MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X & SUPRIM Liquid X Review – When Air & Water Collide!

The MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X graphics card comes inside a large cardboard box. The front of the package has a large “GeForce RTX” brand logo along with the “MSI” logo in the top left corner and the “SUPRIM Liquid  X” series branding in the lower-left corner.

A large picture of the graphics card itself is depicted on the front which gives a nice preview of the SUPRIM Liquid X design. This is MSI’s first AIO variant featured within the SUPRIM lineup. The last generation did have AIO cards but those were branded under the Sea Hawk lineup.

The packaging has put a large emphasis on the RTX side of things as the first feature enlisted by AIBs will be NVIDIA Ada architecture, Ray Tracing & DLSS support. NVIDIA has bet the future of their gaming GPUs on Ray Tracing support as these are the first cards to offer support for the new feature.

The back of the box is very typical, highlighting the main features and specifications of the cards. The three key aspects of MSI’s top-tier custom cards are its blazing performance which is achieved by fully custom design, the new Micro-fin copper base, Torx Fan 5.0, & an aluminum heat radiator which will offer better cooling performance.

The back of the box is very typical, highlighting the main features and specifications of the cards. The three key aspects of MSI’s top-tier custom cards are its blazing performance which is achieved by fully custom design, the new Tri-Frozr cooling system, and a new wave-curved 2.0 heatsink which will offer better cooling performance compared to the traditional flat-surfaced fin heatsinks.

There’s also a focus towards GeForce.com on each AIB card through which users can download the latest drivers and GeForce Experience application which are a must for gamers to access all feature sets of the new cards.

The sides of the box once again greet us with the large GeForce RTX branding. There’s also the mention of 24 GB GDDR6X (RTX 4090) memory available on the card. Opening the box, you are greeted with a nice SUPRIM logo.

Outside of the box, the graphics card and the accessory package are held firmly by foam packaging. The graphics card comes with a few accessories and manuals which might not be of much use for hardcore enthusiasts but can be useful for the mainstream gaming audience. The only accessory bundled with the graphics card is a single 16-pin to 4x 8-pin power adapter. There’s also a nice mousepad that MSI ships with its SUPRIM series lineup.

The card is nicely wrapped within an anti-static cover which is useful to prevent any unwanted static discharges on various surfaces that might harm the graphics card. The most interesting accessory that I found in the package was a graphics card support bracket. This bracket connects the graphics card to the casing, offering better durability and preventing any sort of bending that may occur due to the heavy weight of the Gaming X Trio series graphics cards.

After the package is taken care of, I can finally start talking about the card itself. Compared to the SUPRIM X Air, the SUPRIM Liquid X has a more elegant design with a brushed aluminum shroud. Like the SUPRIM X, the SUPRIM Liquid X was also sent with custom nameplates designed for us which look absolutely great.