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well I wanted to take some time to compare the reference cooler for the GTX 560 and I realize I'm holding entirely the wrong prop right now but the reference cooler for the GTX 560 so this is a flower style heat pipe cooler so you can see if I guess if I spin that you may be able to see a little bit better you can see it looks kind of like a stock Intel LGA 1155 heatsink and then there's three heat pipes that come out of the top can you see in there okay what if I print like this can you see the heat pipes no okay how about now can you see the heat pipes through the top really you get to the heat pipes okay one two three heat pipes like that so those are spreading out into a like thin arrangement on either side so it's actually kind of like the msi cyclone cooler InDesign but it's covered with a shroud now some of the exhaust is going to come out here someone is gonna come out here some of it's gonna come out here and someone's gonna come out of here so while it does have a rear exhaust vent for all intents and purposes we can consider this a sort of 70 to 80 percent internal exhaust part now I wanted to compare that to the msi gtx 560 Twin Frozr 2 now this is not that card this is a GTX 460 hawk the Twin Frozr 2 card is actually on the test bench right now preparing for my idle temperature measurement but I'm going to compare both temperatures and noise levels of the twin frozer to heatsink which looks like this now this is an almost entirely internal exhaust heat sink as well you can see we're going to get some incidental airflow from this fan coming out here but other than that there's a lot exhaust coming right through the card here and the gaps right through here there's going to be some going out this way the heat pipes including two super pipes that is thicker than standard heat pipes and two normal ones so there are four total heat pipes are part of the overall design it does use a dense vent arrangement with dual fans in order to achieve what msi claims is up to 20 degrees better cool underload than a stock cooler now it's become a little bit challenging with recent GPUs to measure maximum load so instead of using fir mark which was my traditional favorite because of the way they've locked them down to actually underperform in fur marks so that you don't blow out your GPU by benchmarking firm are called a which I can kind of understand what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to loop the heav'n benchmark and then just find the highest temperature recorded during the entire thing this will be lower than normal so probably the Delta will be lower than we'd normally see but I guess it will give us some more realistic look at what the kind of noise and what kind of temperatures we're gonna get with these cards in in gaming scenarios so right now I'll show you guys my testing methodology I've got the GTX 560 on an open bench bear in mind open bench is going to be up to five to even ten degrees cooler than what you're gonna see in a closed case either that or the fan will ramp up more so it will also be in some ways quieter now I've got my ambient temperature here which is about 23 degrees and I have a temperature probe right here in front of the fan intake so based on a 23 degree intake temperature and a 27 degree idle temperature on my card I will call that a delta of 4 degrees for my gtx 560 so i'm going to do some low temps that i'm going to do some testing on the reference design and then i'll come back and do a conclusion for you guys not to stress the card as much as possible i am running the tessellation on extreme as well as a tax AAA and no it's not counterfeit I just changed my Hardware all the time a 8 X 8 a & 16 x AF otherwise looks like this now in terms of temperatures hold on I'm gonna turn my sensor back on so the room temps have gone up a little bit because I did have the doors closed so we're at 26 degrees in the room now and the maximum I'm going to take the absolute peak maximum we saw during the heaven benchmark was 54 degrees so that was the highest that was seen so then that means 54 minus 26 is I'm not very good at mental math so I'll be recording that on a graph and then I'll show you guys the reference cooler in a moment okay so just getting an idle temperature reading from my reference card so we're gonna call that 23 degrees ambient and we'll call that in a complete inability of my camera to focus on anything well I'll tell you what it says then it says 28 so there is the reference card on the bench and there is another attempt to focus collecting I can look them up on yeah you can kind of see that 28 so that's a delta of only about 5 degrees so back with the load results so we can see here on the graph what our max temperatures were while running the heav'n benchmark we peaked at around 70 degrees so that is a delta of actually well here I'll do the math okay because our room temperature is no 23 actually it was 20 for a moment ago but I opened the door so we're gonna go with 24 either way here is the data I'm not gonna bother graphing this for you guys I'm sorry so with the hawk we had a four degree Delta from the room temperature up to the temperature of the GPU at idle so a 5 degree Delta on the reference card but then when we look at the low temperatures it is almost as advertised on the msi box almost a 20 degree difference between the 4 5 60 Twin Frozr 2 and the 5 60 reference card so you can see that MSI does advertise 20 degrees Celsius cooler now if we were running a more extreme scenario we probably might see 20 degrees as a worst case scenario something else to bear in mind is this is an OC addition card so naturally the Twin Frozr 2 card will run a little bit hotter so if we clocked it down to the same speeds as the reference card we might actually see even better temperatures so thank you for checking out my video the GeForce GTX 560 TI thermals and acoustics as well as the person between the reference card and the Twin Frozr to addition card from NSI don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos so this is my noise reading for the gtx 560 TI Twin Frozr 2 and it will about 6 inches from the fan and let you guys take a little listen and then I'm going to cut in the reference cooler and here's my load test on the Twin Frozr - so I'm just going to move my normal distance from the car and I'll cut in with the reference cooler you