Foreword
As we all know, recently Huang Lao and Aunt Zhang (which sounds pretty good match) have launched the ultimate belief test of GTX1080×6+GTX1070×6. In order to obtain top-ups, you have a good fight, and you have responded that if you win the election, you will be on the top level. 6/8 core CPU + X99 + 32G DDR4 platform, plus a GTX1080 team dual SLI, and even said in the live broadcast to eat X (Dare to ask you in the end or do not want to be in), see the battle , å’± å’± å’± å’± å’± å’± å’± å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤ å› æ¤
This video card was borrowed from the local tycoon brothers. Originally, according to his game needs, it was not so high-end. However, in order to force the RGB, there are also GTX1080 Founders Edition public and non-public version of the performance, temperature comparison and SLI. Dual card system, he was on the GTX1080, the brother is to say such loyalty (keng).
RGB graphics card
The word RGB is not new. Two years ago, mechanical keyboards with RGB backlights became popular. Now it's the turn of graphics cards, motherboards, etc. With the release of Nvidia's latest generation of flagship graphics GTX1080/1070, non-public versions of major manufacturers have all played together. RGB, for example:
Looking for a few of the GTX1080 models in the major video card brands, all of them use RGB 16.8 million color backlights as selling points. There are no RGB card brands here. Note that you are out.
So now I think we should add a video card, I must add a RGB backlight, although the ancient saying that people can not face, but the reality is that handsome guy resources more, in the same situation the workplace is more easily promoted, into the video card inside is the same, Yan value is king, in addition to the GTX1080 graphics card, performance, price, materials and other aspects are generally similar, like the above 4 GTX1080, in addition to RGB backlight, black shell, metal backplane, three fan cooling, etc. are all the same , I recommend brothers to start MSI GTX1080 dark Dragon Lord there are two reasons, radiator work, GTX970/GTX960 GAMING I have experienced, neither curved dragon, nor progenitor tubes, and warranty, other parts of the country I dare not say that there was no box on the side of Shanghai to claim that the HD7850 Hawk without invoice would be guaranteed, so I would prefer to use MSI. Asus I know is also good. Gigabyte and Sotec are not good or bad.
Packing out of the box
The following box introduction.
The Chinese name of the 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 also emphasizes a VR Ready, indeed VR virtual reality technology has a very high performance requirement for the graphics card. GTX1080 is the new king card 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.
Internal 360° no dead foam wrap, accessory box style as before.
Appearance list
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.
Details of the review
The first impression that DUKE gave me was that it was large in size.
The length of the video card PCB is 278mm, and the actual total length is 312mm.
The graphics card PCB width is 128mm (excluding the PCI-E golden finger part).
MSI GTX1080 DUKE's body is absolutely colossal, video card PCB length 278mm, high-end graphics in the standard body, but after installing the radiator is elongated to 312mm, after all, three milk, light 3 90mm fan accounted for 270mm, while DUKE uses a "cross-border" PCB design, which is higher than the PCI baffle. Please pay attention to compatibility when purchasing this card.
Thickness control is good, within dual PCI, SLI is the main card, then the wind resistance is less.
One of DUKE's biggest selling points, the faithful backlight at the top is upgraded to RGB LED, which supports 16.8 million color adjustments through the driver software. Therefore, the MSI GTX1080 DUKE after power-on operation is its complete posture, but this logo is only a little bit four letters. There is no GAMING series of Weixing Dragon Logo 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 model, I remember the GTX660 era is in use, this fan supports temperature control and intelligent start and stop technology, 60 °C below the fan automatically stop mute, along the way to extend fan life.
There is a heat-dissipation hole in the upper and lower air ducts.
SLI Cheats, although there are two SLI interfaces, there are currently no GTX1080 dual-channel examples.
8pin + 6pin graphics card power supply interface, the public version is a single 8pin, interface inversion easy user plug.
Video output interface, this is the same as the public version, 1 x DVI (VGA transfer is not supported), 1 x HDMI, 3 x DisplayPort.
The baffle's heat dissipation openings are unique.
