Cooling, Noise and Power

Our GTX 780 reference card wasn’t what I would call a low power card, but it did come in lower than what I saw from the R7970 when testing it. Even more surprising it came in less than a few SLI setups as well. Of course the GTX 780 Gaming from MSI is a whole different beast. We have two large cooling fans to push now as well as its increased overclock, so I wasn’t surprised when it pulled more power than the reference card in our power consumption test. It actually scored a tie with the R7970 in load power consumption, but at idle it was slightly more efficient pulling only 204 watts for our entire test rig. The load results are still a little surprising, being 34 watts more than reference, but we have yet to see what the card is capable of, that power might be put to use.

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Now we are talking, the MSI GTX 780 Gaming had impressive cooling numbers in our temperature testing. We didn’t match the amazing performance that we saw with the GTX 650 Ti Boost with Twin Frozr cooling, but it was in line with the GTX 760 we tested last week with aftermarket cooling, very impressive!

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We know it can cool, but what kind of racket will it put up while you are using it? Well our idle testing was nearly in the middle of our previous results. More importantly the noise that the card makes at an un natural 100% fan load is actually considerably less than the reference design and almost spot on with what the last Twin Frozr card tested did.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #31618 03 Jul 2013 00:06
MSI's Gaming version of the GTX 780 with a healthy overclock!

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