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what's up guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well today we're taking a look at the GTX 1080 Ti for the win 3 which is currently EBG A's flagship Pascal video card for the win 3 sports an all new cooler and the brand's icx technology which I've already detailed in my for the win 2 video but to quickly recap icx is EVGA sort of umbrella term for several features that enhance thermal monitoring and cooling for starters rather than having just one thermal sensor on the GPU like most video cards do icx adds 9 sensors and a couple microcontrollers to the PCB these sensors are placed in close proximity to the memory power and GPU and can be monitored via precision x OC or with the card's trio of built-in LED indicators the LED colors reflect each zones temperature range for at a glance monitoring assuming of course you can physically see the LEDs from where you're gaming for added customizability the LED colors and thermal range values can be reassigned within the software now of course having more sensors won't make your card run any faster but having access to more thermal data can potentially help users optimize their custom fan curves especially with EVGA a synchronous fan control another icx feature that gives each fan its own user-defined fan curve in the case of our for the win 3 here the triple 90 millimeter double ball bearing fans target different zones with the left fan primarily cooling the GPU and the other two fans serving the memory and power this sectional cooling design works for the most part however heat transfer between components can still occur since all the elements are packed together on the same PCB with that in mind I wouldn't recommend limiting airflow too aggressively to any one particular area of the card other icx notables include a number of bin holes which promote air flow through the heatsink and l-shaped fins for increased surface area and heat dissipation additional heat absorption is offered by several of these patented pin feeds which protrude from the die cast base plate even the base plate and back plate serve a functional purpose here by making direct contact with the main components using no shortage of thermal padding so that's a super quick rehash on IC X and how it's been implemented onto the Ti for the win 3 it's certainly not a set of technologies that I would call vital to the end user but they can still be valuable to enthusiasts who demand the additional control and peace of mind there's more to talk about though like that gorgeous as fuck shrapp it's treated with a powder coated finish that gives it an almost metallic appearance but it's actually made of plastic which feels durable in high quality the exceptionally open-air design is not advertised to improve temperatures though take into consideration that heat from the card will be exhausted almost entirely into your chassis the card measures just under 12 inches long but maintains reasonable dimensions elsewhere making it noticeably smaller than the Asus Strix GTX 1080p eye with significantly less sack this is a huge plus apart from the features we've already discussed the aluminum heatsink is partitioned into two halves joined by five six millimeter copper heat pipes or at least I think they're six millimeters they definitely look like they're about six millimeter on the side of the card you'll find two sli fingers and a large strip of branding with RGB backlighting that's fully customizable with the precision color picker which by the way is the exact same color picker as the one in ms paint it'll get a notice EVGA also on the side of the card is a dual BIOS switch and a pair of eight pin PCIe power connectors the beautiful diecast backplate is lined with ample ventilation slots and a tasteful RGB badge that can be synced in perfect unison with the side lettering these are quality LEDs with rich accurate color and no visible hotspots on the back you get your reference i/o including a dual link DVI pre DisplayPort 1.4 and an HDMI 2.0 B now to briefly run down some basic specs and videos GTX 1080p I of course borrows a modified GP 102 GPU as found on the Titan X Pascal and more recently the other Titan X Pascal aka Titan X little P thanks for making that simple Nvidia the card sports 3584 cuda cores and a factory overclock from EVGA to fifteen hundred and sixty nine megahertz base and sixteen hundred and eighty-three megahertz boost we also get an ample frame buffer of 11 gigs of gddr5 X at 11 gigabits per second on a three hundred and fifty two-bit bus offering up four hundred and eighty four gigabytes a second of memory bandwidth while the gtx 980ti is the world's first single GPU that comfortably and consistently 4k gaming at 60 plus frames a second the founders edition model is plagued by gratuitous heat and noise so as usual it's up to ad and board partners like EVGA to optimize the overall experience especially when it comes to thermal and acoustics despite my rooms warm ambient temperature at the time of 29 degrees Celsius the GPU hovered between 70 and 75 C under load which isn't half bad using the default Auto fan curve the cards noise output was delightfully minimal as well certainly quiet enough to go unnoticed in a conventional close chassis but that said here's a sound test on my open air test bed before we dive into the benchmarks here's a look at the overclock settings I was able to pull off if they don't look too impressive keep in mind that the for the win 3 already comes with the heavy factory OC in the end the card managed an average core clock speed of nineteen hundred and thirty six megahertz and a memory clock of fourteen hundred and fifty one today's tests were ran with an Intel Core i5 7600 k overclocked to four point eight gigahertz on liquid on an msi z 270 gaming Pro carbon with 16 gigs of G scale Trident Z ddr4 at 3200 our boot drive is the one terabyte Toshiba OC zrd 400 m2 nvme SSD loaded with the latest Windows 10 updates and NVIDIA wickel drivers on that notes ladies and gentlemen let's remind ourselves once again how frigging fast the GTX 1080p is with some 1440p and 4k benchmarks it really comes as no surprise that this card is blazing fast and managed to deliver over 60 FPS on average at 4k in every game we tested Ultra HD and ultra wide gamers can expect even better performance around the 100 FPS mark which is just crazy oddly enough we did encounter some underwhelming frame times though particularly the 1% in 0.1 % lows in battlefield 1 and the point 1% lows in Metro last light after several retest these results were repeatable and I'm not exactly sure why they scored on the low-end like they did that said before the win 3 crushed every other title and performed right on par with my overclocked Asus Strix GTX 1080p I at 780 USD this is currently one of the priciest t eyes on the market making it a tough sell when you think about it when you consider EVGA zone gtx 1080p is see also ships with icx technology for 60 bucks less the main difference being the lower factory overclock and smaller to fan cooler if money is no object however the for the win 3 is a cool and quiet monster that will destroy every game you own and look fabulous while doing it but that's going to do it for now guys let me know in the comments which gtx 980ti you would prefer and why does it have a specific set of features that you like or does it just look super badass let me know also before you go don't forget to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it and feel free to check out bit with ultra mic early access ad-free channel for a buck 50 a month you can start your two-week free trial today and back out any time as always i'm crowded with thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see y'all in the next video