Nvidia GeForce RTX 50: Cooler Master Showcases Custom Designs with Modular Fans 47 comments
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At CES in Las Vegas, Cooler Master is also surprisingly showing prototypes of its own graphics card heatsinks for Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 50 GPUs. However, functionally interesting and visually simple custom designs are not easy to purchase.
Custom Cooler Masters design is suitable for every fan
After Nvidia introduced the first four Blackwell gaming graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070, many well-known card partners showed off their custom designs at CES. Cooler Master’s surprisingly introduced heatsinks, which Overclock3D reported on, initially flew a bit under the radar. These are complete engineering samples for custom designs of the GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. To date, Cooler Master is mainly known as a manufacturer of air coolers, cases and power supplies for CPUs ; Graphics card heatsinks are now apparently new to the portfolio.
The particularity of the prototypes presented, each equipped with three axial fans, is the modular design of the fans themselves. The metal cover on the front can be moved to accommodate either the relatively narrow fans common with graphics cards, or wider designs, such as case or radiator fans. As a result, the heatsink goes from a custom 3-slot design to 4-slots – and reminiscent of Asus’ Noctua models. Speaking of which: Noctua NF-A12x25 or RGB fans from other vendors can also be installed on the Cooler Master graphics card; the manufacturer does not matter.
The heatsink can accommodate narrow or wider fans (Image: Overclock3D)
Apart from that, Overclock3D certifies that technical samples have high mechanical quality. The metal construction is very heavy and feels very precious. Visually, the simple design will also appeal to many players, especially considering the rather playful custom designs from the other board partners this time around, one thinks.
Custom design of a GeForce RTX 5090 from Cooler Master (Image: Overclock3D)
Only for PCs terminated by Cooler Masters
But there’s a problem: Cooler Master doesn’t want to freely sell its own custom design. Instead, the heatsinks are intended exclusively for finished Cooler Masters PCs with GeForce RTX 50. A release for self-builders is currently not planned. To what extent this might change later or with subsequent generations of GPUs remains an open question.
Topics: CES 2025 Cooler Master GeForce GeForce RTX 50 Nvidia Blackwell graphics cards Source: Overclock3D
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