GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II vs Reference Heatsink Cooler Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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well I wanted to take some time to compare the reference cooler for the GTX
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560 and I realize I'm holding entirely the wrong prop right now but the
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reference cooler for the GTX 560 so this is a flowerstyle heat pipe cooler so you
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can see if I I guess if I spin that you might be able to see a little bit better
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you can see it looks kind of like a stock Intel LGA 1155 heat sink and then
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there's three heat pipes that come out of the top you can you see in there okay
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what if I turn like this can you see the heat pipes no okay how about now can you
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see the heat pipes through the
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top really you can see the heat pipes okay
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one two three heat pipes like that so those are spreading out into a uh like
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fin Arrangement on either side so it's actually kind of like the MSI Cyclone
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cooler in design but it's covered with a shroud now some of the exhaust is going
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to come out here some of it's going to come out here some of it's going to come
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out here and some of it's going to come out here so while it does have a rear
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exhaust vent for all intents and purposes we can consider this a sort of
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70 to 80% internal exhaust card now I
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wanted to compare that to the MSI GTX
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560 twin frozer 2 now this is not that
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card this is a GTX 460 Hawk the twin frozer 2 card is actually on the test
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bench right now preparing for my idle temperature measurement but I'm going to
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compare both temper temp and noise levels of the twin frozer 2 heat sink
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which looks like this now this is an almost entirely internal exhaust heat
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sink as well you can see we're going to get some incidental air flow from this
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fan coming out here but other than that there's a lot ex of exhaust coming right
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through the card here in the gaps right through here there's going to be some
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going out this way uh the heat pipes including uh two super pipes that is
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thicker than standard heat pipes and two normal ones so there are four total heat
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pipes are part of the overall design it
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does use a dense fin arrangement with dual fans in order to achieve what MSI
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claims is up to 20° better cooling under load than a stock cooler
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now it's become a little bit challenging with recent gpus to measure maximum load
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so instead of using furmark which was my traditional favorite um because of the
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way they've locked them down to actually underperform in furmark so that you
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don't blow your GPU by benchmarking furmark all day which I can kind of
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understand what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to Loop the heaven
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Benchmark and then just find the highest
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temperature recorded during the entire thing this will be lower than normal so
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probably the Delta will be lower than we'd normally see but I guess it'll give
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us a more realistic look at what kind of
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noise and what kind of temperatures we're going to get with these cards in a
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gaming scenario so right now I'll show you guys my testing methodology I've got
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the GTX 560 on an Open Bench bear in mind Open Bench is going to be up to 5
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to even 10° cooler than what you're going to see in a closed case either
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that or the fan will ramp up more so it will also be in some ways quieter now
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I've got my ambient temperature here which is about 23 Dees and I have a
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temperature probe right here in front of the fan intake So based on a 23° intake
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temperature and a 27° idle temperature
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on my card I will call that a Delta of
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4° for my GTX 560 so I'm going to do some
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load temps and I'm going to do some testing on the reference design and then
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I'll come back and do a conclusion for you guys that to stress the card as much
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as possible I am running the tessellation on Extreme as well as 8xaa
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and no it's not counterfeit I just changed my Hardware all the time AA uh
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8x8 and 16x AF otherwise looks like this
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now in terms of temperatures uh hold on I'm going to turn my sensor back on so
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the room temps have gone up a little bit because I did have the doors closed so
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we're at 26° in the room now and the maximum and I'm going to take the
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absolute Peak maximum we saw during the heaven Benchmark was
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54° so that was the highest that was
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seen okay so then that means uh 54 - 26
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is I'm not very good at Mental Math so I'll be recording that on a graph and
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then I'll show you guys the reference cooler in a moment okay so just getting
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an idle temperature reading from my reference card so we're going to call
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that 23° ambient and we'll call
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that an in complete inability of my camera to focus on anything well I'll
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tell you what it says then it says 28 so there is the reference card on the bench
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and there is another attempt to focus come on come on come on come on come on yeah you can kind of see that 28 so
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that's a Delta of only about five ° so
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back with the load results so we can see
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here on the graph what our Max temperatures were while running the
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heaven Benchmark we peaked at around 70°
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so that is a Delta of uh actually we
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here I'll do the math
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um okay because our room temperature is now
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23 actually it was 24 a moment ago but I opened the door so we're going to go
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with 24 uh I way here is the data I'm
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not going to bother graphing this for you guys I'm sorry so with the hawk we
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had a 4° Delta from the room temperature
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uh up to the temperature of the GPU at idle so a 5 Dee Delta on the reference
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card but then when we look at the load temperatures it is almost as advertised
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on the MSI box almost a 20° difference
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between the four 560 twin frozer 2 and
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the 560 reference card so you can see
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that MSI does advertise 20° C cooler now
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uh if we were running a more extreme scenario we probably might see 20° as a
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worst case scenario something else to bear in mind is this is an OC Edition
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card so naturally the twin frozer 2 card
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will run a little bit hotter so if we clocked it down to the same speeds as
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the reference card we might actually see even better temperatures so thank you
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for checking out my video of the GeForce GT TX 560 TI thermals and Acoustics as
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well as the comparison between the reference card and the twin frozer 2
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Edition card from MSI don't forget to subscribe to Linus techtips for more
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unboxings reviews and other computer
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videos so this is my noise reading for the gtx560 ti twin frozer 2 going to go
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about 6 in from the fan and let you guys take a little listen and then I'm going
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to cut in the reference
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cooler and here's my load test on the twin frozer 2 so I'm just going to move
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my normal distance from the
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card and I'll cut in with the reference
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cooler