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now Corsair didn't invent the business model of starting out Hawking RAM sticks

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with shiny heat spreaders on them and then expanding into other product

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categories but what they've certainly done is made an art form out of doing it

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well so while Corsair isn't the first of the companies that made Enthusiast PC

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memory to try to enter the graphics card space the recently bankrupt and acquired

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by tashiba ocz claims that dubious honor

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maybe just maybe they'll be the first one to do it successfully because

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against the odds that's what we have here today the hydro gfx

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gtx980ti a collaborative project between Corsair and MSI to make an all-in-one

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water cooled video card let's find out how it

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having originally been released nearly 6 months ago the gtx980ti is a bit of a

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known quantity at this point so I'm not going to spend too much time on the

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technology but it is worth reiterating that it's a nearly full fat gm200

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Maxwell chip so the same underlying Tech as the Titan X but with a few Kuda cores

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and texture units missing and a mere 6 gigs of gddr5 memory instead of 12 it's

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got a 250 wat TDP and the reference card is clocked at 1,000 MHz base 1075 MHz

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boost with the RAM at 7 GHz regardless

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of what GPU Boost 2.0 is doing to balance The Thermals power consumption

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and core clock speeds and that right there is where Corsair figures their

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value at as something of a PC cooling specialist comes in cooler running

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computer hardware has always been preferable but while in the old days you

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had to manually turn the speeds or overclock your components to take

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advantage of any additional performance Headroom Kepler and Maxwell architecture

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Invidia cards are able to leverage it intelligently on the Fly allowing a

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cooler card to effectively be running at a higher speed more of the time so

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Corsair started then by replacing the reference cards cooler though if you

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ignore the illuminated NSI logo instead of an NVIDIA logo and the braided tube

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sticking out at the top of it I forgive you for not really feeling like they

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changed a whole lot the shape is pretty

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much the same but the metal housing is gone replaced unfortunately by a plastic

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one and the window that used to show aluminum heat sink fins now shows the

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GPU block and pump unit that makes up the all-in-one cooler as well as a large

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metal heat spreader that combined with the rear exhaust blower Fen that hasn't

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been removed from the original design keeps the memory and power delivery

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component cool at the back Corsair has

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added a back plate that thankfully features only a subtle overclocking

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emblem instead of the mish mash of logos on the front and side of the card that

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is probably the result of countless emails between Corsair and MSI product

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management teams back to the rest of the physical tour cooling of the GPU itself

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is handled by a Corsair h55 all-in-one liquid cooling unit with a slim 120 mm

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radiator and one of Corsair's regret L still round frame but thankfully cool

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looking white LED fans overall I'd give

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corser and MSI a B for the coherency of this product looking at it it's not

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really clear who makes it and compared to AMD's Fury X which Powers the fan and

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the pump off the card directly rather than requiring the end user to plug the

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fan into a header on the motherboard or to gigabytes water force 980ti that was

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just announced that uses a non-reference PCB for the card itself

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it feels like while Corsair didn't skimp

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on quality this is a fairly tentative

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let's see how this goes foray into making graphics cards but all of that is

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just judging a book by its cover something I would never recommend doing

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as a computer Enthusiast since good things can sometimes come in very

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unusual packages so let's talk about how

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then we tested the hydro gfx first we

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did away with the open air test bench and installed our x99 Deluxe core I 759

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30k 32 gigs of Vengeance lpx memory and

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ax1200i power supply in a cooler master

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master case 5 Pro case next we had to

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decide what cards this monstrosity really competes with Corsair's marketing

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materials only really compare against a referenced 980 TI and then they apply a

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safe but definitely significant overclock only to their own so while we

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included all of those numbers to make things more interesting we also threw in

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a G1 gaming 980 Ti from Gigabyte with their windforce triple fan cooler and an

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AMD Fury X since it's the only other all-in-one liquid cooled card that we

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have on hand let's start with performance thanks to its aggressive

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outof thebox advertised boost clock of nearly 1300 mahz this is a clear win for

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the hydr gfx across the board although it should be noted that its margin of

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Victory is not as much as you might think it would be and for good reason

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while the hydro gfx and the fury X posted by far the best thermal results

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like we didn't see that one coming not to mention that underload they're

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noticeably quieter than the air cooled cards in a well ventilated case like the

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master case 5 both the hydro Fury and

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gigabytes open air triple fan cooler design were able to achieve well over

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their advertised boost clocks in our test and ended up a near 13 mehz apart

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in our Crisis 3 Skybox thermal and power

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test and there's even more to this story yet GPU temps are one thing but we also

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wanted to see how the Open Air Design would affect the temperatures of the

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rest of the system and grabbed CPU temps and motherboard power delivery temps

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while running our load test with each of the cards and the G1 gaming though

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actually not as much as I expected shows

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in this case the tradeoff that gets made when you opt for an open air cooled

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design versus one that either through rear exhaust directly or with the use of

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a radiator expels heat directly out of

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the case which I guess leads us to the

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conclusion if life were as simple as just buy the best thing with money as a

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complete non-issue then I would be able to recommend the Corsair Hydro gfx

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without any hesitation but life isn't that simple and at a price of

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$120 more than the cheapest reference card on new EG and $70 more than a

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higher tier air cooled card like the G1

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gaming from Gigabyte it does become a bit harder to justify so I'll pose the

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question to you then the audience are you willing to spend a bit more and deal

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with the bulkiness of an AIO cooler attached to your video card in exchange

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for Corsair's legendary support better performance and better thermals for your

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card and your other components or is the

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tax too high let us know Down Below in

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