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everyone we're here at CES 2019 now getting used to that and we are taking apart the Asus 2080 TI matrix this card is extremely interesting even if you don't think you want a 2080 ti you should still look at it because they've integrated a radiator into the shroud and and we have some b-roll footage of that to show you what it looks like but we're gonna take it apart and get a closer look because they do some interesting things here it's a unique design it's technically a liquid-cooled card it's just that all of the liquid cooling is compacted into one board and it's not hugely oversized compared to the other 28 ET is so we want to see how all that works in today's video before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte r-tx 2070 gaming OC now available in a matte white model to match the emergence of white PC cases the r-tx 2070 gaming OC is a three fan cooling solution and four composite heat pipes on Nvidia's newest Orion GPU and ships with a pre overclock of 1740 megahertz in OC mode or 1725 in gaming mode RGB fusion is also available for the LED enthusiast learn more at the link in the description below let's do a quick walkthrough of the card so first of all it has the same fans as the Strix the ROG Strix 20 atti we already talked about how these change from the previous generation it also has the same PCB as the ROG Strix 2080 Ti so that's the same - you might remember when we showed the 28 ET I originally ended a teardown on that the Strix we talked out some in doctors that were angled differently than all the others and how that was for a future project that we weren't privy to at the time but we now know what it was for and it was for this and we have well you'll see in a moment but the cold plate on this is pretty uniquely shaped it's just it's wider than all the it's got a bigger diameter than all the others that you typically see on cards and so even though this is water cooled in a GPU with everything compacted into one shroud they have done some pretty unique things to take care of thermals so this is jet if it's just like the stretch which I think it is it's four screws to loosen the entire cooling assembly which is actually really nice because there's a sort of a substructure under the shroud and on top of the base or it is the base plate that is the structural support for everything so only needs four screws not all of these spots here this is always an indication of a screw coming through normally through the base plate through the PCB and then securing the backplate to the card so that's what those are for we might not get through those today we're at CES and if your echo that's also why there's echo LED switch there nothing special so here's here's the whole thing it's a it's a bit wide shot but let's walk through it from right to left camera right so we've got here the cold plate this we've got a b-roll shot as well we'll throw it in somewhere in this video showing the typical sized cold plate the one that asus has here I am 99% certain is the EVGA hybrid CLC cold plate which is an ace attack Gen 4.5 cold plate which you can tell because it's got the the extended base coming out of the bottom of it that's typical of EVGA s four point five tentacle plate so this one's a bit wider it's not a Sutekh we don't know a hundred percent sure no suppliers yet today of the pomp or anything like that it could be pumped like this it could be Dino Tron or a politic or someone along those lines we'll try and find out later when we can take the palm apart so that's the cold plate it is large and the reason it's large is because we pan back over to the PCB you will see that the we come back to these inductors I mentioned so when we we saw the Strix originally I said that these were rotated for a future project they didn't tell us about and this is the future project so that wide diameter cold plate extends of course because it's a circle into the center of the inductor line that's why it's rotated the reason it extends is to get full coverage of the vram so the memory modules are covered here and then the vrm it's the Strix BRM it was kind of an overkill vrm to start with so that's good because it helps with with thermal dissipation across a wide surface area but then they've got this base plate on top of it and this will just be cooled by air so it's air coming through a radiator it's going to be hot air in theory it should still be cooler than not blowing air onto it it'll test all that later but the air coming through the radiator will be hitting these the spin stack and that cools the MOSFETs and dr. line there doesn't need any cooling really and that covers most of those components as for the interface to the the memory you'll notice that there's nothing on that Coldplay right now this is a a pre-production model so it's not done some stuff on here might change it's pretty much done but one example of something that we don't know the finals on yet would be how the memory is going to sink into the cold plate so let's either paste or pad or something along those lines and you throw all putty but one of those three things and then let's see what else we can look at here on the the rest of it's all pretty familiar so I mean the right side we still have the fan hookups which I'll try and get a shot of that so two for pin fan headers in there there's it looks like an RGB header in there 12 volt and then GRB would be the pin out on that within a cable for probably the pomp or the fans on the shroud and then there's another cable that we've already disconnected on this side of the cooler on the right side that actually this is the one for the pump right there there's your power and ground and again this is a non-final design so that's your hookup for the pump the pump is right here so that is integrated in the shroud and it looks like the tubing is the name of the exact tubing escapes me right now but it looks like the kind that has the teflon and our liner on it which helps with permeation this stuff you don't really want to use it in like in a closed loop that you have on a CPU where the user is bending it because it is a bit more fragile to being bent but if it's pre-installed by the manufacturer it's a bit better use and that's what's happening here because they're gonna route it obviously in a way that it won't crack the teflon and so you end up with a teflon liner that should help with permeation that I don't have exact detail on that but just based on experience I'm pretty sure that's what that is for the tube type so that's going into the the looks like cold plate and the housing directly so there's we have the top side of this cold plate with all the micro fins in a separate shot we're not gonna pull it out of here and drain all the fluid out of ACE use this demo card so we'll show a separate shot of that with the micro fins but it is a wider surface area micro thin contact and typical which is good that's what you want to see for a wider service area last thing here for the radiator so it it comes all the way across it looks like it's about a 240 millimeter radiator but the tank so typically you have the fat tank on the end of the radiator where there's just some tiny bit of extra water storage that's me located centrally on this card closer to the cold plate but it does look like about a 240 so that covers the matrix 20 atti pricing TBD but you I mean you've seen what the card looks like so it will be high or than the other 20 ATT eyes it's a pretty unique design very interesting we're looking forward to testing it but that's it for this one so thank you for watching subscribe for our other CES coverage you can go to patreon.com/scishow sexist topside directly or stored I came to sexist net I'll see you all next time