MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming 4G Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 30.10.14Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
With the GTX 980 Gaming 4G, MSI comes up with a very interesting and overall excellent product. As a part of the MSI Gaming series, the GTX 980 Gaming 4G features a neat looking red and black color scheme and comes paired with the excellent Twin Frozr V cooler. Although it's not the one GTX 980 with the highest factory-overclocking, it certainly has its charms and its 3D performance is very good. If we had a wish free than we would love to see a richer bundle. |
- Performance
- Cooling performance - Design - Noise levels |
- Memory Clock
- Bundle |
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| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| The raw cooling performance with this card is
very good. With their Twin Frozr V MSI have an excellent cooler, and
it simply can't be compared
to the reference cooler in no way as this is a completely
different animal. In idle the card is inaudible, with the fans not even spinning and under load we consider the card still very silent. |
- Cooling performance
- Noise levels |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Overall, the 3D performance is good but
as said previously, performance could have easily been improved by
additionally overclocking the memory. Nevertheless this is complaining
on a very high level, since this is one of the fastest GTX 980 graphics
cards money can buy these days. A closer look at power consumption reveals that the GTX 980 Gaming 4G draws a bit more power in idle than the other GTX 980 cards we've had for review so far , but since we're talking about very few watts this does not have a negative impact overall. |
- Performance | ||
| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| With the GTX 980 Gaming 4G, MSI has a custom GTX 980 in its portfolio, which is simply a great piece of hardware. Should you be looking for a GTX 980 with a truly great cooler, high factory overclocking and good design, then this card is just excellent. Checking prices we find that this card retails at 551 Euro these days and for that price it is one of the more affordable custom GTX 980 cards. |
- Enthusiast - Gaming - Modding - Price |
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| We gave the GTX 980 Gaming 4G from MSI receives excellen 5 out of 5 stars. | |||
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