Now this is simply ridiculous. AMD advertises them as being passively cooled, then they claim the GPUs need 10 or 20 cfm of airflow. So which is it? Are they passively cooled or not? Passive cooling meant they get what they get and that's all that they get for airflow. And these GPUs are still expensive.
Now this is simply ridiculous. AMD advertises them as being passively cooled, then they claim the GPUs need 10 or 20 cfm of airflow. So which is it? Are they passively cooled or not? Passive cooling meant they get what they get and that's all that they get for airflow. And these GPUs are still expensive.
I could be way off but I think they mean to say that you can cool them with airflow that does not come from a fan sitting directly on top. Given a lot of these are going to be stacked in racks that have specialized cooling, there would be no need to throw a fan on top. I believe that was the point.
Imagine a data center, not a gaming PC. Things are cooled with passive airflow. Ie. a cooled server cabinet.
Given the alternatives for what these are for, they are relatively cheap upfront.
I'm very impressed by it all quite frankly, it's nice to see AMD putting out again. *giggle*
I could be way off but I think they mean to say that you can cool them with airflow that does not come from a fan sitting directly on top. Given a lot of these are going to be stacked in racks that have specialized cooling, there would be no need to throw a fan on top. I believe that was the point.
Imagine a data center, not a gaming PC. Things are cooled with passive airflow. Ie. a cooled server cabinet.
Given the alternatives for what these are for, they are relatively cheap upfront.
I'm very impressed by it all quite frankly, it's nice to see AMD putting out again. *giggle*
They're enterprise cards. They're tuned to do things a gamer won't ever need them for. There's a level of support available that a gamer will never need. Check out UPSLynx's article and video on the differences.
Now this is simply ridiculous. AMD advertises them as being passively cooled, then they claim the GPUs need 10 or 20 cfm of airflow. So which is it? Are they passively cooled or not? Passive cooling meant they get what they get and that's all that they get for airflow. And these GPUs are still expensive.
Are you deliberately this dense, or a cruel misfortune?
Are you deliberately this dense, or a cruel misfortune?
It's likely that a lot of people are going to knee jerk the same reaction to the article if they have little or no exposure to this type of product. Most people who view this article are likely to be gamers and they probably don't want to read a whole lot to make sense of the marketing terminology and pricing.
Tim's comment and the other replies are going to help those people quickly make sense out of this.
I don't think there is a reason to call anybody dense. That just makes it scary for outsiders to comment as they will fear the wrath of the Thrax.
Well, when I read "passive" cooling, that says to me that it needs no amount of air being deliberately blown onto it. Like an old Slot 1 Pentium 2 CPU that had a large heat sink built onto it and no provisions for a fan. Whatever amount of airflow may have been in the computer case was good enough.
It's only when AMD specifies that they NEED any specific # of CFMs of airflow that it no longer sounds like passive to me.
So the case airflow of 10-20 cfm should be plenty to keep this thing from overheating. I've had more passively cooled workstation GPU's than not. Maybe that's why I had this puzzle figured out so quickly. Or maybe it was just because it was that obvious from the beginning.
It's likely that a lot of people are going to knee jerk the same reaction to the article if they have little or no exposure to this type of product. Most people who view this article are likely to be gamers and they probably don't want to read a whole lot to make sense of the marketing terminology and pricing.
Tim's comment and the other replies are going to help those people quickly make sense out of this.
I don't think there is a reason to call anybody dense. That just makes it scary for outsiders to comment as they will fear the wrath of the Thrax.
There's considerably more to the story than you know.
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I could be way off but I think they mean to say that you can cool them with airflow that does not come from a fan sitting directly on top. Given a lot of these are going to be stacked in racks that have specialized cooling, there would be no need to throw a fan on top. I believe that was the point.
Imagine a data center, not a gaming PC. Things are cooled with passive airflow. Ie. a cooled server cabinet.
Given the alternatives for what these are for, they are relatively cheap upfront.
I'm very impressed by it all quite frankly, it's nice to see AMD putting out again. *giggle*
Are you deliberately this dense, or a cruel misfortune?
It's likely that a lot of people are going to knee jerk the same reaction to the article if they have little or no exposure to this type of product. Most people who view this article are likely to be gamers and they probably don't want to read a whole lot to make sense of the marketing terminology and pricing.
Tim's comment and the other replies are going to help those people quickly make sense out of this.
I don't think there is a reason to call anybody dense. That just makes it scary for outsiders to comment as they will fear the wrath of the Thrax.
It's only when AMD specifies that they NEED any specific # of CFMs of airflow that it no longer sounds like passive to me.
There's considerably more to the story than you know.