All right, guys. Now, I did promise a follow-up on the GTX 580 Twin Frozer 2
overclocked video card unboxing that I did. So, I've got the card here, and I
promised you guys that I would compare it against a reference cooled card. So,
here I've got an EVGA GeForce GTX 580
reference card. So, it's using the stock NVIDIA cooler. I've got my trusty
temperature probe, which tells us that well, okay, as of before I walked over
there, it was at 22°, but I guess now we're up around
23ish°. And uh I've also got Firmark
running. Now, remember, Firmark does no longer deliver accurate results if
you're trying to find the absolute max temps of a GeForce card. However, since
we're comparing two identical cards, two GTX 580s, we can trust it to tell us the
relative temperatures under a similar load of these two cards. So, you can see
up here in the top right corner, our GPU temperature is at You can't see that at
all, can you? I guess I'll just have to walk over to the TV and not be lazy. All
right, so our GTX 580 is running at
69° with a fan speed of about 2,000 RPM.
We're at stock speeds here and I'm just going to take a quick audio sample for
you guys to show you what the reference cooler sounds like under
load. And here is the Twin Frozer 2. You
can see our room has warmed up a little bit. So, whenever you're comparing the
Twin Frozer 2 results against the stock cooler results, you should assume that
if the room temperatures were the
same that the temperatures of the Twin Frozer 2 would actually be a couple
degrees cooler. Oh, looks like it's fluctuating as I move around. It's a
very sensitive sensor there. So anyway, the Twin Frozer 2 peaks, bearing in mind
this is an overclocked card, so it runs at 800 MHz versus the stock frequency of
the GTX 580. And oh, please focus. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on. You can focus. There you go. Okay, so 800 MHz. And then we've also
got a peak GPU temperature of
57°. So that is pretty darn impressive.
The uh fan RPM is around 2400.
And that is what it sounds like. So, the Twin Frozer 2 absolutely destroys the
stock cooler in terms of performance. Personally, I think it looks nicer, too,
but uh you know, to each his own. So, thank you for checking out this little
video on the MSI GTX 570 Twin Frozer 2.
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