Inno3D announce triple slot GTX 470 Hawk

[Zappypants]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3707/inno3d-announce-triple-slot-gtx-470-hawk-

"maximum noise level of 30dB, and is 22ºC cooler than the reference design"

Takes up 3 slots, SLI could be an issue. Anyway, what caught my eye was how much of a heatsink it takes to bring it to those temps, and that's just the 470. Oh, and it's stock speeds as well

 

[HeatSurge]

A dual 120mm radiator with low-med speed fans (~1200RPM) can cool the GTX 480 under full (furmark) load to 60C, overclocked to 900 core / 1800 shaders (assuming around 20-25C ambient).

It really needs as much cooling as a CPU does...

 

[CorkyD]

I just find it funny that the two smaller fans blow air toward the card, but the large fan blows air away from the card. Everything I have learned about air cooling tells me that this is a bad design....but these people ARE engineers I suppose.

 

[HeatSurge]

I guess they tried to get a circular airflow going... if it works, it works I suppose.