Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 'Vesuvius-Like' AIO Liquid Cooled Reference Edition from ASETEK Spotted

I received a pretty interesting e-mail from ASETEK today, which revealed a new reference edition for OEMs (and consumers) housing an AIO h2o cooler. The GPU features a closed loop h2o cooling solution that looks like a derivative of, and inspired by, the AMD Vesuvius GPU. Sycom Geforce GTX 980 Water Cooled OEM

Closed-Loop Liquid Cooled Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Reference Edition

It is very interesting to run into how the AMD Radeon R9 295X2 has acted like a trend setter for out-of-the-box h2o cooled solutions; for AIBs and now OEMs. This particular GTX 980 variant features an ASETEK h2o cooler with hybrid cooling. The GPU itself is cooled via liquid while other components such as the VRM are cooled by the air. The trademark water-block-expect of about open-looped water cooled GPUs is not present hither and the AMD Vesuvius GPU comes to mind when you take a look at this reference edition.

The cooler in question is the ASETEK 740GN and the shroud is aesthetically cut at the acme to allow the pipes to leave the torso. Currently in Nihon the OEM Sycom will be the first to supply the water cooled GTX 980's in multiple configurations. Such a bill of fare will be ideal for overclocking since liquid cooling will undoubtedly yield you lot better clocks than the best air cooled custom variant on the market. The overclocking potential of Maxwell is pretty impressive and if you desire the nigh out of your cadet, and you lot probably practise considering you bought a high cease GPU, and so this is a pretty beginner-friendly choice. Ofcourse, there is no replacement for a hand fabricated h2o cooling solution with water blocks, merely this should exercise just fine too.

The e-mail was in Japanese, so unfortunately I don't accept whatever other specifics at this point. I don't have the mill clocks either, although with a water cooled GPU like this, factory clocks should be pretty high or completely irrelevant due to OC.