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You can see in the video that the physical version of the rad card is within the 2 slot width of the double-wide PCI bracket. So it is 39.5-40 mm thick.The major thing is airflow. With this design, they ingest the air from the face where the fan is and they exhaust out the back through the PCI slot. There have been some media center styled PCs with minimal height above GPUs that have shown great benefit to using a blower style card in those sorts of situations.The EVGA Kingpin radiator uses a 30mm thick radiator and 25mm thick fans, so right there you have an additional ~15mm of thickness, but then you need additional spacing either in from or or behind the card for ingest/exhaust air, not to mention air recirculation problems with hot air within the case.They did a good job maximizing the thermal gradient of the working fluids in the cooling system.I would agree with others sentiments that this could allow for some interesting SFF watercooling setups with the unique airflow path if this were able to be integrated into a custom loop (although an outstanding question of whether this radiator is copper or aluminum for galvanic corrosion compatibility remains).
You can see in the video that the physical version of the rad card is within the 2 slot width of the double-wide PCI bracket. So it is 39.5-40 mm thick.
The major thing is airflow. With this design, they ingest the air from the face where the fan is and they exhaust out the back through the PCI slot. There have been some media center styled PCs with minimal height above GPUs that have shown great benefit to using a blower style card in those sorts of situations.
The EVGA Kingpin radiator uses a 30mm thick radiator and 25mm thick fans, so right there you have an additional ~15mm of thickness, but then you need additional spacing either in from or or behind the card for ingest/exhaust air, not to mention air recirculation problems with hot air within the case.
They did a good job maximizing the thermal gradient of the working fluids in the cooling system.
I would agree with others sentiments that this could allow for some interesting SFF watercooling setups with the unique airflow path if this were able to be integrated into a custom loop (although an outstanding question of whether this radiator is copper or aluminum for galvanic corrosion compatibility remains).
