Usually the mounting bracs are similar from gen to gen, there is always a high chance of the hole alignment, i had a dual 120mm fan cooler for gfx for around 10 yrs cause of that and the last card wasn´t supported but the alignment was there on the supports.
i mean this cooler has been around for like 6 years albeit that they revised it to 2nd gen (same mounting and slighly different fin designs) and it's fine with so many generatinos of cards, so unless nvidia decides to fuck everyone up it should be fine
I own an AMD Vega64 reference or founders edition.. . and the beast is hot and noisy. With the Morpheus 2, I'm way cooler. But I found the heatsinks didn't match the VRM, Mosfets, etc. on the board. So, I went on Newegg, Amazon, private and independent vendors and found a slew of different sizes and types. Used Gennel thermo glue to stick them down to the board. I lost my tube of Artic MX#4 so I used the thermo mud that came with the Morpheus 2. The temps were really good, the card was silent and my clocks speeds were up. In Call of Duty WW2, game load 1680mhz, game load was went down to 48/52c from 65/76c. Game idle 35c, down from 56c. Just sitting around the desktop1630mhz, 23 to 26c Fans were auto. This was a good buy. Thanks Optimum Tech.
Great video. Just today I installed the Morpheus II Core on my Zotac Gtx 1080ti Amp Extreme alongside two Noctua NF-F12s and some Kryonaut, and now, even with my limit-pushing overclock, I dropped about 10°C. The card tops out at about 57°C in Fire Strike Extreme. Incredible stuff here. I am so glad I bought this.
I’ve just finished installing this in my air 240 Matx case and have seen amazing results. I have 2 Corsair ml120 fans at 30% (sounds like 50 - 1200 rpm) on my asus turbo 1080ti @ 2000mhz with stock front plate pulling 49 degrees! I even went up to 2063 with 40% fan speed and got 44 degrees! This thing is awesome and it took me longer to get it in my case than to install the Morpheus 😂 Thanks for your walk through as this is what inspired me to do this mod!
thanks for the helpful guide! I installed the morpheus ii on this exact same SC2 card today and I figured out a way to do it with the stock backplates on! Just toss some washers on the 4 screw holes so that the holes in the backplate are brought flush with the backplate surface. this is the same thickness as the morhpeus ii mounting bracket, so you don't need the bracket or to remove the backplates.
Just installed Morpheus II with 2 Noctua Nf-F12 fans on my Zotac 1080Ti Amp Edition. Very impressed so far. From 82-84°C to 60-62... Before I was able to achieve 1.936 mhz on core, now I can easily stay +2000 mhz. Can't be more happy.
Well if you need a expensive card for liquid cooling king pin hybrid tear it down and use the card better power phases but for air cooling you could pretty much max out the card with stock power levels overclocked just don’t get into silly stuff like boosting voltage and shunt mods only do that when liquid cooling
It's still worthwhile especially these days with everybody buying used video cards. Lots of them have tired fans or need to be completely disassembled, cleaned and repasted anyways. Might as well throw in 100 for this thing and a couple fans. I have it on my 1080 founders. The blower fan ruined immersion and some of the AIO solutions were very half ass or way overpriced.
Honestly if you want bleeding edge performance, nothing beats an open loop and a GOOD card made for it especially on the power delivery side. Most stock cards will thermal throttle way before that at least my 1080 did.
2:17 just so you know, the EK Vardars are at the very top in terms of airflow/noise. That means that they will make less noise for any given temp target than all other fans in the market. That said, Noctuas may have a less intrusive sound signature... I don't know because I haven't seen frequency data, only sound pressure.
I'd be interested in seeing a "control" for the performance here: remove the fans and shroud from the ICX cooler, and zip-tie the Vardar fans to it. That way, you'd get to see which part of the improved temperatures comes from the new heatsink, and what is simply due to increased airflow. Follow-up video, perhaps?
I wish aftermarket companies made a cooler like the raijintek but with cooling support (with pads) for the vmr, memory, etc. So the full system is refrigerated by that big heatsink + double 120 mm fan support.
By my knowledge of aerodynamics, EVGA's fan desing is pretty bad. Same for ASUS (I bought a Strix thinking the big cooler would be quiet but, the fans at minimum are audible) and MSI's using 2 different blades on the same fan is just wierd. Why don't they just make normal fans.
100% worth the extra 150 I spent on the heat sink and 2 noctua 120mm fans. Super quiet and similar cooling performance on my Vega 56. Best part is that I will be able to adapt it to new video cards in the future as well.
Back a few years ago, a friend of mine had a 560Ti, and the fans rattled like crazy. So we removed the fans, as well as the shroud, and then mounted 2 120mm fans onto the stock heatsink. We saw very similar gains in cooling performance even with the stock heatsink, just by mounting a couple fans to it. :)
This is impressive. Ive always liked the look of the morpheus. Vardar fans are great too. Would never have thought it could get a 1080ti into the 40's underload. I have my 1080ti strix on water atm. 2050core it never goes over 48c. Thats with 14 120mm fans on a 360 and 480 rads. Fan speeds around 700rpm in games. 300rpm idle.
This thing is incredibly good. I put it on my EVGA 1080 Ti Founders Edition with two 140mm Noctua (yes 140's will fit) with a lot of liquid metal and it stays in the 40's with a closed case. The case is a Dark Base Pro 900 which is a hot case too. My mind was blown
The ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme III VGA Cooler fits inside the ncase with normal 25mm thick fans. Would love to see a comparison between these two. I have a feeling the accelero would be a better buy since it's gonna have similar performance while being smaller and cheaper.
I swapped the cooler on my 1080Ti FE for an EVGA AIO hybrid and it provides similar temperatures to the 2000 RPM profile in this video. It is quieter, but for double the price (Raijintek heat sink and EK fans). The 1000 RPM profile though is most likely quieter than the hybrid kit, and the extra few degrees totally justify the much lower price. The EVGA hybrid looks better in my opinion, but hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
honestly, if you want low temps just get a hybrid card. Its cheaper, you don't have to take apart your gpu, you don't risk damaging it, and if you want rgb you can swap out the fan it comes with on the radiator with a custom one. My EVGA GTX 1080 TI FTW3 Hybrid hits a nice 58 C under heavy load after hours of use.
:D I was doing this back in the day to all of my GPU`s :D you do not even need in most cases the aftermarket cooler... just slap 2x120mm good airflow fans and fix them with black zip ties and you are golden .....
