MSI works on a liquid-cooled GTX 1080

Teams up with EK Water Blocks

In addition to plenty of Pascal-based notebooks, MSI brought a rather interesting desktop graphics card to the Gamescom 2016 show in Cologne, the liquid-cooled GTX 1080 “30th Anniversary Edition”.

What makes the  MSI GTX 1080 30th Anniversary Edition special is that it comes with a complete AiO liquid cooling system, courtesy of well known liquid cooling from EK Water Blocks.

According to the Hardware.info site which spotted the  card on the show floor, we are looking at EKWB’s EK Predator liquid cooling set, with CoolStream PE radiator, Vardar PWM fans, a DDC pump, and of course, an LED-equipped water block.

While the precise clocks have not been revealed, MSI said that it could end up with a factory overclock close to the GTX 1080 Gaming Z version, which has a decent factory overclock pushing the GPU to 1771MHz GPU base and 1911MHz GPU Boost clocks.

In addition to the  GTX 1080 30th Anniversary Edition, MSI is apparently teaming even more closely with EK Water Blocks as both the GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080 Sea Hawk graphics cards will come with EKWB water blocks.

According to information, the MSI GTX 1080 30th Anniversary Edition could appear in retail sometime in September and although we do not have a precise price, we suspect that it won’t be coming in volume and it will be anything but cheap.