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AMD Vega RX 56 With Triple-Fans Surfaces
Interesting, if you have had a peek at some of the photos in our unboxing of Vega, you should have noticed that the last photo showed Vega 56. That product has a blower single fan style cooler. New photos however surfaced of what looks like a reference card, yet with three fans.
The triple fan cooler has another interesting thing, a very small PCB. If you look at the photos that have been posted by tooliustech on FB btw, you can see that is has a 17cm Mini-ITX sized PCB. That card has a 1x 6-pin and 1x 8-pin power connector as well.
Interesting eh? Have a peek.
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#5462576 Posted on: 08/14/2017 09:44 AM
If the card requires this level of cooling, can't just cut-off a third of the heatsink.
much smaller PCB, yet not a smaller card?
If the card requires this level of cooling, can't just cut-off a third of the heatsink.
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#5462578 Posted on: 08/14/2017 09:54 AM
Maybe it's some kind of a demo board. It has no backplate. What are those three connectors directly on the PCB anyway? Do normal video cards have such under the backplate? I'd say no.
Maybe it's some kind of a demo board. It has no backplate. What are those three connectors directly on the PCB anyway? Do normal video cards have such under the backplate? I'd say no.
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#5462603 Posted on: 08/14/2017 11:15 AM
The pcb is half the size of the cooler... either they went overboard or we should we worried if it need some that much cooling... hopefully not the latter...
Nice to see custom cards are going to come out anyway, hopefully we might see a new nano card for those who like to build small itx machines
The pcb is half the size of the cooler... either they went overboard or we should we worried if it need some that much cooling... hopefully not the latter...
Nice to see custom cards are going to come out anyway, hopefully we might see a new nano card for those who like to build small itx machines
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#5462615 Posted on: 08/14/2017 11:59 AM
The reason the card is so long is because for some people, the bigger the card, the MOAR performance it gets. i call them Rice GPU's.
So remember kids, never buy a gpu if its small, go for the BIGGEST one, cos it performs better.
The reason the card is so long is because for some people, the bigger the card, the MOAR performance it gets. i call them Rice GPU's.
So remember kids, never buy a gpu if its small, go for the BIGGEST one, cos it performs better.
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I don't get it. Two different reference cards of the same card, yet not the same card, and for some reason a much smaller PCB, yet not a smaller card?
None of this makes sense.