The Natural Environment of the Acer Graphics Card: A Review of the System's Cooling Capabilities

The Acer graphics card is nestled in a pre-built system with a terrible airflow case design. The lack of ventilation on the front panel and the presence of only one small fan on the back are major concerns for heat dissipation. To mitigate these issues, I have installed a semi-obscure glass panel over the side of the case, which still allows for adequate airflow but restricts it to some extent.

As expected, the temperatures in the system are high, particularly on the graphics card. The GPU's temperature reaches 74°C after just a few seconds of use, indicating that the cooling system is not performing well. However, the CPU remains relatively cool, with a temperature of around 77°C, which suggests that the graphics card's impact on the CPU temperature is significant.

The Acer graphics card's performance in this setup is also noteworthy. The system runs at a high resolution of 1440p, which requires more power from the graphics card than a lower-resolution display would. This results in higher temperatures and increased noise levels, making it a challenging environment for cooling. Despite these challenges, the system remains relatively stable, with only minor fluctuations in temperature.

The use of an open-air cooler in this setup is also tested by leaning a glass panel over the side of the case to reduce airflow. However, even without significant restrictions on airflow, the temperatures in the system remain high. This suggests that the cooling capabilities of the Acer graphics card are compromised by its design and the ambient temperature of the room.

In contrast, a similar open-air cooler tested in an earlier video performed worse than expected, with temperatures reaching 85°C after just a few minutes of use. However, the Acer graphics card's performance in this setup is still impressive, particularly considering that it uses more power than the Asus GTX 1660ti graphics card used in the previous test.

The final verdict on the Acer graphics card's performance in this system is mixed. While its cooling capabilities are compromised by its design and ambient temperature, its ability to maintain stable temperatures despite these challenges is noteworthy. However, the price of the card, which is the most expensive 7600 available at $450 Canadian dollars, makes it difficult to justify in comparison to more affordable options like the XT variant.

It's worth noting that the use of a blower-style cooler on this system seems to be effective in reducing CPU temperatures, despite the high airflow case design. This suggests that Acer may have been able to optimize their cooling solutions for certain components, such as the CPU, even if they failed to do so for other components like the graphics card.

The overall performance of the Acer graphics card in this setup is adequate but noisy. While it's not the most efficient or effective solution, it's still capable of delivering good performance despite its design limitations. However, the price and cooling issues make it difficult to recommend as a top choice for anyone looking for a high-performance graphics card.

