**Testing a Budget GPU without a Heatsink**

Okay there we go it's not falling over that's the best thing for the fan to be doing well I mean we're in Windows look at that you can actually see the GPU die while we're outputting to Windows okay so it's hit 95 and now it's starting to throttle quite aggressively yeah as you can see we're at 666 megahertz and we're still hitting 95 degrees C you know it's still running like that's fairly impressive now this may be exceptionally stupid but it actually kind of works I mean the benchmark is running we're not getting particularly good results at all but this graphics card is actually working without a heatsink on it I mean we're sitting at 95 degrees Celsius which host which is not an ideal temperature to be gaming at and we're under talking quite significantly so at stock the graphics card runs at about 940 megahertz on the core whereas here we're sitting at 700 and something you know we're jumping around and in below 700 megahertz still though I wasn't expecting it to be able to operate like this at all

I'm gonna try and get even better temperatures from the GPU so we need more airflow it seems like my terrible idea is actually kind of working so what I'm gonna do is refine the process now I want to direct all of the air from that powerful Delta fan onto the tiny GPU die and I think the best way to do that is to well sellotape a funnel to the fan I have no idea if this is gonna work this feels really stupid but one thing that that gives me a little bit of confidence is the fact that the fan lines up almost perfectly with the funnel and that's definitely a sign that this is a great idea

I don't think this is working because honestly it feels like most of the air is just being shot out the back so I actually think it's throttling more heavily than it was before I mean we're hitting 400 megahertz on the core there but it jumps back up to 600 every now and then but it's really throttling to save its own life here as you can see it is exceptionally stuttering

The biggest problem with the plastic funnel is that it's very restrictive that holds really tiny so it means that the fan can't get all the air through it and then there's like a backsplash and stuff like that so I need to make a better funnel basically so I think it's time for some arts and crafts

After some pretty second-grade level arts-and-crafts who are ready to test the final stage of running a budget GPU with no heatsink on now as you can see the funnel doesn't taper as aggressively as the other funnel did and you know we have a bigger we've got a bigger outlet so hopefully the error isn't just gonna spill back out and the fan isn't gonna get all confused hopefully we're just gonna have a more directed airflow on the graphics card

And then something else that I did was I left all the windows open last night and as you can see the temperature in the room is quite low so hopefully that helps us get you know less throttling while gaming and here's the actual core frequency that we're running out which is a little bit higher than the previous configuration but honestly that could very much be down to to the lower ambient temperature with that it brings me to the end of one of the more pointless videos I've ever done on the channel but now we know that if you're using the GT 710 for its intended use case which is pretty much just outputting a video signal to a monitor then you can run it without a heatsink on that's what I'm doing right here there's barely any extra airflow over the salmonela GT 710 it really is a very resilient little beast you can set it free in the Sahara Desert for months at end with very little water and no additional cooling and it will keep on outputting ten video signals with that

If you enjoyed this video like and subscribe to the channel for more pointless videos like this one follow me on Twitch where I stream on Saturdays it's actually going to be later today on Instagram Twitter discord read it

