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Emma sighs kanji for 10 series lineup features more GT X 1080 graphics cards and you can focus stick-up announced today is the GTX 1080 gaming z 8g using the latest twin frozen 6 cooler from MSI this is the company's most extreme air-cooled option so I'm pretty keen to check it out there are three twin frozen six models which are called the gaming 8g gaming xog in gaming zjg the standard gaming model apparently misses out on the RGB lighting in operates at the reference clock frequencies then we have the special x and z models both of which featured fancy lighting and come factory overclocked you might assume the X version is the more extreme of the tube that is in the case the Z actually comes the highest clock speeds but before we check out the clock speeds let's take a look at the 1080 game use at 8g board design and cooler the latest generation Twin Frozr features talks 2.0 fans zero frozen stay smooth heat pipes and airflow control technology having been very impressed with twin frozen 6 implementations on MSI's RX 470 R X 480 GTX 1060 and GTX 1070 graphics cards we're expecting good things from this flagship 1080 model unlike some of the extreme cards we've seen from the likes of gigabyte and game with this MSI model isn't a triple slot card instead we have a 42 millimeter wide dual slot card and despite that it still manages to squeeze in two large fans on top of a rather big heat sink which is supported by a squad of six nickel plated copper heat pipes these heat pipes have been smooth to ensure maximum contact with a copper base plate which has also been nickel-plated MSI tells us that a premium thermal compound has been applied to ensure optimal heat transfer from the GPU to the base plate it looks like pretty standard stuff but then I guess you can't really tell how premium a thermal compound is just by looking at it so we'll have to take that word on it covering the heatsink is an impressive red and black theme fan shroud that becomes even more impressive once the cards have been powered up once active the embedded LEDs make this graphics card come to life lighting can be controlled with the MSI gaming app and there's a few pretty cool effects on offer here on the rear of the card we find a full sized backplate which features some neat looking cutouts along with the cool silhouette of a dragon there's a gaming series logo as well which is LED backlit and pretty cool the Shroud just overhangs the PCB taking the card to a total length of 279 millimeters so pretty standard stuff for a GTX 1080 graphics card however what isn't standard is the height this thing stands 140 millimeters tall thanks to a super-sized PCB that we'll take a look at now removing the bulk of the coulomb you find two additional heat spreaders covering the gddr5 X memory as well as the vrm area so that's great to see with the 1080 gaming set a cheese strip completely naked we get a good look at the massive PCB and how msi has designed this graphics card as is often the case of high-end MSI graphics cards their military class for grade components have been used this is another marketing exercise for the most part but there's still some good stuff here such as the super turret chokes speaking of chokes we find a 10+2 phase design on board which when coupled with an additional six pin connector will be able to keep the gtx 1080 fare with enough power to maintain those 2.1 gigahertz overclocks before we push the 1080 gaming zhg as far as possible let's check out the factory overclock settings out of the box the card operates at a base clock of 17 33 megahertz with a boost clock of 1873 megahertz which is an 8 percent factory overclock using the msi software gamers can switch to an OC mode setting which improves the base clock to 1771 megahertz for a boost of 1911 of course thanks to him videos are unpredictable GPU boost 3.0 technology the card will likely run higher than 1911 megahertz for the most part for quick and easy overclocking gamers can refer to the MSI gaming app which allows for quick switching between the various operating modes gamers can also control the LED lighting here as well and it's possible to enable on-screen overlay information too then for the serious overclocking your MSI has their separate afterburner utility afterburners a program I often use for GPU overclocking but it's nice to actually use it to overclock and MSI card with afterburner we increase the voltage percent to plus 100 and the power limit to 126 percent this allowed the core clock to be increased by 85 mega Hertz and the memory clock by 545 megahertz GPUs there tells us this is an eighteen sixty three megahertz base clock in a 1996 megahertz boost clock of course to doing videos GPU boost 3.0 we know the car can run faster than the suggested boost clock if kept under the thermal and power targets during our testing the boost clock hovered between 2150 megahertz and two thousand one hundred and eighty megahertz which is very impressive so then I guess it's time to see our performs to the benchmarks out of the box the gaming Zed is much like the other hand ten eighty cards we've already looked at matching the gigabyte extreme gaming in game wood goes like hell overclocked it's much the same story here the gaming Z average sixty-four FPS to match the game with GLH it's much the same story in Far Cry primal the gaming said proves that it has what it takes to hang with the massive oversized cards from gigabyte in game wood wrapping up the gaming benchmarks a Star Wars Battlefront and it's again the same story here that said the gaming said did pull a frame ahead of the game with GL age once overclocked though that's of course in the margin of error even with a three run average the gaming Z isn't particularly power-hungry when compared to the fans edition card with a total system consumption of 271 watts overclocked it was quite a bit more efficient than the gigabyte extreme gaming consuming a similar level of power as the game with GLH card impressively the gaming said is the coolest GT X 1080 we've tested yet with an out-of-the-box load temperature of just 66 degrees that's a single degree cooler than the huge gigabyte extreme gaming and two degrees cooler than the game of GLH overclocked the gaming said an extreme gaming both ran into 68 degrees so pretty impressive stuff once again the MSI gaming Zed is yet another excellent GTX 1080i offering that provides top-notch performance without making a big fuss about it even when overclocked this graphics card runs extremely quiet and wasn't audible over my case fans which I have to say are already pretty quiet to begin with as far as I'm concerned the gaming said ticks all the right boxes and in my opinion is just as good as the gigabyte extreme gaming a graphics card I liked dearly unfortunately like the extreme gaming the gaming said comes at a serious price premium in fact more so while base model 1080 is they're selling for as little six hundred and thirty US dollars the extreme game you will set you back seven hundred for the premium pack model the MSI gaming Zed is even worse at 720 us pricing alongside the Isuzu rog streak so C of course at these prices what's an extra twenty dollars that's barely a three percent bump still at almost fifteen percent more than the base models such as the gigabyte g1 gaming you have to wonder if these premium the worth of premium MSI zone GT X 1080 Seahawk card only cost $20 more than the gaming Z at 740 us and I have to imagine this is a better more extreme option for enthusiasts down under the gaming Zed cost one thousand one hundred and thirty dollars while the liquid-cooled Seahawk has just $10 more the gigabyte extreme game is slightly more competitive at $1100 though keep in mind 1080s do start at 970 overall the MSI GTX 1080 gaming set is a mighty impressive graphics card I just feel the pricing is a little inflated right now and that doesn't just apply to MSI what do you guys 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