Pulling heat from the GPU core and dispersing it through the fin stack are four nickel plated copper heatpipes, with the GPU sandwiched beneath a nickel plated contact plate to ensure all four heatpipes make good thermal contact with the small 294mm² die.Ĭlick to enlarge -Four heatpipes run behind a contact plate to draw heat away from the GPU This updated version uses a pair of 100mm down-draft cooling fans fitted atop a huge array of aluminium cooling fins. The stock card, at stock frequencies and settings will easily bounce off its 81☌ thermal ceiling and begin to clock itself down a bit, so MSI’s solution is fit the latest version of its well-regarded Twin Frozr cooler.

Of course, you could just as easily add those extra few MHz using MSI’s Afternburner overclocking utility, but MSI’s push to grant that extra performance to those who perhaps aren’t so tech savvy is a welcome one.Īside from its clock-speed shenanigans, the Twin Frozr OC also improves Nvidia’s GTX 760 recipe in the most obvious way the cooler. It’s the OC profile that’s most intriguing, as this further boosts the card’s base clock by an additional 45MHz. However, the Twin Frozr OC’s got an extra trick up its sleeve courtesy of MSI’s generically named ‘Gaming App.’ This simple bit of software allows you to instantly switch the card between three different clock speed profiles OC, Gaming and Silent. This is actually a rather timid 4 per cent overclock, especially when you add the fact that the card’s 2GB of GDDR5 is clocked at the stock frequency of 1.5GHz (6GHZ effective).Ĭlick to enlarge - The 1GB of GDDR5 on the rear of the PCB is bare and not actively cooled. While the stock card’s 130MHz boost curve starts at 980MHz, the Twin Frozr OC’s begins 40MHz higher at 1,020MHz, boosting to a guaranteed 1,073 and a maximum of 1,150MHz. As with all Nvidia’s GeForce 7-series cards, it uses GPU Boost 2.0 to automatically adjust the clock speed between a base clock, a guaranteed boost clock and a best-case boost clock. Of course, one area of the GPU that MSI has been able to improve is its clock speeds, with the Twin Frozr OC boasting a fairly healthy factory overclock. While this is actually fewer steam processors than the GTX 660 Ti 2GB (the card the GTX 760 2GB replaced) the GTX 760’s full-size 256-bit memory interface and array of 32 ROPs allow it to out-pace its predecessor.

The GPU is still a 28nm GK104 chip, sporting six SMs of 192 stream processors for a total of 1,152 stream processors. Those looking for a recap of the GTX 760 GPU would be best served by reading our stock card review, but the Twin Frozr Gaming’s GPU is no different physically.

Click to enlarge - a pair fo 100mm fans blow air down through the heatsink and over the PCB, but this means heat is exhausted into your case

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