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component of your computer which could make buying the right one or the thought of potentially buying the wrong one kind of nerve-racking and really start to where on your on your psyche when it comes to building your computers you want to get it right you want to enjoy it and you don't want to regret any of your purchases so we're going to talk about today is specifically the cooling options when it comes to your graphics cards what they mean and hopefully armed you with the information to be able to make the right choice the first time now there are technically 5 different types of coolers for graphics cards and today we're going to talk about the 4 of those that would pertain to people like you or me the fifth one being liquid nitrogen cooling which is usually only going to apply to those that are going for world record overclocks I'm highly doubt any of you are actually watching this video that would apply to ln2 when it comes to graphics cards but I digress but the first type of cooler we're going to talk about here is the blower style cooler and these can be found on om style cards from nvidia and AMD alike all of the reference style cards always have blower coolers on them and the reason for that is this is a lot less dependent on the amount of case cooling available to it than something like a recirculating cooler and we'll talk about that next now the way this cooler works as it pulls air into the face of the fan and then it exhausts it out the back of the card through these this vent right here now typically these cards do tend to be louder because they fans run at a much higher rpm and they do tend to push the card to about its max temperature limits simply because there is a lot less volume of air moving through the cooler where would you want to use this cooler because on the surface that kind of sounds like a bad idea right it's louder it's a bit hotter but this is going to basically have its own a sealed environment here for cooling what that means is if you're using it in something like a small form-factor build like an ITX build or even a small m ATX build home theater PC build it's a much smaller footprint of a card it doesn't have a taller PCB on it doesn't have a ton of fans but most importantly it exhausts all of the heat out through the card rather than forcing your case to exhaust the extra heat that the graphics card is going to produce the graphics card is the single hottest unit inside of your asset unit yeah I know it's a single hottest piece inside your system which means that if you are using the wrong type of cooler at a small form-factor build then you could potentially make the card throttle and make everything else in your system like your CPU your hard drives get way too hot so this is where you would want to use this cooler something where airflow and size is definitely going to be a concern now the next type of cooler here this is pretty much the most common one you'll find and you'll find a lot of people asking well why wouldn't you use this cooler well like we already explained with the blower style cooler it does have its use it does have its applications where it makes sense but most people tend to go with coolers like this where you have multiple fans pushing air down on a massive heatsink that has copper heat pipes in there doing the best it can to move the heat away from the card extremely efficiently as well as very very quiet now because when you typically have more fans they can spend at a lower rpm which pushing more CFM or volume of air through the heatsink giving you much better temperatures but one thing you have to keep in mind though is the air that's being pushed down through these heat sinks it's coming out all sides of the car and all four sides coming out the back the bottom the top the front and so that means that your case is going to have to be able to handle the heat that your graphics card is going to be putting off the graphics card is undoubtedly the single hottest component inside of your system so what that means is you have to make sure whichever you're putting this in is able to exhaust that heat efficiently so multiple exhaust fans multiple intake fans maybe a larger volume of air like a larger full ATX case or even a high flow mid tower is going to be something you need to keep in mind with a cooler like this if you were to take a card like this and stick it in a small form-factor bill that only has say one intake fan and one exhaust fan what's going to happen here is the case is not going to be able to expel the hot air fast enough which means these fans are going to ramp up because the card is getting hotter which is only going to exacerbate I like that word exacerbate which is only going to exacerbate the issue by making it even hotter because the fans are speeding up the graphics cards getting hotter and the case cannot move that heat fast enough and inevitably you will end up thermal throttling even with the cooler like this because the case is not able to make the environment cool enough for the card which is where something like this would definitely make sense now for those people who want a little bit more exotic cooling but they're not ready to go with something like a full custom water loop over the last couple of years we have seen the introduction of much more of these hybrid style coolers manufacturers have taken the very popular all-in-one cooling units like you would find on a CPU and they have modified them to fit on graphics cards and then still use a fan here to cool things like VRMs & MOSFETs and memory chips on your graphics card that's why they're called a hybrid because they do have an air cooler unit for some parts and a water cooling unit for others now you're going to find some varying the styles of cooler on here some have no fan at all some still a fan like this hybrid here from a BGA but they all pretty much use a single 120 millimeter radiator we haven't seen any 240 s yet of a feeling we might see some - 40s in the future but these definitely run the coolest of the three that we've seen so far usually keeping temperatures around the 45 to 50 C range which is very very cool now you're going to see a benefit to using hybrid coolers because your boost clocks on both AMD and NVIDIA are not going to be fluctuating nearly as much because the temperatures are more constant you see less temperature spikes and the more constant and steady the temperature stays the less GP booth has to dynamically adjust the clock to keep things thermally control but you have to make sure obviously in an environment with a hybrid cooler that you have an extra space for 120 millimeter fan and enough clearance around that fan mount so that you can actually mount the radiator as well because obviously you have to account for not only the fan but the radiator as you can see is a little bit taller not necessarily wider but it is definitely taller and thicker both top and bottom than a standard 120 millimeter fan so although you might be able to fit a 120 fan it doesn't mean you can fit the radiator so you're going to have to do some research on your case to make sure that you are able to you know exam is going to go now there's even some upgrades that you can do to these which we've already taken a look at in a previous video where you can change the fans and go push-pull with all kinds of stuff where you can actually take a little bit more control over a hybrid cooler and get even better cooling by changing out fans and stuff which is something you can't do with the two previous options we looked at with the blower style cooler and the multi fan config now the last one we're going to take a look at here which happens to be my personal favorite that should be no surprise to you guys is the full cover water block for custom water cooling loops these are going to give you the best temperatures these are going to give you the quietest operation but unfortunately it comes a bit at a price premium where the block itself can run upwards of one hundred and twenty dollars and as you can see this one doesn't have the back plate installed yet I am putting a back plate on here when the back plate can run you another 30 s you're talking a hundred and fifty dollars on top of the price of the card to go with some sort of cooling functionality like this now although these are going to give you the best thermals it does not necessarily mean though that you're going to get better overclock so I mean it's going to help a little bit maybe an extra 25 megahertz at the most pretty much because we've reached a very interesting age of graphics cards where even coolers like the hybrid cooler are keeping these things cool enough to where we are hitting korlam limits and voltage limits long before we're actually hitting thermal limits when it comes to these graphics cards heck even some of these air-cooled cards you put them on 100% fan speed it keeps the temperatures down in the 50 you're going to find that you are not hitting temperature limits but you are hitting core stability limits and until you start doing custom VRMs and really high voltage and exotic cooling like - you're never going to hit your temperature limits before you hit the limits of the core at least it the way that they ship with their BIOS and voltage limits it's really more of an enthusiast thing where you water cool your graphics card because you like to not because you need to which is kind of an exciting place where we are today where you can get amazing performance idea graphics cards without the need of water cooling which only five years ago you had to do water cooling if you wanted to get your max overclocks there you go that's that the four main cooler types here and if you think I missed something let me know down in the comments and add to this video lots of people come to these videos for information about making their next purchase and as a community we can all rise together and help the community be stronger with the correct knowledge out there especially when it comes to things like water cooling and air cooling and such as that as always guys you can hit me up on Facebook Instagram and Twitter if you want to have a one-on-one conversation I do the best I can to get to all of you but good lord there is a lot of you but that said it's time to go as always liked this video if you'd like to subscribe if you're new here and as always we will see you in the next one take care