Gigabyte's recently announced GTX 980 Waterforce Tri-SLI has finally launched and, as expected, it is anything but cheap with a price tag set at US $3000.


Showcased to public back in April, and officially announced last month, the Gigabyte GTX 980 Waterforce Tri-SLI features three Geforce GTX 980 graphics cards cooled by an elaborate closed loop liquid cooling system with a large external unit that is designed to fit on top of your case.




The external unit includes reservoirs, triple fan radiator setup with a single radiator for each GTX 980 graphics card, ports for coolant tubes, display to monitor coolant temperature and fine tune all the settings and is connected to those three GTX 980 graphics cards via 5.25-inch panel hub.




All three GTX 980 in this setup get their own GPU waterblock with integrated pump and actually come with a factory-overclock setting of 1228MHz for the base GPU clock, 1329MHz for the GPU Boost clock and feature 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7010MHz and paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. While these are still impressive settings, the price still seems a bit too steep.

There are also couple of rather questionable design solutions since you need to power the external box via front 5.25-inch panel hub as well as connect each water block via that same 5.25-inch panel hub which does look a bit strange when mounted on the case.

Gigabyte also promises that this solution will provide excellent cooling performance and quiet operation, which does not come as a surprise considering its price tag.

At US $560 a piece, Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 graphics cards are not exactly cheap and three high-end water blocks with hefty radiator are certainly pricey, we thing that experience users would rather go for a custom DIY solution but those that do not want to meddle with DIY, will certainly appreciate Gigabyte's GTX 980 Waterforce Tri-SLI solution.



Source: Techspot.com.