What is THE most sexy GPU?
>>56585113
W9100
>>56585113
The HD 5970.
Still my favorite GPU I've owned.
Still mad AMD dropped all driver support just 2 years after it was released
>>56585200
VHS tapes are pretty sexy tho
>>56585113
Best looking graphics card ever!
>>56585138
Despite being inefficient, blower coolers like this one are the most aesthetically pleasing. I despise the ricer race car aesthetic that a lot of cards on the market have going on.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm
One slot, insane P/P
>>56586840
I have a few of those laying around. They always did look good. Too bad they were an inferno just idling.
>>56585138
This. I'm about to get rid of mine and it makes me sad because no card looks as cool.
thicc
>>56585136
Twit twoo...
Pretty nice but my heart belongs to my GPU-fu, R9 Fury Sapphire-chan.
>>56587079
you call that thicc?
>>56587148
HNNG!
>>56585269
>COLORFUL
No shit
>>56587166
>five tiny fan
a e s t h e t i c i n c a r n a t e
>>56587148
to bad the other side of the card looks like shit
>dat silver.
>>56587383
Cards that wide need to stop existing.
>>56587398
It's only two slots wide dummy
>>56585113
The EVGA 1080 FTW. I installed 20 of them underneath my Honda Civic and now I pick up mad bitches.
>>56587436
it's two slots tall but pretty wide, dummy
>>56587398
fun fact: the 680 classy was the card that started the trend of pcbs going taller instead of longer
>>56585138
u wot famalam? The last stable driver for the 5000 series was in July last year.
what are we gonna do on the motherboard?
>>56587436
In what world is that width?
>>56587459
It should have died with it, then.
>>56587333
>how can we make it as noisy as possible with as little airflow as possible?
-Gigabyte design lead
>>56585113
Top ASUS 560 Ti
Bottom ASUS DUAL-RX480-O4G
>>56587386
Shit taste mate.
>>56587166
>>56587333
>>56587520
So would you guys say that two big fans (like an MSI cooler) is better at noise and cooling than 3 smaller fans (such as a Gigabyte Windforce or Sapphire Tri-X)?
>>56588003
There's a case of diminishing returns the larger the fan becomes, but the fact that smaller fans produce more noise per airflow than larger fans, all else being equal, is much of the reason that 40mm fans went from being relatively common to being virtually extinct, and the standard case fan size going from 80mm to 120mm.
As for your scenario, you have the advantage that the three smaller fans are probably more similar to the general shape of the video card, but whether this outweighs the potentially louder noise of having three smaller fans I can't answer. Perhaps someone who owns those coolers can tell you which one is noisier.
>>56587637
How is that ASUS DUAL 480?
I'm considering buying it as its the cheapest 480 in Canada, how is the noise and temps?
>>56588003
30 years of industry knowledge and innovation certainly says so.
>>56588384
f-frogger?
>>56588391
frogforce
Best card reporting in. Everyone might as well go home.
Asus 1070 turbo edition
>>56588279
>Perhaps someone who owns those coolers can tell you which one is noisier.
I currently own an R9 280X, with a Windforce cooler, and it runs pretty loud when the GPU is 80% usage or higher. I'm thinking of going with MSI for the cooler for my next card, which may be an RX 470.
>>56588339
Hmmm.
I heard you like big girls
>>56588384
get this white supremacist card out of here.
I personally have this and think it's the best looking Pascal card. Pretty thicc too.
I like when a gpu shows a little skin... but anything with an Asus sticker needs to be taken out back and shot.
>>56588569
T H I C C
I came to my own video card when I was 12.
>>56585136
>>56586814
>>56588629
All of these
i'm not even straight
>>56587471
The last stable 5970 driver that had good CFX scaling was in 2012.
After that cfx jut didn't work anymore.
I got rid of it because AMD made garbage for drivers.
>>56587060
Mah nigga, this has seriously been my favorite gpu to have ever owned. It just looks so sexy.
First decent graphics card I owned.
I want to do a build with a card like this showing out the window. Totally fucking useless but I just think it would be pretty
:^)
I had many good times with this tiny card in my youth. Now it's probably all battered up and broken in a dump somewhere.
>>56587449
Nothing says perfection like white.
>>56591825
Nothing says "I'm asian" like white color-coding
>>56592001
this
well, asian or iranian
>>56585113
>>56585138
>>56585364
>>56586840
>>56587383
>>56587397
>>56590595
>>56591093
>TFW They'll never make aesthetic as fuck blower cards that actually cool the card without it turning into a jet oven.
why do we have to settle for riced gaymen cards :(
>>56593548
This blower fan is actually pretty good. Mine has never gone above 75c under heavy load
>>56588569
>this kills the pci-e slot
I like mine.
