Msi Rtx 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X Review

First post in about half dozen years I think!

Nevertheless to business, I recently built my first proper desktop in quite some years. Wanted to try a micro ATX build and then ended up with the Fractal pattern meshify mini which gave some interesting issues when it came to GPU length. Basically whatever decent 2080Ti was just likewise long or way too long to fit. Long story short I ended up with the Ocean Hawk X simply due to the size and the price was cutting massively so it price less than nearly Atomic number 26 PCB based aircooled cards.

Bad points of this card
- Build quality feels worse than my old GTX 480, plastic fantastic and really feels cheap
- No RGB other than the pump, which is on the underside of the card. I'm not the biggest fan of RGB but still feels quite inexpensive on a 1250 euro card... (some EU retailers accept it upwardly for 1500!!!)
- The fan setup... where do I even offset? The stock blower fan is fine ramps up to like seventy% in games and is reasonable. The stock 120mm fan setup is then dumb. It's powered past the GPU just the wire is cable tied along the h2o cooling hose (meet images). It looks getto af. But that'south not the impaired part. It sits at 50% and never e'er moves no thing what the GPU temp hits.

Stock fan results:

OC applied
+100 cadre + 900 retentivity all sliders maxed

1X run of Superposition Benchmark card hits around 68c
GTA Five i hour run 65-68c but as the heat soaks in the menu keeps ticking upwardly a few C
Rising storm ii vietnam 1 60 minutes run 63-67c same issue as above

Now I hear you say, why not just ramp the stock fan up? Well adept idea but it's not even a PWM fan and the fan controller on the GPU is really odd. It just blips the fans up to max so back down again, you can't really get a consistent fan speed over that base of operations 50% making for a really annoying noise.

What I did to ready the above event:
- Got 2x Noctua nf-f12 chromax in push pull and plugged them into the motherboard. Granted I could have used a cheaper fan simply I thought why non encounter how skillful I can get these temps
- Got the Cablemod AIO Sleeving Kit Series 1 for Corsair Hydro Gen 2. Now these are non the correct length and need to be trimmed downwardly a lilliputian only but zip too drastic. They are likewise not the best fit so I needed to cable tie the ends and and so used the included clamp bracket to cover this up. The fit is still quite loose, only in one case it places it'south stable. If you wanted to keep the stock fan setup this would also merely slide over the atrocious cable and hide the sins!!

Results

How the system looks

I used Argus Monitor to run the fans on the radiator with a custom fan curve (encounter image) this however needs tweaking and is just a rough and ready start. Granted this ways you need another program to launch on startup, simply information technology seems quite low-cal on functioning.

1X run of Superposition Benchmark card hits around 58c
GTA V 1 hr run 56c and stable
Ascent storm ii vietnam one hour run 54c

Even with the to a higher place fan bend set for operation rather than noise it's waaay quieter, and a more stable fan dissonance. I'one thousand playing with the idea of having the intake fan plow off at idle, merely for now both accept the aforementioned curve.

I have to say with this "mod" the card is performing slap-up. It boosts to 2100mhz almost of the time and never dips before 2070mhz even in heavy benchmarks.

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Source: https://www.overclock.net/threads/i-tried-to-fix-the-msi-rtx-2080-ti-sea-hawk-x.1731010/

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