do you cringe because every time you fire up a heavy game you're greeted with
the line of your blower fan spinning up to max blowiematron on your graphics
card disgusting well one solution is water
cooling but that's expensive and time-consuming and not everybody is
comfortable filling their electronics up with water let's face it we can't all be
complete mad lads oh who's the idiot now fortunately
ragin tech has the solution for you this
is the morpheus 8057 a huge GPU air
cooler that apparently fits both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards and we are going
to give this puppy a shot to see if it's a sizable upgrade
over your stock cooler and also if it could be a simpler more cost effective
solution than water cooling you know what else is cost effective
telling you about our sponsor glassware with glasswire you can instantly see
your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving
apps on your pc or Android device use offer code Linus and get 25 off
glassware at the link in the video description
the basic concept here of strapping a giant cooler to your graphics card is
nothing new last year we put a tower CPU
cooler onto an rtx 2080 ti with great results
that is as long as you don't want to install any expansion cards and
purpose-built products for this have existed for over a decade
so what's so special about this then
when it comes to performance honestly speaking
probably not much in fact region tech appears to have reused photographs of
one of their previous GPU coolers on the 8057 product page but that's not
necessarily a bad thing compared to the relatively i don't know
whatever the relatively small cooling elements that are included on many
graphics cards i'm expecting a reduction in noise and
an improvement in performance out of this thing
so really then the new model number comes
down to compatibility rather than being stuck fabricating your
own mounting hardware the morpheus 8057 includes everything that you will need
to mount to either a reference pcb card
from NVIDIA or from AMD
certainly looks pretty nice highlights of the product include the 12 heat pipes
so you can see these six over on this side wrap around right
there and they terminate right here and then these six over here carry over this
way so really each half of this is kind of cooled by
half of these heatsink fins it's got a nice black finish on it
definitely a fan of that and it's rated for a total of
360 watts of heat dissipation of course it can have wonderful specs and be very
beautiful but none of that matters if the performance sucks so let's go ahead
and investigate that step one is to install the appropriate bracket the
arrows need to point towards these curved heat pipes in the back step
number two after you've determined where the holes line up you're gonna go ahead
and install these standoffs into the bottom of the cooler one of my little
tricks is that i actually like to do a dry wipe of chips before i do a wet wipe
with alcohol it can help pull off the majority of the thermal goop before you
start just spreading it around holy bananas this is a lot of thermal
interface junk to okay
wow to raging tax credit they've done you the courtesy of putting little tabby
tabs on one side of some of these so it's a little bit easier to get the
things off but this is going to be pretty tedious ladies and gentlemen here
we go good luck everybody i have my doubts about this one of the
other little tricks that i've learned over the years is to
basically never ever trust a double-sided thermal tape if you were
actually going to deploy this for long-term use i would strongly recommend
investing the 13 or whatever it is in a high quality
thermal epoxy like the one made by tech ingredients
another youtuber
really okay
all right let's do the d where the heck does d go this is not a
great diagram i believe d goes on the two large chips directly to the left of
the man you've got to be kidding me that's a memory heatsink doesn't that
just drive you crazy like as an engineering background at this point do
you think this is harder or easier than water cooling oh
you're gonna make me answer that are you uh i think that this is
similar in difficulty compared to installing a GPU water block
but you don't have to deal with the added complexity of all the other
aspects of custom water cooling it's a good question though a valuable one for
our viewers to have the answer to hard-hitting tech journalism right here
folks here's a hard-hitting tech journalism question
copper is a lot heavier than aluminum and we're using the same crappy adhesive
that i think is barely holding on the aluminum how long will this stay here
you know what's really mind-blowing to me about this is that this isn't the
only heat sink that doesn't fit at all the copper one doesn't go all the way to
the end of this bank of modules and this aluminum
one is completely different from that other one it's double the width and the
fins run the opposite way and it's like twice as long as it needs to be all
three of these are for memory chips and these two are actually on two chips each
the same number of chips like what am i looking at here
this is the definition of a mix uh oh
shoot which one's uh see this diagram is so
shockingly bad two long bars uh go on
like not only the tiny strip of the arms but also the bigger ones right next to
them this just gets more random every time i put something on it
i can't okay you got three more huge things to go we're we're getting there
no i can't this is so stupid oh there's so many things that should have thermal
