Wednesday, November 13th 2013
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MSI Announces its Radeon R9 270 Gaming Graphics Card
MSI announced the Radeon R9 270 Gaming graphics card, which features a full-fledged TwinFrozr IV cooling solution, and factory-overclocked speeds of 900 to 975 MHz core clock range, and 5.60 GHz memory. The PCB appears to draw power from a pair of 6-pin PCIe connectors. Based on the 28 nm "Curacao" silicon, the Radeon R9 270 features 1,280 stream processors 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory.
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EDIT - Mines the 270X not 270....doh
Just get a 270X Hawk! They are awesome!
I know the 760 HAWK I reviewed has what I said above... and so does the 280x gaming I reviewed...both TF4 coolers.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/4.html 1 fatty, 4 thinies?
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_780_TF_Gaming/4.html - 2 fatties, 3 thinnies.
So they do differ...whether they would use different ones on the same chip (e.g, 280x gaming/hawk), I couldn't say.
I may have misunderstood what you were meaning, so those links could be irrelevant. XD Who knows.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_770_TF_Gaming/4.html - 1 fat pipe, 4 thin.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_770_Lightning/images/cooler2.jpg - looks like 2 fat ones, 3 thin ones? Although, the fat ones don't look as fat as the 770 gaming? That is a Lightning, not a Hawk...but it looks like it can differ?
If something is designed to be super-overclocked/have a very high factory-oc, I'd expect in some cases a beefed up cooler might be used to accommodate, depending on where the temperatures are with a particular chip/card.
Edit: I didn't actually realise that the lightning cooler is 3cm longer than the regular Gaming TF4 cooler, so not a fair comparison. So basically...I think we've concluded that I have no clue.