@Optimum Tech I think the MB box may be act like a sound amplifier, so I don't think the sound test is that accurate. But you got yourself a subscriber, none the less. Thanks, Matt
EVGA ICX coolers are SO SO good, not much needed cooling performance really. Some low end cards (Dual etc.) would benefit from this ALOT tho! Nice to see that Morpheus II beat even ICX with pretty clear numbers :)
Did something similar on my cheap iteration of a 1070ti (palit dual fan). Went from 92c max under load to 58c max under the same load! (Kraken g12 + arctic liquid freezer 120 with 1 noctua nf-f12 high static pressure fan) The biggest difference was the noise though, the first was running in a 1:1 (oC : fanspeed%) fan profile and sounded like a jet engine, the new hybrid cooling solution is almost silent under load :)
This is an awesome cooler, but be aware that you may have difficulties with certain cards that use different thread size screws or a higher backplate. For example installing this on my MSI 1080 Gaming X was a breeze as I just had to use the stock heatsink spring screws. When I tried this on an EVGA 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 the screws they used were too thick to fit into the standoffs of the Morpheus, in the end I was able to use the little backplate bracket by removing the rubber underside (using a couple of layers of masking tape to prevent scratching), then the Raijintek long spring screws were able to reach through to the standoffs. I noticed that you elected to remove the backplate and just place the cross bracket straight onto the back of the PCB. I guess this is possibly how it's supposed to work, but I really didn't want to lose the structural rigidity and additional cooling of having the backplate on the card. Sadly I've had to downgrade for a bit to a GT 1030, because money. Wish I could use this for that :P
Some awesome performance from this thing, and honestly, the price ain't too bad. When I finally get my hands on a 1080Ti, I'm definitely going to make the upgrade.
As someone with an Ncase I'd love to see how this performs with some 12mm fans so that it can squeeze into the 3-slot of the Ncase. Great video and a pretty dope looking product to boot.
I got one on my R9 390 with 2 Phobya eLoop fans and it's insane, my case is not the greatest for good temperatures but I still get 65°C after 15 minutes of benching without the slightest bit of noise. I use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on the card aswell
Honestly just take the fan plate off and mount two 120mm fans on the stock heatsink. Then get a VGA to 4pin adapter if you want a fan controller via gpu. I did this . Two be silent 120mms and stock cooler my gpu stays under 55 full load in a tiny custom case.
FINALY some real engineering.Only minus is no cooling for the Vrms.They are a bit hotter than i expected even on my water cooled 1060(i predicted good cooling for them with a whole block but still they run at 60-70 degrees).I can't imagine the heat output of the 1080Ti vrms
Little late but I think the components on the VRM can run easily at 60-70 degrees. I thought I read somewhere that MOSFETs can run at 110 C but check for yourself as I am not sure.
The Morpheus II: Core Edition (not to be confused with the Morpheus Vega that has a different positioning and layout specially made for Vega to the 056th and 064th Power) is capable of being installed on Radeon VII: Now, those that know me personally and elsewhere in the community are aware that I am presently developing a Sleeper PC built out of my old eMachines ET1331G-07w that turns ten years old on June 0I8; the build will be a Ryzen 3950X/Radeon VII Workstation that will produce our programming over here for the foreseeable future, though Thermals will be an issue due to its rather cozy internal layout as a Micro ATX case, so I'm packing this with a Noctua NH-D15: Chromax Black for the 3950X and I have contemplated opting for the Morpheus II: Core Edition (possibly with the Vardar Fans) to cool the Radeon VII instead of using the Stock Cooler, but there are no known programs online where somebody showcases this such mod outside of Reddit threads and a few Tutorial Articles, which has left me uncertain about doing this until I have proper numbers. In the event that you or anybody who is familiar with the Morpheus II: Core Edition can showcase how it works with the Radeon VII when compared to the Stock Cooler, it definitely would be appreciated; I don't know exactly when I'll have the eMachines Sleeper built, but having the numbers on my person for future reference will help me know if the mod is worth it, this card definitely is one of AMD's most unique and powerful on plentiful fronts and assuring that it has as optimal of stability as possible will be the top priority.
Do you think you'll ever revisit this cooler using the supplied aluminium heat sinks at any point? I can't help but feel that if you did, it would probably match the Arctic accelero cooler in terms of VRM/memory temps.
Nice! Finally a professional review of the morpheus 2. Would have been nice to also compare it to a water cooled card. Also would have been an idea to measure the noise, then have both solution meeting the same noise level and see at what temperature there at. I only got a gtx 1070 though...not sure why it's not supported.
i got the artic accelero III on my gigabyte GTX 1080 ti , with liquid metal paste highest ive seen is 56 C and that is after a couple hours with fans around 1560 rpms to 2100 rpms, with ambient room temp anywhere from 20 c to 25 c, lowest ive seen it while gaming is 49 C well worth the money and the fans are extremely quiet and actually come with the cooler, extremely easy to install, just if you use liquid metal like me use with care so you dont fry your gpu lol
I got this on my MSI GTX 1080ti gaming x ,but i use the Low Profile Low noise 120mm Noctua Fans , i combined it with Thermalright Tf8 and custom 1mm Thermalpads with Selfbuild Heatsink+Finns on the Vrams and i got amaizing results: on idle my Card Drops from 32C to 14C and at Heavy Load (Test-Bench) over Night 8h it wont get higher then 54C at max 1200RPM Fanspeed! This Custom Cooler is a must have and worth the price...btw. besides RTX and DLS i smashed a RTX 3080 😜😁and this pretty comfortly 👌 1080 +44fps 1440 +31fps 4k unknown because i have no Monitor to Test. All Test with FurMark, Cinebench and a Couple of ingame Benchmarks
I recently set up an all air cooled Fractal Define R6 with Noctua D15 and Morpheus II as well as a Seasonic 750W hybrid Titanium Plus PS. The PS never turns its fan on with the power my system uses. The CPU is only a degree or two above ambient at idle and the GPU is only at about 35C at idle. Without overclocking AND with the low noise adapters in place my 95W CPU only reaches 44C at 100% all 8 cores. My GPU with low noise adapters only reaches 59C at 100%. Without the low noise adapters the GPU drops another 4C and the CPU drops 2C. The whole system is pretty quiet. I've left the low noise adapters on. If I open the front of the case the 100% temps drop about 2C. Now that I have a good baseline, I'm getting ready to overclock the system. The morpheus 2 is currently only using 1 Noctua 12x15 slim fan with a low noise adapter connected to the PWM adapter on the card.
