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another reason to buy Asus products

01_Wolverine
Level 12
Hi All

As the heading says and the reason why

etekinx Quote:

Does the EVGA GTX 970 Feature a Manufacturing Defect?

The images of the new card and its cooler suggest that they’ve used the cooler from a bigger card to save on manufacturing costs; the problem here being that one of the three heat-pipes barely makes any contact with the GPU. Rival cards are out pacing the EVGA card in the cooling department and it’s likely that the card could be performing better in benchmarks if the cooler was used to its full potential.

As you can see in the picture below the chip is barely touching the first heat pipe, although it may not be touching at all as most of the thermal paste on the pipe looks like excess from around the edge of the chip. The 2nd (middle) heat pipe is fine and so is the 3rd on the right; but you can clearly see that the chip is overhanging the heat-pipes by several millimetres on the right. It definitely appears that the chip and the pipes are poorly aligned.

http://www.eteknix.com/evga-gtx-970-feature-manufacturing-defect/
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ConkersGrillfor
Level 9
o.O
It's hard to say, if EVGA intended to have direct heat transfer only on the two bigger heatpipes or it is a development/manufacturing mistake and the die should touch all three heatpipes. Heat will spread anyway over the whole block, the third heatpipe isn't useless and as mentioned before it is smaller than the two other. I think it's correct as it is. 😉
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