Raijintek Morpheus 8069
Standalone graphics card coolers have not been increasing in numbers lately. This is probably also due to non-reference graphics cards that include a decent cooler. But Raijintek still sees some room in them and is preparing a new revision of Morpheus – 8069. Big heatsink, big fans, high TDP (360 W) and silent operation even with performance that is otherwise (with built-in coolers) “audible”.
Third-party GPU coolers are past their prime. We probably don’t need to get our hopes up that it could be any different. Still, from time to time, an alternative will appear. Now it’s a cooler from Raijintek’s well-established cooler series – Morpheus, the new 8069 model.
This is a hefty portion of metal (aluminum fins and heatpipes) weighing over half a kilo (the specs say 515 g). And this is just the heatsink without fans. The massive heatsink does count on the fins being actively cooled, but you have to buy the fans at your own discretion. The free hand in the choice of fans is good in that you don’t overpay for something you eventually end up not even using. After all, Raijintek doesn’t have top of the line fans and the customer of such a cooler has the highest demands for cooling.
The fan landing area of the Morpheus 8069 is 254 × 110 mm. This works out to two 120mm fans that will extend a bit beyond the heatsink structure. If these standalone graphics card coolers do anything really special, it’s that they’re geared to install large fans.
Ready-made graphics card coolers, as far as fans go, do stretch and even out to 120mm across, but that’s with bright exceptions (Asus RTX 30×0 Noctua Edition) in low-profile formats. They do not achieve such high efficiency and at the same noise level they cool worse than top-notch 120 mm fans with a standard thickness of 25 mm.
The disadvantage of such solutions (cooler and fans separately) is naturally in the extra height. The (Morpheus 8069’s) heatsink alone is 44 mm and when you add the fans, the slightly protruding GPU from the PCB and maybe some protruding fan clips, you are at some 75 mm. At that thickness then most PCI Express slots are blocked on most motherboards, this has to be accepted.
The Morpheus 8069 shows up in the illustrations with small, well-articulated copper (5 pcs) and aluminium (4 pcs) heatsinks for both memory and voltage regulators. The heat from these components is also dissipated from the back of the PCB, through thermal pads into the metal backplate.
Most Radeon RX 6700 (XT), RX 6800 (XT), RX 6900 (XT) and GeForce RTX 3080 (Ti), RTX 3090 (Ti) graphics cards are to be supported, and with powerful enough fans, the Morpheus 8069 cooler should be enough even for the RTX 4090. For now, it’s unclear which models are supported and which ones the heatsink won’t fit on. This is because some non-reference graphics cards may have non-standard component layouts that the heatsink may interfere with, or small heatsinks may not be formatted properly for them. There is often a limitation to cards with reference PCB layouts only.
Eventual incompatibility with some non-reference designs will become apparent later, when Raijintek officially introduces the cooler and the manuals are available. This could happen as early as November 1st. Maybe eventually support for new AMD graphics cards based on RDNA 3 architecture will be added, we will see.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
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