I often call things "unnecessarily over-engineered". And half of these are exactly that. Async fan control and "new more efficient way to cool" is totally stupid. If cooler is designed efficiently, fans running synchronously not only costs less because it runs at same speed, but also cool more efficiently because the faster fan is not interfering with the flow of the slower spinning one. I mean, my current ASUS Strix 980 runs fans in sync and it's so stupendously quiet it doesn't even matter. Even when I push it hard in overclocked state. Adding extra sensors and separate fan control logic is not only stupid and costs more, it also adds extra layer that can fail and get broken. 15 sensors will also only be useful to really hardcore overclockers who do LN2 or DICE and totally pointless for casual overclockers. For that, you only need to know GPU temperature and VRM temperature (which is not even needed if VRM cooling is engineered properly). And that's it.



And reasons why I just don't trust EVGA is all the stupid nonsense they've made like asking consumers to manually add thermal pads (why did I pay 600€ for graphic card, if I have to fix YOUR bad engineering!?). They just give me the sensation of "cheesy" vendor which I wouldn't want to touch. Same logic which I apply to other vendors like Club3D, Zotec, Manli and other (for me) so called "no name" brands. I don't care if they are a sub-brand of some graphics giant, they made stupid crap and I just don't trust them. I've seen my share of above mentioned cards and more have most moronic issues and design flaws so I proactively avoid them. ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, these are the brands I trust and while they had share of stupidities as well, they were never that big. And they seem to engineer coolers properly.

Posted on Feb 11th 2017, 3:07 Reply