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hey everyone today we are tearing down a Coursera hydrographics aka MSI Seahawk card it is the same card with a different name MSI provided the board and courser provide the cooling solution the GPU is the GTX 1080 so we be tearing this down a review is forthcoming either it's already out at the time of this video going up or will be out within hours so subscribe for that before getting to the teardown this content is brought to you by IO power and their new elements gaming PC which has fans that I am told are called arsc fans but I'm sticking it with ARC because it's a way cooler name so it's got arc fans and LED under glow and that is the sponsor this is the video card so we're gonna take this apart as I said the full review thermals fps with mostly thermals that's really interesting all that will be in another video today we're gonna take it apart and see what it actually looks like underneath so EVGA has got a counter to this card called the hybrid not the one that we build but an actual proper EVGA hybrid we will be looking at that very shortly as well in the meantime this is the uncontested official liquid cooled solution that we will be looking at you can see backplate is mounted by a couple screws here we've got four screws including the warranty voiding one for the the cold plate and the pump so this goes to the pump this cooler is an H 55 cooler we'll see when I take it apart what it looks like but as I understand it this is the same cooler as you'd find for a CPU including the slight curvature in the cold plate however I know that coarser was looking into that last time well of course and I was I last time we looked at a Seahawk card so we'll see if that remains the case here it may be a flat flat cooler now which would certainly be better for cooling GPUs cheap backplate doesn't do a whole lot but it's got the logo on there so that's a backplate very easy to remove we are done with that these screws I'll go to the backplate my magnetic mat is in use with another card right now so just Pilar is there and remember it hopefully this I will take off last let's get the shroud off of this thing looks pretty easy so three screws one two three right there and then not on the front and three in the top and then we have some one the expansion panel as well on the back of the card so let's start with these so the really interesting thing that we want to show here is what cooling Hardware does this use underneath because we're going to be comparing this in just a few days to the EVGA hybrid which is probably one of the flagship liquid cooled cards that will be coming out this generation because they held pretty much the only spot in the market for it with the 980 series the 980 TI all right cool so of course our branded shroud comes off can this come off yet there's a screw in the underside somewhere the screw on the underside okay so that's the expansion plate this has a fan or an LED connected to it somewhere it is there's an LED of some kind in there okay that's disconnected and then feels like there's a fan over here maybe obviously but the cable the hell is stuck all right cool broke something okay all right there we go Sarah's taped that's always so they where is it right there he is like you know a canvas type tape to hold the cable as you can see right there so that's I had snap that but there's your shroud as expected it is a plastic shroud nothing special here under side it is the same as we've seen since the 980 980ti you got the curve here that outfits the fans that goes right here this is largely for looks this will not perform a whole lot of actual function because obviously no air can go in there and get through this anyway and also that solid so shroud their guides their flow around this channel and over the card not doing a whole lot because there's no aluminum heatsink here as normally so normally it pushes air through a heatsink it cools the GPU in this instance this fan now becomes a vrm and a VRAM fan so the base plate here aluminum base plate is conducting all the heat through thermal pads from the MOSFETs on the vram and then this fan is pushing the heat out of the back Rast is conducted straight through the cold plate through the micro fins the tubes radiator so forth so that's the inside let's look at the underside now we can see that this by the way splitter that's the vrm fan right there that's the pump power and they both plug into the PRM fan header on the stock MSI board which is the board for the cheaper blower fan GTX 1080 that has been adapted to mount both of these devices so let's just disassemble the rest of this like there's any evidence that we weight doesn't say removed yes the warranty is only void if it's removed has won the previous cards we worked on we are not removing it so good work around there except all of its on camera anyway so also this is a loaner card that was healthy okay so here's the interesting bit cold plate is flat I'll clean that off in a moment you can see it's got the same circular thermal paste pattern applied to it from the factories every other liquid cooler that's out there for CPUs and otherwise there's a flat plate it doesn't have the copper protrusion that we see in the EVGA hybrid which in the past has impacted thermals in a positive way so we'll see how the hybrid from EVGA stacks against this card especially because EVGA is using an axial fan here instead of a radial fan so EVGA is going with a hundred millimeter circle push fan rather than this small thing so that will be very interesting thermally to look at but we don't have one yet so today we're just looking at this card flat plate 855 plate it looks like it does not have any curvature in it just by eyeballing it so I'm not sure if they've modified the cold plate to be a flat plate but if they have that's a good thing because GPUs are flat let's let's clean off this GPU though and look at the rest of it but we've all seen this one by now so it's GPU 104 - 400 of course that is the 1080 and obviously in a rev so it's a 1 so there's your GPU that does doesn't in fact prove that it's 1080 at the performance didn't already which again will be in our review coming up very shortly they're not already on the channel and certainly not the cleanest I could get the cold plate but you get the idea so there's your flat basically perfectly flat copper plate that's what you want you want a flat plate for a flat GPU for the silicon it's different from a CPU where the service there's an IHS on the surface and so there's a natural curvature of that IHS which is a factor for CPU core so I'd be just straight apply a CPU cooler to GPU it's not gonna work as well as a flat cooler would do which it looks like coursers taken into account here this time okay cool so those cables you never pull by the actual cable but I did for a little bit okay so here's the rest of it very simple we've got a plate metal plate conducting to the plate directly is the thermal pad so you've got the where we here MOSFETs over here so we flip it this way that's how it goes so you can see this aligns with the MOSFETs MOSFETs capacitor banks over here as well chokes and doctors those don't need to be actively cooled that's why they stick out here well they should they are actively cooled by the fan in fact but they're not cooled by the base plate directly because there's no they can hit like 120 plus Celsius and be mostly fine and they're naturally going to dissipate the heat anyway because they're just large coils so inductors go there MOSFETs capacitors things like that vram right here you've got one two three four five six seven eight to be around modules that means there are eight gigabit modules so one gigabyte each so we've got eight gigabytes of vram as you would with a gtx 1080 it is gddr5 x that cools these two that cools the top that cools those that's pretty much it the let's look at this and see if there's any obvious signs of other consumer obviously missing a doctor here there's some missing MOSFETs things that so there's places on the board where they've down costed or something to remove them and where is if there's any extra bio spots or anything I mean as we've seen previously there's solder points here for another set of pins if you wanted it as a manufacturer to face out this side instead of the top so that's still there just like the founders edition card which this is very similar to so that's the that's the Seahawk slash hydrographics teardown anyway we've got one two three four five phases plus one for memory this is in fact a founders Edition reference board that MSI has modified with with the coin solution in accompaniment with Corsair so a messiaen course are built a cooling solution that's this we built our own hybrid card using an EVGA version of this and our own DIY spirit I suppose so you can see that previously if you search the channel or hit the description below for the article and the 1080 hybrid build we did we did in the review of this card I will be testing this before was disassembled this heatsink versus our own hybrid to see what kind of performance at Delta we get with an official solution versus our solution and as I said the EVGA FTW hybrid is coming up shortly I'm very curious to see if it outperforms this because so far it looks like it will be very close so the previous generation the MSI 980ti Seahawk was fairly distant in performance from the 980ti hybrid from EVGA and a lot of that was the cooling solution and another factors that we talked about in that review this time it's gonna be closer so stay tuned for that subscribe for more content patreon link in the postal video if I could pronounce things would be great hit that if you wanna help us directly links in the description below as always I'll see you all next time you