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Corsair and MSI have teamed up to offer a liquid cooled GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card. They're calling it the Hydro GFX and it consists of a GeForce GTX 980 Ti from MSI with a Corsair Hydro Series H55 liquid cooler already attached. All you have to do is plug the card in and mount the external liquid cooler to your case.
According to Corsair, the Hydro GFX runs 30 percent cooler than standard cards, which allows it to run at higher clock speeds without throttling. What that translates into is a 20 percent bump in the GPU clock (1,190MHz base and 1,291MHz boost) and a 15 percent gain in overall performance.
The card is also quiet and purportedly easy to install -- Corsair says it should only take a few minutes to mount the radiator to a 120mm fan mount , slide the card into a PCI-Express slot, and plug in the power connectors. As a self-contained liquid cooler, users don't have to add coolant or perform any maintenance.
Other than the overclocked GPU and liquid cooler, the rest of the card is as you already know it: 6GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7,096MHz on a 384-bit bus and connectivity consisting of three DisplayPort 1.2, ports, one HDMI 2.0 port, and a Dual Link DVI-I port.
The Hydro GFX will be available next month for $740 MSRP.
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