I FABRICATED The RTX NOCTUA EDITION From A Picture
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
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Have you seen the leaks, rumor has it Noctua and Asus are working together to release a GPU with a Noctua cooler. The other day Dusty tweeted me a photo of this GPU and after taking one look at it I knew we had to try and make it. So today, we take apart an Asus ROG Strix RTX 3060 and try and create the Noctua-Asus GPU seen on twitter.
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Now put the number one fan for the fan showdown on the card.
but the number one is the cheater, which would be difficult
@@drizzle1482 season 1 winner?
I consider that one as the "top fan" for a small size at least.
I was literally waiting for him to do it in this video lol
Now I want to see him figure out how to use the cheater fan on a GPU.
Put that fan that runs at 3000rpm.
2021, the year where printing things for your computer is easier than buying one.
*If you have a 3D printer to begin with.
no, it is easier and cheaper to buy a prebuild
@@rafamacamp It's easier to get a 3D printer than PC parts
Just buy a laptop 🤡
@@Aesavyx Depends on where you live.
Thanks to Digital Storm to giving you the "Go ahead" on this one! That's awesome!
Even if for nothing else, at least it is quieter than the normal configuration. Either way, this looks pretty good, and I HOPE that this thing becomes a real product to purchase at some point.
Meanwhile At Noctua HQ: ‘THIS GUY IS TOO POWERFUL… WE MUST STOP HIM…’
Naaaa more like; we are gonna hire him
Nah see all the cheap plublicity they are getting from him? All for the cost of 2-3 fans. On top of that all the free engineering what not to do or try this. This is a gold mine for fan developers.
The question this video posses is do I buy noctua fans for my gpu or do I buy a noctua gpu either way money for noctua
DIY but people have to buy Noctua fan to reach the same goal as him, so... it's a win win for Noctua
Like "Hey! Wanna move to Austria?"
Wait, I don't understand how you attached Noctua fans to a thing without using duct tape? 😅
Duct tape?! No; you’re supposed to use hot glue!
cable ties
Tweezers
BTW, there is a “duct tape”, that used in aviation (don’t remember correct name), sometimes pretty much unexpected, for example - temporarily fix a hole in the wing))) I think that kind of “duct tape” can be used to hold fans on a video card without any problem)))
@@thiagorabelo01 exactly! couldn’t remember ) thnx
made props to Digital Storm for fueling the content.
Yup! 😎
a tip for making the dimensions for the holes, scan it in a ordinary 2d scanner :-)
That's a great idea for any 2d part
Dude... What card do you want? Cover the cost and shipping AFTER YOU GET IT and I'll go get one for you. Every time I go into a micro center, they have cards in stock
My microcenter is always picked clean... what store do you go to?
@@Vegatablez Denver and Kansas city
@@technewb8241 that explains it
Anyone been to the microcenter near cincinnati?
Dallas has all the Radeon cards - and $2000+ nVidia cards
Not only are these really fun and entertaining videos, but what I really appreciate about you is that you give people the 3d model of projects so they can save time and motivate them to have a model like yours in their hands. Keep it up.
After seeing the Noctua one i actually thought about 3d printing a shroud for my 3060ti and putting the 12x25 chromax on it that are coming out soon. I'm surprised we haven't really seen many or any 120mm GPUs over the years. Even on the biggest GPUs we still get basic 80 or 92mm fans.
Seems like the heatsink was the limiting factor as far as cooling goes and I've never noticed gfx card makers being concerned with noise levels, maybe if this joint venture sells well we'll get to see more 120mm fans on cards.
1. Temps were the same.. sure it was less noisy but temps are more important. 2. It would easy be a 4 slot card as slim 120mm fans arent efficiant like normal 120mm fans. 3080FE with small 80/92mm fans runs perfectly cool for example
It’s because it’s extends the life of the card and repairing the fan would be easier
Some cards have slightly larger fans. My Red Dragon 5700xt uses 100mm fans for example. Still not 120mm though
@@l0ki4321 unless you are mining on those and have them isolated...I think 10db noise reduction is a good reason to go with the extra effort in to making something like this. And if the official card is reasonably more expensive than the regular version, again it's worth it. If it's like 200-300$ more expensive then...yeah it's not worth it.