Very cool, but I want to note 2 things: - The EK Varders are good performance rad fans, but they are not really that great on noise. I think the new Noctua NF-A12's would utterly outclass them if you wanted top performance cimbined with near silence. I think most people would prefer that to 5-10c lower temps and probably only 12-24Mhz trivially higher boost at the most. The new Noctuas are stupidly good, even putting even other Noctua fans to shame. Literally being able to run twice the RPM while remaining quieter than competing high-quality fans makes them a perfect fit for this usecase. They do cost like twice as much though, but I figure that's easily worth it to many people. Otherwise any decent static-pressure fan will do the job sufficiently really... - I think the huge improvements here are more about the improved fans than the cooler itself. Many quality aftermarket boards (like the Strix, MSI, Aorus ect.) already have very good heatsinks. Personally I think that you would get a ton more bang for your buck if you just strap some quality fans on your existing heatsink - assuming it's a quality one. This has several benefits: You can afford better fans due to not having to pay for the expensive heatsink (such as the mentioned Noctua fans). You don't need to void any warranty or modify the card as removing a shroud is trivially simple and reversible. You don't need to worry about VRM/memory getting enough cooling since all that will still be cooled as intended by the manufacturer (just a lot better). Also finally, you won't have the trouble of sourcing such a niche product that may not be available in your country or in stock. Getting hold of quality fans is comparatively much much easier. You may even have some decent 120mm fans already you can use for the purpose if you want to keep it very cheap. Maybe best of all is that you can bring this sort of setup forward in your next upgrade too. Unlike full-board waterblocks and the like your quality 120mm fans will never become incompatible the next time you upgrade - and the best quality fans will last for a long time (Noctua's fans all have 6 years warranty). Very inexpensive and flexible solution in the long-term, and competes well with mid-range or AIO water solutons that will cost you many times more. Protip: If you don't want to mess around with anything more complicated it's perfectly fine to just zip-tie on the fans. Protip2: if you want to connect the fans to on-GPU PWM controller you will need an adapter. You can find these cheap on ebay. Search for "small pwm". They are electrically identical to a pwm but the plug is just smaller. You could just cut and solder if you wanted, but since the cost is so low it's nice not to have to permanently modify your original cooler for resale purposes. Protip3: Repaste the GPU with HQ thermal paste if you want 2-4 celcius better temps. (recommend kryonaut). It might not be worth the hassle to you as the gains are fairly small and GPU paste generally isn't horrible these days - but it's yet another pretty simple tweak you can do if you want the best of the best and don't find repasting to be intimidating. Oh boy, this turned into a rant didn't it? :D Hopefully helpful to someone out there thinking about similar solutions.
One of the major issues I see with the Morpheus II for the GTX 1070, GTX 1080, and GTX 1080 ti is the cost compared to the Hybrid kits. The Morpheus II us $69 without fans. Depending on the fans you use, you will spend another $30-$40+ for the two good quality fans($15-$20+ for each fan). So that brings the total cost to $69 + $30-$40+ which is $99-$110+. For the same price you can get an EVGA Hybrid cooler kit for all of the GTX 10700, GTX 1080 or GTX 1080 ti reference design board cards or a hybrid cooler kit for their FTW3 cards. You can also get the NZXT Kraken and a compatible AIO cooler for the same price. Those solutions will give cooling performance similar to the Morpheus II with the Vardar fans at 2000 RPM with much less noise and much less space taken up in your case. My own GTX 1080 ti FTW3 Hybrid overclocked to 2101 MHz runs at 45-50C in games and 47-53C in GPU intensive benchmarks while being much quieter than two Vardar fans at 2000 RPM. In addition to that the Hybrid kits can cool the VRAM and other GPU components with direct contact to heat sinks or the water cooling. My GTX 1080 ti FTW3 Hybrid running the unigine superposition stress test at 4K on a loop for 30+ minutes shows a GPU temp of 51C and a memory temp of 55C with the GPU radiator fan speed at 30%. If the Morpheus II was significantly cheaper, I could imagine it being worth the cost. It would be worth it for GPUs that are not compatible with the NZXT or EVGA hybrid kits.
Youre forgetting that this is AIR only, some people do NOT want liquid in their systems. Personally, the price seems fair enough considering i dont have to worry about water and extra fail points. Using LM drops it another 3c. Youre also forgetting EK Vardars dont come with AIO's, you would have to buy them seperately/additionally ($25 per).
My chassis doesn't have room for an AIO cooler, but it does have room in the expansion slot area. Most people only actually use a couple of expansion slots. Also, that the Morpheus II doesn't come with fans is a good thing. I don't think I've ever used stock fans. I used 3 92x15mm Noctua fans for my Morpheus II, so getting a couple 120s 'for free' wouldn't have helped at all. In fact, if the Morpheus had come with fans, I'd probably be bitching that I had to pay for garbage fans.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on your statement that the 2,000 RPM is within a few degree of what you would get with a waterblock and a custom loop. I would agree with it if you had said that it could be within a few degrees of what you might get with a water block and custom loop. I don't expect everyone to have a radiator as large the one I'm using, but my FTW3 sees peak load temperatures of 32c with my 140mm noctua industrial pwm fans running at 7XX RPM with ambient temperatures of 19-20c. With the fans at 33% (about 1,000 RPM) I see load temps of 30c.
every time you said (SC2 cooler) you were wrong. the SC2 is a version acronym it stands for supper clocked version 2. the (ICX cooler) is proper name you were looking for. just like the 700 series and the 900 series called it ACX and ACX 2. notice i didn't say that when you were talking about the GPU directly. only when you said SC2 cooler as if ti was the cooler.
"a few degrees of what you would get with a custom loop" if u build a loop for performance meaning not for looks or just for the sake of building something, your water temp will be the same as ambient doesnt matter if ur hitting 500 or 1000w load, but ofcourse 99% of the loops are just for looks not performance. What I am trying to say a decent loop might be 20 or 30c cooler, basically whatever your ambient is. Nonetheless morpheus 2 is awesome for how flexible, cheap and easy it is to work with.
This needs to come with some sort of gpu support bracket and you need to show this installed in a real case please to see how bad the droop will be. Thanks.
Not a bad after market cooler. Although, stock cooler wise, I'd have to say the MSI 1080ti Trio wins. When rendering 4k graphics and playing graphic intensive games at 1080p running at 100%, it runs 20c above ambient temperature. Which in my case, my room stays around 23c and the GPU runs at a constant 50-55c for hours at max load with fan RPMs never breaching 1500rpm. It's the only GPU I've ever owned that I can't hear it running when it's at max load.
PSA: If your going to post your setups tempatures for your cards, also post the Ambient tempature. Ambient tempature makes a huge difference on cooling performance
As in let's say you lived in New York , your gaming room was in the basement, well it has a 1080 strix and it reaches 65c tops. Well then you move to Florida, high 70s because the new normal highest tempature. If you want to know how well the cooler performance is take away room tempature (aka ambient temperature) from the average tempature of the card under load. Most of the time when people test these coolers it's at 20c (68 f) inside the room their testing it in.
i got the artic accelero III on my gigabyte GTX 1080 ti , with liquid metal paste highest ive seen is 56 C and that is after a couple hours with fans around 1560 rpms to 2100 rpms, with ambient room temp anywhere from 20 c to 25 c, lowest ive seen it while gaming is 49 C well worth the money and the fans are extremely quiet and actually come with the cooler, extremely easy to install, just if you use liquid metal like me use with care so you dont fry your gpu lol
Well in stress test on both yeah. GPU only stress test it what really matters if you prioritize gaming. Do that and if your GPU stays at around 50°C you are good. If not your block does not sit properly. CPU and GPU test on A240G done by Jay proove that cooling capacity is high enough. high CPU temps under full load are common. My delid 4790k also goes up to 65°C with a 480 and 280 rad so 85 is not too bad.
