Breaking The Envelope

When you look at video cards, look at the rated speed of the memory on it. – Ed

Here is a pic of my Asus V6800 DDR G-force card. I installed 24 RAM heatsinks on the 8 memory chips (3 per chip) and added an extra beefy heat sink – a Global Win FA-420 on the GPU. I

Today we are looking at our first partner card in the MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio. The Gaming X Trio hails from MSI’s premium line of cards (Gaming) and with it includes a slight overclock out of the box. The main difference between the FE cards and this offering is the Tri-Frozr Thermal design/large heatsink that MSI put on this card. Between its raised clocks, and monster cooler, we are hoping to see better overclocking and performance from this card. Read on to see the results of our testing!