I did this many years ago. And ever since i've always replaced the stock cooler with 2x noctua a12x25 fans.
The one in the video has 3 fans and logically 3 plugs on the pcb but If you only use 2 does the controller behave the same as it uses 3 or is it just programmed to react to the heat and it doesnt matter how many fans? Im a noob
@@franzrecht6092 The fan connectors on a GPU is not a normal pc case fan connector. So you plug them into the motherboard or a fan controller. You can use software to control them. But in my case the Noctua fans are so good i dont really need to do anything but plug them in and make sure they run. My 2080ti went from 88c full load to 65c. But the most noticable thing was the greatly reduced fan noise. My PC is totally quiet thanks to Noctua ♥
Honestly, since i don't care about noise i'd use some ippc fans which run at 3k rpm
@@federicob.8313 How can you not care about noise ? But yes if you don't, why not go for some Delta 11k rpm 100w fans ?
@@federicob.8313 Are you deaf? Maybe he's actually deaf.
I did the same with my evga geForce 1070 a few years ago, just with less 3d-printing and more just straight-up zip-tied a pair of unused fans to the heatsink. The Noctuas had a lesser current draw than the stock fans, so running them off the card was no issue. It might have looked a little "sketchy," but it actually ran 2°C cooler and didn't sound like chainsaw any more.
if you're stl files are free, you know this shroud will be on Aliexpress soon
Yes, especially on their fake GPUs
*your .... Is it really that difficult?
@@adoksym omg, I’m glad you came. His misplaced “you’re” was going to blow up the world till you came and corrected him; you are the real hero of this story.....
@@aaaafireball9322 Once in a while I feel the urge to make the internet a better place.
@@aaaafireball9322 "your the real hero..."
Can't wait to get my major hardware edition rtx 3069ti
3d printed fans 😄
Nice
The 3070 Noctua is a 4 slot design too. And the noise level you reach is super impressive. I have to run the fans at 100% on my 3090 to reach steady state at 56°, and it's obnoxious. The noise is about 60% of why I'm watercooling it
56° is cooler than you really need. 70° would be very much fine as well.
why must you have it so cool? 80 C is fine but my 980 Ti (founders stock blower design) runs hot at 86 C
@@Sebbl3 depends on your definition of 'fine'. GPU Boost starts dropping frequency at 30° on ampere.
@@Dimondminer11 every 5° over 30 equates to a 15mhz drop. By 86°,my card would be throttling, the gpu hotspot would be coming up on 100°,and my VRAM would be overheating
In the 3090, it s not the core temps problème, it s the vram temps who is the problem. Unfortunately, it s a design issue. Some of the vram are not cooled a all and can reach +105c.
I think It will be a real challenge to do a diy cooler for this beast, if an after market cooler can do it, I will buy it and I pretty sure a lot of 3090 owner will do the same !
You done a bang up job of this, it is fantastic, can tell you're a professional designer and the end product is spectacular.
we need retro fits for all the old crappy cards we have to keep using. lol
I was thinking that, meanwhile I'm still using a 1080ti
Gtx 960 lets go!
@@Tigermoto 1050 laptop card and a 660 GeForce from the 00's
@@deltahat880 The first GPU to ever got my rig was a 660! Then I had two in SLI. Awesome memories
@@Tigermoto that’s a nice card! could be worse I build my pc a year an a half ago I bought a used rx570 to hold me over tell the 3000 series stuff was out…… that was an awesome idea!
Did the conversion cost $600? Because the markup from $500 to $1100 certainly communicates that ASUS needed $600 per card to do this.
Nah, he probably did it for way cheaper. Oh wait, he needed a 3D Printer.
Let's see:
A12x25 fans are $29.95 US according to Newegg.
He needed two, so that's $48.90 for the fans.
For the 3D printer material, we'll say he used 250g of material (equivalent to a massive print). You can get 1kg of 3D printer filament for less than $20 on some stores (PLA should be adequate, or you can use ABS). So the cost of the 3D printing material should be around $5 or less, depending on how cheap you can get the filament.