>>56587397
Holy fuck that silver one is slick as hell.
>all these cool designs
>even if you have a window you'll never see anything except the backplate or back of the board and side panel
>>56593747
>ruby
instant diamonds
>>56588336
>How is that ASUS DUAL 480?
>how is the noise and temps?
It's nice and not too loud. Fans at 50% keeping card at 70 degrees. That's the highest I could get in gaming so far. Using it with stock 8350. Nice framerates all around >80
Using Asus GPU tweak to overclock the card into "oc mode" that gives core @1320MHz
>>56588569
S O T H I C C
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>>56594114
Jokes on you
>>56594278
N-NANI!!?
The inside is what counts.
ice ice baby
>>56587637
>Asus 560ti
Mah Nigga
>>56586814
>>56587060
>>56587397
>>56587666
excellent choices
blast from the past
>>56588629
Where the hell can I find this thing.
>>56594114
Those cube cases let you mount the mobo horizontally. Window shows the front of the card. It would look cool as fuck with the right card
>>56594306
Its great for good looking gpus except the writing on the side will be upside down
old ATI had the best waifus on their cards, hands down
>>56594296
xfx always made gorgeous cards
>>56593747
>>56586840
>>56586956
This. The cards loved to go above 100C but god single slot was sex.
I'd love for some magic to get us single slot back for top tier cards.
dat single slot form factor
>>56594105
Looks like a red vhs tape.
I quite like the Sapphire Nitro cards.
>>56594087
Better feed that card some Ukrainians, son.
>>56596020
pic
>>56594296
Damn that's hot
>>56585113
RX 400, HD7000, HD6000, and HD5000 reference designs
>>56585113
>>56596245
Whats that one?
>>56596286
Galaxy single slot 680. That was just a prototype, don't think it was ever released. The 680 had a ton of cool prototype cards. I remember EVGA prototyped a quad slot 680.
>>56596020
I concur, just installed one.
>>56596663
Amazed by how quiet it is, and how big the heatsink is. Haven't had a card this quiet since my days of buying replacement coolers from Zalman 10 years ago.
>>56596793
Same, I did some Furmark runs against my old Asus R9 290 (which had mad power for the money but it did get a bit loud during games, although not in a way that was too distracting).
>>56591120
Reference GTX 10xx cards are sex.
>>56597152
>literally the 9xx design with more angled surfaces
>>56597152
Just add a shitload of superfluous angles, like Lamborghini does. Lamborghinis look cool, right guys?
Guys?
>>56596937
This is ironic, right?
>No anime VGA design
When will manufacturers learn?
>>56585113
git gud kids
>>56597453
manufacturers don't care about weaboos
>>56596793
Are you one of the germans who ordered from mindfactory? The appearance of the card and the content of the box makes me think I got a card that was already returned once/ sent back to the factory, I'm sort of salty about that but it's still a good deal if it works fine.
>slight scratch on cooler
>only used-looking driver CD, nothing else (sticker/ pseudo manual/ hdmi cable)
>some weird molex pin adapter in a slightly torn baggy
>>56597429
No, i love that design
>>56596937
>>56597485
dat MSI heatsink is pretty neat
it matches all of my shirts
This guy
>>56589653
Are you brazilian? I kinda remember that story
>>56596043
sexy af
>Guess What
>>56597783
What
>>56597783
if your computer components have lights on them then you've already lost
>>56585113
I'm pretty partial to the reference rx 400 series. Shame no one is selling reference 460s, it actually has a normal fan and looks so clean.
>>56597712
>>56594278
fucking fan mixing scum
day of the rope when?
Sapphire 5850 VAPOR-X 1/2
>>56598283
Sapphire 5850 VAPOR-X 2/2
>>56594087
i had that for awhile, then i upgraded to the R9 290X 8GB one, the diff is black fan centers and the XFX has white LED's
not too much a fan of all the geometry they put on the 3XX series
>>56585113
had a 560 that looked like this, i really liked it. much better than new asus like strix, its overcomplicated and cringy with these leds n shit.
I kinda like how this card looks.
>>56590530
that's the one. MSI cards are great
>>56596043
Amazing what the color scheme can do. The silver one was so horrible, but this one is simply one of the best looking cards I've ever seen.
