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JRPGfan on 23 June 2016
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Slimebeast said:
JEMC said:

I'm sure MSI will launch a Twin Frozr version of the 480, just like Asus will have a Strix and Gigabyte a Windforce/G1 cards.

Personally, I prefer blower coolers because they exhaust the hot air out of the case, but some of those cards axial cooler cards have the advantage of having a 0 Fan mode while on idle.

I have never heard about this. How can I see the difference between a blower fan and axial fan? If I look inside my computer case, is there an easy way to see which is which from all the fans inside (PSU, GPU, CPU etc)?

I assume blowing fan is most common from the way you two speak.

For example my Gigabyte R9 290 Windforce, what are those fans?

 

This is a axial fan:


They usually sit inside the card, blowing air along the cooling vents and outsides of the pc case.

They are more effective at moveing air outsides your pc case (which is a good thing, why all the newer cards have them).

 

"my Gigabyte R9 290 Windforce, what are those fans?"

those are blower type fans, and most of the air is just re-circulated inside your pc case.