Let's also say that the glue he used cost $5, and the screws used to attach everything cost $2.
Adding everything up, you get $60.90, excluding the tools you need to do the conversion.
So it seems ASUS is marketing this as a premium product?
@@williamhuang8309 I didn't need the math done, my comment was sarcasm. But yea, you could buy the 3D printer with the fans and you'd still save a few bucks. ASUS is nuts...
@@dominic.h.3363 I was about to say with the $600 you could buy a new 3D printer and also make this thing 🤣
@@williamhuang8309 don't you think PLA will deform in the time with temps around 50-60*C ? ( I have a RX580, running easily in the 70-80*C range so, PLA would be a concern XD )
@Thomas Hannah Nowhere. I've read the same announcement article everyone else did. No other region-appropriate information about pricing or availability.
As soon I saw the notification, I was like "F*ck Yes!"
Great build. Maybe contact Steve @ GN or Jay to see if they'd be interested in a collab where they provide you the other 30 series cards and you make the Noctura versions. They could be tested against what the AIBs manufacture.
That would be cool
I remember more than quite a while ago, when the Corsair water blocks were leaking. MH was among the first to report this and Jay called him a no-one and he was obviously faking the test for video views. As much as I would like to think everyone is okay with everyone these days, I don't see how I'd be able to work with someone that said all of that about me.
@@Christopher_S Damn I didn't know Jay went in on MH in the past. Doesn't make sense but Jay seems to have D-bag tendencies.
@@kenpumphrey8384 Unfortunately so. It was at the start of 2020, about the Corsair GPU waterblock. MH was the first to spot this, and let Corsair know, they said it was just a defective unit, so send it in for them to check and they'll replace it. The replacement did the same thing, and MH reported on that too. Basically, it leaked if any pressure was on the fittings area.
People asked Jay his thoughts on it because he gave the product a rave review, and then claimed that MH was manipulating the issue to gain views. It was sad to see, because Jay instantly took Corsairs word on the matter, that it was only a handful of products with this issue (it was not, there was a rework done (which still did not fix the problem)).
Only in June (2020) I think it was, did Jay admit that there was actually an issue, and I've not once seen him say sorry for his accusations toward MH.
Either way, personally, even if he did say sorry to me, I couldn't work with him going forward after that.
@@Christopher_S I remember that water block issue. I just didn't see all of the content. I'm going to go back and look for it. Thanks for the info.
Now that it is actually out everyone is jumping on it. Glad I heard it here first. Your attempt was far better than Linus's Gorilla tape attempt. Haha.
Not sure why my heart sank when you said they sent you a pc with a 3060 in it you could use, I was like oh no you didn't, then lol you said you got their permission lol.
lol, Thanx Digital Storm for letting him lol.
Damn, bro!
I wish this upload had enough views that Digital Storm ended up so dang pleased they decided to heck with it, & asked you to keep the whole computer!
If you don't mind me askin - You didn't by chance get to keep the card or anything did ya...?
Your relationship with digital storm &/or other PC manufacturers & assemblers will hopefiully reach the point where they are reaching out to you to have you try (& keep) their latest product releases to review.
Almost 200k subscribers... That next level for you is right around the corner man.
I'm new to your channel & only just subscribed, but the content is good, interesting & well thought out with good production value video & audio.
You just need ONE upload that hits it out of the park with the views & the algorythm runs with it..., & you'll wake up the next morning "On Broadway"
Keep it up, man.
You're killin' it
More videos like this please! I love to see you go from taking measurements and design to printing and assembling. Very cool see the process through
This is my favorite channel by far! You've managed to keep the fun in computer building and experimenting. Keep up the great work.
You can use this card for the next season of Fan Showdown? Just replace the fan blades? Could be fun.
He's got to send it back
@@mattymattffs Most likely yes, but Digital Storm might be interested in a collab, if they are asked again. It feels like good advertisment to me.
Fan showdown series 1G(raphics) for optimising GPU temps & noise?
So new series of people sending in GPU cases and fans designs for you to test out like the regular cpu fan showdown? That'd be interesting..
