MSI Infinite X (8700K & 1080 Ti) System Review

1. Introduction to MSI Infinite X2. Performance and Testing3. Cooling Performance4. Closing Thoughts5. View All Pages

Cooling Performance

Cooling Performance Overview
The 120mm CPU cooler is unimpressive, and so too is the cooler on the GTX 1080 Ti Armor. Taken together the two pieces of hardware acted as though they were overclocked, even while they delivered only modest performance.

We noted in our video that the Core i7-8700K was running at 4.1GHz on all cores where we would expect to see 4.3GHz. Our best theory is that the VRMs on the motherboard are unable to handle the i7-8700K at full load and the tiny heatsinks on the VRMs only make matter worse.

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