Hyped for the video! Very interested in picking up this bad boy when it’s released.
Just a minor warning to those planning to go Founders Edition Ampere with the Winter One - Ali Sayed from Optimum Tech recommends against FE cards in sandwich-style cases since the fan exhaust on the backplate would get blocked by PSUs.
Are there any 280mm radiators in existence that would fit if you made the slight size increase to fit 30mm radiators?
It looks absolutely gorgeous.
if you go double rad full custom watercool loop should you go for the vented side panel or the closed ones?
Just a minor warning to those planning to go Founders Edition Ampere with the Winter One - Ali Sayed from Optimum Tech recommends against FE cards in sandwich-style cases since the fan exhaust on the backplate would get blocked by PSUs.
Are there any 280mm radiators in existence that would fit if you made the slight size increase to fit 30mm radiators?
It's not wasted space if you fill it with heat sinks ?
Just an update to the above with some helpful renders and animations from Ali @ Optimum Tech:
Seems that in terms of the founders edition cards, the Winter One may be one of the safer SFF cases to buy if you're getting one, or any 30 series card that has the same flow through design.
That's an excellent video summary. The real trick to running the 3090 In any case will be:
1. can you remove the hot air air quickly enough (no choke points, clear path of airflow out)
2. can you provide cool intake air to both fans, quickly enough (low restriction on the intake, and excellent internal airflow velocity)
3. can you prevent recirculation of hot air, once exhausted. (See my CFD post, Winter One is designed to do this, with flow separation eddies)
4. can you protect the CPU from being choked with hot air (Winter One's sandwich layout does isolate the CPU from the hot air exhausted by the 3090)
Agreed - but based on this, under what setup does the Winter One satisfy all of those conditions? (Sorry for the rough image editing.)
These questions are especially important now that several of the AIB designs are incorporating a hole in the back plate for air to pass through like Nvidia's Flow-through design.
- Does the PSU block the exhaust through the FE 3080/90's flow-through fan?
- If the PSU is flipped so the fan faces the GPU, is airflow still consistent enough to pull that air through and out the PSU vents towards the top exhaust?
- If it's not enough flow to exhaust heat out the top, will that heat have detrimental effects to the PSU longevity/performance?
- With the edge of the GPU being a solid border with lighting, will bottom intake feed enough cool air to the GPU's fin-side for the exhaust fan to pull through?
- ... Or will the perforated side panel be required to use an FE card - especially the 3090 - effectively?
I don't mean to question the design of the Winter One - I've just been curious about how these new FE cards will perform in the case and if users who are going with FE cards will need to go with the perforated side panels to compensate.
Are the revisions to fit the 3090 going to push the timeline for the Kickstarter?
Agreed - but based on this, under what setup does the Winter One satisfy all of those conditions? (Sorry for the rough image editing.)
Does the PSU block the exhaust through the FE 3080/90's flow-through fan?
- If the PSU is flipped so the fan faces the GPU, is airflow still consistent enough to pull that air through and out the PSU vents towards the top exhaust?
- If it's not enough flow to exhaust heat out the top, will that heat have detrimental effects to the PSU longevity/performance?
With the edge of the GPU being a solid border with lighting, will bottom intake feed enough cool air to the GPU's fin-side for the exhaust fan to pull through?
... Or will the perforated side panel be required to use an FE card - especially the 3090 - effectively?
I don't mean to question the design of the Winter One - I've just been curious about how these new FE cards will perform in the case and if users who are going with FE cards will need to go with the perforated side panels to compensate.
WinterCharm's big, detailed post.