Cooler Design: MSI RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8GB
In contrast to the larger RX 5700 Evoke, the card has a completely redesigned cooler, so that the former cooling and stabilization frame now only serves to stabilize the board and as a counterpart to the backplate, which is screwed here. There are no pads between this frame and the circuit board, as it spares all heat-relevant areas cleanly.
The four 6 mm heatpipes made of nickel-plated copper composite material are located behind the GPU heat sink embedded in the base plate, which is connected to the rear of the heatpipes. The voltage regulators are cooled by a separate heat sink anchored in the radiator. Exemplary. The cooling fins are arranged horizontally, which also aligns the exhaust air at the end to the two cooler ends.
The backplate actively cools the areas of the board below the memory and the voltage transformer. All in all, a full-blown cooling system has been installed on a quite economical card. This gives hope for a very quiet operation.
Fans: | 2x 8.5 cm rotor diameter 14 rotor blades righ pressure |
Cooling fins: |
horizontally |
GPU cooling: |
copper hetsink, nickel-plated |
Memory cooling: |
base plate |
VRM cooling: |
heatsink |
Pads | 1 mm (memory, VRM) |
Fan mode: |
semi-passive mode, fan stop |
Cooler Design: MSI GTX 1650 Super Gaming X 4GB
This card generates almost 40 watts less waste heat (spoiler), so that the cooling system could be simplified considerably. The visible frame above the board stabilizes the card as there is no backplate and cools the memory and the three small but efficient voltage regulator phases of the GPU in equal measure.
We can see from the pads that MSI has applied all six pads, although only 4 memory modules were used. This in turn shows that this board is only a reused design of the cheapest entry-level models of the GTX 1660. In contrast to the much criticized Evoke, however, the pads are fully contacted.
The cooler itself is a block equipped with horizontally aligned fins, for which the same applies to the AMD card. There are three 6mm heatpipes behind the base plate, which doesn’t have an extra GPU heat sink.
As already mentioned, there is probably no backplate for cost reasons. It would not have been needed for cooling anyway.
Fans: | 2x 8.5 cm rotor diameter 14 rotor blades high pressure |
Cooling fins: |
horizontally |
GPU cooling: |
heatsink |
Memory cooling: |
cooling frame |
VRM cooling: |
cooling frame |
Pads: | 1 mm (memory, VRM) |
Fan mode: |
semi-passive mode, fan stop |
- 1 - Introduction and Overview
- 2 - 8 GB vs. 4 GB, important info and test system
- 3 - Tear Down: PCB and components
- 4 - Tear Down: cooling system
- 5 - DirectX 11: GTA V
- 6 - DirectX 11: Far Cry 5
- 7 - DirectX 12: Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- 8 - DirectX 12: F1 2019
- 9 - DirectX 12: Total War: Three Kingdoms
- 10 - DirectX 12: Tom Clancy's The Division 2
- 11 - DirectX 12: Metro Exodus
- 12 - Power consumtion and real PSU recommendation
- 13 - Clock rates, overclocking and temperatures with infrared
- 14 - Fan curves,fan speed and noise with audio-chamber test
- 15 - Summary and conclusion
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