The word RGB is nothing new. In the past two years, mechanical keyboards with RGB backlights became popular. Now it is the turn of cards and motherboards. With the release of Nvidia's latest generation of flagship GTX1080/1070, non-public versions of major manufacturers will play in unison. From the RGB, such as this article out of the box describes the MSI GTX1080 DUKE dark Hei Longjue, and I saw ASUS STRIX, Gigabyte G1 GAMING, Sotec PGF, etc. are all RGB 16.8 million color backlight as one of the selling points, so those who do not have RGB graphics card The brand should pay attention to you already out.
The following box introduction
The Chinese name of the MSI DUKE series is Diablo Dragon, and the literal translation is the Duke. Packaging is a common black box, the front did not give the graphics card picture, on a DUKE dark Dragon Lord's Sino-British hybrid logo, saying that this "dark" is what ghost? The upper right corner highlights VR Ready, indeed VR virtual reality technology has a very high performance requirement for the graphics card. GTX1080 is the new king of cards and is undoubtedly the most suitable for running VR games.
The back side introduces DUKE series features, TriFrozr three-fan radiator, metal backplane, full covered heat sink, RGB backlight.
Inside 360° no dead bubble wrap, the accessory box style is the same as before.
All connectors are protected by a red silicone sleeve at the factory. Full black main color, carbon fiber texture.
Metal backboard naturally will not be less.
Unlike LIGHTNING's black and yellow, GAMING's black and red, the new DUKE series is dominated by black, and then use black and gray carbon fiber texture, white text as a decoration, the black main color shell is more moderate, but it is also because In this way, DUKE is well-matched with other color-matching hardware. Don't forget that there are RGB LEDs on the top that can arbitrarily change the backlight.
The positioning of DUKE is slightly lower than the GAMING series, but the radiator of GTX1080 DUKE is equipped with more TriFrozr triple milk fans than GAMING. The heat dissipation performance is not bad at all, and even the total air volume may be higher, much like the blackening of Lightning. lightning.
The PCB length is 278mm and the actual total length is 312mm.
The PCB width is 128mm (excluding the PCI-E golden finger portion).
MSI GTX1080 DUKE's body absolutely can be called a monster, video card PCB length 278mm, be regarded as a relatively high-end video card standard body, but after installing the radiator to lengthen to 312mm, after all, three milk, light 3 90mm fan accounted for 270mm, meanwhile DUKE adopts "over shoulder" PCB design, which is higher than PCI baffle. Please pay attention to chassis compatibility when purchasing this card.
Thickness control is good, within dual PCI, SLI is the main card, then the wind resistance is less.
The Believe Backlight at the top of DUKE was upgraded to RGB LED, which supports 16.8 million color adjustments through software. Therefore, the MSI GTX1080 DUKE after power-on operation is its complete posture, but this logo is only a little monotonous with four letters, and there is no GAMING series of MSI Dragon. Logo is full of momentum.
The appearance is very interesting, the decoration of carbon fiber texture.
This carbon fiber pattern is not directly attached to the sticker, but the shell is directly stamped and made. It does not happen that the sticker sticks out after prolonged use. I had previously had a HD6950 male version.
The metal backboard also has a carbon fiber texture decoration and a wire drawing process.
The iconic blade modelling blade remembers that the MSI GTX660 era is in use. The GTX1080 fan supports temperature control and intelligent start-stop technology. The fan below 60°C automatically stops and remains silent, prolonging the life of the fan.
There is a heat-dissipation hole in the upper and lower air ducts.
Video output interface, this and the public version, 1 × DVI (does not support VGA adapter), 1 × HDMI, 3 × DisplayPort, in addition to DUKE baffle cooling holes unique.
SLI Cheats, although there are two SLI interfaces, there are currently no GTX1080 dual-channel examples.
8pin + 6pin video card power supply interface, the public version is a single 8pin, interface inversion easy user plug.
Did not dismantling does not evaluate, MSI card dismantling is relatively simple, you can unscrew the back of 4 spring screws.
The hard-to-remove is this LED backlight pin, which is called a tight ah.
The front side of the PCB, covered with a vest radiator, in addition to inductors and solid capacitors, most of the rest are taken care of.
The heat sink thickness is similar to the PCB.
