MSI Announces GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming Golden Edition

btarunr · Oct 1, 2015

MSI announced the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming Golden Edition, a special variant of the GTX 980 Ti Gaming graphics card with a copper heatsink, gold-colored panels, and higher clock-speeds. This limited edition card offers out of the box clock speeds of 1190 MHz core, 1291 MHz GPU Boost, and 7096 MHz (GDDR5-effective) memory, compared to 1178/1279/7010 MHz on the standard red and black GTX 980 Ti Gaming card.

The main distinguishing feature of the Golden Edition card is its copper-fin heatsink, with exposed copper heat-pipes, compared to the aluminium fin heatsink with nickel-plated heat pipes on the standard GTX 980 Ti Gaming card. This lends the card a lot of weight, at 1,338 g compared to 1,068 g of the standard card; but also better heat dissipation. Complementing this, you have copper heat pipes with a gold-like finish, and gold colored accents on the panels (cooler shroud and back-plate). MSI didn't announce pricing or availability.

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P4-630 · Oct 1, 2015

I always thought that aluminium fins cool down faster than a copper heatsink

NutZInTheHead · Oct 1, 2015

Copper Edition would have been much better. Since when did copper become gold

Basard · Oct 1, 2015

NutZInTheHead said:
Copper Edition would have been much better. Since when did copper become gold

"Gold-like".... lol...

Nokiron · Oct 1, 2015

It should be worse heat dissipation compared to the standard version, but a lot better heat absorption.

PLAfiller · Oct 1, 2015

Pure coppa awesomeness clocking in at 1,3 KG....gotta love that shine. It will tarnish over time though.

savumi · Oct 1, 2015

Why not Rose Gold Edition

LAN_deRf_HA · Oct 1, 2015

Historically their copper editions have cooled exactly as well as the standard aluminum ones. Too bad they can't offer anything exciting with it like that old GTX 465 that unlocked to a 470.

julizs · Oct 1, 2015

That twin frozr cooler just comes at its limit with the 980ti, as you can see in several reviews.

If they wanted to make a really good version, they should just slap the big heatsink of their 390 on the 980ti and call it a day.

yun4l · Oct 1, 2015

Basard said:
"Gold-like".... lol...

"god like" ?

mickel116 · Oct 1, 2015

LAN_deRf_HA said:
Historically their copper editions have cooled exactly as well as the standard aluminum ones. Too bad they can't offer anything exciting with it like that old GTX 465 that unlocked to a 470.

oh man. how i loved my golden GTX 465, unlocked. and the whole cooper heat sink was out in the open, beautiful. but this one is just hidden underneath. what a shame..

L.ccd · Oct 1, 2015

julizs said:
That twin frozr cooler just comes at its limit with the 980ti, as you can see in several reviews.

If they wanted to make a really good version, they should just slap the big heatsink of their 390 on the 980ti and call it a day.

I was thinking just the same. Now that would have been an improvement over their existing 980 ti with TF cooler.

TheDeeGee · Oct 1, 2015

So much gold on the PCI-E and SLI Fingers!

But that's about it Gold wise...

peche · Oct 1, 2015

msi being msi .....

Basard · Oct 1, 2015

Gold plated might be worth it!

GhostRyder · Oct 1, 2015

Eh, its a cool looking card but it almost seems a bit unnecessary considering their lineup. But I do welcome color changes as I would like more card companies to have many different choices in colors.

natr0n · Oct 1, 2015

They have to come up with ways to clear out the 980ti chips.

I wouldn't mind having that card.

Ikaruga · Oct 1, 2015

I would really love to know how much a card like this cost for them (designers, artist, marketing, factory, so the full production cost) and how many they will actually sell. Seriously, how many "GTX 980 Ti Gaming Golden Edition" will they sell worldwide? 10-15k or 50K?

FreedomEclipse · Oct 1, 2015

that is all.

pat-roner · Oct 1, 2015

Limited to how many they can sell?

xChoice · Oct 1, 2015

zotac card!.... oh no look its an msi :O

( rose edition looks good

)

savumi · Oct 2, 2015

xChoice said:
zotac card!.... oh no look its an msi :O

( rose edition looks good )

hehe

Batou1986 · Oct 2, 2015

Regular heatsink plated with .001mm of copper
Call it something special
Idiots will buy it up and talk about its superior cooling

:clap:

MSI

Arjai · Oct 2, 2015

Does it cost more for bent fins?

rtwjunkie · Oct 2, 2015

TheDeeGee said:
So much gold on the PCI-E and SLI Fingers!

But that's about it Gold wise...

Well at least the backplate has a golden dragon! :laugh:

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