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Why does the GTX 980 look like the stock cooler that nVidia has on their website?

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2014/09/19 19:42:03 (permalink)
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The 980 EVGA is offering looks exactly the same as the stock one. I personally am not interested in dual fans and I'm wondering why there isn't and EVGA version of the blow out style fan of 980 it just seems weird to me.

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    Re: Why does the GTX 980 look like the stock cooler that nVidia has on their website? 2014/09/19 20:06:19 (permalink)
    Are you asking for a blower style cooler that isn't reference? Right now they have the reference blower style and the dual fan ACX 2.0 style. a non-reference blower style would be a nice option, but I doubt they'll add it.
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    Re: Why does the GTX 980 look like the stock cooler that nVidia has on their website? 2014/09/19 20:09:37 (permalink)
    Umm, what? You seem to be asking two different questions at the same time. NVIDIA's version is the 'reference' model. The reference model is the blower style. If you want a blower style of EVGA card, get an EVGA card using the reference style. If you don't like the blower style, get a non-reference EVGA card. EVGA does/will have (depending on manufacturing and stock availability) both reference and non-reference styles to choose from.
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    Re: Why does the GTX 980 look like the stock cooler that nVidia has on their website? 2014/09/19 20:37:50 (permalink)
    The 780/titan/980 style blower is pretty effective.

     
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    Re: Why does the GTX 980 look like the stock cooler that nVidia has on their website? 2014/09/19 20:49:33 (permalink)
    i think he is referring to the 970 not having a titan style blower, i could be wrong. 

     
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    Re: Why does the GTX 980 look like the stock cooler that nVidia has on their website? 2014/09/19 21:39:15 (permalink)
    Sorry for the misconception, I was wondering why the 980 was using the reference blow style cooler instead of one of their own like every other card they have released, it doesn't even say EVGA.

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    Re: Why does the GTX 980 look like the stock cooler that nVidia has on their website? 2014/09/19 23:51:57 (permalink)
    hiz fatherI was wondering why the 980 was using the reference blow style cooler instead of one of their own like every other card they have released.

    According to Toms Hardware, the reference cooler (NVTTM) is supposed to be one of the best reference coolers ever made, so it's probably not a bad thing.   To be honest, I was under the impression most non-ACX boards just used the standard reference cooler...

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