Acer Makes Graphics Cards Now. And It's Weird...

Acer. A company well known for making PCS  that people own for max like a year and a half 

before throwing straight in a river.  I guess that's not quite Fair. Some of their  

monitors and laptops aren't terrible but  anyway they've decided to dip their toes  

into the world of graphics cards with this  very interesting cooler design I guess they're  

trying to overcome the hermetically sealed case  designs they're known for. Let's see how it works out.

Now when it comes to graphics card cooler  designs the two most popular ones are blower  

and open air coolers now a blower design like  this one here works really well in low airflow  

environments because you've got a single fan  sucking in air and farting it out the back of  

the enclosed shroud design it dumps most of  its heat outside of the case they also have  

a reputation for getting real noisy whereas  open a designs provide a lot of potential  

cooling with all their fans and space for air  to move around but if they're in a low air  

flow environment they're just going to dump  all the heat into the case and all of your  

components are going to catch on fire now Acer  decided to combine both these cooler designs  

I'm guessing with the intention of getting  the benefits of both designs but from what  

I'm seeing here it looks more like we're going  to get the downsides of both designs but again  

we'll see how it turns out uh this is quite nice  packaging you've got this sleeve and then a very  

fancy box that like pops open like that and  there it is wo that is a pretty cool looking

GPU and there is our Acer GPU in all its Glory  here's our coax fan which is very common on  

Modern GPU designs and then down here we've  got our blower fan which I'm guessing is here  

for the sole purpose of adding that distinct  howl now the reason that I don't think this  

is a particularly good idea is that because of  what's Happening Here with the coax design the  

open air shroud and what's going on on the  back here you're still going to be dumping  

a bunch of heat into your case you just also  have a loud blower fan on here but again I'm  

sure the engineers at Acer are way smarter than  I am so maybe this works out very excited to test  

it that's actually a metal back plate with a bunch  of predator on the back so you can fantasize about  

being Arnold SWAT and Egger covered in mud in a  jungle there is this kind of frosted plastic on  

the cooler shroud which I quite like the way it  looks I mean generally I think this is a pretty  

cool looking graphics card and this is an RX 7600  which isn't a super high TDP GPU so just going by  

the size of it even if the design isn't very good  I think the temperatures are going to be fine and  

then in terms of IO it's just a modern graphics  scard but with that I'm going to go test it now  

but you get to see into the future where we  take the cooler off and have a closer look at  

its internal design okay well it's finally time  to tear down our Hannah Montana graphics card  

the best of so you just lift that off and then  there are a couple more screws hiding underneath

here he so many connectors three yay we've got  like a copper contact plate which not only touches  

the GPU but also the memory and then there's  a lot of thermal pad making contact with the  

power delivery there are four mediumsized heat  pipes I'd call those it is quite a hefty cooler  

uh and considering that this is just a 7600 I'm  sure temperatures are going to be fine but we'll  

see we'll see in a bit W that's 7600 die has a  surprising amount of chrome bling on it uh next  

to that we've got our 8 gigs of video memory and  a power delivery that's not a complete Abomination  

I mean for the price you'd kind of hope that it's  not completely barebones but we'll talk about that

later now starting with Battlefield 5 at 1080p  ultra settings you can see that temperature-  

wise the problem seems to be the CPU more than  the graphics card uh but I'm going to run it for  

a while and see how how hot the graphics card  gets and after half an hour in a quick crash  

we finally got our temperature result so this is  after quite a while of gaming granted there was  

like a crash in the middle of it uh but this  is about where the temperature is topped out  

uh the CPU has stabilized quite a bit so that's  good and uh the GPU is really not running very  

poorly in terms of temperatures and it's drawing  a decent amount of power as well so I do owe Acer  

an apology it seems because the cooler is doing  fine now cyber Punk a game that doesn't have the  

same inappropriate adult feelings for AMD graphics  cards as Battlefield 5 does at high settings is  

running very well on this 7600 uh temperatures  are good we're getting a lot of frame rate it  

feels great like this is this is a good gaming  experience wait did it just it just crashed again  

didn't it cyber Punk crashed a lot especially the  built in Benchmark a bit I could only get it to  

finish once out of like eight tries other games  like The Last of Us seemed more stable but there  