Nice video Optimum tech as usual ! How about you test the EVGA stock cooler with the Vardar fans ? I know for a fact that it is the best compromise between performances and costs, but we could use some benchmarkings to put real-world numbers on this affirmation. I think the main problem comes from the stock 10-15mm fans an not the heatsink, although the Morpheus II is a clear step-up from the orignal of course. Other cards like your MSI 1070Ti would be nice to include in this test too
Since there was a lot of questions about the accelero IV, I thought I might leave my opinion and experience as well. I found the accelero IV to perform a little worse, but the amount of cooling that provides at such quiet noise levels is astonishing. My 290x was fine with 1300mhz at all times just off that with a near unhearable noise level, and the fact it was cheaper than the morpheus heatsink alone says something. The standard thermal paste was great too being artic mx-4. Issues are the fans aren't actually that great at pushing air because they're smaller and quite slim. Also, I dislike the lack of direct VRM and VRAM cooling and instead relying on a backplate made me uneasy, and I saw big temperature drops after adding my own heatsinks (and what artic want for the dedicated vrm is something ridiculous like £25). And of course how much bigger and uglier it is, The cooler takes the 3 slots below it and then one above it with the mega backplate included, they didn't seem to consider users actually wanting to use half their other ports apparently. But overall it allowed some great overclocks and kept everything silent, and I don't regret the price and wrestling with bad instructions to replace my stock cooler with it but looking back and considering this review getting the morpheus and 2 high quality fans for £20 more may have been the better choice. If you do review the accelero, I think you'll also find the only advantages to be price and the fact fans are included
Oh, one thing I loved about the Accelero IV was the fact I could've shoved it on my brothers ASUS GT 740 if I wanted to for some reason. Perhaps if I wanted near idle overclocked temps and putting damn near enough stress on the card to snap it maybe, brace attached or not. Makes it tempting to buy another one just to see what it'd look like.
no direct VRM and Power cooling the cooler itself is a neat idea, but for a card the price of a 1080ti ,users are more likely to watercool anyway, before getting a custom air GPU cooler
Great video, quality cinematography! I'm really curious now if you could throw some Noctua fans on there and if it would still be quieter than an AIO card while remaining under 60°C so there's no throttling. Maximizing performance at low noise is a priority for me.
This is cool, but if it was me. I would rather keep the EVGA stock cooler, cause it's only 2 slots and in my opinion I like the look more. Now if the temps were an issue, that would be different, but temps are very good still.
Now what if we put the Morpheus 2 heatsink on a CPU?????? Well yeah, GPU Heatsinks tend to have more heat-removing TDPs than CPU heatsinks Soo i kinda interested
For me it comes down to one thing. Is it worth the time and money to run the card 1000 rpm slower to pick up 6 degrees. No, it isn't. In my R5 case, i would barely notice the difference anyway. That said, I do like the sound of the EK fans
i m running something similar, sort of. I have gigabyte 1070 g1 card. i removed the shroud and fans and zip tied couple of noctua 120 P12 fans. now my gpu stays under 60C all the time and it is barely audible. I cant control the fans though, since i plugged them in the motherboard. I m running them at flat 700rpm. Mine looks ugly though because..... noctua
would love to see if it possible to add 2 stand alone fans to the msi 1080ti armour , as those fans are atrocious and not built for a 1080ti full stop but has a a really good card underneath from what gamers nexus has said, but his answer doing a custom liquid cooled makes its not worth the answer down to cost
I think you should better move the mobo to the table instead of leaving it on top of the big mobo cardbox when taking sound pressure measurements. That cardbox is likelly reverberating... it's like noise on top of your fan noise readings :) Don't you think?
So don't you need a fan-controller, can you really mount like 2x bequiet silentwings coolers and connect them BOTH directly to the GPU and regulate with Asus GPU Tweak for example? That would be perfect.
Another big positive with this cooler is that you can transfer it to new gpus in the future which adds a lot of value.
If they are supported...
Usually the mounting bracs are similar from gen to gen, there is always a high chance of the hole alignment, i had a dual 120mm fan cooler for gfx for around 10 yrs cause of that and the last card wasn´t supported but the alignment was there on the supports.
i mean this cooler has been around for like 6 years albeit that they revised it to 2nd gen (same mounting and slighly different fin designs) and it's fine with so many generatinos of cards, so unless nvidia decides to fuck everyone up it should be fine
its not touching the vrm's and other energy related stuff, i think is not that good
AtomoVerde you’re supposed to put small heat sinks on them.
I want this for my GT 1030
nah bro 1030 TDP too high for air, gotta go with liquid nitrogen
nickt what do you mean you’ll barely get 90 degrees on idle you’ll need to at least go with some liquid hydrogen
Same
nah man u have to put it up uranus
I had to bring my 1030 to Jefferson Lab and put it behind neutron accelerator with helium cooler just to get 1mhz overclock
Well i like anything THICC so it's a Yes from me.
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I own an AMD Vega64 reference or founders edition.. . and the beast is hot and noisy. With the Morpheus 2, I'm way cooler. But I found the heatsinks didn't match the VRM, Mosfets, etc. on the board. So, I went on Newegg, Amazon, private and independent vendors and found a slew of different sizes and types. Used Gennel thermo glue to stick them down to the board. I lost my tube of Artic MX#4 so I used the thermo mud that came with the Morpheus 2. The temps were really good, the card was silent and my clocks speeds were up. In Call of Duty WW2, game load 1680mhz, game load was went down to 48/52c from 65/76c. Game idle 35c, down from 56c. Just sitting around the desktop1630mhz, 23 to 26c Fans were auto. This was a good buy. Thanks Optimum Tech.
I swear to god i thought i was watching Hardwarecanucks until i heard your voice XD
Fahad_Nomna7 same
Fahad_Nomna7 same
Me too! lol
Shame
Great video. Just today I installed the Morpheus II Core on my Zotac Gtx 1080ti Amp Extreme alongside two Noctua NF-F12s and some Kryonaut, and now, even with my limit-pushing overclock, I dropped about 10°C. The card tops out at about 57°C in Fire Strike Extreme. Incredible stuff here. I am so glad I bought this.
If you add RGB fans, your temps would be in the 40s 😎
It is known... RGB reduces temps *and* increases performance.
Agree* w/o a doubt it will.
This is true RGB is the coolest
If you have rgb you can actually play crysis
I’ve just finished installing this in my air 240 Matx case and have seen amazing results. I have 2 Corsair ml120 fans at 30% (sounds like 50 - 1200 rpm) on my asus turbo 1080ti @ 2000mhz with stock front plate pulling 49 degrees!
I even went up to 2063 with 40% fan speed and got 44 degrees!
