On account of the truth that each circumstances use the identical followers, and have very related designs, the CPU temps had been additionally extraordinarily shut and properly inside the margin of error for the check. Nonetheless the GPU exams confirmed a unique story.
On the Pop Air Mini, the just about three slot cooler on the GTX 1080 Ti utilized in testing had little or no area between its consumption followers and the PSU cowl. On the full fan pace of 1300 rpm, the Pop Air and Mini Air’s GPU temps had been very shut, however as soon as the fan speeds had been lowered to 1000 rpm, the Mini Air actually suffered, with GPU temps rising from a delta of 43.5 C as much as 51.5 C. This elevated the GPU temperature distinction between the 2 enclosures from 1.5 levels C at 1300 rpm, to a full 4 levels C at 1000 rpm.
Whereas this nonetheless wasn’t horrible because the max temps total had been nonetheless properly beneath thermal max, it does present that with a beefier GPU cooler design, the Pop Air Mini does limit move to the GPU considerably. As talked about, that is an virtually three slot cooler design, with the fan pace locked at 1200 rpm, so in an actual world use case, I doubt it create an issue for many customers.
