Remember the ten GTX980TI horizontal tests that were done on Thin Road last year?
As the strongest GTX980TI, ASUS GTX980TI STRIX, after several months of use, although the performance is very powerful, but it is regrettable that the fan brings noise and more gameplay.
The most popular gameplay of the moment is of course water-cooled. Before we go to Sheung Shui, we might as well take a look at this strongest GTX980TI box. Will it become a dead body afterwards? This is an important commemorative way.
ASUS GTX980TI STRIX packaging has been domineering, unique owl image, very aggressive
Internal packaging is perfect, electrostatic bag + pearl cotton protection, sent to Mars are not afraid
Attachments are not too rich. After all, Asus sells video cards. . .
Three-fan design, air-cooled heat dissipation to the extreme
STRIX breathing light on top
Enhanced dual 8-pin power supply
DPX3, DVIX1, HDMIX1 supports up to four screen outputs
In the materials section, we saw a very luxurious 12-phase digital power supply. Because of the use of too much material, the Asus GTX980TI STRIX can only accommodate such luxurious material by increasing the width of the pcb.
Helles particles
Twelve phase digital power supply~~
Asustek's own power supply is good. After reading such domineering materials, let's take a look at the materials used in today's transformation.
The original use of cpu water cooling plus GPU air cooling, the following we have to remodel this platform
The STRIX 980TI to be transformed will hope to succeed~~~
Bitspower M8H exclusive full coverage cold head,
For this M8H motherboard, in addition to heat to the CPU, you can also provide heat dissipation for mos and inductors!
Memory is from PREDATOR DDR4 3000 from Kingston
Legacy strength, memory compatibility is good
This is the water cooling accessory we use
Common quick screw
90 degree corner
Drain valve
To prevent water leakage due to high air pressure, the exhaust valve can be used to gently lower the air pressure.
Bitspower's flowmeter knows if the waterway is working
Some will use the silk
Plug, do not forget to use Oh, water tank or video card will be used Oh, otherwise it will leak!
Extension seats can be more convenient for us to create beautiful waterways
Remove the black screw on the back, the front radiator can be released
Cold head comes from bitspower, the two strongest EKs in water cooling industry, Bitspower (commonly known as BP), custom RGB cold head for GTX980TI Strix
The cold head is also the same with the characteristics of the owl STRIX and ASUS's LOGO is very obvious
The dragon LOGO in the lower right corner is also very eye-catching. BP is also called by the industry, Xiaolong people.
The cold head is made of C1100 copper + Acrylic waterway version, and then electroplated to form a smooth base, the use of materials is indeed much better than domestic
Even the MOS part has a thermal design, as long as it is affixed
There are RGB lights at the bottom, it's very cool ~ we can see later.
In the core part, a large number of micro-channel designs are adopted to achieve the best performance through the rapid flow of large volumes of water through the micro-channel heat sink.
The top is also a blackened design. Compared with the transparent acrylic we usually see, it's very special, black cool ~
Many people don't install the device when it is first installed. Therefore, bitspower gives clear installation instructions and pastes the location of the heat-conducting part.
As shown in the basic picture, it will be able to heat the video card synchronously. The mos, video memory, GPU, and video memory all take care of it.
Apply silicone grease
Cover cold head
Plugging is very beautiful, dragon-shaped LOGO golden, remember to install it, otherwise it will leak
Because the cold head is the cold head of the ASUS factory and the data exchange between the two parties, it is very fitting and there is no unreasonable place.
Prepare for irrigation ~~
Haha, isn't red very scary? ! After power on, the RGB lights will turn on, and different colors can be switched
The cold head part also adopts the transparent acrylic, and the light of the fine road itself is changed. Not bad, RGB switches colors and shows
Okay, ok, switch to green, what's your faith?
After the lights, the effect is very good ~
Furmark rendering full load test
FurMark is an OpenGL benchmarking tool developed by oZone3D. It uses the fur rendering algorithm to measure the performance of the graphics card, and at the same time, it can test the stability of the graphics card. Provides a variety of test options, such as full screen/window display mode, nine predefined resolutions (can also be customized), time or frame based test patterns, a variety of multi-sampled anti-aliasing (MSAA), racing patterns, etc., and Supports five languages ​​including Simplified Chinese.
Simply put, by Furmark to simulate the graphics card running at full speed, so as to obtain the highest temperature, let's take a look at the effect of upgrading the water cooling on the GTX980TI. In terms of time, we chose to take screenshots of 3, 5, and 10 minutes to get where we can go with our biggest expectations this time.
ASUS GTX980TI STRIX original heat 3 minutes
ASUS GTX980TI STRIX original heat 5 minutes
ASUS GTX980TI STRIX original heat 10 minutes
Let's take a look at how much lower this most powerful GTX980TI can be after replacing it with a bitspower water head.
ASUS GTX980TI STRIX Replacement BitShot Water Head 3 min
ASUS GTX980TI STRIX Replacement BitShot Water Head 5 min
ASUS GTX980TI STRIX replacement bitspower water cooled head 10 minutes
Through testing, we can easily find that from the temperature, we can reduce the temperature up to 37 degrees, not 3-7, but 37 degrees of cooling, that is, the full speed running ASUS GTX980TI STRIX just a little higher than your body temperature, and frequency On the other hand, under water cooling, the temperature of various components can be reduced and the frequency of boost can be increased. The frequency is raised from 1113 to 1215, and the performance is improved by approximately 9%. Of course, we have not tested the overclocked part. I believe Under water cooling, overclocking is more fun!
Water-cooled ASUS GTX980TI STRIX performance test
In terms of games, we have chosen "Blood Rogue" "Tomb Raider 9" "Wizard 3: Wild Hunt"
"Middle-earth: Shadow Demon" "Monster Hunter OL" covers all types of current games.
Through this water-cooling transformation, is everyone eye-opening? Is the belief enough? It is not difficult to find water-cooled heat-conducting media. The heat-conducting method brings lower temperatures, higher performance, and a quieter operating environment to our mainframe. After the lights are turned on, forcing the grid, forcing grids, and forcing grids, this is a kind of New experience, the future, there will be more water-cooled host available, you will build that only belongs to your water-cooled host it?