Nvidia has recently launched its newest GM107 GPU with the GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti graphics cards and we already talked a lot about those cards as well as the TDP and power consumption which should make them suitable for fanless cooling, just as guys from Tom's Hardware decided to show.

Cooling the GM107 GPU without any fans is quite possible and all you have to do is find a passive radiator which can dissipate 60W. Tom's Hardware guys decided to sacrifice their Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 Ultimate and reuse the heastink on the GTX 750 Ti.

The assembly was not that complicated and only required a bit of change with a dremel to get the mounting holes a bit larger as well as some thermal paste. The results were a two percent loss in performance since the card never went over 93°C. The decrease in performance can be blamed on the GPU Boost technology which lowers the GPU frequency when the card gets a bit too hot.

In case you are looking for a passive cooled graphics card, the move to create a passive GTX 750 Ti is definitely a good option. Of course, you can also go for the Sapphire R7 250 which is also passively cooled and provide similar performance.




Source: Tom's Hardware via Le Comptoir du Hardware.