Gigabyte Shows GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce 3-way SLI

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/11/2014 09:33 AM | source: | 23 comment(s)

Will this ever reach retail ? I don't know. But it has a valid SKU code, N980X3WA-4GD. At computex Gigabyte already was showing this a bit but it seems that they are releasing a GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce. The kit would consist out of three GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards that come with pre-fitted liquid cooling connected to a radiator and reservoir box.

Now, the three cards come factory-overclocked at a 1228 MHz core with a 1329 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz memory. It has a liquid-cooling pump-block sitting on top of the GPU yet also cools memory and VRM.

Each card is attached to its own 120mm radiator. If you look at the box, you will notice that you can regulate fan RPM and this noise levels as well as pump speed. Next to that you can read out VAG temperature, fan and pump RPM etc on an LCD display.

Well check out the pretty pictures I'd say.

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fantaskarsef
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#4956587 Posted on: 11/11/2014 04:14 PM

This looks somehow... inefficient and stupid. Sorry, no offense intended, but it's fugly. :puke2:

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#4956594 Posted on: 11/11/2014 04:20 PM

Anything you want, price is your soul. Who can afford it and honestly who have nerves to deal with 3 way SLI frame time drops.

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#4956620 Posted on: 11/11/2014 04:45 PM

I think its a bit ugly and could of been made to look much nicer

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#4956678 Posted on: 11/11/2014 06:04 PM

While the performance of single rad for one card should be enough(heck i got the accelero hybrid which has one 120mm rad on my gtx 670 overclocked and it never goes beyond 45c while gaming), this thing just looks hideous. If they are releasing it as one unit it would have made a lot more sense to go real full coverage blocks on the gpus with one real pump and a 360mm rad, not only it would look a lot more elegant, it would almost certainly perform better, plus there would be room for upgrades...

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#4956829 Posted on: 11/11/2014 08:55 PM

As a rule I always go for a dual rad per component for high overclocks.
2 triple rads-2 cards and cpu-big overclock which equals 6x single rads or 2xtriple rads. Nice sweet spot.

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