MSI GTX 580 Twin Frozr II vs Reference Card Temp Comparison Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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All right, guys. Now, I did promise a follow-up on the GTX 580 Twin Frozer 2
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overclocked video card unboxing that I did. So, I've got the card here, and I
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promised you guys that I would compare it against a reference cooled card. So,
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here I've got an EVGA GeForce GTX 580
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reference card. So, it's using the stock NVIDIA cooler. I've got my trusty
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temperature probe, which tells us that well, okay, as of before I walked over
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there, it was at 22°, but I guess now we're up around
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23ish°. And uh I've also got Firmark
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running. Now, remember, Firmark does no longer deliver accurate results if
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you're trying to find the absolute max temps of a GeForce card. However, since
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we're comparing two identical cards, two GTX 580s, we can trust it to tell us the
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relative temperatures under a similar load of these two cards. So, you can see
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up here in the top right corner, our GPU temperature is at You can't see that at
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all, can you? I guess I'll just have to walk over to the TV and not be lazy. All
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right, so our GTX 580 is running at
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69° with a fan speed of about 2,000 RPM.
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We're at stock speeds here and I'm just going to take a quick audio sample for
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you guys to show you what the reference cooler sounds like under
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load. And here is the Twin Frozer 2. You
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can see our room has warmed up a little bit. So, whenever you're comparing the
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Twin Frozer 2 results against the stock cooler results, you should assume that
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if the room temperatures were the
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same that the temperatures of the Twin Frozer 2 would actually be a couple
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degrees cooler. Oh, looks like it's fluctuating as I move around. It's a
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very sensitive sensor there. So anyway, the Twin Frozer 2 peaks, bearing in mind
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this is an overclocked card, so it runs at 800 MHz versus the stock frequency of
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the GTX 580. And oh, please focus. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
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come on. You can focus. There you go. Okay, so 800 MHz. And then we've also
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got a peak GPU temperature of
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57°. So that is pretty darn impressive.
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The uh fan RPM is around 2400.
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And that is what it sounds like. So, the Twin Frozer 2 absolutely destroys the
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stock cooler in terms of performance. Personally, I think it looks nicer, too,
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but uh you know, to each his own. So, thank you for checking out this little
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video on the MSI GTX 570 Twin Frozer 2.
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