MSI Five Custom GTX 1080 Ti Cards Come With Frustratingly Few Details
MSI seems to be a little delayed for the revelation to their custom GTX 1080 Ti cards which finally revealed today. Sad to say, the said revelation shows handful shiny new cards with few accompanying details and a single banner of image only.
Well, here are the MSI GTX 1080 Ti Aero, Sea Hawk EK, the Sea Hawk, Armor, and Gaming X. At the top of the air-cooled line is the GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X that features MSI's TwinFrozr VI cooler and RGB lighting. The highlight is the custom PCB design with 10-phase VRM circuitry. The next is the Armor card which also features a simpler and cooler PCB while the Aero card comes with a blower style cooler to carry its price as possibly close as to MSRP.
According to Flagship, MSI's two Sea Hawk cards are sort of two sides the same coin in which one is cooled with an all in one liquid cooler, created by Corsair while the other one features a neat EKWB water block that was naturally installed for a custom loop; which by the way Igor Wallossek of Tom's Hardware Germany pulled off 2.1GHz using this way. Consumers must expect a faster-clocked card with 11GB of memory and have a nice large triple slot with triple fan Windforce cooler with customizable PGB lightning, extended warranty and factory clocking made with a copper base plate. With this, we are looking at a 500MHz clock bump, pushing the past 3GHz barrier.
NVIDIA claimed that the GPU has a lot of overclocking potential which is able to overclock above 2GHz but the company didn't specify any ceiling for the said overclock. As noted by Tom's Hardware, the world has already seen when they beat the previous world record set by the Titan X which LN2 empowers the card to acquire extreme overclocks. By this, the card was modified and was created to hit the frequency.
With such heavy clock will eventually make the card to consume a lot of power than its usual energy consumption. However, an 80 Plus power supply is more than enough to carry the trick; where GPU now stands as the frequency record as the previous GTX 1060 HOF that was clocked at 3012MHz.