Video Card Cooling: Blower-Style vs. Open-Air Shootout

Update: To read a more recent exploration of this topic, check out our article comparing the GTX 1080 Founders Edition against the open-air EVGA GTX 1080 ACX. Introduction One of the age-old questions among video card enthusiasts is whether open-air or blower-style...

Taking 4K Gaming to the Limit: GTX 1080 Ti in SLI

Introduction Here at TBG, we’ve done a number of 4K challenges over the years, starting with a GTX 980 Ti SLI setup, moving on to the GTX 1070 SLI setup, and finally the Titan X Pascal versus the GTX 1080 SLI setup. Well, thanks to the recent release of the...

Benching the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: Air vs. Liquid Cooling

Introduction Here at TBG, we love to push video cards to the limit, and at a certain point, that means you end up overpowering standard cooling setups. As enthusiasts, we wondered whether liquid cooling a GPU can provide as many, or perhaps more, benefits than liquid...