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EVGA releases AIO water-cooling solution with GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid

By Koh Wanzi - on 26 Mar 2015, 12:24pm

EVGA releases AIO water-cooling solution on GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid

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EVGA is no stranger to competitive custom cooling solutions for graphics cards. The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper came with a pre-installed water block for custom water cooling loops to provide enthusiasts with more options and greater convenience. The company has now announced the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid, a dual-slot card featuring an all-in-one (AIO) water-cooling solution that will offer even greater convenience to system builders.

EVGA has combined the superior performance of water-cooling with the convenience of AIO coolers. The EVGA GeForce GTX 980’s water cooler is completely self-contained and requires no re-filling, no custom tubing or maintenance. Gamers and overclockers who do not want to deal with the hassle and risk of custom liquid-cooling solutions, such as those meant to be paired with the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hydro Copper, will literally be able to just plug their card in and start fragging.

The company has also clearly paid attention to aesthetics with the design of the water cooler. It has done away with conventional rubber tubing and gone with sleeved black tubing for a more sleek and classy look. Its intelligent wiring system also ensures that your system will be neat with no messy wires sticking out.

According to a graph released by EVGA, the new card will see temperatures between 40 and 50ºC, pulling ahead of its air-cooled counterparts by a fair margin. In comparison, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 reference card we reviewed posted a load temperature of 81ºC. EVGA’s figures also appear to best the three-fan Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming, which posted a temperature of 61ºC.

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 The card ships with a factory overclocked 1291MHz base clock and 1393MHz boost clock, the same speeds as the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Classified ACX 2.0. It depends on a fairly compact 120mm radiator and copper-base contact to channel heat away from the GPU. The VRM and memory cooling solution is also separated from the GPU, and will be cooled by NVIDIA’s reference blower-style cooler, which is where the card gets its Hybrid moniker from. According to EVGA, this will allow for maximum GPU cooling and more efficient heat dissipation for the VRM and memory components. The better thermal performance might even allow the card to hit higher overclocks than its air-cooled counterparts. 

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System builders will also be happy to learn that EVGA will allow them to swap out the included radiator fan for quieter or better-performing options. All things considered, the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 should give noise-adverse gamers a cooler and quieter experience for a fraction of the price of a full, custom-loop liquid-cooling solution. 

In addition, EVGA will allow current owners of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 reference cards to take advantage of its hybrid cooling solution. The AIO water-cooling loop and radiator will be available as a separate SKU and be compatible with all GeForce GTX 980 reference cards.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid graphics card and cooler will ship with a suggested retail price (SRP) of US$649.99 and US$99.99 respectively. For more detailed specifications, please visit EVGA's website.

Source: EVGA

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