logo tapered in heavily blocking off the fins and minimising the amount of space that air could be funneled through. Though they done it at both the top and bottom of the card which was doubly dumb.
you could make another shroud out of cardboard or something to test it, maybe? cant remmber if the shroud comes off easily in a non warrenty voiding way. but yeah theres often asthetics led choices on coolers still that are stupid.
and in this case its obivous and silly free performance they giving up, whatever the gain is.
Maybe you should apply for chief cooler designer at AMD. all the top air coolers are triple fan design.
MSI’s twin frozr (dual fan) set up has always been one of the best and the quietest coolers.
Used to be at least, triple is the order of the day for most of the newer cards. Though still a few dual fan ones kicking around.
If anyone can shed some light it would be appreciated.