Photos and Specifications MSI GTX GeForce 1080 Ti and 1080 Ti X Sea Hawk
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ivymike10mt
Since conventionally cooled 1080Ti's looks like have some sweating, on the VRM's area.
What about Sea Hawk.. VRM there will be hot aswell?
I hope they not cranked up price too crazy.. coz im interested in this one.
cryohellinc
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ivymike10mt
GALTARAUJO
This does not make sense.
What is the point in having a WC'ed GPU that still needs a blower over the VRM? You get performance, yes, but not quietness. If silence is not important to you, then just buy a regular Ti and overclock it.
It is wiser - and probably less expensive - to buy a regular card, a water block from reputable brand like EK and loop it into your already existing WC system.
snip3r_3
Prod
Rx4speed
cryohellinc
pegasus1
cryohellinc
Stairmand
Makes a lot of sense, the 1080's thermal throttle quite often. These give the card some serious overclocking headroom with very little noise and none of the hassle of a custom loop.
GALTARAUJO
To cool the VRM.
Oh, really? I thought those nice and good looking chips ran perfectly fine @100C...
Of course they need to be cooled. The point is that one is better served looking for a full block that also covers the VRM so you don't need an extra fan.
It is a free world and everybody can do what they want with their money and their system.
Performance and silence wise, I just wonder if it makes sense to have an AIO liquid cooling for the CPU, plus this for GPU: you end up having 2 pumps and at least 2 fans, or more, if your AIO CPU cooler is 240/280, plus the mess of tubes.
Aura89
Why is it that these cards, from many manufacturers, are not clocked the highest of their series?
Serious question.
The MSI GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk X specs wise is the exact same as the MSI GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X 11G
Yet air vs water cooled.
Before you state "Well you can OC it to your delight"
Yes, i understand this, but that mindset could be applied to any card within a series, where all cards would have stock frequencies and the only differences were possibly the PCB, cooler, and other physical things. Yet that's not the case, with additional coolers and custom PCBs and the like, comes an increase in their default performance.
But not with the AIO water cooled products? The ones they theoretically, if paired with their highest end custom PCBs could have a stock clock potentially much higher then their air cooled versions?
I don't understand this.
cryohellinc
GALTARAUJO
Well that really depends on size of your case.
I have CPU h115i cooler and Sea hawk. So in total 4 tubes, two go up the case from CPU, two go to the back of the case from the GPU, no connection and doesn't look messy.
Besides monoblock versions ( example Gigabyte AIO ) are more expensive, and run hotter.
Sure, cards can also run perfectly fine at 86c, and then it fries. I had it too many times in past with several cards on Air. Since then i am paranoid about temps.
Aura89
Well if its a REALLY fancy PCB, theoretically Yes, however with my limited tech knowledge, they can't manufacture a custom Gtx 1080Ti Gpu so you are limited by its specs, all they can "tweak" to certain extent is PCB itself.
There we end up mostly with custom VRM solutions (usually just slapping more of them, which doesn't really help anything and only benefit LN2 overclocking) / higher quality materials / better mosfets.
Result is usually a bit higher stock clocks, theoretically more stable OC, and longer card life span. What AIO adds to it, is lower temperature, better more stable overclocking, more sustainable clocks during prolonged gaming sessions and my favourite is ability to crank up every setting in the game and don't bother with temperatures.
Aura89
ThundercatMan
I had a brief 1080 version of this cooler and was totally disappointed with the performance after the coolant temperatures stabilised (20 to 30 minutes) the temperature was in the low 60s oC but the single fan was working over board! at nearly full load pointless in my opinion as my msi twin frozer was about the same noise wise at 78oC so I set the fan to its lowest level while temperatures reached high 70's and even 80oC under load playing games yet the fan was still noticeable making this pointless.
Went over to my first water cooling loop cpu and gpu and with this setup (yes I appreciate it's vastly more expensive) and now my fans are set at half DC in the bios so it never gets even remotely loud but my temps are 60oC max even gaming for 8hrs plus and my cpu low 60's.
The lesson I learnt was custom wc is the only way if you want silence and low temperatures.
These coolers are pointless.
TcM
Ps as I was buying the 1080 sea hawk while I still had the msi 980ti which would have cost me £800 buying the Ekwb kit @£530 keeping my old kit (fps in all my games dropped 3-7fps with the 980ti so no biggie still getting mid 70's @ 3440/1440 with very high settings) left me with £270 which I used to buy a new epic case the phanteks enthoo evolve tempered glass and still had money left over for some fizzy wine.
Best investment and beautiful system I've ever built.
Save your money if you have a 1080 go to the Ekwb web loop configuration and assemble it.
I had Zero experience in customising pc I'm an old git and if I could do it you definitely can.
A word of warning wc is very addictive I've wc my wife's pc too not that she needed it 😉