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Friday, January 06, 2023 6:56 AM (permalink)
https://www.techpowerup.com/303148/asus-x-noctua-rtx-4080-graphics-card-is-5-slots-thick-we-go-hands-on
 
ASUS showed us its GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card that it formally announced yesterday. To call this card thick would be an understatement, as it's possibly the first graphics card that is 5 slots thick! The card easily overshoots what constitutes 4 slots, and is technically 4.2 to 4.3 slots; but then expansion slot counts are whole numbers rounded to the next digit despite what marketing says.

This card combines an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 PCB with an air-based cooling solution designed by Noctua. The cooler has two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes, and ventilated by a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans that feature fluid-dynamic bearings. The fan-tuning for this card is a Noctua-ASUS collaboration, and promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080 you can buy.
 
I would imagine this is a very quiet performing video card. 
 


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    Re: ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on Friday, January 06, 2023 7:34 AM (permalink)
    Why partner with Noctua if you are going to make a cooler larger than anyone else? It should be equal in size to the normal cooler and cool better or smaller and cool equally ideally. I guess it depends on the space you have available since I trust Noctua is going to do a great job.

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    Re: ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on Friday, January 06, 2023 8:50 AM (permalink)
    whoot?  5 slots?
     
    its official.. we need a gfx case just to accommodate the gfx card thats the size of a mini ATX pc ...

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    Re: ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on Friday, January 06, 2023 10:17 AM (permalink)
    I'm beginning to think everyone is trolling us with the 4000-series designs. It's like everyone has lost rationality. What are they over compensating for? 

    Someone just thought to themselves....yes, let's use Noctua colors, and make the GPU larger than a whole mITX build. We live in bizarro world in 2023.
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    Re: ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on Friday, January 06, 2023 5:56 PM (permalink)
     
    5 slots?

     


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    Re: ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on Friday, January 06, 2023 7:33 PM (permalink)
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    5 slots?
     
     




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