The relative success of AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X all-in-one liquid-cooling solution by Cooler Master motivated manufacturers about implementing hybrid cooling solutions on a wider scale, and since EVGA and less-known Japanese brands have introduced their graphics adapters with custom hybrid coolers, MSI and Corsair decided to begin working together on a new advanced cooling solution for graphics cards, out of which NVIDIA’s GTX 980Ti will probably be the first device to receive the first model.
The first evidence of this work is the prototype of MSI’s GTX 980Ti watercooled graphics adapter, pictured at Computex this year by
KitGuru, which is based on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics processing unit and carried Corisair’s newest hybrid cooling solution together with HG10-series bracket. Now Corsair and MSI want to release this very product, and they made it known on Facebook.
Corsair and MSI must be ready for this fall's new custom cards
No specs or detailed information is known about the new cooling solution co-developed by the two companies, but it’s clear it will be aimed at overclockers. No exact clock-rates are known, but we expect them to be much higher than NVIDIA’s reference design. It’s unknown either if the Corsair cooling solution will be the only one coming for MSI custom graphics adapters, but since the partnership seems solid and set for the long term, it’s likely many MSI top-tier cards will carry Corsair’s liquid-coolers.
It’s very likely that many custom manufacturers will have to refresh their graphics cards offer this autumn and bring more overclocked graphics adapters that will have to count on more powerful cooling solutions.
