A worrying trend we are seeing with many GPU manufacturers today is the re-introduction of 'warranty void' stickers preventing the removal of heatsinks. This creates two problems. You will void the warranty if you want to replace the stock TIM and you will also void the warranty if you replace the air cooler with a watercooling block.
Breaking the seal, we get to see the cooler in all its glory. The Twin Frozr design has been changed slightly over the years yet remains true to its 'twin fan' design. Each fan sits atop of a separate fin array, connected in the centre by a nickel plated base plate. There are a total of four 'superpipe' heatpipes which dissipate heat evenly across the heatsink. A further evolution included in this design is the heatpipe deflector, deflecting airflow directly onto the heatpipes furthering the efficiency of the Twin Frozr cooler.
While the main cooler only has direct contact with the GPU core, a midplate acts both as a brace preventing PCB bowing and also direct cooling to both the VRM area and memory chips.
The PCB is much longer than the short reference PCB design. The MSI PCB also features memory chips on both sides of the PCB with space enough for a further 2GB (a 4GB model is also available).
The memory carries the product code of H5GQ2H24AFR R0C which tells us this memory is the same type used on the reference design which we know is very good memory indeed, allowing extreme overclocks with relative ease.
The VRM area has an extra power phase over the reference design with a 5+2 instead of 4+2 configuration. Each of the components soldered to the PCB are from the Military class IV stable.
The final piece in the jigsaw is the beating heart of the GTX760, the 6 SMX GK104 core.