Gigabyte Shows GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce 3-way SLI
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Kyrat
Awesome!! 😀 😀
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
It's one rad PER GPU, that should be fine.
Spets
Would be nice to get a review on this :P
Lane
The pump should be on the block, it was more practicable to create 3 separates loops instead of a single beefy one. ( and increase the cost a lot )
orky87
You'd be surprised. I've been running a single 120mm antec aio on my 680 with an oc and it never goes above 74c during intensive benchmarks. More than enough if you ask me.
CalculuS
70 Degrees is too much for a 970/980 GTX.
It throttles exactly at 70 degrees.
orky87
I know what you're saying but 74c is like worst case scenario max temp I could achieve. Isn't 900 series cooler by design? During gaming the gpu is never really stressed enough to achieve max temps anyway. Just my 2c
Spets
They throttle at 80c, but anyone with Afterburner can easily change that.
Hughesy
Not if you set the temputure target higher if it's the same as my 780, or is the 980 different?
Does anyone know what that big ugly poll is for inside the case?
Texter
Adjustable card spacer.
it seems to be blowing out air on the sides, so you may want to avoid it blowing in your face/eyes, especially people with contacts.
alanm
I think Gigabyte should have scaled this down to a 2 card SLI kit. 3-way SLI doesnt scale well with Nvidia, even more so with the 900 series. 3-way crossfire would have made more sense, both on the performance and cooling side for this type of kit.
INSTG8R
Reminds me of my old Asetek External I used to run with my Opty 170/X1900 Crossfire rig.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/471/10_0_547.jpg
Andrull
Scales well enough for most of the games that really needs it. Especially if you really like sharp textures and hate aliasing (SSAA and DSR is magnificent).
But then again, it probably isn't meant to target "most bang for buck" people either way.
Not sure why they would choose three separate loops. One single loop would result in less tubing, and when the load isn't perfectly distributed it would result inn weaker cooling-performance.
A weird product, thats for sure.
Agonist
I only hit 52c on my 2xHD 7950 with 1150/150 oc with a single fan on 120mm rad per card. Though my vrm get around 85c even with fans blowing on a heatsink.
http://i.imgur.com/zP4g7JIl.jpg
Even the 295x2 has a single 120mm rad.
fantaskarsef
This looks somehow... inefficient and stupid. Sorry, no offense intended, but it's fugly. 😛uke2:
cpy
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.
Singleton99
I think its a bit ugly and could of been made to look much nicer
Veteran
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.
Fierce Guppy
Those hoses would block access to my case's on/off button and some front panel USB ports. I also have a Corsair H110 radiator (240mm) mounted at the top. I'm not sure how Gigabyte's cooler would affect the airflow. I suspect pretty negatively.
LesserHellspawn
The block is really fugly. I'd rather have the single card with that single radiator attached to put it inside the case. Maybe you can disassemble the kit and do just that ? Would need a review to find that out.