was definitely something weird going on with this  system so I decided to take the graphics card and  

drop it in my open air test bed but cyber Punk  still kept crashing so it seems like Acer has  

continued their trend of injecting Elma into all  of their products even in their graphics cards  

very exciting Al my realization aside I decided  to drop an RTX 3060 in this system because it's  

currently the most popular graphics card in the  world to see how these two gpus compared now I've  

been playing Battlefield 5 for a while now and  interestingly the RTX 3060 seems to be drawing a  

very similar amount of power while gaming and it's  got a normal open air cooler temperature-wise it  

seems to be doing a little bit better but the  ambient temperature has dropped by about that  

amount so yeah very similar temperatures between  the two cars which isn't impressive by any means  

cuz this is one of the most basic coolers you  get on a 3060 frame rate wise the 7600 is a  

decent step up over the 360 in Battlefield 5 but  again as we mentioned before Battlefield 5 is a  

real thing for AMD graphics cards interestingly  in cyberpunk there's if anything a bigger Delta  

in frame rate between the two gpus than there was  in Battlefield 5 which is kind of weird because  

that's not usually the case for this game aside  from the whole constant crashing things cyberpunk  

feels quite a bit better on the 7600 and the  trend continues with the last of us I mean you  

would really hope that the 7600 is faster than  the 360 cuz it's got like an entire generation  

on that card but yeah it feels quite a bit better  in these more demanding games so with that it's  

time to test these graphics cards in the natural  environment of the Acer graphics card a terrible  

airflow case and what better way to asfixiate a  graphics card than drop it in a pre-build now I  

did initially want to drop it in an Acer loser  Nitro suckface Edition but I can't find mine so  

I guess this Aces prebuilt will have to do this  system does have all the Hallmarks of pre-built  

dim we've got a complete lack of ventilation on  the front it does have a teeny bit of ventilation  

on the side but I am going to like semi-obscure  it just to get a worst case scenario I guess  

but aside from that there's nothing on the top and  the only case fan is this tiny little thing on the  

back so let's see if Acer's Hy hbd cooler design  Works any better in here than a normal Open Air

Design oh what a beauty now you can see that  Asus seems to think a blower style cooler is  

the best for this case design which makes sense  it's not a very high airflow case design uh but  

let's drop the Acer card in here and see what kind  of thermals we get before comparing it to that

360 and what I've also done here which may be  kind of Overkill but I've leaned this glass  

panel over the side of this ventilation it's  still open air can still get in there but it  

is going to restricted just a little bit so  that we get just proper proper asphixiation  

going on but after starting up the system which  sounds like firing up a motorbike from the ' 7s  

the temperature started off aggressively while  it's just been a couple of seconds in the GPU  

murder matron and we're already close to the  temperatures we were seeing at load on the  

open test bed obviously it's going to run hotter  here but how much hotter now I've bumped it up to  

1440p because we have a much slower CPU in here I  think it's got an 11400 f in it and I want the GPU  

to be utilized fully so there you go 1440p and  you can see it was a good call considering that  

the CPU is struggling even with this now I'm also  curious how much the graphics cards impacting the  

CPU temperature so we got to keep an eye on that  as well okay so it's been a reasonably long time  

and that isn't going very poorly considering the  the this the situation 74° C on the graphics card  

it's very noisy but the temperature is good and  then CPU wise we've got 77 is De C and after half  

an hour with the RTX 360 in there we got some  interesting results the open air cooler after  

ages is running at a higher temperature uh which  checks out it was also running hotter on the open  

air test bed uh but it hasn't really impacted  our CPU temperature much it's still in the same

region which got me thinking how much would that  temperature drop with the stock blower GTX 1660ti  

that came in this system a graphics card that  uses quite a bit less power we're getting very  

similar CPU temperatures and all that Heat's also  being dumped out of the back of the case so it  

seems like in this case even the the open a style  360 wasn't having much of an impact on the CPU

temperatures so at the end of the day Acer's  graphics card doesn't seem too terrible until  

you take the price in into account I paid  $450 Canadian dollar for it making it the  

most expensive 7600 I could find you can get  the XT for that for a card I can best describe  

as adequate but noisy but I guess they've  got to pay elma's royalty somehow which  

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