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MSI GTX 1080 Ti Lightning Z 11GB Review

Ryan Martin July 8, 2017 Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics, Reviews

Temperatures were measured after 5 minutes of load under three scenario: Furmark, Unigine Heaven and desktop idle in sequential order with 2 minutes of downtime in between each test. GPU-Z was used to record the maximum temperature, fan profiles on GPUs were left to their default behaviour.

Delta temperatures are presented below to account for small fluctuations in room temperature, but for all the testing present in this graph the temperature ranged from 21.6 to 23.1 degrees Celsius.

Cooling performance was stellar – this was the coolest GTX 1080 Ti on test.

It didn't just achieve this on the GPU core either, the comprehensive cooling solution kept the VRMs and memory cool too.

Nonetheless we found MSI's claim that users could ‘Monitor temperature of GPU/Memory/VRM through Afterburner‘ to be initially challenging. The version of Afterburner supplied on the product download page, 4.3.0, did not let us achieve this. However, after we acquired beta version 4.4.0 Beta 12 and accepted the reboot prompt, upon first launch we were then able to see one PCB temperature and four VRM temperatures.

In our load tests VRM temperatures were in the low 80s or high 70s while the PCB temperature was in the mid-70s. Very safe and respectable temperatures all around.

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12 comments

Lelisevis
July 8, 2017 at 9:49 pm

I don’t know…..everyone raved about the triple fans on the Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X in reviews but I had to live with the thing for 3 years and believe me in real life that thing was like a caged bee. I’ve just made the move to a MSI GTX1080 Gaming X plus with the Twin Frozr and those much larger dual fans are way more quiet.
I like to think of it like this, when picking a radiator given the choice we would all rather have a 140mm over a 120mm, it’s cooler and quieter. Some of those triple fan GPU’s look like they have squeezed a third fan in and when they ramp up…..in the real world be it from a warm CPU or hot sunny day you may live to regret it.
Allan
July 8, 2017 at 10:53 pm

ryan did stress in the review this card isnt too loud mind you. Sometimes i find it can be fan pitch or vibrations, or turbulence between some fans can be the most annoying.
Lelisevis
July 9, 2017 at 12:32 am

Yeah it’s just crazy how we all spend a fortune on the biggest slowest fans we can possibly get then we are a happy putting a 90mm, 1400rpm fan on the hottest component in our PC, that’s before the overclock. We’ll be going back to NForce chipset fans next ?
Dennis Zweverink
July 9, 2017 at 3:43 am

3000 units worldwide? Seems like a shame for such a solid card. In any case, great review guys! I’ll try to keep an eye out for this card.
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Berdugo
August 11, 2017 at 12:04 pm

Well I just installed my GTX 1080 Ti Lightning (the X version with “slower” clocks) and the fan “issue” (where the fans start spinning loudly for 3 seconds then slow down) is quite annoying… I can believe there is no workaround…
bonomork
August 22, 2017 at 3:20 pm

From MSI forum:
You can prevent the spin ups when you disable Zero Frozr in Gaming APP and thus keep the fans spinning permanently