>>56590530
I bought an this version of a r9 380 a few days ago, and man... what a good looking card. And it's really cool and quiet, quite surprising considering it's an AMD card.
>>56598606
>I bought this version
Fix'd
>>56585269
>Graphics by disney
qt
>>56597600
That wasn't me. I got mine a few weeks ago. Brand new looking with the cable and all the extra papers.
I had to RMA it, so I don't know if the replacement will be new. I know stores can be a bit fuzzy in their definition of "Demo used" and "brand new". Especially when it comes to RMA situations.
>>56598711
HHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG
>>56587148
But the Nitro OC version is sexier anon.
Can't believe no one has posted MSI's Twin Frozr design
Dat camo
>>56585113
mine look like this but its some 6950
should i buy a new one like 1060?
>>56597712
My nigga. Too bad my gtx 760 ended up breaking. Loved that card.
>>56598916
>>56599092
I have the 270x Hawk, it's a great card.
>>56598743
Love my card.
>>56595868
Waterblocks are pretty single slot.
3DFX 4 LIFE
>>56599354
>>56585138
>>56585331
>>56586963
Sad because I'm about to replace my 5970 for a Sapphire Nitro 480.
>>56585364
>>56586814
>>56587060
>>56587148
>>56587397
>>56590530
>>56594087
>>56594331
>>56595764
>>56595891
>>56596043
>>56597227
>>56597485
>>56597712
>>56598485
>>56598711
>>56598916
>>56599354
>>56599475
Anons have a good taste in cooler designs.
my fav?
XFX GHOST 2 and TWIN FROZR 2
BBG
>>56599528
>>56599528
>>56599553
>tfw you actually bought one to discover that it's complete shit
Worst $700 I've ever spent. Completely irredeemable in every aspect.
>>56599577
What's wrong with it ?
Is crossfire shit ?
>>56599528
>4 8-pin connectors
>>56599724
>What's wrong with it ?
>Is crossfire shit ?
What's right with it?
>most games don't scale with Crossfire very well
>those that do have poorer scaling than two separate R9 390s in Crossfire
>those that don't support Crossfire at all treats the first GPU like a severely gimped R9 390
>cooling problems even with the massive heatsink, so the fans sound like turbines most of the time
>somehow manages to eat more power than two separate custom R9 390s
>triple PCI slot
>so heavy that card sag is inevitable
At least it came with a neat mouse.
>>56599800
>>56599791
POWAH
>>56599902
>R9 290X2
That's the R9 390X2, the next version of the card. Also, the GPU's clock and memory speed is about the same as the reference R9 290, so it's still using more power than it should.
>>56599724
>>56599577
one shop where it's still in stock claims 34% RMA rate for all 20 units sold, lel
>>56599478
this one is a hd 5870 though and i still use it
t. >>56599354
>>56599965
I think its absolutely ridiculous that AMD thinks they can pull the same shit off again with the RX 490.
>two Polaris-10s powergimped to prevent heat throttling
>get heat-throttled anyway, doesn't work any better than a single RX 480 in almost every modern game, and still can't use more than 8GB of VRAM for 99% of games coming out
>thinks Crossfired Polaris 10s have enough grunt to match a 1070, let alone a 1080
AMD is asking for it
>>56599937
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/powercolor-devil-13-dual-amd-r9-290x-review,3853.html
I posted the one that used 4x8pin power as in the image.
>>56599284
that's still two slots
>>56599902
>>56599933
>>56600094
Not if you remove the DVI connector and half of the I/O shield.
>Acquire top tier graphics card
>Acquire full cover waterblock for said graphics card
>Desolder and remove DVI connector, alternatively cut it off with a dremel or similar tool
>Trim I/O shield down to one slot
There you go, single slot top tier card.
>front looks cool
>back looks like this
FUCKING
DO YOU KNOW WHICH WAY IT GOES IN THE COMPUTER
HAIL TO THE KING BABY
I also like the EVGA 8800GT Akimbo and GTX260s
AMD card wise I'm not sure the sapphire toxic was alright I guess.
>buy computer parts
>literally everything but hdd color coordinated
>case with big windows
>LED case fans with same color
>PSU fan color not visible
>RAM, GPU barely visible because of angle
>mainboard covered by huge passive CPU cooler and GPU shadow
>fan LEDs make everything look like shit
>case looks like shit on top of table
>regret the wasted money
>>56600506
Yeah honestly I prefer a no windowed low profile case maybe matx or something but still enough room for a full gpu and 2 hdds.
