Twin Frozr II & DirectCUII Cooler Comparison GeForce GTX 560 Ti Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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all right guys as promised I'm going to be doing a temperature and Acoustics
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comparison between the reference GeForce
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GTX 560ti and the assus direct cu2 GeForce
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GTX 560ti and since uh I had so many
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requests to also include it I will be including the MSI GTX 560 TI twin frozer
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2 version of this graphics card so this will be a three-way Roundup I'm going to
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be using fir Mark yes I know it is not a
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perfect temperature and load testing application for GeForce cards because
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they will all Throttle Down when running
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firmar it is a software patch that NVIDIA has implemented to keep users
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from burning out their cards however since we're comparing three like gpus
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they're all GeForce GTX 560 TI my theory
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is that they'll all ramp down equally so we will at least be able to compare
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these three cards against each other both in terms of load temperatures as
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well as in terms of
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noise so for our stock reference cooled card we're looking at a load temps of
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about well not about exactly 75° C once
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it levels out since our room temperature is about 24° C we're going to round that
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up that means we have a Delta of
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51° C so I'll do all the audio clips uh
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at the end but uh just to show you guys how loud they are but the stock fan
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actually doesn't ramp up very high in terms of the overall fan speed so it
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remains fairly quiet now the direct cu2 is
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significantly louder than the stock fan
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but I think a big part of that is because the fan ramps right up to about
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2400 RPM but the good news is that with
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its hybrid of like a straight heat sink
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and then you see those heat pipes coming out there and and like a fin heat pipe
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design where the one fan is blowing at the heat sink and the other fan is blowing at the heat pipe fins they
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actually achieve significantly better temperatures than the stock cooler so at
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61° in a 24°
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room that is a Delta of only
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37° compared to the stock cooler which is significantly
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better all right so our room is closer to about the almost 27 so we'll call it
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uh 26° in our room right now it's gotten
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warm from doing uh from running fir mark on these video cards it's not a very
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large office that I have as you can plainly see all right so with the twin
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frozer 2 we're looking at LAD temperatures of
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50 okay we'll look over here load temperatures of 57° focus
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focus there we go 57° so when we take our room temp really
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wow it's going up really fast now so
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27° I will call it call it 26 cuz that's
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what it was before okay so 57us 26 gives
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us a 31 Dee Delta there it is yeah 26
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it's just air currents in the room right now so you guys got to understand that
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all of these results are only going to be accurate to within a couple degrees
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Delta because it's not a super controlled environment you can see my
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temp probe is uh generally positioned at the intake of the fans
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so yeah pretty much they're they're fairly equivalent I'd say in
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subjectively the noise from the Twin frozer 2 is pretty similar to the noise
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from the direct cu2 but I'll leave that for you guys to judge with the audio
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