This thing is awesome and it took me longer to get it in my case than to install the Morpheus 😂
Thanks for your walk through as this is what inspired me to do this mod!
thanks for the helpful guide! I installed the morpheus ii on this exact same SC2 card today and I figured out a way to do it with the stock backplates on! Just toss some washers on the 4 screw holes so that the holes in the backplate are brought flush with the backplate surface. this is the same thickness as the morhpeus ii mounting bracket, so you don't need the bracket or to remove the backplates.
Just installed Morpheus II with 2 Noctua Nf-F12 fans on my Zotac 1080Ti Amp Edition. Very impressed so far. From 82-84°C to 60-62... Before I was able to achieve 1.936 mhz on core, now I can easily stay +2000 mhz. Can't be more happy.
still use this cooler? It`s fine? You use it whit backplay or whitout it? card falling bcs morpheus is big cooler or not?
Nice. My STRIX 1080Ti hits around 67C when gaming, but your morpheus solution beats that without even trying :D
my MSI gtx 1080 ti hits 75c max in 4k ultra gaming after 12+ hours on bf3 :D
running 2000mhz core 5900mhz mem stable since day 1 :D
My GTX 1050 laptop hits 60 when gaming, no that bad heh
Only problem is cheaper or founders edition have less power phases than a more expensive, custom pcb
Well if you need a expensive card for liquid cooling king pin hybrid tear it down and use the card better power phases but for air cooling you could pretty much max out the card with stock power levels overclocked just don’t get into silly stuff like boosting voltage and shunt mods only do that when liquid cooling
It's still worthwhile especially these days with everybody buying used video cards. Lots of them have tired fans or need to be completely disassembled, cleaned and repasted anyways. Might as well throw in 100 for this thing and a couple fans. I have it on my 1080 founders. The blower fan ruined immersion and some of the AIO solutions were very half ass or way overpriced.
Honestly if you want bleeding edge performance, nothing beats an open loop and a GOOD card made for it especially on the power delivery side. Most stock cards will thermal throttle way before that at least my 1080 did.
Still rocking my Morpheus 1, used it on a 970, 290X, 1080, and now a 1080Ti, with 2x Noiseblocker PLPS fans, been a good investment.
2:17 just so you know, the EK Vardars are at the very top in terms of airflow/noise. That means that they will make less noise for any given temp target than all other fans in the market. That said, Noctuas may have a less intrusive sound signature... I don't know because I haven't seen frequency data, only sound pressure.
I'd be interested in seeing a "control" for the performance here: remove the fans and shroud from the ICX cooler, and zip-tie the Vardar fans to it. That way, you'd get to see which part of the improved temperatures comes from the new heatsink, and what is simply due to increased airflow. Follow-up video, perhaps?
I wish aftermarket companies made a cooler like the raijintek but with cooling support (with pads) for the vmr, memory, etc. So the full system is refrigerated by that big heatsink + double 120 mm fan support.
Could you try and mount the EK Vardar fans on the original heatsink? So that we could see the difference the fans make
Hmmm that'd be interesting
The results maybe interesting
By my knowledge of aerodynamics, EVGA's fan desing is pretty bad. Same for ASUS (I bought a Strix thinking the big cooler would be quiet but, the fans at minimum are audible) and MSI's using 2 different blades on the same fan is just wierd. Why don't they just make normal fans.
Linus has a vid on the topic where he tryes normel asus strixs fans vs nuctua fans.
Yeah, it made around 3 degree C difference on his Strix. However, it was much quieter.
100% worth the extra 150 I spent on the heat sink and 2 noctua 120mm fans. Super quiet and similar cooling performance on my Vega 56.
Best part is that I will be able to adapt it to new video cards in the future as well.
Back a few years ago, a friend of mine had a 560Ti, and the fans rattled like crazy. So we removed the fans, as well as the shroud, and then mounted 2 120mm fans onto the stock heatsink. We saw very similar gains in cooling performance even with the stock heatsink, just by mounting a couple fans to it. :)
Someone suggested this above, might habe to try it!
7:31 curbed my concerns, also first video ive seen from you channel, impressed with quality
This is impressive. Ive always liked the look of the morpheus. Vardar fans are great too. Would never have thought it could get a 1080ti into the 40's underload.
I have my 1080ti strix on water atm. 2050core it never goes over 48c. Thats with 14 120mm fans on a 360 and 480 rads. Fan speeds around 700rpm in games. 300rpm idle.
This thing is incredibly good. I put it on my EVGA 1080 Ti Founders Edition with two 140mm Noctua (yes 140's will fit) with a lot of liquid metal and it stays in the 40's with a closed case. The case is a Dark Base Pro 900 which is a hot case too. My mind was blown
The ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme III VGA Cooler fits inside the ncase with normal 25mm thick fans. Would love to see a comparison between these two. I have a feeling the accelero would be a better buy since it's gonna have similar performance while being smaller and cheaper.
you mean extreme IV...for 1080ti
I swapped the cooler on my 1080Ti FE for an EVGA AIO hybrid and it provides similar temperatures to the 2000 RPM profile in this video. It is quieter, but for double the price (Raijintek heat sink and EK fans). The 1000 RPM profile though is most likely quieter than the hybrid kit, and the extra few degrees totally justify the much lower price. The EVGA hybrid looks better in my opinion, but hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Use Liquid Metal and some high speed server fans and you'd get a really cold card at full load
Beautiful Brolls combined with excellent edits,couldnt resist myself from subbing.
honestly, if you want low temps just get a hybrid card. Its cheaper, you don't have to take apart your gpu, you don't risk damaging it, and if you want rgb you can swap out the fan it comes with on the radiator with a custom one. My EVGA GTX 1080 TI FTW3 Hybrid hits a nice 58 C under heavy load after hours of use.
8:20 the 1080ti SC2 has started to sound like an A380's Rolls Royce Trent 900
:D I was doing this back in the day to all of my GPU`s :D you do not even need in most cases the aftermarket cooler... just slap 2x120mm good airflow fans and fix them with black zip ties and you are golden .....
wtf dude your videos are oddly satisfying the best tech channel on youtube less talk more work keep it up
@Optimum Tech I think the MB box may be act like a sound amplifier, so I don't think the sound test is that accurate. But you got yourself a subscriber, none the less.
Thanks,
Matt
Cant believe i only just found your channel. The quality and work you put into these is astounding. Sub'd!
The amount of overclocking you can achieve with this cooler will be impressive.
Dude I've been contemplating a setup like this for a silent build, Black Noctua fans and a NH-D15 in a Define r6 would be so clean
EVGA ICX coolers are SO SO good, not much needed cooling performance really. Some low end cards (Dual etc.) would benefit from this ALOT tho! Nice to see that Morpheus II beat even ICX with pretty clear numbers :)
I came here and subbed because I saw you on RandomFrankP. Nice channel.
Nice video, Im a big advocate for this heat sink. Great cooling and noise reduction !