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I got a pretty stupid video today but I think it's gonna be fairly entertaining now I've been doing a lot of content on the hilarious GT 710 lately and every time I interact with it I can't help but think considering how tiny its heatsink is and what kind of amazing temperatures we get with said tiny heatsink this graphics card should be able to run without that heatsink so today we're gonna answer the very pointless question of Canada T 710 perform naked now this is obviously a really stupid idea and no one should do this at home but I really think the GT 710 is low-power enough to be able to run without a heatsink on now the first step is obviously to remove the unsatisfying ly tiny heatsink to reveal one of the most majestic GPU dyes I've ever seen it really is it really is minut now one thing that I would say is that that is a good sign because you know there's so little power under the hood that it should work with no heatsink on another thing that's quite promising is if you look at the base of this loser heatsink you'll see that it only makes contact with the GPU so we don't have to worry too much about the other components on the PCB overheating I feel like at this point this graphics card is regretting ever being born and being sent to my house because I don't know what it did to me but I just really want to destroy it you know but anyway this is the configuration that we're going with so we've got this little Delta fan here which comes from an HP workstation that fan pushes a lot of air through it it's very loud and it's very powerful and then we've got just an NZXT case fan that's gonna blow air into that now the actual ambient temperature isn't as super low as it as it has been for the last couple of days we're sitting at about 17.5 degrees that's not ideal I would like it to be colder in here which seems to baffle people but with that let's actually try and turn it on and see if it even allows us to start it up like I can't imagine this is gonna go in both Oh things have gone wrong immediately that was 100% the most terrifying thing that's ever happened to me that fan is so powerful if it's not held up it blows itself over so I'm gonna have to attach it to the graphics card of it now this is definitely a very ghetto solution but I've just got a little bit of wire that's wrapped around the back PCB let's see if it works this time okay we're good we're good for the time okay there we go it's not falling over that's the best thing for the fan to be doing well I mean we're in Windows look at that you can actually see the GPU die while we're outputting to Windows okay so it's hit 95 and now it's starting to throttle quite aggressively yeah as you can see we're at 666 megahertz and we're still hitting 95 degrees C you know it's still running like that's fairly impressive now this may be exceptionally stupid but it actually kind of works I mean the benchmark is running we're not getting particularly good results at all but this graphics card is actually working without a heatsink on it I mean we're sitting at 95 degrees Celsius which host which is not an ideal temperature to be gaming at and we're under talking quite significantly so at stock the graphics card runs at about 940 megahertz on the core whereas here we're sitting at 700 and something you know we're jumping around and in below 700 megahertz still though I wasn't expecting it to be able to operate like this at all I'm gonna try and get even better temperatures from the GPU so we need more airflow it seems like my terrible idea is actually kind of working so what I'm gonna do is refine the process now I want to direct all of the air from that powerful Delta fan onto the tiny GPU die and I think the best way to do that is to well sellotape a funnel to the fan I have no idea if this is gonna work this feels really stupid but one thing that that gives me a little bit of confidence is the fact that the fan lines up almost perfectly with the funnel and that's definitely a sign that this is a great idea I don't think this is working because honestly it feels like most of the air is just being shot out the back so I actually think it's throttling more heavily than it was before I mean we're hitting 400 megahertz on the core there but it jumps back up to 600 every now and then but it's it's really throttling to save its own life here as you can see it is exceptionally stuttering the biggest problem with the plastic funnel is that it's very restrictive that holds really tiny so it means that the fan can't get all the air through it and then there's like a backsplash and stuff like that so I need to make a better funnel basically so I think it's time for some arts and crafts after some pretty second-grade level arts-and-crafts who are ready to test the final stage of running a budget GPU with no with no heatsink on now as you can see the funnel doesn't taper as as aggressively as the as the other funnel did and you know we have a bigger we've got a bigger outlet so hopefully the error isn't just gonna spill back out and the fan isn't gonna get all confused hopefully we're just gonna have a more directed airflow on the graphics card and then something else that I did was I left all the windows open last night and as you can see the temperature in the room is quite low so hopefully that helps us get you know less throttling while gaming and here's the actual core frequency that we're running out which is a little bit higher than the previous configuration but honestly that could very much be down to to the lower ambient temperature with that it brings me to the end of one of the more pointless videos I've ever done on the channel but now we know that if you're using the GT 710 for its intended use case which is pretty much just outputting a video signal to a monitor then you can run it without a heatsink on that's what I'm doing right here there's barely any extra airflow over the salmonela GT 710 it really is a very resilient little beast you can set it free in the Sahara Desert for months at end with very little water and no additional cooling and it will keep on outputting ten video signals with that if you enjoyed this video like and subscribe to the channel for more pointless videos like this one follow me on Twitch where I stream on Saturdays it's actually going to be later today on Instagram Twitter discord read it and yeah until the next