- Do you cringe because every time you fire up a heavy game,
you're greeted with the whine of your blower fan
spinning up to max,
blowing the Tron on your graphics card?
Oh, disgusting.
Well, one solution is water cooling,
but that's expensive and time consuming
and not everybody is comfortable
filling their electronics up with water.
Let's face it, we can't all be complete mad lads.
Oh, who's the idiot now?
Fortunately, Raij Ntek has the solution for you.
This is the Morpheus 80 57,
a huge GPU air cooler that apparently fits
both Nvidia and AMD graphics cards.
And we are going to give this puppy a shot
to see if it's a sizable upgrade over your stock cooler.
And also if it could be a simpler,
more cost effective solution than water cooling.
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The basic concept here of strapping a giant cooler
to your graphics card is nothing new.
Last year, we put a tower CPU cooler onto an RTX 2080 TI
with great results.
that is as long as you don't want to install
any expansion cards,
and purpose built products for this
have existed for over a decade.
So what's so special about this then?
When it comes to performance, honestly speaking,
probably not much, in fact,
Raij Ntek appears to have reused photographs
of one of their previous GPU coolers
on the 80 57 product page.
But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Compared to the relatively small cooling elements
that are included on many graphics cards,
I'm expecting a reduction in noise
and an improvement in performance out of this thing.
So really then the new model number comes down
to compatibility.
Rather than being stuck
fabricating your own mounting hardware,
the Morpheus 80 57 includes everything that you will need
to mount to either a reference PCB card from Nvidia
or from AMD. Certainly looks pretty nice.
Highlights of the product include the 12 heat pipes,
so you can see these six over on this side
wraparound right there, and they terminate right here.
And then these six over here carry over this way,
so really each half of this is kind of cooled
by half of these heat sink fins.
It's got a nice black finish on it,
definitely a fan of that.
And it's rated for a total of 360 Watts of heat dissipation.
Of course it can have wonderful specs and be very beautiful,
but none of that matters if the performance sucks.
So let's go ahead and investigate that.
Step one is to install the appropriate bracket.
The arrows need to point towards these curved heat pipes
in the back.
Step number two, after you've determined
where the holes line up,
you're gonna go ahead and install these standoffs
into the bottom of the cooler.
One of my little tricks is that I actually like to do
a dry wipe of chips before I do a wet wipe with alcohol.
It can help pull off the majority of the thermal goop
before you start just spreading it around.
Holy bananas, this is a lot of thermal interface junk
to peg, wow.
To Raij Ntek's credit,
they've done you the courtesy of putting little tabby tabs
on one side of some of these
so it's a little bit easier to get the things off
but this is going to be pretty tedious,
ladies and gentlemen.
Here we go, good luck everybody.
I have my doubts about this.
One of the other little tricks that I've learned
over the years is to basically never ever trust
a double-sided thermal tape.
If you were actually going to deploy this for longterm use,
I would strongly recommend investing the $13
or whatever it is, and a high quality thermal epoxy,
like the one made by Tech Ingredients, another YouTuber.
Really?
Okay.
Alright. Let's do the D.
Where the heck does D go?
This is not a great diagram.
- [Colin] I believe D goes on the two large chips
directly to the left of the main die.
- You have gotta be kidding me.
That's a memory heat sink?
Doesn't that just drive you crazy?
- [Colin] Yep.
- Like as an engineering background?
- At this point, do you think this is harder
or easier than water cooling?
- Oh, you're going to make me answer that, are you?
I think that this is similar in difficulty
compared to installing a GPU water block,
but you don't have to deal with the added complexity
of all the other aspects of custom water cooling.
That's a good question though.
A valuable one for our viewers to have the answer to.
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Copper is a lot heavier than aluminum
and we're using the same crappy adhesive
that I think is barely holding on the aluminum.
How long will this stay here?
You know what's really mind blowing to me about this
is that this isn't the only heat sink
that doesn't fit at all.
The copper one doesn't go all the way to the end
of this bank of modules.
And this aluminum one is completely different
from that other one.
It's double the width and the fins run the opposite way.
And it's like twice as long as it needs to be.
All three of these are for memory chips
and these two are actually on two chips each.
Same number of chips.
Like, what am I looking at here?
This is the definition of a (beeping) mix.
Oh, shoot.
Which ones?
See this diagram is so shockingly bad.
- [Colin] So I think those two long bars
go on like, not only the tiny strip of VRMs
but also the bigger ones right next to them.
- This just gets more random
every time I put something on it.
I can't.
- [Colin] Okay, you got three more heatsinks to go.
We're getting there.
- No, I can't.
This is so stupid.
- [Colin] Oh, there's so many things
that should have thermal pads, according to Nvidia there.
- Okay. Well, according to Raij Ntek,
we ready, boys.
We're going to use their included thermal goop.