Did something similar on my cheap iteration of a 1070ti (palit dual fan). Went from 92c max under load to 58c max under the same load! (Kraken g12 + arctic liquid freezer 120 with 1 noctua nf-f12 high static pressure fan) The biggest difference was the noise though, the first was running in a 1:1 (oC : fanspeed%) fan profile and sounded like a jet engine, the new hybrid cooling solution is almost silent under load :)
92c? sounds fucking INSANE
i have never had a gpu run that maxes have been 86c as far as i've been building comps
This is an awesome cooler, but be aware that you may have difficulties with certain cards that use different thread size screws or a higher backplate. For example installing this on my MSI 1080 Gaming X was a breeze as I just had to use the stock heatsink spring screws. When I tried this on an EVGA 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 the screws they used were too thick to fit into the standoffs of the Morpheus, in the end I was able to use the little backplate bracket by removing the rubber underside (using a couple of layers of masking tape to prevent scratching), then the Raijintek long spring screws were able to reach through to the standoffs.
I noticed that you elected to remove the backplate and just place the cross bracket straight onto the back of the PCB. I guess this is possibly how it's supposed to work, but I really didn't want to lose the structural rigidity and additional cooling of having the backplate on the card.
Sadly I've had to downgrade for a bit to a GT 1030, because money. Wish I could use this for that :P
Who thought this was a hardware Canuck's video......that intro tho
Some awesome performance from this thing, and honestly, the price ain't too bad. When I finally get my hands on a 1080Ti, I'm definitely going to make the upgrade.
As someone with an Ncase I'd love to see how this performs with some 12mm fans so that it can squeeze into the 3-slot of the Ncase.
Great video and a pretty dope looking product to boot.
I got one on my R9 390 with 2 Phobya eLoop fans and it's insane, my case is not the greatest for good temperatures but I still get 65°C after 15 minutes of benching without the slightest bit of noise. I use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on the card aswell
Honestly just take the fan plate off and mount two 120mm fans on the stock heatsink. Then get a VGA to 4pin adapter if you want a fan controller via gpu. I did this . Two be silent 120mms and stock cooler my gpu stays under 55 full load in a tiny custom case.
FINALY some real engineering.Only minus is no cooling for the Vrms.They are a bit hotter than i expected even on my water cooled 1060(i predicted good cooling for them with a whole block but still they run at 60-70 degrees).I can't imagine the heat output of the 1080Ti vrms
Little late but I think the components on the VRM can run easily at 60-70 degrees. I thought I read somewhere that MOSFETs can run at 110 C but check for yourself as I am not sure.
The Morpheus II: Core Edition (not to be confused with the Morpheus Vega that has a different positioning and layout specially made for Vega to the 056th and 064th Power) is capable of being installed on Radeon VII: Now, those that know me personally and elsewhere in the community are aware that I am presently developing a Sleeper PC built out of my old eMachines ET1331G-07w that turns ten years old on June 0I8; the build will be a Ryzen 3950X/Radeon VII Workstation that will produce our programming over here for the foreseeable future, though Thermals will be an issue due to its rather cozy internal layout as a Micro ATX case, so I'm packing this with a Noctua NH-D15: Chromax Black for the 3950X and I have contemplated opting for the Morpheus II: Core Edition (possibly with the Vardar Fans) to cool the Radeon VII instead of using the Stock Cooler, but there are no known programs online where somebody showcases this such mod outside of Reddit threads and a few Tutorial Articles, which has left me uncertain about doing this until I have proper numbers.
In the event that you or anybody who is familiar with the Morpheus II: Core Edition can showcase how it works with the Radeon VII when compared to the Stock Cooler, it definitely would be appreciated; I don't know exactly when I'll have the eMachines Sleeper built, but having the numbers on my person for future reference will help me know if the mod is worth it, this card definitely is one of AMD's most unique and powerful on plentiful fronts and assuring that it has as optimal of stability as possible will be the top priority.
Do you think you'll ever revisit this cooler using the supplied aluminium heat sinks at any point? I can't help but feel that if you did, it would probably match the Arctic accelero cooler in terms of VRM/memory temps.
That is awesome. I've just bought the 1080 ti Kingpin and I will try to dare to change it's cooler to this and with liquid pro
Nice! Finally a professional review of the morpheus 2. Would have been nice to also compare it to a water cooled card.
Also would have been an idea to measure the noise, then have both solution meeting the same noise level and see at what temperature there at.
I only got a gtx 1070 though...not sure why it's not supported.
Impressed I’m going to get one for my GTX 660
i got the artic accelero III on my gigabyte GTX 1080 ti , with liquid metal paste highest ive seen is 56 C and that is after a couple hours with fans around 1560 rpms to 2100 rpms, with ambient room temp anywhere from 20 c to 25 c, lowest ive seen it while gaming is 49 C well worth the money and the fans are extremely quiet and actually come with the cooler, extremely easy to install, just if you use liquid metal like me use with care so you dont fry your gpu lol
I got this on my MSI GTX 1080ti gaming x ,but i use the Low Profile Low noise 120mm Noctua Fans , i combined it with Thermalright Tf8 and custom 1mm Thermalpads with Selfbuild Heatsink+Finns on the Vrams and i got amaizing results:
on idle my Card Drops from 32C to 14C and at Heavy Load (Test-Bench) over Night 8h it wont get higher then 54C at max 1200RPM Fanspeed! This Custom Cooler is a must have and worth the price...btw. besides RTX and DLS i smashed a RTX 3080 😜😁and this pretty comfortly 👌
1080 +44fps
1440 +31fps
4k unknown because i have no Monitor to Test.
All Test with FurMark, Cinebench and a Couple of ingame Benchmarks
I recently set up an all air cooled Fractal Define R6 with Noctua D15 and Morpheus II as well as a Seasonic 750W hybrid Titanium Plus PS. The PS never turns its fan on with the power my system uses. The CPU is only a degree or two above ambient at idle and the GPU is only at about 35C at idle. Without overclocking AND with the low noise adapters in place my 95W CPU only reaches 44C at 100% all 8 cores. My GPU with low noise adapters only reaches 59C at 100%. Without the low noise adapters the GPU drops another 4C and the CPU drops 2C. The whole system is pretty quiet. I've left the low noise adapters on. If I open the front of the case the 100% temps drop about 2C. Now that I have a good baseline, I'm getting ready to overclock the system. The morpheus 2 is currently only using 1 Noctua 12x15 slim fan with a low noise adapter connected to the PWM adapter on the card.
Very cool, but I want to note 2 things:
- The EK Varders are good performance rad fans, but they are not really that great on noise. I think the new Noctua NF-A12's would utterly outclass them if you wanted top performance cimbined with near silence. I think most people would prefer that to 5-10c lower temps and probably only 12-24Mhz trivially higher boost at the most. The new Noctuas are stupidly good, even putting even other Noctua fans to shame. Literally being able to run twice the RPM while remaining quieter than competing high-quality fans makes them a perfect fit for this usecase. They do cost like twice as much though, but I figure that's easily worth it to many people. Otherwise any decent static-pressure fan will do the job sufficiently really...