Can you put the quietest fan so far on a drone? Could even make it into a separate series to spice things up
How did you wire the Noctua fans, to the GPU's on board fan header?
As he had the wires free when he attached the cooler to the card, I'd expect he attached the wires to a chassis or CPU fan header on the motherboard. There are adapters to convert the PWM plugs from the GPU to the standard PWN plug, but I don't know how safe that is to do. (I've been starting research on my own shroud for a couple weeks now and wiring the fans has been one of the points of concern for me.)
@@JLProPhoto I've deshrouded my GPU (1070 Ti) and run case fans off the GPU header. Hasn't caused any issues in the past few years.
@@JLProPhoto Thank you for the information.
@@teguh.hofstee do you have them running on a curve or do they just go at 100 all the time?
@@JLProPhoto I run them off a curve, I used to control them with a custom curve using afterburner but I think right now they're just running whatever the GPU has as its stock curve. The fans are still idle until it hits like 45C or something.
3D printing really puts so much into the consumer's hands and I love it
Graphics card deshrouding is a very unrepresented thing in the PC building community. It's amazing for GPU thermals and silent cooling. And it's especially great when you're using an ITX case, where the deshrouded graphics card with case fans brings fresh air in from outside of the case.
Haven't watched your videos in a while and i have to say that your videos got significantly better in many aspects. Glad to see it.
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Amazing job. It looks sick! I need to do this for my 2070.
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Major Hardware: here are the files so you can DIY.
I've been voiding my warranties for years. Zip-tying Noctua fans to GPUs or to stock Prism coolers and replacing PSU fans is what I do.
I remember back in the 90s, early 00s, we were doing this with zip ties. There was an awesome community around silencing your PC. They were loud. They're still pretty loud. Lots of diy zip tie mods. Now you can make them pretty with zip ties.
it literally got announced an hour ago 😂😂
i seen that, lucky timing for me
Your asumption is wrong, because with both type of fans, you achieve the max airflow the rad can use.
Reduce noise to like 35dba or lower and you'll see a lot of difference in temperature. I have a 1080 strix modded with 2x120mm sw3 and im not only running much quieter but with slightly better temps. Im running 800 rpm (which is like 32-33dba) instead of the 1700-1850 on stock fans (something like 40+), and im getting 4-5ºC lower.
Single-handedly outperforming a team of Noctua engineers by months. What a fucking madlad!
Great job. Just be carful of putting PLA in a pc as it goes soft at 60 degrees Celsius and might drop those fans and (hopefully not) cook the GPU.
Great video. Keep it lit.
The PLA shouldn't be getting anywhere near 60 degrees since the actual gpu isn't over that, but that would be an interesting thing to test with a hot running and poorly ventilated case. Maybe just plastic wrap the case.
thats actually not a problem. the fans cool the plastics. ive printed fan ducts for hot ends in pla :-)
This is not a problem, I did this to my own gpu too. The 2 noctua fans are still attached to the PLA and the cooler. It has been running in my poorly ventilated p400s for almost a year now. Though I am thinking about reprinting them in ABS, because right now the parts have different colours 😅
having had 2 a12x25's zip-tied to my gpu for the past couple years, its actually quite a bit better than stock. I have them at 100% most of the time and they're never even the loudest thing in the computer, not to mention the temps are very nice.
Same temps just quieter...not worth it but cool project
I almost cried when I thought you put that die face down on the desk. Had to rewind to check you hadn't hahaha
Arent you worried about the fact that PLA starts melting/warping at around 60 degrees celcius?
I have been toying with the idea of designing and printing a complete miniITX case. But the "fear" of it "melting" has kept me from going ahead
Why didn't you use ABS instead?
Yeah, that’s the right cooling system, made the same a couple years ago with my GTX1080, but didn’t bother with esthetics
BTW temperatures under full load in really small case were somewhere between 60-64C
People have been doing this but without the shroud. I've also done something similar with a Gigabyte 1660Ti, which was loud AF and also had rattling noises at almost any RPM. I just removed the crappy plastic shroud and slapped 2 Arctic PWM fans directly on the heatsink and ran it like that. Temperatures were roughly the same but the improvement in noise was incredible, no more rattling and it even looked better. I'm not a fan of fan shrouds to be honest, I prefer to see the tech that does the job, the cooling.
