Airflow Imaging: NVIDIA RTX 3080 Founders Edition Schlieren Photography
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Date: 2020-09-23
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m rt-erik
Would be very interesting if this could be used to study configurations of fans instead of single fans. Single fans naturally just point air in the direction they are spinning, but if you could visualize the interference or cooperation of fans with each other it would be informative. Looking at this image I would think that an outtake fan directly on top of this cooler like you show would be very efficient at preventing hot air ambiently hanging around the card after exhaust. You can also couple the schlieren imaging with airflow measurements for quantifications/charts.
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Would be very interesting if this could be used to study configurations of fans instead of single fans. Single fans naturally just point air in the direction they are spinning, but if you could visualize the interference or cooperation of fans with each other it would be informative. Looking at this image I would think that an outtake fan directly on top of this cooler like you show would be very efficient at preventing hot air ambiently hanging around the card after exhaust. You can also couple the schlieren imaging with airflow measurements for quantifications/charts.
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Dan
Unpopular opinion, maybe, but this does not seem worth it to me. The compromises you are making in terms of open air vs. the Nvidia explicit in-case claims really makes it hard to take much away from this. Spending more money on what would quickly become testing a few case fans or another decade or triple axial cooler design GPUs does not seem like it would be worth further investment. Can you not just use a colored smoke source (maybe not in the office, but a garage ought to be fine)? Drop a source under the flow-through fan and see how it goes in a full case setup?
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Unpopular opinion, maybe, but this does not seem worth it to me. The compromises you are making in terms of open air vs. the Nvidia explicit in-case claims really makes it hard to take much away from this. Spending more money on what would quickly become testing a few case fans or another decade or triple axial cooler design GPUs does not seem like it would be worth further investment. Can you not just use a colored smoke source (maybe not in the office, but a garage ought to be fine)? Drop a source under the flow-through fan and see how it goes in a full case setup?
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jmich69
Excellent, as always! Love seeing what I already considered a 10/10 for reviews take everything another step further. So much potential with this, and unfortunayely, the only limit is time.
I'd love to see how dual fan and triple fan cards deal with their heat. I'd also love, specifically, to see how the triple fans cards with two turning clockwise and one turning counter clockwise fair against eachother.
Perhaps even just a couple examples of CPU cooler towers (like the NH-D15) and how they work!
Keep up the amazing work!
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Excellent, as always! Love seeing what I already considered a 10/10 for reviews take everything another step further. So much potential with this, and unfortunayely, the only limit is time.
I'd love to see how dual fan and triple fan cards deal with their heat. I'd also love, specifically, to see how the triple fans cards with two turning clockwise and one turning counter clockwise fair against eachother.
Perhaps even just a couple examples of CPU cooler towers (like the NH-D15) and how they work!
Keep up the amazing work!
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haukionkannel
Is it possibe to just use smoke to see airflow in classpanel case to see the airflow? This was interesting, but even more interesting would be the airflow in the case and Yes I know, it would be different that any other case...
But even this demonstrate why the ram heat can even go down, because it gets more airflow this way! Some testers did use different GPUs and did measure the temp of system ram and 3080fe was actually beneficial because of that extra airflow...
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Is it possibe to just use smoke to see airflow in classpanel case to see the airflow? This was interesting, but even more interesting would be the airflow in the case and Yes I know, it would be different that any other case...
But even this demonstrate why the ram heat can even go down, because it gets more airflow this way! Some testers did use different GPUs and did measure the temp of system ram and 3080fe was actually beneficial because of that extra airflow...
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Skiiwee29
I have a hard time sometimes to retain attention to your Videos, but my lord.... this was actually INCREDIBLE!!! I loved this. Probably one of the best deep dives I have seen in a very long time! Great job Steve and Team!! I am super looking forward to more content like this! I cant wait to see if you guys can figure out how to make this work in a case or in a way we can see it work with a full normal system.
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I have a hard time sometimes to retain attention to your Videos, but my lord.... this was actually INCREDIBLE!!! I loved this. Probably one of the best deep dives I have seen in a very long time! Great job Steve and Team!! I am super looking forward to more content like this! I cant wait to see if you guys can figure out how to make this work in a case or in a way we can see it work with a full normal system.
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Siddharth
This is super cool!! I always wondered how it'll be to have the fe 3080 in my corsair air 540 case with 4 hd120 fans wherein, 3 intake and 1 as exhaust in the rear of the case. At the top of the case, I have 2 x ml140s that'll do the job just fine. Thank you for subjectively projecting so much light on the matter that were so limited as to mere imagination in the past.
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This is super cool!! I always wondered how it'll be to have the fe 3080 in my corsair air 540 case with 4 hd120 fans wherein, 3 intake and 1 as exhaust in the rear of the case. At the top of the case, I have 2 x ml140s that'll do the job just fine. Thank you for subjectively projecting so much light on the matter that were so limited as to mere imagination in the past.
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Steve
It would be great to incorporate a jig case so you can position case fans in appropriate places rather than just holding them to get some more realistic case flows going. Love to see top fans (120, 2x 120, 3x 120) with / without radiator, rear cpu fan with / without radiator, front fans (120, 2x 120, 3x 120) with / without radiator and combinations of the above.
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It would be great to incorporate a jig case so you can position case fans in appropriate places rather than just holding them to get some more realistic case flows going. Love to see top fans (120, 2x 120, 3x 120) with / without radiator, rear cpu fan with / without radiator, front fans (120, 2x 120, 3x 120) with / without radiator and combinations of the above.
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Rathstar
Really interesting content, would be great to see a comparison to traditional GPU fans set-ups, however making a comparison may be hard as the traditional set-up where a lot of heat comes out of the sides of the card would hit the case sides which won't happen with your open set-up. Hopefully you can find a way to make a valid comparison.
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Really interesting content, would be great to see a comparison to traditional GPU fans set-ups, however making a comparison may be hard as the traditional set-up where a lot of heat comes out of the sides of the card would hit the case sides which won't happen with your open set-up. Hopefully you can find a way to make a valid comparison.
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Igors
Super cool footage, I suspected that fans throw out wide cone on air and you can see waves pulsating out of it.
What you can also do is put old school threads over the card to illustrate patterns, glue 2 cm long very light wool thread each 1-2 cm.
And tiny point source of smoke is good to illustrate air movements
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Super cool footage, I suspected that fans throw out wide cone on air and you can see waves pulsating out of it.
What you can also do is put old school threads over the card to illustrate patterns, glue 2 cm long very light wool thread each 1-2 cm.
And tiny point source of smoke is good to illustrate air movements
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xtor123
Would be interesting to see thermals with a traditional CPU cooler exhausting towards the back paired with 3080FE, this compared with a setup with the same CPU cooler exhausting towards the front with rear and top rear intake fans as well as front exhaust. Perhaps that'd be ideal with this type of GPU cooler?
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Would be interesting to see thermals with a traditional CPU cooler exhausting towards the back paired with 3080FE, this compared with a setup with the same CPU cooler exhausting towards the front with rear and top rear intake fans as well as front exhaust. Perhaps that'd be ideal with this type of GPU cooler?
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