- I think the huge improvements here are more about the improved fans than the cooler itself. Many quality aftermarket boards (like the Strix, MSI, Aorus ect.) already have very good heatsinks. Personally I think that you would get a ton more bang for your buck if you just strap some quality fans on your existing heatsink - assuming it's a quality one. This has several benefits: You can afford better fans due to not having to pay for the expensive heatsink (such as the mentioned Noctua fans). You don't need to void any warranty or modify the card as removing a shroud is trivially simple and reversible. You don't need to worry about VRM/memory getting enough cooling since all that will still be cooled as intended by the manufacturer (just a lot better). Also finally, you won't have the trouble of sourcing such a niche product that may not be available in your country or in stock. Getting hold of quality fans is comparatively much much easier. You may even have some decent 120mm fans already you can use for the purpose if you want to keep it very cheap.
Maybe best of all is that you can bring this sort of setup forward in your next upgrade too. Unlike full-board waterblocks and the like your quality 120mm fans will never become incompatible the next time you upgrade - and the best quality fans will last for a long time (Noctua's fans all have 6 years warranty). Very inexpensive and flexible solution in the long-term, and competes well with mid-range or AIO water solutons that will cost you many times more.
Protip: If you don't want to mess around with anything more complicated it's perfectly fine to just zip-tie on the fans.
Protip2: if you want to connect the fans to on-GPU PWM controller you will need an adapter. You can find these cheap on ebay. Search for "small pwm". They are electrically identical to a pwm but the plug is just smaller. You could just cut and solder if you wanted, but since the cost is so low it's nice not to have to permanently modify your original cooler for resale purposes.
Protip3: Repaste the GPU with HQ thermal paste if you want 2-4 celcius better temps. (recommend kryonaut). It might not be worth the hassle to you as the gains are fairly small and GPU paste generally isn't horrible these days - but it's yet another pretty simple tweak you can do if you want the best of the best and don't find repasting to be intimidating.
Oh boy, this turned into a rant didn't it? :D
Hopefully helpful to someone out there thinking about similar solutions.
Make sure you state and control the ambient temperature as well.
Something Random Inc. - always 😀
One of the major issues I see with the Morpheus II for the GTX 1070, GTX 1080, and GTX 1080 ti is the cost compared to the Hybrid kits. The Morpheus II us $69 without fans. Depending on the fans you use, you will spend another $30-$40+ for the two good quality fans($15-$20+ for each fan). So that brings the total cost to $69 + $30-$40+ which is $99-$110+. For the same price you can get an EVGA Hybrid cooler kit for all of the GTX 10700, GTX 1080 or GTX 1080 ti reference design board cards or a hybrid cooler kit for their FTW3 cards. You can also get the NZXT Kraken and a compatible AIO cooler for the same price. Those solutions will give cooling performance similar to the Morpheus II with the Vardar fans at 2000 RPM with much less noise and much less space taken up in your case. My own GTX 1080 ti FTW3 Hybrid overclocked to 2101 MHz runs at 45-50C in games and 47-53C in GPU intensive benchmarks while being much quieter than two Vardar fans at 2000 RPM.
In addition to that the Hybrid kits can cool the VRAM and other GPU components with direct contact to heat sinks or the water cooling. My GTX 1080 ti FTW3 Hybrid running the unigine superposition stress test at 4K on a loop for 30+ minutes shows a GPU temp of 51C and a memory temp of 55C with the GPU radiator fan speed at 30%.
If the Morpheus II was significantly cheaper, I could imagine it being worth the cost. It would be worth it for GPUs that are not compatible with the NZXT or EVGA hybrid kits.
Youre forgetting that this is AIR only, some people do NOT want liquid in their systems. Personally, the price seems fair enough considering i dont have to worry about water and extra fail points. Using LM drops it another 3c.
Youre also forgetting EK Vardars dont come with AIO's, you would have to buy them seperately/additionally ($25 per).
pump noise.
My chassis doesn't have room for an AIO cooler, but it does have room in the expansion slot area. Most people only actually use a couple of expansion slots. Also, that the Morpheus II doesn't come with fans is a good thing. I don't think I've ever used stock fans. I used 3 92x15mm Noctua fans for my Morpheus II, so getting a couple 120s 'for free' wouldn't have helped at all. In fact, if the Morpheus had come with fans, I'd probably be bitching that I had to pay for garbage fans.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on your statement that the 2,000 RPM is within a few degree of what you would get with a waterblock and a custom loop. I would agree with it if you had said that it could be within a few degrees of what you might get with a water block and custom loop. I don't expect everyone to have a radiator as large the one I'm using, but my FTW3 sees peak load temperatures of 32c with my 140mm noctua industrial pwm fans running at 7XX RPM with ambient temperatures of 19-20c. With the fans at 33% (about 1,000 RPM) I see load temps of 30c.
every time you said (SC2 cooler) you were wrong. the SC2 is a version acronym it stands for supper clocked version 2. the (ICX cooler) is proper name you were looking for. just like the 700 series and the 900 series called it ACX and ACX 2. notice i didn't say that when you were talking about the GPU directly. only when you said SC2 cooler as if ti was the cooler.
Chuckles Nuts I think he was saying sc2 cooler as in, it's the cooler on the SC2
"a few degrees of what you would get with a custom loop" if u build a loop for performance meaning not for looks or just for the sake of building something, your water temp will be the same as ambient doesnt matter if ur hitting 500 or 1000w load, but ofcourse 99% of the loops are just for looks not performance. What I am trying to say a decent loop might be 20 or 30c cooler, basically whatever your ambient is. Nonetheless morpheus 2 is awesome for how flexible, cheap and easy it is to work with.
just installed this on my 1080ti as a experiment as i was board and it gave me intrusive thoughts. those heatsinks are a nightmare!
I‘d love to see the temps of an an EVGA GTX 1060 SC with this cooler.
This needs to come with some sort of gpu support bracket and you need to show this installed in a real case please to see how bad the droop will be. Thanks.
Not a bad after market cooler. Although, stock cooler wise, I'd have to say the MSI 1080ti Trio wins. When rendering 4k graphics and playing graphic intensive games at 1080p running at 100%, it runs 20c above ambient temperature. Which in my case, my room stays around 23c and the GPU runs at a constant 50-55c for hours at max load with fan RPMs never breaching 1500rpm. It's the only GPU I've ever owned that I can't hear it running when it's at max load.
