Tuesday, May 25th 2010
MSI Readies Twin Frozr II Based GeForce GTX 400 Series Graphics Cards
MSI is readying three new non-reference design graphics cards based on the entire series of GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs, including the upcoming GeForce GTX 465. The new cards will make use of the company's tried and tested Twin-Frozr II GPU cooler to keep the scorching GF100 GPU running. Unlike Twin Frozr II coolers used on ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs, which have bases with heat pipes making direct contact with the GPU, in its GF100 implementation, the cooler will have large copper bases to quickly transfer heat from the GPU to the cooler. Perhaps MSI's mention of "high density" could also indicate that it would have more aluminum fins. The 8 mm thick heat pipes, which MSI refers to as SuperPipes, stay on. The SKUs will likely be called the MSI N480/N470/N465 Twin Frozr II, for models with the GeForce GTX 480, GTX 470, and GTX 465, respectively.
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10 Comments on MSI Readies Twin Frozr II Based GeForce GTX 400 Series Graphics Cards
It uses 8mm heat pipes, aka Superpipes (in MSI lingo).
Twin Frozr has never been as good as say the Vapor-X series and the one used on 5850/5870 struggles to keep up with overclocked loads... lets see what a Fermi does to it
dunno why this cooler can't compete with other heatpipe-based coolers like, say xigmatek battle axe.
I prefer the old looking twinfrozr like this:
I think it is the fans which limits the cooler. The cooler is great, but the fans is not so good and too loud for a custom cooler.
I had Palit HD4870 sonic with dual fans setups (8cm and 9cm fans) like twinfrozr but with less heatpipe (3 heatpipe, more like MSI's GTS250 twinfrozr),and it sounds loud beyond 70%.
and yes, I also had 6cm fans which move air a lot, and produce noise a lot too :D
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