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MSI Claims 90% Better Cooling with SuperPipe Technology

Posted 04/10/09 at 09:53:09 AM  by Paul Lilly

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More and more custom cooling solutions are starting to appear for Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285 videocards, with one of the more intriguing options belonging to MSI. The company has taken traditional heatpipe designs, fattened them up, and slapped them on its N285GTX SuperPipe OC graphics card.

"Today, MSI is pleased to announce the N285GTX SuperPipe graphics card, which not only brings to bear the powerful NVIDIA GPU - GeForce GTX 285, but, via the revolutionary ‘SuperPipe’ and Twin Frozr thermal design, offers a high performance and thermal efficiency graphics card," MSI wrote in a press release.

The aptly named SuperPipes consiste of 8mm thick heatpipes, which are up to 60 percent thicker than traditional heatpipes. According to MSI, the wider design leads to 90 percent better cooling performance. The N285GTX has been outfitted with five heatpipes in all, two of which are SuperPipes, on an all-metal heatsink with dual fans.

No word yet on price or availability.

Image Credit: MSI

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TAGS: graphics, videocard, cooling, nvidia, gpu, geforce, hardware, msi, build a pc, gtx 285, superpipe, n285gtx
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avatarThis is a great card.

Submitted by innervoid on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 3:28am

I bought a Msi GTX 260 with this cooler for under 200 bucks. It has performed Wonderfully with A overclocked 260 655/1500/1050 never goes over 60c in a hot room. fan speed is 40% and quite as well. The 260 I have with the HSF Does not have the Superpipe tech and still is one of the coolest 260's ive seen in my professional experience. 5 heatpipes and 2 fans. more then enough. this superpipe is an exact copy on my HSf but with the 2 new superpipes

I am happy with this cooler it is as good as it says it is. I upgraded this from the duorb on a 8800gt , It used fatter copper heat pipes. I always perfer the open fan heat pipe design. No Hairdryer sounds coming from my machine. If you ask me STOCK is A flawed design . cheap simple and a waste of metal. Anyone knows you can't just keep your stock HSF below 60c on stock fan speeds like this /MSI

 

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avatarThat card

Submitted by Devo85x on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 2:07pm

That card looks badass!

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avatari like msi.  they seem to

Submitted by decapitor on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 2:25pm

i like msi.  they seem to always put good aftermarket coolers on their cards while keeping their prices towards the lower end of the spectrum.  that gets my money every time.

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avatarAt Least They're Trying

Submitted by Zoomer on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 10:55am

Most will still buy the stock-brands, like EVGA or whatever. The average consumer just wants the standard....though it's questionable if an 'average consumer' would buy these cards altogether, you know what i mean. I'm fine with my stock 280s, and the 285s never had a heat issue to address in the first place.....

 

Anyway, at least MSI is doing SOMETHING to differentiate themselves from the competition. 

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avatar*Yawn*, another heatpipe

Submitted by dag1992 on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 10:05am

*Yawn*, another heatpipe design with high hopes, what's new?

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