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During our testing we noticed the card hovering at the ~170 Watts range for power consumption, under full load & stress that is. That is slightly higher compared to reference, yet in reality due to the factory overclock and all the lovely extras. The TwinFrozr has been revamped as well and now is at revision VI, it's as always impressive in both cooling performance as well as its low noise-levels. The card remains passive, as up-to a GPU temperature of 60 Degrees C the fans do not even spin. The fans (Torx) used are a new revision and should also offer a bit more airflow. MSI will try to force as much performance out of the cards at a maximum cooling threshold of roughly 70 Degrees C for this 1070 model with the TwiNFrozr series VI cooler. It also has some new LED functionality which we'll show you in some photos as well.
The GeForce GTX 1070 is roughly 11 inches in length which is 28 cm so it should fit comfortably in pretty much any decent chassis. Precise measurements btw are 279x140x42mm.
Above the TwinFrozr VI cooler stripped away and yes ... that is the same PCB as the other 1070 Gaming products use, you'll notice that MSI placed extra shielding heatsinks over the GDDR5 memory as well as a heatsink directly on top of the VRM area. Good stuff alright. The PCB board design is custom from MSI build upon their Military Class IV standard. It is a bit of marketing yes, but the component selection does follow MIL-STD-810G certification, these components have proven to be able to withstand the torturous circumstances in both gaming and overclocking. The GPU empowering the product is called the A1 revision of the GP104-200 GPU.
For those that wonder, yes .. the board is equipped with Micron GDDR5 memory ICs, we'll look deeper into overclocking later on in the article. An actual 10 phase power supply is responsible for supplying the GP104-200 GPU with power. The card (with cooler) weights 1100g.
LEDs are a bit of a trend and like everybody MSI is following. They did it right and subtle though. The LED system can be controlled individually by choosing any of the animation effects available in the MSI Gaming App, ranging from responding to your game sounds or music to steady light, breathing and flashing. Of course, you can also turn them off.
And yes, I do think that is a terrific looking product with the white accents and all matte black. New with TwiNFrozr iteration VI is the LED array located at the rear fan, it looks pretty good in twilight and dark environments.
Our X99 motherboard has all shades of red really. I would have loved to use a Titanium colored motherboard, but for the validity of the benchmark results we need to stick to our platform and setup.