PSA: If your going to post your setups tempatures for your cards, also post the Ambient tempature. Ambient tempature makes a huge difference on cooling performance
As in let's say you lived in New York , your gaming room was in the basement, well it has a 1080 strix and it reaches 65c tops. Well then you move to Florida, high 70s because the new normal highest tempature. If you want to know how well the cooler performance is take away room tempature (aka ambient temperature) from the average tempature of the card under load. Most of the time when people test these coolers it's at 20c (68 f) inside the room their testing it in.
Nice test and amazing video quality !
Nice, gotta get me one of those whenever I get a new card.
Underated channel
Thanks for the support!
Thanks for this review. My only remark will be on weight of this cooler. Without any backplate, it's a lot weight to support for PCB.
My thoughts as well, unfortunately the backplate didn't fit with those stock screws.
yes i saw in your video, that is really complete review. Thanks for your work!
Use Legos, that will solve the problem
Plz try this on a 2080 ti with ram tests 😁
There is no cooling solution like this for the RTX 2080 ???
You should have used the same TIM on both test "reply" the TIM to the evga and retested it to see the true comparison.
Could you compare it to the Arctic accelero iii?
And also I think it fits in the M1 with slim 120mm fans
Yep, I plan on getting that for my M1 build
85°C on the GPU means your GPU Block does not touch the GPU properly. you should max out at max 50°C usually.
i got the artic accelero III on my gigabyte GTX 1080 ti , with liquid metal paste highest ive seen is 56 C and that is after a couple hours with fans around 1560 rpms to 2100 rpms, with ambient room temp anywhere from 20 c to 25 c, lowest ive seen it while gaming is 49 C well worth the money and the fans are extremely quiet and actually come with the cooler, extremely easy to install, just if you use liquid metal like me use with care so you dont fry your gpu lol
Well in stress test on both yeah. GPU only stress test it what really matters if you prioritize gaming. Do that and if your GPU stays at around 50°C you are good. If not your block does not sit properly. CPU and GPU test on A240G done by Jay proove that cooling capacity is high enough. high CPU temps under full load are common. My delid 4790k also goes up to 65°C with a 480 and 280 rad so 85 is not too bad.
Nice video Optimum tech as usual !
How about you test the EVGA stock cooler with the Vardar fans ? I know for a fact that it is the best compromise between performances and costs, but we could use some benchmarkings to put real-world numbers on this affirmation. I think the main problem comes from the stock 10-15mm fans an not the heatsink, although the Morpheus II is a clear step-up from the orignal of course. Other cards like your MSI 1070Ti would be nice to include in this test too
Only close to an open loop because of the open test bench. In a closed case that changes.
Since there was a lot of questions about the accelero IV, I thought I might leave my opinion and experience as well.
I found the accelero IV to perform a little worse, but the amount of cooling that provides at such quiet noise levels is astonishing. My 290x was fine with 1300mhz at all times just off that with a near unhearable noise level, and the fact it was cheaper than the morpheus heatsink alone says something. The standard thermal paste was great too being artic mx-4. Issues are the fans aren't actually that great at pushing air because they're smaller and quite slim. Also, I dislike the lack of direct VRM and VRAM cooling and instead relying on a backplate made me uneasy, and I saw big temperature drops after adding my own heatsinks (and what artic want for the dedicated vrm is something ridiculous like £25). And of course how much bigger and uglier it is, The cooler takes the 3 slots below it and then one above it with the mega backplate included, they didn't seem to consider users actually wanting to use half their other ports apparently.
But overall it allowed some great overclocks and kept everything silent, and I don't regret the price and wrestling with bad instructions to replace my stock cooler with it but looking back and considering this review getting the morpheus and 2 high quality fans for £20 more may have been the better choice. If you do review the accelero, I think you'll also find the only advantages to be price and the fact fans are included
Oh, one thing I loved about the Accelero IV was the fact I could've shoved it on my brothers ASUS GT 740 if I wanted to for some reason. Perhaps if I wanted near idle overclocked temps and putting damn near enough stress on the card to snap it maybe, brace attached or not. Makes it tempting to buy another one just to see what it'd look like.
no direct VRM and Power cooling
the cooler itself is a neat idea, but for a card the price of a 1080ti ,users are more likely to watercool anyway, before getting a custom air GPU cooler
Watch the entire video 😁
You should also try liquid metal like the thermal grizzly Conductonaut
Looks exactly the same likes olders Thermalright heatsinks
That thing is amazing. It makes a relatively cheap silent PC possible :)
Great video, quality cinematography! I'm really curious now if you could throw some Noctua fans on there and if it would still be quieter than an AIO card while remaining under 60°C so there's no throttling. Maximizing performance at low noise is a priority for me.
2:12 "fast high static pressure fan"
Shows airflow fans instead 😂
This is cool, but if it was me. I would rather keep the EVGA stock cooler, cause it's only 2 slots and in my opinion I like the look more. Now if the temps were an issue, that would be different, but temps are very good still.
Awesome video! So well done...
Now what if we put the Morpheus 2 heatsink on a CPU??????
Well yeah, GPU Heatsinks tend to have more heat-removing TDPs than CPU heatsinks
Soo i kinda interested
I'm wondering if I should get the Morpheus II, slap a pair of DeepCool's MF120s, and screw it all down on my Strix 1080ti..
Yay or nay?
great cinematography
Glad you enjoyed :)
You should add some decibel numbers in the end because we cant hear it that well...
wow nice video edit and everything top notch
For me it comes down to one thing. Is it worth the time and money to run the card 1000 rpm slower to pick up 6 degrees. No, it isn't. In my R5 case, i would barely notice the difference anyway. That said, I do like the sound of the EK fans
i m running something similar, sort of. I have gigabyte 1070 g1 card. i removed the shroud and fans and zip tied couple of noctua 120 P12 fans. now my gpu stays under 60C all the time and it is barely audible. I cant control the fans though, since i plugged them in the motherboard. I m running them at flat 700rpm.
Mine looks ugly though because..... noctua
would love to see if it possible to add 2 stand alone fans to the msi 1080ti armour , as those fans are atrocious and not built for a 1080ti full stop but has a a really good card underneath from what gamers nexus has said, but his answer doing a custom liquid cooled makes its not worth the answer down to cost
Im interested about the sagging of that construction ? I mean 3,5 slots and that amount of heatsink should be a lil heavy....
1:08 low temps btw!
I think you should better move the mobo to the table instead of leaving it on top of the big mobo cardbox when taking sound pressure measurements. That cardbox is likelly reverberating... it's like noise on top of your fan noise readings :)
Don't you think?
I used to run a 9400gt without a heatsink after breaking the fan. Good times!
So don't you need a fan-controller, can you really mount like 2x bequiet silentwings coolers and connect them BOTH directly to the GPU and regulate with Asus GPU Tweak for example? That would be perfect.
Would love to see a review of the arctic gpu coolers
I wouldn't be surprised if the fan header on the videocard isn't powerful enough
So this cooler was annouched like 2 years ago and I can't find it for sale anywhere :/
Ftw3 here. Maybe i change it too :D this cooling is insane