why dont they make 2-sided coolers?

coolers are so big nowadays with those aluminium/copper heatpipes and fins
and for VGA, the coolers are facing downwards, puling down the card with the cooler's weight

one day i was playing this game when i touched the top of my VGA and felt "man that is hot"
then i thought "why dont they make coolers on this side too? wouldn't that be more efficient than making superbig coolers on one side only?"

just wondering

of course they have their reasons
of course they have thought about it

but just wondering
wat were the reasons?

space constraints most likely....

imagine a 2 slot cooler... like the ones on the 9800GTX. then u have the backside cooler which will take up one more slot... thats alot of space wasted man. even though its hot on the back....it still havent reached a point enough to warrant the need of a backside cooler.

another reason... short circuits. theres alot of exposed circuitry there. a backside cooler will risk short circuits.

i think thermalright do produce a backside cooler... for both vga and cpu...

is it possible ATI or Nvidia release Tri slot cooling?

This post has been edited by Liuteva: May 13 2008, 05:50 AM

the example i gave is VGA, but im not just talking just about VGA
same goes to CPU
we never know how hot it is back there
we always put the big heatsinks on one side

actually, yea, maybe the heat is not that extreme on the backside
so no need any heatsinks or water-cooled blocks that might interrupt the circuitry
but how about a simple fan?

im really2 interested to know
cant seem to find it though

No.
Because if you do that, there won't be much room for Crossfire & SLi. Which also results to lesser room for airflow.
Nowadays it's more to Tri-Crossfire, Quad Crossfire, Tri-SLi.

Here's some tip: A little googling won't break your fingers.



This post has been edited by sHawTY: May 13 2008, 08:31 AM

no matter which site you put, the weight is there. that's why we lock the other end of the GC to casing.



that side was hot BUT it was on acceptable operating temperature as you can touch it.

the other side isn't, because the processor temperature is really beyond your touching.



the lack of understanding leads you to those type of questions.

the back portion is directly affected by the front BUT if you look at how processors work, it's the TOP portion that's generating huge amount of heat.

settle the one on top, you get the bottom settled.

remember, bottom part is just the board. it's connected to the processor via pins / socket only.

well its too expensive to make yet does not make any sense, like gold fries said, cooling the pcb beneath does not help too much.

i like the HR11 design, unfortunately no space to use it haha..........

This post has been edited by LExus65: May 13 2008, 10:57 AM

u want a solution to the weight/size
use pure gold the best conductive haha
but will make the heat sink the most exp 1 lol

gold not best conductor
best metal is silver actually

but silver still very heavy

anyway thx shawty
never knew people had already been making backside coolers