I'd like to see more GPU builds. Most games are bottle-necked by their GPUs, and GPUs soak up a lot of energy and they produce a lot of heat. Experimenting with GPU fans could help a lot of people.
I would like to see a test rig were the showdown fans are in the rig and the smoke gets pulled thru the case. maybe some different configurations of fans, different fans as push and pull to see the best combo, etc
C'mon UA-cam algorithm! Give our boi the recognition and the channel growth he deserves!
Dude you did any awesome job! Looks almost like the "official" version. I think the only thing holding you back here is the heatsink itself. In the stock config the boost clock stabilized at 1770MHz, while the screen cap you showed for the modded version looks to have stabilized around 1717MHz, so that's a delta of 52MHz. That would seem to suggest that the modded version hit some sort of thermal limits earlier; preventing it from boosting more. I think the stock heatsink was the limiting factor for the mod. But it was really cool to see.
3060 is not high enough heatload to make a difference between these two cooling methods. However the noise is still telling the story of a better cooler. Maybe include noise normalized data next time?
Wow, this is incredible!! THIS is the kind of content that I like. Now you can start testing fan blade designs in the GPU.
In the screen capture #1 you are showing the card hitting 1777-1800 MHZ at 52C, In the second it is hitting only 1725-1755 and is hitting the near same 53C. This tells me the test is not consistent, as the MHZ should have been the same if the temp was the same.
My assumption is the testing window on the Furmark test wasn't sized the same.
I mean, frankly in the SFF scene de-shrouding is popular with some cases where using full-size desktop fans inside of a case with a modified GPU wouldn't otherwise be a viable option, so this is just a natural evolution.
This is the best computer-related video I've seen this month so far
I have a GTX970 that had a fan die on me and it was using these really weird connectors plus you couldn't get replacements back then anyway. So I threw away the entire shell of the GPU and zip tied two 120mm noctua fans. Now my problem was they were no longer reacting to the GPU temperature being powered as a case fan on the motherboard. But by some weird stroke of luck I had a motherboard with a temperature probe sensor port thing and I just had to buy one for a few bucks and stick the probe inside the GPU then set the BIOS to use the temperature for those fans. And yes it is the worlds ugliest GPU but it worked! It still works but I upgraded and it now sits there as a backup GPU in case of the worst. I wish I'd had the skill to make a cover but the important thing was the card was so quiet! And for me the temps dropped a lot. I was just amazed I'd managed to make it work so great stats was a super bonus.
Bro i wish your channel explodes, your contents are so original and so fun. Youre such a gifted content creator
Now put together the #1 fan overall ( from all seasons ) with the Chester's shroud on a 3090. A legendary combination that I'm sure would best the stock cards
People from a hardware discord recommended me your video, because I modeled this graphics card in the last days as well. I am happy to see this one here :)
Exactly the information I'm looking for. I actually got the 4080 Noctua myself and was so impressed by how silent it runs that I needed to know how to make it again if they don't continue producing this line again. Glad to know it's possible to do it yourself. Good stuff mate.
By the way, did you just plug in the fan directly to it's original fan plugs on the GPU?
To find what is making the noise in the case take some plastic object and place it up against areas in the case with your thumb over the top and your ear pressed to your thumb it's a mechanic trick that i learned years ago
I would have LOVED noise normalised testing. Get the stock cooler back on it, run a test at full blast to check if your mounting is correct (temps in the same range as before) and then play with the fan speeds until you get around 43.2 dB.
Unless something has changed - I think all the Strix series cards have the same HSF design and deshroud similarly, without the need to remove the heatsink from the card.
Very cool project. The production quality of your videos is amazing. You're doing great and I look forward to more content from Major hardware
Pretty cool that they told you to go ahead . That helps my view of them a little.
I love these frankenstein builds you do, very cool! Thanks!
Make sense that it's gotten quieter, given how big the fans are, they don't need to spin as fast to keep the same temperature. As for temperature, it was following the same curve as before, so also make sense it wasn't any better. If you had made it spin as fast as the stock ones, then you'd see a improve in temperatures. Still... That's a win in my book, good temps with lower noise!