Oh yeah. It smells like generic.
Let's just get that on there.
That should be, oh, that's, that's really a lot.
It won't affect performance,
but I just don't feel like cleaning up the mess.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, so these are all going to have to come off.
I just knocked off another heat sink.
Okay, yeah. We're calling that.
Good, there goes that heat sink.
So we're going to be using our ROG machine
as our test bench.
It's got a 9,900 KS and an ROG Maximus 11 motherboard
with 64 gigs of 3,200 megahertz CL14 Trident Z RGB memory
and well it used to have an ROG Strix 20 ADTI,
but we went with the founder's edition
because we wanted a pretty good chance of compatibility.
Our GPU was pre-tested with the power limits ladder crank
to 112%, but without any clock speed adjustments,
and we'll be pairing our Morpheus
with these knock to Noctua NF A 12 F's
to see how it compares.
Now, if PCI expansion was a priority,
we might choose something lower profile
and conveniently the Morpheus does include 13,
oh, here we go, 25 millimeter,
it does include brackets for low-profile fans.
But here's the thing,
unless you're into high speed networking
or PCI express storage,
the odds are that you don't have a ton of add in cards.
So we're going with these because I think it's going to be
a great combination of maximum performance and silence.
As long as you don't mind a little bit of a GPU sag.
Okay, it looks like these clip onto the bottom here.
Nope.
It looks like they clip onto the top
and then you just gotta drag 'em.
Wait, what? That's it?
Oh my goodness. Probably wouldn't be a terrible,
terrible idea to put the IO bracket back on.
Does give you a little less leeway for kajiggering
when you're putting your cards in.
That is some next level saggage there.
That's like -
- [Colin] That poor PCI slot.
- Yeah.
We just lost another heat sink.
Oh no, we lost two more.
Okay. Oh, we close now.
Okay, well what? Like do we just fire it up or what?
- [Colin] Just send it.
- While you do that,
I'm just going to collect all the heat sinks
that have fallen off so far.
Is this an appropriate
look how they massacred my boy moment?
Now we're all set up.
We're logging temperature data from hardware info.
We've got afterburner crank to 112% power limit.
And we're going to run a GPU stress test in firm arch here.
We're running at 25 60 by 10 80 with four times NSA.
We're trying to really toast this graphics card.
No, I don't want this warning.
Give it to me.
Those fans are barely running.
I can tell you right now that GP was basically silent
plugged into the motherboard. - [Colin] That's steep.
Look at that curve.
- That's steep, but hold on, give it time. Give it time.
- [Colin] What's it sitting at?
- 55.
Oh, and with the panel closed?
- [Colin] With the panel closed?
- We've got the panel closed. - [Colin] We can do that.
- Does that just go on like that?
- [Colin] Sure does.
Okay, so we hit 96FPS average
at 78 degrees Celsius was our kind of...
- That was our equilibrium point?
- [Colin] Yes. Is there any coil whine?
- Curiously, not that I can detect,
which is funny to me
because I went and I water blocked an RTX Titan
a little while back
and it was just nasty in terms of coil whine.
This looks like it's settled in now.
We're still running at 96 FPS.
If we go ahead and pop open hardware info,
we can see that we are at 1920.
So we've not lost any of our maximum turbo here.
And we've - - [Colin] Definitely dropped
to 1700 on the stock cooler if I remember correctly.
- You dropped to 1700?
- [Colin] I think so, yeah.
- Oh, well fantastic.
Then that is a substantially better result
'cause we're running at 72 degrees Celsius, max turbo,
and these fans are like barely spinning.
You hear that?
Those are like 600, 700 RPM.
If the question was, does this outperform the stock cooler?
Then the answer is yes,
but if the question is, should I run out
after having spent extra on a founder's edition card anyway,
and go buy this aftermarket accessory for it
that has quite frankly, not just an unintuitive,
but kind of a scary installation process
and then just terrible quality
when it comes to the thermal pad staying on?
The answer gets a little bit more complicated.
I think really the takeaway here
is when we compare the results,
we were going to put the Raij Ntek on this Strix card,
but now that we've seen these results,
I don't think it makes any sense.
When we compare the results to just buying a card
with a big fat beefy cooler on it in the first place,
the answer is pretty obvious,
especially cause this doesn't cost
an extra 70, 80 dollars over a founder's edition.
If it's not obvious, the answer's no.
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If you guys enjoyed this video,
you might actually enjoy one of mine and Colin's
previous crazy GPU cooling experiments
where we put a CPU tower cooler on a graphics card.
I think I would go as far as to say that one
was more sensible.
- [Colin] Significantly more sensible.
- I mean, aside from just a power drill,
we didn't really need any crazy tools to mount the thing.
And I trusted it way more than this,
quite honestly.
- [Colin] We needed a huge case though.
- That's true.