I would like to know the same.

I'm curious as to why you would prefer a cooler that exhausts some heat into your case?  The standard heat sink is also smaller and has less heat pipes.  It might cool the card a tiny bit better because the fan blows air directly onto the fins, but you can do this with a simple mod with the EE GTX 460.  All you need is cable ties and a decent 80mm or larger fan.

I don't really see the point as the EE version continues to exhaust hot air outside the case instead on inward.

Because on the first page of this forum there is a post and a review about how loud and obnoxious the blower style setup is.

If all the reviewers were gushing about how quiet and effective the reference design from EVGA was, why deviate from that for every single 1gb variation of the card?

I could have seen doing it for the Superclocks and leaving it the reference spec cards alone, but I guess it comes down to manufacturing efficiency.

I guess I will wait and see what happens. Now that Newegg has sold out of all EVGA 1gb cards, there will soon be a lot of reviews coming in, and no doubt a lot of newly registered users making posts on this forum. Hopefully it's not as bad as a few people have made it out to be.

Without a doubt, but not everybody intends to use aSLI Set-up.

I want a silent card and if possible I would like to buy a EVGA again. If I look at the Zotac with a similar cooling solution, it is far from silent. I would be happy if EVGA would soon have a reference desing 1GB card.

I can't believe people want a cooler that exhausts hot air into the case. I would never have guessed. The external exhaust seems far superior to me and I consider it a great feature of the card. Well, to each his own :)

I see no reason why the 1gb model should come with any other cooling solution. Larger heatsink, heat exhausted of the back. I don't see how it would be quieter since the heatsink is a lot more efficient, meaning the fan should run at lower rpm's.

Who knows, time will tell.

staryoshi87

As I've said before, the only motivations to purchase the EE model are if you're running a SLI config or have a case that fails at ventilation. Open-faced cards run much cooler. Exhausting mostly within the case is not an issue and is overstated.

Well wouldn't you want to keep your options open for SLI in the future? Also the open faced cooler MAY (I'm skeptical) keep the GPU cooler, but by exhausting the air into your case you are heating up other components unnecessarily. I don't want GPU heat adding to the heat of my CPU.

I've used every HSF imaginable in tons of different case configurations and multi-GPU setups. I speak from experience as opposed to opinion and conjecture. (I believe I've used ~15-20 GPUs in the last year alone, mainly for testing)

@ jethc9
What important components reside below the graphics card? The lower-half of the motherboard, that's it. It doesn't disperse the heat upward. Sure heat will rise, but not instantaneously. As long as you have an intake fan in the HDD bay that's generally plenty of airflow. If you have a bottom-mounted PSU or a side-intake fan that'll further increase your capacity to move warm air.

Mutli-Card configurations do not require a turbine HSF, I just mentioned it as a reason to choose a card featuring one. You're exhausting air within the case, but it's cooler air than the exhaust from the blower. Instead of playing games at 70-75C (That's where the 460 EE finds its happy place when left on auto fan speed - 55% Fan speed ~ 72C (Which is fairly loud)) you're running ~50-60C. A considerable difference at the same or often much quieter sound levels.

@ Helmut
The 460 turbine model cannot be slowed down enough. Its floor is 40%, which is audible over other fans in idle. When it increase its fan speed to maintain reasonable temperatures, it greatly exceeds the noise generated by other fans. I'm not making any assumptions here, I'm listing reasons why one would want a turbine HSF. Your dislike of open-faced coolers does not constitute superiority of the turbine. I can and will provide temperature figures that support my argument.

Tomorrow my MSI GTX460 1GB Cyclone arrives. I'll be posting a direct comparison between the two cards measuring performance, temperature, overclocking headroom, and relative sound levels.

Don't get me wrong, I LIKE this EE model overall, but there is improvement to be had. Mainly regarding the fan. The turbine style does what it intends to do, removing heat from the case, but it is not the most efficient or effective way to transfer heat from the GPU :)

I'm not trying to convince you, I'm correcting your misconceptions. You are free to believe whatever you like, but please do not misinform others by claiming open-faced coolers are a "step backward."  What you do in the privacy of your own tower is up to you, but I have a duty to protect the citizens of EVGA City from PC villainy.

The reference heat sink cools better and more quietly because the 75mm fan is mounted directly onto the heat sink.  If you remove the fan shroud of an EE card and mount a fan to it using cable ties (80mm or larger), you'll get both much better temperatures than even the reference cooler (the reference heat sink is much smaller and has one less heat pipe), and noise would be reduced since the main fan won't have to work as hard, or at all.

But of course this might defeat the purpose of "external exhaust", but it may be necessary for high overclocks with voltage adjustments.

Theres a review up at http://www.hardwarecanuck...al-exhaust-review.html

about their thoughts on the cooler. Didn't say much noise though.

But i wished it was cooler and quieter. Water cooling it does sound good. But none are compatible they say. And to spend another 200 (pump radiator tubes block) defeats the purpose of a 230+ graphic cards. Also I LOVE the looks of the card. Simple sleek professional looking. But if they take that design and slap it on the reference design then I'm sold.

and silent is the new thing! IMO

It is not so simple. In theory the EE is a good idea, wonderful if you use SLI, but in a normal System it can be different.

Most system do run a case fan anyway to extract the heat from the CPU Cooler from the case. And in many such cases the additional heat blown into the case by the reference cooler just makes no difference. If you use 1 orr 2 120mm fans at 800 rpm, they push more air out of the case as the tiny fan on the EE version, creating much less noise. So in the end 1 case fan and the reference fan on the graphic card might be more silent than the EE version.

* I do not want to replace the EE version, I would be happy to have a choice with the 1GB version.

The EE cards are loud, look beyond the evga forums. There are complaints everywhere. I have an antec 900 case, and I dont care if the card blows all the heat inside. My case takes care of that easily. I dont want to hear a leafblower while I game, I dont want to put on headphones or turn up my volume to make up for a crappy design. The ref cooler works great, and is silent. 30C idle, 55C gaming, fan doesnt come off 40%, and that is on the sc models, overclocked even more. I believe the fan noise is the number 1 complaint, and I am sure evga doesnt like the bad press on the subject, as the ref 1gb card is in the works to fix the problem.

Honestly, the best cooling solutions tend to be those that spit air back into your case. If you want a solid solution that keeps hot air out, you'd be best off with water cooling....