I am in love with how much quieter that is. Why don’t manufacturers do this already? Still using loud ass 90mm fans in 2021 even though cards are huge
Now I can get a noctua card on a budget, thanks!
It took manufacturers over 10 years to figure out what consumers do to lower GPU noise
You should do those kind of modifications more often ... How about a GPU Fan/Shroud Showdown Series?
Keep up the good work James 😎
Thats so cool. Awesome job man
Paused At 12:00 for my guess.
Cooling: slightly warmer, but no worse than if the card was in a case with poor airflow.
Noise: quieter, but not noticeable to the ear because of other fans/pumps in the system.
Edit at 13:00
Nice.
There is a "Noctua Industrial" line that I have used in my PC. They have the same performance as the "regular" Noctua but they are "industrial standard" black.
Do the fans plug into the board for gpu still or do you have to plug it into the mobo? Either way that is sweet.
8:23 I was hoping you were gonna say it had a lightning bolt like the digital storm logo.
Damn he did an amazing job of reproducing it.
I honestly don’t mind the brown colour of the fan blade but I wish Noctua would make the frame itself black. I could live with that, in fact I think it could be a pretty cool looking theme with accommodating MoBo and case
DigitalStorm: "Go ahead, but we want the Noctua-modded shroud."
By the end of 2022, Noctua will just be having their designers draw concepts, and then wait for the STL files to appear on the Fan Showdown website... Because obviously Fan Showdown will have its own website by then too.
bruh i realized u "only" have 195.000 subs. u definitely deserve more.
did something similar with my r9 290.
put 2x120mm arctic fans on there, because the old ones failed.
at full speed with sidepanel open + undervolting it runs at 66 degree celsius max
big thanks to Digital Storm for allowing this to happen.
Frickin' sweet.
Deshrouding has long been a thing in the SFF world (Ali @OptimumTech has more than a few videos showing it to various degrees) but this is the first time I've seen a new shroud made for it, so kudos for that :-)
Now put your “to fresh air” shroud over that.💪🏽💪🏽
Not a fan (pun intended) of just how thick this thickboi is, but I love the idea of standardized 120mm fan mounts.
Imagine you have the card vertically mounted and could swap out the fans with the exact same models as the rest of your case.. that would be amazing for themed builds
Should had made the fan shroud poop brown.
I believe limiting factor for the cooling capability is either the contact surface on the processor or the heat sync itself
Works even better if you just remove the cooler altogether and put a CPU cooler on. Having a big flat PCB covering the exhaust side of a heatsink isn't the most efficient design.
The 200 IQ from Digital Storm, getting a free upgrade.
I had an old friend who was obsessed with a silent micro pc build and took off the old fan and zip tied a 92mm noctua fan on a smaller gpu and it ran great and was pretty well silent in a pc the size of a shoebox
Digital Storm PC should make that PC present for you and for your next season you gonna make GPU Fan Show Down. Maybe even later try full pc with custom fans.
I'm all for 120mm fan cards, just because these fans are so quiet.
And with all that thickness, they can compose some good RGB to look stylish too.
Honestly, I’m in love with the colour of Noctua fans, I blame this guy right here for making me like the colours so much.
I've seen in the past people putting 120mm fans on the Artic Accelero Xtreme GPU coolers and getting really good results. But not sure if they are compatible with 30 series cards
Hands down my favorite video of yours. this was awesome and I enjoyed your design process.
Amazing job, you actually got it close to the picture.. 3D printing ftw..
i get a chuckle everytime i see this card on "normal" tech outlets. the SFF community has been de-shrouding and using alternate fans for a while now. Also given how huge some of these 30x0 cards are, i always wondered why they didn't use smaller coolers and better fan from stock. I figured at this stage advertising that you are using a noctua fan would be plus.
I think making the shroud cover the sides of the fin stack is a bad idea. That’s where the hot air escapes.
Honestly, I knew it would be alot quieter, but I certainly didn't expect the Noctuas to compete, thermally. Thats quite impressive.