In conclusion, the Acer graphics card in this system is a mixed bag. While it performs well despite its cooling challenges, its price and noise levels make it less appealing than other options. However, its ability to maintain stable temperatures makes it a viable option for those who need good performance at 1440p resolutions.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enAcer. A company well known for making PCS that people own for max like a year and a half before throwing straight in a river. I guess that's not quite Fair. Some of their  monitors and laptops aren't terrible but anyway they've decided to dip their toes  into the world of graphics cards with this very interesting cooler design I guess they're  trying to overcome the hermetically sealed case designs they're known for. Let's see how it works out.Now when it comes to graphics card cooler designs the two most popular ones are blower  and open air coolers now a blower design like this one here works really well in low airflow  environments because you've got a single fan sucking in air and farting it out the back of  the enclosed shroud design it dumps most of its heat outside of the case they also have  a reputation for getting real noisy whereas open a designs provide a lot of potential  cooling with all their fans and space for air to move around but if they're in a low air  flow environment they're just going to dump all the heat into the case and all of your  components are going to catch on fire now Acer decided to combine both these cooler designs  I'm guessing with the intention of getting the benefits of both designs but from what  I'm seeing here it looks more like we're going to get the downsides of both designs but again  we'll see how it turns out uh this is quite nice packaging you've got this sleeve and then a very  fancy box that like pops open like that and there it is wo that is a pretty cool lookingGPU and there is our Acer GPU in all its Glory here's our coax fan which is very common on  Modern GPU designs and then down here we've got our blower fan which I'm guessing is here  for the sole purpose of adding that distinct howl now the reason that I don't think this  is a particularly good idea is that because of what's Happening Here with the coax design the  open air shroud and what's going on on the back here you're still going to be dumping  a bunch of heat into your case you just also have a loud blower fan on here but again I'm  sure the engineers at Acer are way smarter than I am so maybe this works out very excited to test  it that's actually a metal back plate with a bunch of predator on the back so you can fantasize about  being Arnold SWAT and Egger covered in mud in a jungle there is this kind of frosted plastic on  the cooler shroud which I quite like the way it looks I mean generally I think this is a pretty  cool looking graphics card and this is an RX 7600 which isn't a super high TDP GPU so just going by  the size of it even if the design isn't very good I think the temperatures are going to be fine and  then in terms of IO it's just a modern graphics scard but with that I'm going to go test it now  but you get to see into the future where we take the cooler off and have a closer look at  its internal design okay well it's finally time to tear down our Hannah Montana graphics card  the best of so you just lift that off and then there are a couple more screws hiding underneathhere he so many connectors three yay we've got like a copper contact plate which not only touches  the GPU but also the memory and then there's a lot of thermal pad making contact with the  power delivery there are four mediumsized heat pipes I'd call those it is quite a hefty cooler  uh and considering that this is just a 7600 I'm sure temperatures are going to be fine but we'll  see we'll see in a bit W that's 7600 die has a surprising amount of chrome bling on it uh next  to that we've got our 8 gigs of video memory and a power delivery that's not a complete Abomination  I mean for the price you'd kind of hope that it's not completely barebones but we'll talk about thatlater now starting with Battlefield 5 at 1080p ultra settings you can see that temperature-  wise the problem seems to be the CPU more than the graphics card uh but I'm going to run it for  a while and see how how hot the graphics card gets and after half an hour in a quick crash  we finally got our temperature result so this is after quite a while of gaming granted there was  like a crash in the middle of it uh but this is about where the temperature is topped out  uh the CPU has stabilized quite a bit so that's good and uh the GPU is really not running very  poorly in terms of temperatures and it's drawing a decent amount of power as well so I do owe Acer  an apology it seems because the cooler is doing fine now cyber Punk a game that doesn't have the  same inappropriate adult feelings for AMD graphics cards as Battlefield 5 does at high settings is  running very well on this 7600 uh temperatures are good we're getting a lot of frame rate it  feels great like this is this is a good gaming experience wait did it just it just crashed again  didn't it cyber Punk crashed a lot especially the built in Benchmark a bit I could only get it to  finish once out of like eight tries other games like The Last of Us seemed more stable but there  was definitely something weird going on with this system so I decided to take the graphics card and  drop it in my open air test bed but cyber Punk still kept crashing so it seems like Acer has  continued their trend of injecting Elma into all of their products even in their graphics cards  very exciting Al my realization aside I decided to drop an RTX 3060 in this system because it's  currently the most popular graphics card in the world to see how these two gpus compared now I've  been playing Battlefield 5 for a while now and interestingly the RTX 3060 seems to be drawing a  very similar amount of power while gaming and it's got a normal open air cooler temperature-wise it  seems to be doing a little bit better but the ambient temperature has dropped by about that  amount so yeah very similar temperatures between the two cars which isn't impressive by any means  cuz this is one of the most basic coolers you get on a 3060 frame rate wise the 7600 is a  decent step up over the 360 in Battlefield 5 but again as we mentioned before Battlefield 5 is a  real thing for AMD graphics cards interestingly in cyberpunk there's if anything a bigger Delta  in frame rate between the two gpus than there was in Battlefield 5 which is kind of weird because  that's not usually the case for this game aside from the whole constant crashing things cyberpunk  feels quite a bit better on the 7600 and the trend continues with the last of us I mean you  would really hope that the 7600 is faster than the 360 cuz it's got like an entire generation  on that card but yeah it feels quite a bit better in these more demanding games so with that it's  time to test these graphics cards in the natural environment of the Acer graphics card a terrible  airflow case and what better way to asfixiate a graphics card than drop it in a pre-build now I  did initially want to drop it in an Acer loser Nitro suckface Edition but I can't find mine so  I guess this Aces prebuilt will have to do this system does have all the Hallmarks of pre-built  dim we've got a complete lack of ventilation on the front it does have a teeny bit of ventilation  on the side but I am going to like semi-obscure it just to get a worst case scenario I guess  but aside from that there's nothing on the top and the only case fan is this tiny little thing on the  back so let's see if Acer's Hy hbd cooler design Works any better in here than a normal Open AirDesign oh what a beauty now you can see that Asus seems to think a blower style cooler is  the best for this case design which makes sense it's not a very high airflow case design uh but  let's drop the Acer card in here and see what kind of thermals we get before comparing it to that360 and what I've also done here which may be kind of Overkill but I've leaned this glass  panel over the side of this ventilation it's still open air can still get in there but it  is going to restricted just a little bit so that we get just proper proper asphixiation  going on but after starting up the system which sounds like firing up a motorbike from the ' 7s  the temperature started off aggressively while it's just been a couple of seconds in the GPU  murder matron and we're already close to the temperatures we were seeing at load on the  open test bed obviously it's going to run hotter here but how much hotter now I've bumped it up to  1440p because we have a much slower CPU in here I think it's got an 11400 f in it and I want the GPU  to be utilized fully so there you go 1440p and you can see it was a good call considering that  the CPU is struggling even with this now I'm also curious how much the graphics cards impacting the  CPU temperature so we got to keep an eye on that as well okay so it's been a reasonably long time  and that isn't going very poorly considering the the this the situation 74° C on the graphics card  it's very noisy but the temperature is good and then CPU wise we've got 77 is De C and after half  an hour with the RTX 360 in there we got some interesting results the open air cooler after  ages is running at a higher temperature uh which checks out it was also running hotter on the open  air test bed uh but it hasn't really impacted our CPU temperature much it's still in the sameregion which got me thinking how much would that temperature drop with the stock blower GTX 1660ti  that came in this system a graphics card that uses quite a bit less power we're getting very  similar CPU temperatures and all that Heat's also being dumped out of the back of the case so it  seems like in this case even the the open a style 360 wasn't having much of an impact on the CPUtemperatures so at the end of the day Acer's graphics card doesn't seem too terrible until  you take the price in into account I paid $450 Canadian dollar for it making it the  most expensive 7600 I could find you can get the XT for that for a card I can best describe  as adequate but noisy but I guess they've got to pay elma's royalty somehow which  brings me to the end of the video thank you very much for watching subscribe to  the channel if you enjoyed the video maybe watch another one and until the next videobye-bye