MSI N280GTX OC HydroGen
Gaming Benchmarks Continued
Published: 22nd January 2009 | Source: MSI | Price: £359.99 |
Ubisoft has developed a new engine specifically for Far Cry 2, called Dunia, meaning "world", "earth" or "living" in Parsi. The engine takes advantage of multi-core processors as well as multiple processors and supports DirectX 9 as well as DirectX 10. Running the Far Cry 2 benchmark tool the test was run 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being omitted and the average calculated from the remaining 3.
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast game play. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long game play demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU's using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench - a tool developed independently of Crysis - we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
The Overclocked GTX280 and standard GTX285 performed pretty much identical to one another during this phase of the testing. Only when the resolution was maxed out in the torturous Crysis run did the higher clocked GTX280 surpass the 285 by any significant margin.
Let's head over to the conclusion where I formulate my thoughts on todays review subject...
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Impressive performance for a GTX 280! And the card has an interesting heatsink.
First time I seen a fine machined waterblock from a watercooled ready gpu manufacturer. Looks like it cools well too 
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First time I seen a fine machined waterblock from a watercooled ready gpu manufacturer. Looks like it cools well too
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Stunning performance. It's so nice to see proper paste instead of that awful white goop too. But wow what a huge performing card and block.
Shame about the bracket. The devil is in the details.
VB
Shame about the bracket. The devil is in the details.
VB
Have you tried overclocking past the limits?
At 40C that is so cool.
At 40C that is so cool.
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
Agreed. I'd actually prefer that block (in terms of looks at least) over anything that EK could offer.
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Shame about the bracket. The devil is in the details. VB |
Or can't you buy a single bracket that will fit on it. Only problem is I think there is an LED indicator on the 2nd grill part of the bracket, so you'd have to take that off.
Those blocks are awesome.. I believe Aqua-pcs may be stocking them soon, not too sure though.
What company manufactured the blocks for them. Reminds me of aquagraFX blocks a bit.
wow, loved that block pretty cool 
, and great performance, +1 for MSi. 
, also wc it wont obviously wont void warrantry 
thanks for the review jim, pretty cool one
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, and great performance, +1 for MSi. , also wc it wont obviously wont void warrantry thanks for the review jim, pretty cool one
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What company manufactured the blocks for them. Reminds me of aquagraFX blocks a bit.
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Originally Posted by name='AntiHeroUK'
What company manufactured the blocks for them. Reminds me of aquagraFX blocks a bit.
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Thanks Luigi.
How do you reckon MSI's water cooled 260's compete against the BFG variant? Granted there are marketing terms like MAXCORE and thermointelligence used, but do these actually play any part in making the cards have more bang for their buck?
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How do you reckon MSI's water cooled 260's compete against the BFG variant? Granted there are marketing terms like MAXCORE and thermointelligence used, but do these actually play any part in making the cards have more bang for their buck?
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Granted there are marketing terms like MAXCORE and thermointelligence used, but do these actually play any part in making the cards have more bang for their buck?
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I still prefer choosing your own waterblock because when it comes to selling your card, you're limited to a small market of watercoolers rather than everyone (if you had the original cooler).
Hasn't anybody here at OC3D heard of Zotac? They've got a GTX 280 AMP clocked at CC 700, SC at 1400, and MC at 2300 on air! So MSIs N280GTX OC doesn't really impress me. I purchased two of these Zotacs just recently and current OC is 730/1536/2650...still on air! Fan is set to auto and flucs between 40 - 60 with temps rarely getting above 64C. Things are so steady and quiet, I may try pushing Core a little higher. At my current OC, I've even got the Zotac 285 AMP beat!
Of course we have heard of Zotac - we reviewed a GTX260 from them already.
MSI also have an air cooled GTX280 available which runs at the same clocks as the warercooled version. Somehow though I doubt it would run as cool, silent or indeed overclock aswell as the HydroGen. I am however, happy to be proven wrong
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MSI also have an air cooled GTX280 available which runs at the same clocks as the warercooled version. Somehow though I doubt it would run as cool, silent or indeed overclock aswell as the HydroGen. I am however, happy to be proven wrong
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Of course we have heard of Zotac - we reviewed a GTX260 from them already.
MSI also have an air cooled GTX280 available which runs at the same clocks as the warercooled version. Somehow though I doubt it would run as cool, silent or indeed overclock aswell as the HydroGen. I am however, happy to be proven wrong . |
"Thermointelligence"... That's what I use when I look out the window and decide to stay inside because it's winter. I have just got myself 2 EVGA GTX280 cards. I would love to get them watercooled at a later stage. And the SLI-Set HEATKILLER® GPU-X² G200 they have at watercool.de seems spot on when the time comes
Thats just sexy, I'll have two please.
Why stop at two? Get TRI SLI and be a man
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Why stop at two? Get TRI SLI and be a man
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