This PCB covered heat sink has a detail worth mentioning, posted a lot of thermal paste, not only video memory and MOS tube, and several important chips are also affixed with thermal conductivity, in the past graphics did not seem too.
The left side of the PCB is relatively clean, and the components are mainly concentrated on the right side. The MSI GTX1080 DUKE adopts 8+2 phase power supply design. The characteristics of the military SFC inductors, all solid capacitors and other familiar faces will not be introduced, want to know detailed materials can refer to the online According to the GTX1080 GAMING evaluation, PCBs are almost identical in comparison.
Magnesium light D9XTS latest GDDR5X memory particles.
Power Supply, SFC Inductors, ON Semiconductor Mosfet.
uP9511p PWM power management chip.
Metal shield.
On the back, four small bean pods capacitor.
I started playing DIY with a radiator, so I'm used to focusing on the radiator.
The wind deflector is also very easy to remove. There are 6 screws under the front fan.
MSI GTX1080 DUKE radiator specifications, using three heat pipes (2 8mm + 1 6mm), large area copper bottom and two heat sink fins combination, all done a beautiful nickel plating, and all the welding process connection.
Heat pipes are two big and one small.
Some people say that DUKE only has three 6mm heat pipes that are not enough to see, and the Jingdong page is an 8mm heat pipe introduced. It is actually not entirely correct. It is actually a configuration of two 8mm heat pipes and one 6mm heat pipe, but there are only four 6mm heat pipes.
Large copper base, the use of wire drawing process, of course, we prefer the mirror polishing process.
The copper bottom and the heat pipe adopt the welding process. Note that the place where the copper bottom and the heat dissipation fin are in contact with each other is also welded. Because the radiator requires double PCI slot thickness, the heat pipe is flattened.
The heat pipe bends the details. The flat heat pipe on the picture transitions to a normal pipe, so there are some distortions.
Radiator work details at a glance.
Between the heat pipe and the heat sink fins is also a welding process, workmanship to see for themselves, solder joints clean, fins neatly made, neither a rough curved dragon, nor a stupid lack of progenitor heat transfer pipe, to say the shortcomings, is mentioned above Due to the double PCI card slot thickness, the total material usage of DUKE's heat sink, such as its weight and fin area, is less than that of the 3 PCI GTX1080.
DUKE's RGB backlight setup software is called Mystic Light and can be downloaded from the official website.
Although the interface is in English, the operation is very simple. The first LED backlight is turned on or off, and the second Styles setting mode has 6 options of On, Breath, Blink, Double Flash, Random, and Music. The following is the RGB palette.
You can also switch to a magic backlight.
MSI GTX1080 DUKE with the same RGB function Tt Riing fan will be able to achieve any change in platform color, if the motherboard is RGB just fine, this set of a green black color.
Computer platform
CPU Intel Core i5 6600K
Motherboard Gigabyte G1 Sniper B7
Graphics MSI GTX1080 8G DUKE
Memory GALAXY GAMER DDR4 2400 8G×2
Hard Disk Seagate SSHD 500G
Power Cooling GXII 650
Heat Chaser PH-TC12LS, TT Riing RGB
Chassis Patriot Moonlight Box X
Card frequency 1709MHz, Boost frequency 1848MHZ, the actual frequency up to 1949MHz, Xiaochao about 2GHz should be no problem.
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FurMark temperature copying machine, up to 75 °C, stable temperature 74 °C, the most important thing is that the fan speed is only 50% 1714RPM, very quiet, for the 90mm fan is more than 2000RPM noise, if you feel that the temperature performance is generally like, you can Manually increase fan speed.
At the end of this article, MSI GTX1080 DUKE has a new model and TriFrozr three-fan heatsink with carbon fiber pattern, metal back plate, and RGB 16.8 million color backlight. The overall face value is quite high. It can also be used with various colors of hardware. , Materials used to maintain the previous standard, and GTX1080 GAMING should be the same PCB, it is worth mentioning DUKE radiator work conscience, all welding, full nickel plating process, copying machine noise is low compared to force, the disadvantage is mainly DUKE logo backlight logo a bit Small, I hope to increase the area of ​​this backlight board, in addition to the large size of the video card itself , the length of more than 31 centimeters, a small chassis users carefully choose.