Graphics card dismantling
Did not dismantling not evaluation, MSI card dismantling is relatively simple, can be screwed back four spring screws can be, the old driver said that the warranty stickers easily removed with the utility knife, no effect on the graphics card warranty.
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 piece of heat has a detail that deserves to be mentioned. It has posted a lot of thermal pastes, not only memory and MOS transistors, but also covers several important chips. In the past there wasn't so much.
The light on the left side of the PCB is relatively light, and the components are mainly concentrated on the right side. The GTX1080 DUKE adopts the 8+2 phase power supply design. The familiar features of the MSI SFC inductor, all-solid capacitor, and other features of the MSI features are not introduced. Want to know the detailed materials can refer to the online GTX1080 GAMING evaluation, PCB contrast exactly the same.
On the back, four small bean pods capacitor.
heat sink
I started playing DIY with a radiator, so I'm used to putting a few radiator photos.
The wind deflector is also very easy to remove. There are 6 screws under the front fan.
GTX1080 DUKE radiator specifications, using a combination of three heat pipes (two 8mm+1 6mm), a large area copper bottom and two heat sink fins, all made a beautiful nickel plating process, and all connected for the welding process.
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. The 8mm heat pipe described in the JD.com page is not entirely correct. Actually it is the configuration of two 8mm heat pipes and one 6mm heat pipe. I think the performance of four 6mm heat pipes is always there. of.
A large area of ​​copper bottom, using the 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 heat sink requires a double PCI slot thickness, the heat pipe is flattened.
Heat pipe bending details, here transition from flat to normal round pipe, so there are some distortions.
Between the heat pipe and the heat sink fins is also a welding process, workmanship to see for yourself, as I said at the beginning, the solder joints are clean, the fins are neat, neither bent dragon nor the heat transfer tube, to say the shortcomings, or mentioned above Due to the double PCI card slot thickness, the overall material (weight and fin area) of the DUKE radiator is not as good as the 3 PCI GTX1080.
Computer platform
CPU Intel Core i5 6600K
Motherboard Gigabyte G1 Sniper B7
Graphics MSI GTX1080 8G DUKE
Memory Corsair LPX DDR4 16G
Hard Disk Seagate SSHD 500G
Power Cooler Master GXII 650
Heat Chaser PH-TC12LS, TT Riing RGB
DUKE's RGB backlight setup software is called Mystic Light.
Although the interface is in English, the operation is very simple. The first LED backlight is turned on or off, the second Styles setting mode is lit, breathing, blinking, double flashing, random, and music. Here is the RGB palette.
You can also switch to a magic backlight.
MSI GTX1080 DUKE with the same RGB function Tt Riing fan can achieve any change in platform color, if the motherboard is RGB just fine (just burned a piece).
Card frequency 1709MHz, Boost frequency 1848MHZ, the actual frequency up to 1949MHz, Xiaochao about 2GHz should be no problem.
The three major mothers run points, Fire Strike Ultra score 5171, had wanted to try the latest Time SPY, found that need to upgrade Win10 DX12 to use, but can only give up, unless I have no choice but to change the environment habits.
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 will be obvious, if you think that the temperature performance is generally like, you can Manually increase fan speed.
to sum up
Time reasons, for the time being out of the box, this article is for the preparation of the SLI dual channel for faith measurement GTX1080. Want to know if the MSI GTX1080 Dark Dragon Dragon and the public version of the Titan Warrior barely see if you want to see Aunt Zhang, about MSI GTX1080 The advantages and disadvantages of Dark Dragon Jue are summarized as follows:
advantage
Carbon fiber pattern, metal backplane, graphics card appearance is still possible
With RGB 16.8 million color backlight, with a variety of color hardware
Three milk fans, smart start and stop at 60 °C, even if the machine is very quiet
TriFrozr radiator work conscience, all-welded, all-plated nickel, fins neatly without slots
Shortcomings
Large in size, over 31cm in length, small chassis users choose carefully
The backlight pattern of the DUKE logo is a bit small and it is hoped that the area of ​​the backlight will increase.
Due to the limitations of dual PCI thicknesses, the total heat sink material used, such as weight and fin area, is less than 3 PCI-sized GTX1080.