video thank you for watchingso I got a pretty stupid video today but I think it's gonna be fairly entertaining now I've been doing a lot of content on the hilarious GT 710 lately and every time I interact with it I can't help but think considering how tiny its heatsink is and what kind of amazing temperatures we get with said tiny heatsink this graphics card should be able to run without that heatsink so today we're gonna answer the very pointless question of Canada T 710 perform naked now this is obviously a really stupid idea and no one should do this at home but I really think the GT 710 is low-power enough to be able to run without a heatsink on now the first step is obviously to remove the unsatisfying ly tiny heatsink to reveal one of the most majestic GPU dyes I've ever seen it really is it really is minut now one thing that I would say is that that is a good sign because you know there's so little power under the hood that it should work with no heatsink on another thing that's quite promising is if you look at the base of this loser heatsink you'll see that it only makes contact with the GPU so we don't have to worry too much about the other components on the PCB overheating I feel like at this point this graphics card is regretting ever being born and being sent to my house because I don't know what it did to me but I just really want to destroy it you know but anyway this is the configuration that we're going with so we've got this little Delta fan here which comes from an HP workstation that fan pushes a lot of air through it it's very loud and it's very powerful and then we've got just an NZXT case fan that's gonna blow air into that now the actual ambient temperature isn't as super low as it as it has been for the last couple of days we're sitting at about 17.5 degrees that's not ideal I would like it to be colder in here which seems to baffle people but with that let's actually try and turn it on and see if it even allows us to start it up like I can't imagine this is gonna go in both Oh things have gone wrong immediately that was 100% the most terrifying thing that's ever happened to me that fan is so powerful if it's not held up it blows itself over so I'm gonna have to attach it to the graphics card of it now this is definitely a very ghetto solution but I've just got a little bit of wire that's wrapped around the back PCB let's see if it works this time okay we're good we're good for the time okay there we go it's not falling over that's the best thing for the fan to be doing well I mean we're in Windows look at that you can actually see the GPU die while we're outputting to Windows okay so it's hit 95 and now it's starting to throttle quite aggressively yeah as you can see we're at 666 megahertz and we're still hitting 95 degrees C you know it's still running like that's fairly impressive now this may be exceptionally stupid but it actually kind of works I mean the benchmark is running we're not getting particularly good results at all but this graphics card is actually working without a heatsink on it I mean we're sitting at 95 degrees Celsius which host which is not an ideal temperature to be gaming at and we're under talking quite significantly so at stock the graphics card runs at about 940 megahertz on the core whereas here we're sitting at 700 and something you know we're jumping around and in below 700 megahertz still though I wasn't expecting it to be able to operate like this at all I'm gonna try and get even better temperatures from the GPU so we need more airflow it seems like my terrible idea is actually kind of working so what I'm gonna do is refine the process now I want to direct all of the air from that powerful Delta fan onto the tiny GPU die and I think the best way to do that is to well sellotape a funnel to the fan I have no idea if this is gonna work this feels really stupid but one thing that that gives me a little bit of confidence is the fact that the fan lines up almost perfectly with the funnel and that's definitely a sign that this is a great idea I don't think this is working because honestly it feels like most of the air is just being shot out the back so I actually think it's throttling more heavily than it was before I mean we're hitting 400 megahertz on the core there but it jumps back up to 600 every now and then but it's it's really throttling to save its own life here as you can see it is exceptionally stuttering the biggest problem with the plastic funnel is that it's very restrictive that holds really tiny so it means that the fan can't get all the air through it and then there's like a backsplash and stuff like that so I need to make a better funnel basically so I think it's time for some arts and crafts after some pretty second-grade level arts-and-crafts who are ready to test the final stage of running a budget GPU with no with no heatsink on now as you can see the funnel doesn't taper as as aggressively as the as the other funnel did and you know we have a bigger we've got a bigger outlet so hopefully the error isn't just gonna spill back out and the fan isn't gonna get all confused hopefully we're just gonna have a more directed airflow on the graphics card and then something else that I did was I left all the windows open last night and as you can see the temperature in the room is quite low so hopefully that helps us get you know less throttling while gaming and here's the actual core frequency that we're running out which is a little bit higher than the previous configuration but honestly that could very much be down to to the lower ambient temperature with that it brings me to the end of one of the more pointless videos I've ever done on the channel but now we know that if you're using the GT 710 for its intended use case which is pretty much just outputting a video signal to a monitor then you can run it without a heatsink on that's what I'm doing right here there's barely any extra airflow over the salmonela GT 710 it really is a very resilient little beast you can set it free in the Sahara Desert for months at end with very little water and no additional cooling and it will keep on outputting ten video signals with that if you enjoyed this video like and subscribe to the channel for more pointless videos like this one follow me on Twitch where I stream on Saturdays it's actually going to be later today on Instagram Twitter discord read it and yeah until the next video thank you for watching