This cooling solution is mostly made out of aluminum with lot of heat pipes made out of copper. Of course, now, the name SuperPipe makes sense doesn’t it? Although there are 5 heat pipes, which is nice, two of these are thicker than the others (8mm thicker). Of course those thicker heat pipes (MSI SuperPipe Technology) conduct heat much better that regular ones. Beside these special heat pipes this graphics card has cooling system cover made out of metal alloy with brushed finish instead of plastics. This also improves thermal characteristics of system as a whole.
For this system to work properly, besides aluminum fins, two 70mm fans are used which offer satisfactory performances. There are better solutions but these work ok, but generate more noise than most other custom cooling solution that we saw. Under this massive cooling system we found GT200 GPU with 240 Stream Processors and 1GB 0.8ns GDD3 memory (signed by Samsung). Memory section is really good so no noise was generated by power section coils. Frequencies are little bit higher than default values set by NVIDIA: 680MHz for GPU and 2.5GHz for memory.
As expected this model achieved good performance levels, so you shouldn’t worry too much about playing new games even in higher resolutions (1920x1200) at maximum settings. Small manufacturers overclock did result in slightly higher performances compared to referent cards but nothing revolutionary when it comes to GT200 architecture. New driver revisions did fix some problems in games so gaming experience should be smother than before. MSI N285GTX SuperPipe 2G is one great graphics card and placed at the pinnacle of MSI graphics card lineup. Anyone who decides to purchase this model will be extremely satisfied with its performances and looks.
| MSI N285GTX SuperPipe 2G |
| Frequencies [GPU / Shader / RAM] |
680MHz / 1524MHz / 2500MHz |
| 1920 x 1080 |
| 3DMark 05 |
22,651 |
| 3DMark06 (Final Score / SM2.0 / SM3.0) |
17,731 / 7,005 / 7,458 |
| Crysis WarHead |
38.7fps |
| Devil May Cry 4 |
168.4fps |
| World in Conflict |
61fps |
| X3TC Demo |
68.1fps |
| Unigine Tropics (fps / score) |
76.6 / 1,994 |
| Unigine Sancuary (fps / score) |
84.3 / 3,514 |
| 1920 x 1080 8xAA 16xAF |
| 3DMark 05 |
18,922 |
| 3DMark 06 (Final Score / SM2.0 / SM3.0) |
12,586 / 5,488 / 4,299 |
| Crysis WarHead |
21fps |
| Devil May Cry 4 |
148.3fps |
| World in Conlict |
55fps |
| X3TC Demo |
67.2fps |
| Unigine Tropics (fps / score) |
38.8 / 977 |
| Unigine Sanctuary (fps / score) |
53.6 / 2,274 |
| Test configuration: Intel C2Q Q6600 @ 3.2GHz; ASUS P5E3 Deluxe WiFi AP@n; 2x2GB Geil DDR3 @ 1600MHz; NVIDIA ForceWare 185.85 |
Key tags :
MSI N285GTX,
SuperPipe 2G,
NVIDIA GT200,
Stream Processors,
1920x1200
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