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If you are looking to dip your toes into watercooled graphics cards, then Corsair and MSI have you covered with the GTX 1080 Hydro, which combines the convenience of an all-in-one liquid cooler with the power of Nvidia's latest Pascal architecture.
Much like last year's GTX 980Ti Seahawk edition, the GTX 1080 Hydro GFX makes use of the Corsair H55 AIO cooler, along with a blower style air cooler to help cool the other components on the PCB.
Under the hood, this is a Founder's Edition board, so power delivery is all standard and the card gets its power from the single 8-pin connector. For clock speeds, you will get 1607MHz base and 1733MHz boost in Silent Mode, 1683MHz base and 1822MHz boost in Gaming Mode which is the default configuration, and finally 1708MHz base and 1847MHz boost in OC Mode.
The liquid cooler will allow the GTX 1080 Hydro to maintain higher clock speeds for longer periods compared to the Founder's Edition, which will hit its thermal limit much quicker. This GPU should hit store shelves any day now, with an MSRP of £699.99 in the UK, and $749.99 in the US.
KitGuru Says: These AIO liquid cooled GPUs seem to be getting more popular each generation. Are any of you guys in the market for a GTX 1080? Would you go with an All-in-One liquid cooled version like this, or would you rather a custom air cooler?
That pump on the GPU AIO must be tiny…….Pump failure killing my £200 CPU outside of warranty would break my heart, pump failure killing my £600 GPU would break my heart and eat my soul. I’m curious how many of you guys are ready to trust your GPU cooling to a All-In-One cooler with its added risks? I briefly toyed with a NZXT Kraken with variable pump speed, variable meaning when it slowed down it shook my whole case before I returned to a Thermalright Macho X2 limited edition, I left my 290X cooling to Sapphire Vapor-X, Huge, scarily heavy but very very cool.
No I’m thinking GTX1080 or Titan X on custom eK water I don’t like AIO’s currently running a pair of 7970s on a custom eK loop and I’m looking to switch back to team green. I’m starting to think water is only for GPU’s now unless your rocking a 125W+ cpu. AIO’s might appeal to people that want a simple setup but they have there own problems that custom loops don’t have unless you spring a leak…
So whats the difference between the Hydro GFX and the Seahawk?
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