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what's up guys today I'm taking a look at the first of hopefully many custom gtx 1080s on the channel this is EVGA gtx 1080 for the win edition and it comes bearing loads of improvements over in videos reference design I mean just look at the two side-by-side which one would you want inside of your slot in regards to EVGA z' own product stack before the win edition ranks above the superclocked version and just below the classified model in terms of feature set and factory OC intensity so we can expect the price and out-of-the-box performance of this card to fall somewhere between the two on the base clock of our full GP 104 GPU we see an aftermarket bump to seventeen hundred and twenty-one megahertz with a boost clock of eighteen hundred and sixty megahertz after some GPU boost 3.0 magic the card managed to press on and hit nineteen hundred and eighty seven megahertz or about two hundred and fifty megahertz higher than the reference boost clock the memory clock stays unchanged at ten gigahertz affective being a gtx 1080 we get eight gigs of gddr5 X on a 256 bit bus along with the full number of twenty 560 CUDA cores with the arrival of Pascal we see a completely revamped cooler from EVGA aptly named a CH 3.0 the cooler spans ten and a half inches long and features two 100 millimeter fans that use double ball bearings to increase their lifespan up to four times longer than the competition which means they'll probably outlive most musicians these days to keep acoustics in check the fans stay put when the system remains in a low-power state only ramping up when the GPU begins to generate more heat the swept fan blades move air downward onto a hefty fin stack using six nickel-plated heat pipes four of which are six millimeter and the other two eight millimeters thick the black plastic shroud sports an interesting combination of brush metallic plating and a honeycomb mesh I personally love the new look and I commend EB GA for being the first company to hire a colony of bees to design their cooler the build quality here is second to none and the mesh pattern is backlit with RGB lighting configurable in the latest precision X software branding on the side also gets the RGB treatment and lighting effects for all LEDs on the card includes static color cycling and breathing mode though I couldn't get the breathing effect to work in my testing behold the breath holding effect sorry that was horrible still the RGB lighting on the GTX 1084 the win is among the best I've seen on any graphics card to date the colors are accurate and vibrant and produce an even glow with no visible hot spots the lights can also be disabled for all of you joyless fuddy-duddies beside the illuminated logo we see EVGA has added an extra 8 pin PCIe plug over the founder's addition giving us 2 in total with a max total graphics power draw of 258 watts to further aid power delivery they've also doubled down with a custom 10 plus to power phase design over the reference 5 plus one solution assuming you don't draw the short straw on the silicon lottery these welcome changes should theoretically improve the cards overclocking performance and stability while it's easily missed the custom PCB also features a dual BIOS switch next to the power plugs on the back we find a beautiful brushed metallic backlight with some more of that fun honeycomb mesh it's hard to quantify how much exactly this reinforces the circuit board but when a backplate looks this good who even cares finally the rear sports the reference layout of display i/o with one dual link DVI 3 DisplayPort 1.4 and a single HDMI 2.0 be for testing I ran the card on my x99 test bedrock into 5820k at 4400 megahertz with 16 gigs of DDR 4 on a gigabyte x99 gaming g1 Wi-Fi when overclocking the card I was only able to squeeze another 50 or 60 megahertz out of the GPU clock dude was already being pushed pretty heavily by EVGA one could go so far as to say that overclocking this card is kind of like forcing a heroin junkie to smoke weed he's already so high that there's little room to push him further without experiencing total instability as a result today's numbers will showcase the cards factory overclocked performance 3d mark fire strike extreme being an exception where I show stock and OC results in order to illustrate the slight gains achieved when overclocking the card throughout my testing the chip stayed moderately cool never topping 76 degrees Celsius the ACX 3.0 cooler kept quiet as well here's a listen all games were run at 1920 by 1080 2560 by 1440 and 4k on Windows 10 using the latest 360 8.39 wickel driver from nvidia on that note to my friends let's turn this up to 11 and dive into the benchmarks all righty so as we'd expect the 1084 the wind beats out the founders edition in pretty much every test at every resolution most of the time it's a marginal victory by three or four FPS on average but I'd imagine we'd cop an extra frame or two when overclocking with that additional 60 megahertz I was able to dial in earlier obviously the card crushes at full HD in 1440 and even 4k gaming isn't out of the question as long as you're ok with disabling anti-aliasing and some additional eye candy in a nutshell what EVGA brings to the table here with therefore the win Edition is an enhanced version of what's already the fastest single GPU card on the market that stays well below referenced temps and acoustics if I'm being nitpicky I would like to see more led effects added in the future as the lighting on this card is just really badass and it would be a shame not to take full advantage of that also I did encounter some frustration with the packaging plastic wrap being stuck underneath the screws congratulations EVGA you've somehow managed to take away the joy of peeling off plastic wrap overall though this is a feature packed card that checks all the boxes for what a good aftermarket card should be and I'm confident any enthusiast gamer will enjoy all it has to offer 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