Gigabyte GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-Way SLI

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Basically this is the kit assembly, each graphics card is pre-installed with the exclusive water cooling unit and radiator connected with a pair of coolant pipes.  Gigabyte recommends you to use a full-tower chassis that is at least 20cm wide and roughly 60cm tall. Your PSU should be of a capacity of 1,200W.

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The threesome of graphics cards are pre-attached to an independent 120mm radiator, these radiators you place inside this box. 

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All three independent radiators are placed inside the external metal watercooling box. According to Gigabyte, without having any of the cards gone overheating, the system is able to perform up to 42.6% lower in operating temperatures overall and 13.1 dB lower in acoustic performance under load compared to a 3-way SLI reference cooler for ultra-stable extreme gaming in near silence.

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Three 120mm fans are installed in the top side cover of the unit. A control panel with an OLED display located at the box’ front panel enable gamers to check the performance of the 3 graphics cards in real time.

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By utilizing the Target Temperature Mode, the fan and pump speed of each card will be automatically adjusted to attain uniform user-defined GPU temperature across all 3 cards with a few simple clicks. Gamers could also make use of the Fan/Pump Control Mode to adjust each card’s fan and pump configuration individually as preferred for achieving other desired performance. The box is powered by a Molex cable and need to be connected to a motherboard USB header as the usage of Gigabyte's overclock (Gigabyte OC Guru II)software is a requirement to run this unit.

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Once the graphics cards are seated into the PCIe slots, the radiators lead out of the chassis with the help of an included 5.25in (optical) tray and into the WaterForce box which sits on top of the case. Overall installation is easy. We dislike the tubing a little though, rubber and a bit thicker would have had my preference.

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