Maxsun's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MGG Boasts Five Fans

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It also has a fancy detachable magnetic RGB top bar.

Maxsun GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MGG
(Image credit: Maxsun)

China’s Maxsun has showcased its new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MGG. Described as a flagship by the firm’s social media channels, the new graphics card appears to be the first in the Mega Gamer GPU series (MGG). It has some interesting curves, but the most remarkable thing about the MGG design, as shown in the video, is that it sports five fans.

At first glance, the Maxsun GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MGG looks like many of the fat, triple-fan RTX 40 series cards currently available. You can see triple spinners on its front side, which are likely 90mm fans. So far, so ordinary. However, look down at the card from the top, and you'll see two tiny fans blowing toward the motherboard.

(Image credit: maxsun)

Some Photoshop guestimation using the 12VHPWR connector as a reference size (21mm wide) indicates that the small fans are about 50mm in diameter. They are not the smallest fans we have seen in modern PCs, but hopefully, they can be controlled separately in software to take the edge of any 'whiny' sound.

If you watch the video above, you will see another frivolous feature of the Maxsun GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MGG. It has what appears to be a detachable magnetic RGB strip that snaps to the top of the card in the promo reel. This looks like it could be an LCD with text and logos, but as it isn't shown animating (other than cycling color), we think it's just an RGB strip with a black stencil over it. In some other current-gen Maxsun cards, this RGB accessory is self-contained, offering three lighting modes or turns off using a single switch.

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Maxsun GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MGG
(Image credit: Maxsun)

The social media video isn’t very informative, but that is by design. Maxsun says that the official launch of the MGG card will be next week. It asks that we stay tuned for details about the launch event and release date in the next few days. Thus, there is no evidence of this card on the official Maxsun website at the time of writing.

While waiting for Maxsun’s big reveal, it might be a good idea to look back at our GeForce RTX 4070 Ti review and see where this product fits among the best graphics cards available in 2023.

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8 Comments Comment from the forums
  • ManDaddio
    I think amidst all the noise today we forget that being a PC enthusiast is not just about having the fastest amongst the contenders.
    Sometimes simply adding style to our electronic empire is something worth just as much.
    Over the years I have actually started to like having lights and color in my builds.
    I'm not sure why maxsun would go out of their way for an RTX 4070 TI with this kind of style but it does look good.
    I just wish you could overclock the 4070 TI to match the outrageous effort in this particular GPU.
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  • deNameMo
    ManDaddio said:
    I think amidst all the noise today we forget that being a PC enthusiast is not just about having the fastest amongst the contenders.
    Sometimes simply adding style to our electronic empire is something worth just as much.
    This is something that has been dying/fading over the past years. It seems everything that has made this space so great, creative and bizzare went away, once management of those companies decided maximizing profits is the most important thing.

    RGB is useless so ignore that. What interesting unique, very creative product has really made waves in the past years due to its uniqueness? I can't think of any.
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  • Friesiansam
    ManDaddio said:
    I think amidst all the noise today we forget that being a PC enthusiast is not just about having the fastest amongst the contenders.
    Sometimes simply adding style to our electronic empire is something worth just as much.
    Over the years I have actually started to like having lights and color in my builds.
    I'm not sure why maxsun would go out of their way for an RTX 4070 TI with this kind of style but it does look good.
    I just wish you could overclock the 4070 TI to match the outrageous effort in this particular GPU.
    On the other hand, there are a lot of people like me, who have deliberately chosen a windowless case, with no mesh at the front, so that we cannot see what's inside whilst using the PC.

    I don't want to have to pay for style and RGBling I will never see, once the side of the case is closed.
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  • KyaraM
    If you guys want ridiculous, Yeston had quite a few pretty interesting designs over the past couple years, both for AMD and Nvidia cards. And I have frankly no idea where the complaint about less RGB comes from, when my Gainward Phoenix RTX 4070Ti card was recently called a "colorful unicorn" in a review and is outright littered with RGB lights at the underside. It's a disco ball in my case. Personally, though, I prefer a more subdued approach to RGB and can live completely without. That GPU of mine is the only source of RGB in there.
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  • deNameMo
    Friesiansam said:
    On the other hand, there are a lot of people like me, who have deliberately chosen a windowless case, with no mesh at the front, so that we cannot see what's inside whilst using the PC.

    I don't want to have to pay for style and RGBling I will never see, once the side of the case is closed.
    Having a tempered glas is certainly advantagous. It's not a must-have, but trust me, it's better to be able to peek inside your machine and see red debug lights (for example post error, RAM error etc.), see if anything is odd etc.

    I can't tell you how many times I've quickly peeked at my CPU fan to see if my machine is even on (sleep-hibernation issues sometimes).

    Honestly it looks really great as well asthetically. They aren't really massively more expensive. Again not a must-have, but I certainly won't buy non-tempered anymore. Win-Win all around
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  • Ahumado
    Five fans...lol ha ha ha. what won't they think of next...I know 6
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  • bit_user
    deNameMo said:
    Having a tempered glas is certainly advantagous. It's not a must-have, but trust me, it's better to be able to peek inside your machine and see red debug lights (for example post error, RAM error etc.), see if anything is odd etc.
    It comes at the expense of thermal efficiency, however. Tempered glass is much less heat-conductive than steel, not to mention aluminum.

    As for debugging, I can just pull of my side-panel, if/when I need to troubleshoot something. I don't know how long it's even been since the last time I fastened the thumbscrews. The fit is nice and snug, so there's no need for me to secure it.

    deNameMo said:
    I can't tell you how many times I've quickly peeked at my CPU fan to see if my machine is even on (sleep-hibernation issues sometimes).
    I had a sandybridge PC that did this about 3 times in 10 years. Whenever it happened, I'd get an over-temperature alarm and I could pop up the hardware monitor applet to see that the CPU fan was at 0 RPM. Never needed to physically look at it.

    deNameMo said:
    Honestly it looks really great as well asthetically.
    That's the main argument for it, IMO. There are a few windowed cases I've seen that are simply gorgeous. I think this (discontinued) series is one of the better looking ones:

    Review: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/lian-li-pc-o5s/
    Otherwise, I'm quite happy with windowless.
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  • bit_user
    ManDaddio said:
    I'm not sure why maxsun would go out of their way for an RTX 4070 TI with this kind of style but it does look good.
    I really do wish we'd see more innovation in GPU cooling. I'm just not convinced these fans are the right thing. As we learned from this hilarious example, more fans isn't necessarily better.

    Review: Abkoncore Ramesses 780 Case Review: 12 Fans, No Airflow
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