The triple fan windforce gpus are aexy as fuck
>>56600506
>buy computer parts
>literally everything including HDDs and SSD colour coordinated
>case with big window
>no LEDs because they're gay
>PSU fan not visible because it's sucking in air from the bottom, it's ok
>RAM, GPU plenty visible
>motherboard not covered by anything other than GPU because of water cooling
>fan LEDs don't make anything look like shit because they don't exist
>case looks nice, pretty clean design
>regret choice of motherboard
>>56588569
>2 mounts
>>56598542
Agreed, but I do wish they had less of a gaymer aesthetic.
Pic related is what I've got.
>>56585113
>>56600875
It would look so much better if the red bits were white.
>>56596020
>>56596043
>>56585113
classy. /fa/ as fuck
>>56588384
>"It's too hot! I can't take it anymore!"
>>56585200
Someone please post the gpu with the vhs shroud.
Sexiest GPU I've ever owned. My current Asus 760 doesn't even come close to this.
>>56594278
jesus christ, picture had me thinking my glasses were dirty. clean your fucking camera lens.
>>56601103
VCR/10
>>56601477
This one?
>>56587449
>>56598993
fuck man why did i get the EVGA 960 nd not this one :/
>>56601634
The GTX 960 is such a shit GPU, IDK how it sold at all. My old 7950 that I bought off craigslist for $70 performs on par with it. Pic related
>>56601693
??
I got a GTX 960 almost brand new from some desparate wigger off Craigslist for $50
>>56600342
that's some LTT tier retardation anon
>>56600506
>buy computer parts
>thought about color coordination but then decided against the case variant with a window
>still didn't buy anything with terrible colours and it looks alright when you open it up
>instead of the window I can mount an additional 140 mm fan with a filtered intake in the same spot to help cool the GPU
I have never put my PC on a desk and probably never will, LED window shit just isn't worth it for me.
>>56601841
Because they did it, right :^)
But really, that's what you gotta do if you want a top tier single-slot card nowadays. You'd fuck your warranty and resale value in doing so, but the card itself would be fine and single slot.
>>56585138
I had two 5970s before i "upgraded" to a 980. Miss the sound of those blower fans taking off like a jet
Brutal, but sexy in a Russian industrial way.
Silicon Graphics VPro for the Octane2 was badass in its time.
>>56602446
are all of those little holes for power connectors?
>>56587666
>power connectors in the middle
madness
>>56597712
>fans underneath the heat sink
more madness
>>56602534
They're not in the middle, that's the edge of the card.
>>56600383
i like the symmetry
>>56593747
I fucking love this one.
made me cum when i first ran GTA IV with this baby.
I liked the MSI Twin FROZR design so much on my 7870 that I went with it again when I bought my 1060. Motherfucker stays cool and quiet as fuck too. The fans are passive up to 50C then go up to 50% which I can only hear when the room is quiet and I'm actively listening for it. When gaming it never goes over 55 C and that's with an OC at 2100MH clock speed.
>Frozr
What a retarded name, jesus.
>>56587666
Nice
This is my rx 470
Why bother? You cant see them anyway.
>>56594226
id be one to comment something like that desu
>>56585269
that heatsink looks very inefficient
>>56588384
>here come dat spicy boi
>>56600676
slash thred
D'awwww.
>>56594400
/thread
>>56598767
I prefer the Tri-X. I prefer the gold and the bigger heatsink-only portion. I also don't like the fact that the nitro has 'Nitro' written on it, which looks silly to me.
>>56598725
i know it has nothing to do with aesthetics, but know how loud that fucker gets makes me hate. kinda like when a hottie has a shit personality, sure you'll use the shit out of it but it still annoys you.
>>56587397
>mfw own one
Feels great.
>>56605457
Where'd you buy yours anon?
people that like blower fan coolers really do have mental disabilities
>>56601477
>>56601571
>>56605483
At a micro center. It was the last one they had.
>>56605649
you jammy bastard
>>56595868
dual 290x here
>>56585113
All of you are manchildren with shitty chink taste.
OBJECTIVELY GOAT GPU
>>56606776
That's disgusting
>>56586814
Sauce please
>>56587449
Don't pick up angry or crazy women.
>>56607354
Crazy women are the best in bed tho
>>56606596
I didn't realize Budweiser made GPUs
>>56597400
Lamborghini is defactive noum, like dorito
>>56602487
Pretty cool. Huge TRAM modules, too.
>>56607341
AMD Radeon HD 7990
>>56588384