![]() “I dreaded the 3080 reference design when I first saw it in photos,” Reeves tells me. What was the reaction of a popular PC builder upon first seeing the RTX 3080? ![]() “AIB cooler designs are the Wild West,” Reeves says. “They’re usually monstrous, change constantly, and seem mainly designed to make for the most eye-catching photo on NewEgg, not necessarily the best thermal design. Even good brand names have put out some designs with real issues.” Pictured: EVGA Nvidia RTX 3090 inside a Falcon Northwest Talon PC Falcon Northwest Which is why I suspected Reeves would have a fear or two about integrating these new and - from Falcon Northwest’s POV - radically different designs into Falcon’s custom cases. Now, I’ve followed Falcon Northwest as a journalist and customer for the last 8 years or so, and to the best of my knowledge the company rarely if ever chooses an AIB (Add-In-Board partner such as Gigabyte or ASUS) card design over the “reference” designs from AMD and Nvidia. (Update: Gigabyte may have a solid solution for Tiki owners who want the extreme power of an RTX 3090 with the blower-style cooler.) They “fire so much exhaust heat downwards into the chassis that they’ll overheat the CPU liquid cooler when running graphics-intensive apps.”įor the Tiki, blower cards are the only option, which apparently leaves the Nvidia RTX 30 Series completely off the table for one of the world’s best and most compact PCs. Sadly, those same cards treat the tiny Tiki (famous for their role at Facebook in the development of the Oculus Rift) a little more harshly. Reeves told me they’ve been able to cool the Nvidia 20 Series reference designs quite effectively in their Talon PC, and I can personally back that up. If Falcon Northwest squeezes a card as powerful as Vega Frontier into a PC as tiny as the Tiki, that.
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