Product Innards
Product Innards
The cooling solution is a simple but a proper one. Three U shaped heatpipes through a heatsink, with thermal paste tied to the block. You can also see that the VRM area has padding and thus is properly cooled by this block.
Yes, MSI applied a padding on top of that VRM area. With the main cooler removed, you can see a small PCB and its components.
Here we have the GP104-A1 graphics processor from Nvidia covered with some proper thermal insulation material.
GDDR5 memory chips are made by Micron and are specced to run at 8,008 MHz GDDR5 (effective data-rate). Tweaked you are looking at a capability of roughly 9,000 MHz (effective data-rate).
There are five power phases for the GPU and one for the memory subsystem. The chokes (Super Ferrite Chokes), the grey thingies are also covered with thermal padding and thus get cooling from the cooling block. This build is looking really good and detailed.
Right, a peek-a-boo moment just above the heatsink. A uPI based uP9511P is a rather recent model voltage controller for many NVIDIA cards.