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what's up guys welcome back hope you're doing well so it has been a few weeks since the launch of NVIDIA GTX 10 atti but only now are we starting to see adding board partner variants hit store shelves and as it turns out the shelves in my office so we'll be looking at one such offering today meet the Strix GTX 10 ATT IOC Edition from the folks at Asus which we would hope provides a cooler quieter and possibly faster GTX 10 atti over invidious founders Edition sporting the same GP 102 GPU as Titan X Pascal the Strix shares identical specs with the FE save for the higher core and boosts clocks dialed in by Asus making it the faster card out of the box and we mustn't forget NVIDIA has also fitted the GTX 1080 Ti with only 11 gigs of gddr5 X in a failed attempt to reassure technics owners that they didn't waste their money now with a powerful GPU like the GP 102 the admission price for a cool and quiet card is physical size and the Strix is no exception spanning 11 point 7 inches long 5.3 inches tall in 2.1 inches thick small form-factor builders may find trouble stuffing this 2.5 slot card and its enormous fin stack into a mini ITX case and this may be one scenario where the founders Edition makes more sense with its smaller blower style design the open-air shroud boasts a sturdy plastic construction with minimal flex inspiring confidence in the cards build quality meanwhile a trio of patented wing blade 90 millimeter fans stay frozen at lower temperatures to eliminate noise emissions but otherwise push air downwards onto a quintet of 6 millimeter heat pipes joining two aluminum heat sinks one of which sports a copper heat spreader that provides twice as much contact with the GPU apparently traditional heat spreaders aren't as perfectly flat as they appear to the naked eye so asus has utilized precision machining to produce a flatter surface that maximizes contact with the GPU for improved thermal transfer the fin stack itself allegedly features 40% more surface area over previous two slot designs which granted doesn't tell us much since there have been a tremendous number of dual slot cards in the past but I suppose phrasing it this way sounds more scientific than these heat sinks are hella big trading in the reference card six and eight pin power plugs for a dual eight pin set indicates a custom PCB a company by a 10+2 phase power design premium alloy components for reduced power loss and thermals and some bonus connectivity with asus fan connect 2 users get a pair of 4 pin pwm fan headers that can be automatically or manually controlled based on GPU or CPU thermals as well as an aura supported RGB header conveniently placed at the front of the card for easy access to SLI fingers and they're familiar spots allow you to hit earth-shattering frame rates with 2-way SLI would be great to test it though asus just sand a beautiful brushed aluminum backplate reinforces the PCB but not quite enough to eliminate all GPU sag though it's not terrible and this is admittedly a tall order for a car this size the back plates large ROG logo is one of the cards several RGB LED elements all of which can be configured or disabled within the aura software color accuracy is on point with the exception of a rather warm white and the overall execution looks cool but tasteful with no visible hot spots the rear i/o has been thoughtfully redone to accommodate VR users with HDMI connected head mounted displays in total you get two HDMI 2.0 B to DisplayPort 1.4 and a single dual link DVI ports now taking to my Z 270 test build running a 7700 K clock to 5 gigahertz which for the record I would not recommend with a hyper 212 cooler it was time to overclock the already overclocked Strix GTX 10 atti in the end I managed a core clock offset of 110 megahertz and the memory clock offset of 375 taking us to a loaded core clock frequency of 2025 megahertz and a memory clock speed of 14 hundred and 70 as you can see the card barely topped 70 degrees Celsius with these figures a whopping 15 degrees cooler than my GTX 1080p I founder's addition all the while retaining an excellent acoustic profile that far exceeded my expectations so far the Strix has already impressed me to the point where I would recommend it based on the cooling and noise improvements alone but obviously that won't stop me from testing it in a slew of games at 1440p and 4k so using our mentioned overclock with the latest three 78.92 wickel drivers on Windows 10 here is a look at the benchmarks so clearly our card of the hour does not trounce the founders edition in gaming performance as we only saw about a 1 to 4 percent increase in average frame rates as a matter of fact 1440p performance was nearly identical between the two cards in most of our games 4k is where the Strix really seemed to outshine the founders Edition by a margin so slight the few extra frames rendered would likely go unnoticed to the average user in closing that's not to say the Strix GTX 10 atti doesn't deliver a spectacular high-end triple-a gaming experience especially when paired with the G sync supported display the founders Edition TI is already a hell of a beast with unruly thermals and acoustics that asus has managed to tame phenomenally well raising the bar for other custom bearings while it's undoubtedly a steep buy at 780 us at the time of filming the $80 premium over the founders edition is worth every penny and everyone should go buy two of them immediately assuming you have ample room in your chassis and funds in your wallet but that's going to do it for now guys so leave me some feedback in the comments let me know if this kind of performance is worth the price to you also feel free to toss me a look on the video if you enjoyed it helps me a lot and before you go allow me to shamelessly plug bit with ultra my buck video month early access ad free channel where my videos post early without ads holy crap that sentence was more redundant than a raid 10 array also check out 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