Zotac GTX 560 Multiview Video Card

Fan

During our testing, we noticed this card ran quite hot.  Lets take a look into the cooling Zotac has put on this card.

1	2
3	4

5

As we take the card apart, we do spot some glaring problems with the cooling.  For starters, the heatsink (figure 2) lacks both physical size and a decent amount of copper pipes.  2 Pipes is obviously not enough to cool such a performance-based card.  Along with the small heatsink we see a small fan (figure 1), another downfall to quality heat dissipation.  We also see a lack of thermal paste applied to the GPU.  These problems can obviously be fixed with an aftermarket cooler, but why can’t Zotac include a cooling system on par with the type of card?  I’m confident that adding more thermal paste and a better heatsink/fan setup would help to drop the overall temperature of this card.

Fan Noise

To test the overall fan noise I shut off everything in my office and allowed my ears to adjust to the baseline. Then I manually controlled the fan in 10% increments from 30% to 80%.

• 30% – Not audible.
• 40% – Slight difference in normal fan “humm”
•  50% – Audible over other fans in the case.
• 60% – Obvious small fan noise.
• 70% – Leaf blower in my case.
• 80% – Leaf blower duel in my case.

  Previous Page         1. Introduction2. Deboxing and Specifications3. Synthetic Benchmarks4. Gaming Benchmarks5. Cooling and Fan6. Conclusion7. View All         Next Page