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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone I'm Dimitri with Haruka Knox and we have a very exciting GPU review today for you not because we haven't seen an all-in-one cooler integrated for cooling on the graphics cards before but this one is exciting because of a collaboration between MSI and Corsair to release this edition of the gtx 980ti seahawk the price premium on this one is $100 over the reference bring it to a whopping $750 u.s. and over $1000 for us in Canada ouch so this collaboration between coarser and MSI brings us a beautiful looking card with a hybrid cooler so we still have the blower style fan to cool the VRMs and other PCB components while the GPU is cooled via the coarser age 55 solution the logo of which can be found through the transparent window the 120mm radiator is standard 25 millimeter thickness and and illuminated fan with a light blue LED for the cooling power the tubing here is threaded to match coursers other all-in-one CPU coolers it's plenty flexible but lengthwise at same mounting location is pretty much only limited to rear exhaust or the top now I love the aluminum back plate with overclock series embedded in the center right behind the GPU core but the only questionable design choice here is the color combination well it's yellow the MSI logo on top of the card is illuminated and thus for those with particular color needs you might need to mod the color yourself or it can be actually turned off through invidious GeForce experience now we actually use this card in our main editing workstation machine video that you can check out in the description but here is what it looks like in its natural habitat surrounded by other Hardware being a 980ti the power requirement is not any different with 8 plus 6 pins but power consumption is slightly higher than the rest of the 980 T is and that's in part because cooling is so efficient that the card runs just under fourteen hundred megahertz on the core which is a fantastic result but not too far off the air code competition the IO remains unchanged from the reference with triple DisplayPort HDMI 2.0 and DVI now unlike other integrated working solutions the seahawk card requires you to plug the fan header into your motherboard and thus it is controlled by the user and is not dynamically controlled by the GPU itself the blower style fan on the other hand is controlled by the GPU nothing surprising here it can be manually adjusted via GPU driver software like MSI Afterburner so be aware that different fan profiles on your motherboard header will affect both the acoustics and cooling performance for that main radiator fan and here we set it to low standard and turbofan profiles through the motherboard that give you slight variation in temperatures and we recommend the just standard profile as that provides the best balance of acoustics and performance there's about five degree deltas between all three fan profiles but still outstanding cooling result regardless so now onto the battery box so now that you've seen all the results the Seahawk cart has plenty of expected overclocking Headroom that is still limited by invidious voltage locks but the end result is a satisfactory 1520 megahertz on the core and 8,000 74 megahertz on the memory with a fan header set to standard and running at the solid 50 degree Celsius delivering just a few extra frames on average so it makes us happy and in conclusion the 980ti Seahawk is exactly what we expected it to be delivering outstanding clock speeds good temperatures and fairly low noise levels provided you set an appropriate fan profile if only both fans were controlled by the GPU for less to do work for the user out of the box now that would have been fantastic this corsair and msi collaboration makes for a strong statement though between the brands and likely won't be the last and we're giving it harbor Canucks damge reward so guys thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe for more similar content and if interested all relevant 980ti reviews will be linked in the description I'm a Dmitry with hardware conducts thanks for watching we'll see you in the next one