Monday, September 1st 2014
MSI TwinFrozr V Cooling Solution Teased
MSI teased the first CGI sketches of its next-generation TwinFrozr V cooling solution, designed for high-end GPUs, under its Gaming Series. A prototype of the cooler made its first appearance at Computex 2014, in June. The cooler features a large dual-stack aluminium fin heatsink to which heat drawn from the GPU is fed by five 8 mm thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes. The fin-stack is ventilated by a pair of what's now appearing to be two 100 mm fans. MSI is rumored to be innovating a new impeller design that steps up air-flow to noise ratio.
It's interesting to note that in its CGI render of a card equipped with this cooler, MSI showed a PCB with two NVIDIA SLI bridge fingers, and two 6-pin PCIe power inputs. Could this be the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, in effect making the card the MSI GTX 980 Gaming OC? Wait until the 19th of September to find out. GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 are NVIDIA's next high-end GPUs, based on the 28 nm "GM204" silicon, derived from the company's new "Maxwell" architecture.
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It's interesting to note that in its CGI render of a card equipped with this cooler, MSI showed a PCB with two NVIDIA SLI bridge fingers, and two 6-pin PCIe power inputs. Could this be the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, in effect making the card the MSI GTX 980 Gaming OC? Wait until the 19th of September to find out. GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 are NVIDIA's next high-end GPUs, based on the 28 nm "GM204" silicon, derived from the company's new "Maxwell" architecture.
19 Comments on MSI TwinFrozr V Cooling Solution Teased
However, GTX9xx is of little to no interest to me at this point.
I'd be happy if it drove down the prices on used 7xx's, though, or even if the (anticipated) rebranding of the 7's into 8xx's come in at a reasonable price... maybe they will even feature this type of cooler, which will be nice.
120hz.net/showthread.php?1507-Crysis-3&s=20cd2ad7eec096450b2c5b47eeccc994&p=21414&viewfull=1#post21414
oh MSI..
www.adrenaline.com.br/files/upload/reviews/2012/asus_geforce_gtx_660ti_directcu_ii_top/asus_gtx_660ti_directcu_ii_20.jpg
Very cool (no pun intended)!
As far as the discussion of the performance and the new GTX 980, if it does use 2 6 pin instead that could be very interesting as it states its power draw is very low. However personally I would rather have at least 1 8 pin and the 6 pin for the overclocking prowess and to give it any edge possible even if the difference would be minuscule. However for all we know this was just a quick made CGI rendering and they purposely did that or not even based on the GTX 980, we will just have to wait and see.
i just mean if they feel the need for this because of the new cards, compared to how the current cooling handles todays cores, it does not bode well.
MSI gaming series cards have been selling pretty well because at the end of the day the color of the paint slapped on the shroud or the 3% performance increase matters little in comparison to noise that you hear every time you put some load on the card. Check out Gaming series 280X or GTX770 reviews here on tpu, they are exceptionally quiet cards, and that's what people pay for.
my 290x gamer is far from quiet and i picked as it is red and matches my ram.
i aint sure what world some people live in, but i wish it was the case where big corps would spend money they didn't need to on improving things like load temps or noise envelopes so the end user was happy.
i so want to live in that world.
i mean going from history what msi do when they want to sell cards is ship them out to reviewers with special sauce bios which has higher clocks and slower fans on cherry picked cores.
i didnt say it couldnt keep up, it keeps up with 780ti's just fine. it just makes more noise whilst it does xD
but it is still not great news if this new card needs even more cooling than this does. more so now the performance figures are leaking out and it is worse than this too.
im interested how if they tweak something and make it passive cooler in the future