Gigabyte Announces GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce Tri-SLI

[btarunr]

Gigabyte announced the GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce Tri-SLI (model: GV-N980X3WA-4GD), arguably the highest pixel-crunching power that ever came out of a single box. This contraption is a trio of GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards, with a factory-fitted liquid cooling loop, which sits outside your case. Each of the three cards features a factory-overclocked GTX 980 chip featuring 1228 MHz core, 1329 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz memory; with a liquid-cooling pump-block over the GPU, and a base-plate that conveys heat from the memory and VRM to that block, using heat-pipes.

Coolant tubes from the three cards meet at the external unit, that has an independent 120 x 120 mm radiator for each of the three cards. Fan-speeds and coolant pressure of each of the three loops can be controlled at the unit's front-panel, which features an LCD display with coolant temperature and fan-speed readouts. Also part of the kit, are a custom 3-way SLI bridge, a reinforcement beam that counteracts PCB bending, a 5.25-inch front-panel bezel, from which the coolant tubes make their way out of the case, and to the external unit, and some tubing managment grommets. Gigabyte didn't announce pricing or availability.



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[Batou1986]

That looks a lot like a bunch of cheap LC's shoved into some fancy plastic.

 

[segalaw19800]

that will bankrupt me

 

[natr0n]

My guess $2500

 

[techy1]

wow - that is one ugly looking and huge thing... and even the cards are still 2-slotters - so what is the benefit of this thing? I mean - even if it was for free and came as a bonus to gaming system - I would spend my own time/cash to get rid of that thing right away!

 

[Ciric]

Why am I thinking alienware when looking at that, lol

 

[Toothless]

A block of cooling things attached to three graphics thingys... Looks weird but I wonder how the benchies are.

 

[荷兰大母猪]

Power of gigabyte faith lol

 

[bogami]

what a plastic piece of crap ! Not worth the computer and far too expensive !

 

[silapakorn]

3 cards = 3 loops.
Genius.

 

[Phobia9651]

From an aesthetics point of view it would have made much more sense to just develop a complete case for this, instead of some wonky looking 'extension'. Cause now it is a case on top of a case, with tubes routing through the front.
Though I can appreciate the boldness of the concept.

 

[sgtspiff]

My god. Why?

Large, plastic, ugly. Just can't see why anyone would use this.

 

[Capitan Harlock]

I hope they sell a single card version too or is useless if you dont need 3 way sli

 

[INSTG8R]

Reminds me of my the Asetek external unit I used to run on my Opty 170/X1900 Crossfire rig

 

[buggalugs]

Ohhhhh No, I don't like it at all. If you had that kind of money to spend, You'd be much better off getting a proper loop with better performance and keeping it neat and tidy.

 

[ensabrenoir]

........have you people no imagination? Yeah its ugly , plastic and expensive...... but........but...... if someone was building an Alien themed face hugger type rig..... this thing would rock! Still nice to see someone thinking outside of hemisphere ......

 

[robert3892]

I might buy it...when I win the lottery

 

[Exceededgoku]

I don't need to win the lottery to buy this, but it looks damn good!

Designed for those that haven't got the time to build a custom loop themselves!

 

[Aquinus]

If I were to do something like that, I sure as heck wouldn't do it that way. Although I could be convinced that a dedicated radiator box wouldn't be a bad idea but with real liquid cooling components, not 3 separate AIO units.

 

[ArchStupid]

The plastic looks cheap, especially those tubes.
REALLY cheap...

 

[GhostRyder]

Its such a weird concept even when it was on the previous set of cards that honestly I am not sure who this is aimed at. I mean its obviously going to be more than $1600 dollars (Probably closer to $2200+) and for that money I feel it could be done a better way by just setting up your own custom system. I can see they are marketing this as a way to be quiet and have the ultimate system without much fuss but I feel that the people who would want this or would have the setup already for this would rather do something on their own.

I also am disappointed by the stock overclocks for this. I expected much higher than what they put for this type of machine...

 

[ZoneDymo]

sooo its 3 120mm radiators?.... well shit might as well place that shit inside the case, many can take that and it will look much nicer.

 

[adulaamin]

fugly...

 

[micropage7]

first i think its dual big radiators , when i see it just duh
if you have big case you can put 3 rads internally than solution like this

 

[Fuzzy112]

How in the heck do you install them? If the loops are closed AIO loops I don't see any way to install the cards other than trying to shove the card or the radiator thru the 5.25 bays