pads according to nin video there okay well according to ragin tech
we ready boys we're going to use their included
thermal goop oh yeah it smells like generic
let's just get that on there that should be oh that's uh that's
really a lot it won't affect performance but i just don't feel like
cleaning up the mess uh huh
yeah so these are all gonna have to come off
i just knocked off another heatsink okay yeah we're calling that good
there goes that heatsink so we're going to be using our rog machine as our test
bench it's got a 9900 ks and an rg maximus 11 motherboard with 64 gigs of
3200 megahertz cl 14 and the RGB memory
and well used to have an rog strix 2080 ti but we went with the founders edition
because we wanted a pretty good chance of compatibility our GPU was pre-tested
with the power limit slider crank to 112
but without any clock speed adjustments and we'll be pairing our morpheus with
these Noctua nf a12fs to see how it compares
now if pci expansion was a priority we might choose something lower profile and
conveniently the morpheus does include
13 uh here we go 25 millimeter it does include brackets for low profile fans
but here's the thing unless you're into high-speed networking or pci express
storage the odds are that you don't have a ton of add-in
cards so we're going with these because i think
it's going to be a great combination of maximum performance
and silence as long as you don't mind a little bit of
GPU sag okay looks like these clip on to the
bottom here nope it looks like they clip on to the top
and then you just gotta drag them wait what that's it
oh my goodness probably wouldn't be a terrible terrible idea to put the uh
the i o bracket back on it does give you a little less leeway for
jiggering when you're putting your cards in that is some next level saggage there
that's like poor pc yeah
okay we just lost another heat sink oh no we lost two more okay
oh we close now okay well what like do we just fire it up or what
just send it while you do that i'm just going to collect all the heat sinks that
have fallen off so far is this an appropriate look how they massacred my
boy moment now we're all set up we're logging
temperature data from hardware info we've got afterburner cranked to 112
power limit and we're going to run a GPU stress test in fur mark here we're
running at 2560 by 1080 with four times msaa we're trying to really toast this
graphics card no i don't want this warning
give it to me those fans are barely running i can tell you right now that
GPU is basically silent plugged into the
motherboard headers that's steep but hold on give it time
give it time 55. oh and with the panel closed
closed let's get the panel closed
does that just go on like that it sure does okay so we hit uh
96 fpf average FPS average at 78 degrees
celsius was our kind of that was our equilibrium point yes is
there any coil one
curiously not that i can detect which is funny to me because i went and i water
blocked an rtx titan a little while back and it was just nasty in terms of coil
one this looks like it's settled in now we're still running at 96 FPS if we go
ahead and pop open hardware info we can see that we are at
1920 so we've not lost any of our maximum turbo here
and we have 1700 on the stock cooler that i remember
correctly you got you went to seven dropped to 1700. i think so yeah oh well fantastic
and that is a substantially better result because we're running at 72
degrees celsius max turbo and
these fans are like
barely spinning you hear that those are at like 600 700 RPM
if the question was does this outperform the stock cooler then the answer is yes
but if the question is should i run out
after having spent extra on a founder's edition card
anyway and go buy this aftermarket accessory for it that has quite frankly
not just an unintuitive but kind of a scary installation process
and then just terrible quality when it comes to
the thermal pad staying on the answer gets
a little bit more complicated i think really the takeaway
here is when we compare the results we were going to put the ragin tech on this
strix card but now that we've seen these results i i
don't think it makes any sense when we compare the results to just buying a
card with a big fat beefy cooler on it in the first place
the answer is pretty obvious especially because this doesn't cost an extra 70 80
over a founder's edition
if it's not obvious the answer is no and if it's not also obvious i gotta tell
you about my sponsor right about now what do you get when you mix drop.com
and thx you get the drop thx panda wireless headphones they feature
audiophile quality with no wires they
claim they're the world's most distortion-free wireless headphones and
quite frankly from listening to them myself i have not heard anything that
even comes close they're a closed back headphone they feature thx's aaa
amplifier technology the sound quality is the same whether you run them with
bluetooth or with a wire and you get 30 hours of wireless life pretty freaking
awesome you can even get a detachable gaming mic for them so check them out
today at the link in the video description if you guys enjoyed this
video you might actually enjoy one of mine and colin's previous crazy GPU
cooling experiments where we put a CPU tower cooler on a graphics card i think
i would go as far as to say that one was more sensible significantly more
sensitive i mean aside from just a power drill we didn't really need any crazy
tools to mount the thing and i trusted it way more than this quite honestly
that's true