Gigabyte Presents GeForce GTX 980 WaterForce Tri-SLI Kit - Water Cooling + 3x 980 GPU Kit Like You Have Never Seen Before

[JaeDee884]

anyoner else reckon this looks like its for a Haf Stacker?

[Brett Taggart]

Kinda cool, I saw the prototype with the 780ti's I think

 

What is the asking price though??

[aliendejoe]

Holy cow! That's very cool!

Hehehe...

[Geekazoid]

What is the asking price though??

$5,000 JK

[Geekazoid]

Thats kinda crazy, also wouldn't a 360mm rad have been more efficient?

  

Not sure if sexy or just plain stupid.

  

If someone has the money to buy 3 980's and plans on watercooling them, I really hope they don't do this.. Custom loops are so much better looking + performing

  

It's cool to see manufactures trying to make things better who seriously this looks stupid. I would rather have a nice custom loop then whatever the hell this thing is.

  

This is mad, but it also hurts me in the OCD. That front facia sticking out like that with the wires..it looks so messy.

 

Also that plastic..if you're gonna overspend on extreme kit anyway, that better be magnesium, carbon fibre or aluminum. Plastic is so gaudy in this price range.

  

This was teased awhile back and honestly looks pretty ugly and bulky. Even if I had the money I wouldn't buy this.

Only cool thing is 'waterforce' vs their wind force air coolers. Would be neat to see a gigabyte 980 that comes standard with a custom water block but this is just... no.

It seems like the general consensus so far is that this design of Gigabyte's is a bad idea? I have to admit, it is quite ugly. I think an AIO would look way more aesthetically pleasing than this. It looks ridiculous. I'll be surprised if Gigabyte sell any, if any, of these. :huh:

I think you need to go back to the drawing board Gigabyte and start again because this looks like a bad design idea implemented by mistake. :huh:

[ericlee30]

Cool concept, but honestly if Im going to dish out that much money, I will want very sexy water blocks and rads of my choice, not some bulky cannon tank I have to stick on the top of my case.

[Epis]

I hope they realise that the pipes and wires going into the case through the first optical drive bay are going to block the front I/O on many cases. The Fractal Design Arc Midi R2, for example, has the power button at the top-centre of the front panel which will be covered by pipes and cables.

[Thorium19]

It's certainly an interesting concept, although I can guarantee I wouldn't go spending my hard earned cash on it, I'd rather just build my own loop with one or two 980s in it than buy this, it's gaudy and won't fit in with the design of many cases, and would be totally unusable in mine due to the lack of 5.25" bays, let alone blocking the front panel I/O.

[AlwaysFSX]

It's certainly an interesting concept, although I can guarantee I wouldn't go spending my hard earned cash on it, I'd rather just build my own loop with one or two 980s in it than buy this, it's gaudy and won't fit in with the design of many cases, and would be totally unusable in mine due to the lack of 5.25" bays, let alone blocking the front panel I/O.

Me, for example.

[Psykomantis00]

Me, for example.

 

 

 

Same here, I had to remove the top part of my phantom to get my H110 in a push pull config. 

[Paralectic]

that's pretty sick

[SkilledRebuilds]

anyoner else reckon this looks like its for a Haf Stacker?

Prob the reason this exists... They saw the stacker and were like.. holy shit, we could stack our coolers too, and feed water to our GPU's via an external stacker cooling system.

Responce

 

"That'd be Baller"

Cost = Arm and a leg?

 

And yeah, front panel looks like POO now.

I like it flush/clean.

[decer304]

looks cool, but i hate it how it would cover the front IO, external tubes look bad, cause i like a clean look, and also it covers up the top.

 

I would much rather a solution that took up multiple 5.25 inch bays that only cooled 1 or 2 cards. i dont want to be forced to have 3 way sli

[WiiManic]

I mean its nice that manufacturers are actually trying new things, but jeez that thing is so bulky. And the pipes/cables out the front combined with the huge support bar inside makes it look so cluttered.

The inside already looks full and the GPUs don't even have power cables in those pics.

 

A 1 GPU version might be nice, but the sort of people who want 3x980s and Water cooling will probably just do it themselves.

[JimmyChau]

Holy mother of Gigabyte O_O

 

I wonder how many units they will produce and actually sell...

[DeViLzzz]

Linus you need to get this and review it!

[WolfDeville]

[Guest MrE]

If only they sold the kits at 1 kit+1 card packages I would totally get one. (I am not prepared to do custom loops just yet.)

I am all in for closed liquid cooled GPUs like the 100i for CPUs.

Want.

[Hazy125]

As a gigabyte fanboy I was excited... Then I saw it. What an ugly piece of sh*t

[Str_Mape]

I'm sorry but all I see in this picture is a barbecue heated by 980s.

[Hoppa]

I WANT THAT SLI BRIDGE

 

Cool product btw.

[DaRk0]

Soooo.... no backplates?

[Shine_Syahr]

It's awesome!! Not being sarcastic.

I'd buy it if the price is reasonable

[Toddwjp]

i like this, 

[Octagoncow]

That's so crazy looking. I guess the title wasn't lying when it said it wasn't like anything I've seen. It will  be interesting to see how this works for them. I'm happy to see someone trying something new though.