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everyone are back for part two of our 1080i hybrid build this is the build up the next and final part of the video will be the results we just got back from PAX East so it's delayed by a few days but we've got the card here I have the liquid cooler ready we're going to build it up I'll walk you through the process in case you want to do this on your own but before we get into that so this coverage is brought to you by ifixit.com and our iFixit pro Tek toolkit which I accidentally brought through airport security at PAX East fortunately I did not have to expend some of our social capital and asked for a replacement PSA despite Soglin every single piece in it did not steal it so brought to you by that you can use code gamers Nexus at ifixit.com if you want $5 off of an order the protec toolkits a good place to start I think this one's 70 bucks so we're gonna be using a lot of this stuff for our teardown here today but let's get to it so the card this is a 1080 TI it's video cards it's PCP very straightforward this is a founders edition board so nothing crazy going on we are able to use the founders edition base plate which is this part here and part of the shroud I've removed the other part of the shroud which goes here along with the window so that there's a window used to be there and the heatsink we removed all those because instead we were going to be putting an EVGA CLC on it which I'll link in the description below this is the same one that they sold with a 980 TI hybrid kits but you'll also find them of the 1080 and 1070 hybrid kits and I believe it'll work on the 1080i that we're about to find out I think it works on the Titan X which is basically 1080i and there's a board layout so this has the protruding copper plate we found it to work pretty damn well for liquid coinage GPU but there's the one issue of your basically yeah that'll work for that cool the one issue is vrm and vram cooling so we lose some of that clean potential but this time I'll be mounting some thermocouples to the VRM that's number two and seven and to the back side of the PCB to make sure that the back plate isn't trapping any heat in a way that's detrimental so we doing all that today alongside the build up I need thermocouples put one right here so first thing we're going to do I applied some thermocouples to this you are not going to do that step and so we didn't show it a reduced confusion but we've got the thermocouples on there which means I can start reapplying the baseplate and this is all one piece right now which makes it seem easy but we actually have to remove this part so that we can connect the pump and and fan for the radiator into the Ford power which is currently where this blower fans connected now we still want the blower fan because that is going to be used to cool the vrm or the VRMs as much as it can be without the rest of the heatsink there and then we use the thermocouples to see how effective that actually is this comes out that's your LED power and now we need that we've got access to the vrm fan which I already unplugged in there I need to take this off momentarily to connect the radiator pump and fan header to that so this should probably come off where's the screw underneath still okay cool all right so now the easiest way it would be to pull that base plate off remove the screw from the underside that's holding this part of the shroud on but they didn't do that that's fine so we've got that connected now we've faced more or less spliced in the pump and fan power into the PCB where we plug in the BRM fan and all of them are connected so this will still spin provided we're not dragging on a cable which you will want to spin that fan before you close it to make sure that doesn't happen and you can just kind of shove all this over into the corner just do so without without pulling any of the individual wires that obviously big screws go back in first and this piece we're going to plug the LED power back in I need to figure out how I want to route this I'm thinking up and over and then you can see the partition here we'll go around the outside of the fan like this so we're actually going to be keeping those cables out for sure and hopefully routing them around the outside of it lets you route it under okay cool cool so I routed this a cable end sort of around a pillar right here and that allows us to get in there without blocking anything or without restricting my ability to install this pump the next thing we care about is one does it make contact which it does and we can validate that by applying some thermal paste later and then to do the tubes route out unobstructed than they do so we're actually in really good shape for this mod cool looks good disconnect the span so I can route it a bit better and now we need to secure the when you secure the base plate and to the rest of the unit I'm not going to worry about the pump for a moment flip it over so it's got a few screws and I to hold everything together so for this one I'm going to pull this and then we need a really dumb sighs I think it's a four millimeter see yes this is a four millimeter allen head will get a couple of these tiny screws in there just to hold it together I put one in each corner so it stays even sore more or less held together thermal paste is of course the favorite part for YouTube to criticise I will say this immediately you want to with GPU you want absolute full coverage of that whole die if you miss a spot on that die it the silicon die will die so this is not a matter of put a small dot in the middle and hope it spreads because if you spread it out and let's say we end up with a circle that is maybe like like there where you're cutting off the corners that can and will destroy a GPU provided the right scenario provided the right part of the GPU begins to overheat because this entire thing is more or less in use it's not like an IHS on the cpu where you've got parts that are actually not covering where the die is and it also doesn't have an IHS in the same way CPU does so I'm going to be generous here because truth be told there's no negative impact performance for having too much thermal paste on GPU unless it's the point where smashing it down with the cooler doesn't doesn't force it out of the sides anyway which this will if it is a problem anything extra will will be pushed out the sides don't they start torquing this down okay all right so that's installed this is an instance of monkey tight not not gorilla tight don't go crazy on that and crack the die if you really really torque down with an electric driver or something and all these cables you will not have these are because the thermocouples that we use for testing paint on mind if we're just going to seal up the back now all right cool that's more or less in place for the backplate or for the expansion plate now next we have to start screwing in all these tiny really really tiny screws and these will break exceptionally easily so if you over tighten them and the by over tighten I mean basically it'll stop you'll hit a resistance point if you try to turn it once more it will snap at the stem so keep that in mind when reapplying these so I'm gonna use a I normally use a Phillips zero I think I want to say this one right here zero that's yeah that's right so here comes going to hit the resistance point that's it if I turn at all any further it will SAP all right so I got the last thermocouple on there that we're going to put on now we just need to screw everything in cool I'll raise these stupid things now we need these dumb things in there yeah that's better two millimeters that's what you want just totally without function this part I can put all the pieces back in because we removed some of the shroud and the window which will not definitely not fit with that maybe haven't even gone to remove it pretty okay I think those actually in my version of the modern I can fit back in because if I've installed this with the cable but fans Bend plates secured from these four screws so that's good enough for me I think this is done I think it's actually complete this is one of the easiest hybrid models we've ever done I'm going to push all the screws pieces aside we'll save those separately basically we've got a 1080i hybrid it should eliminate some of the clock T keenest I guess with the original testing that we saw it will allow a higher clock speed theoretically a couple percent improvement in fps natively just for being cool better and we'll see what it does for overclocking as well check back for part three subscribe as always for that we have some other cool tear downs we've done recently including the Nintendo switch and the joy cons I went with it so those interest you they are on the channel gamers Nexus cotton that for more information patreon.com slash gamers necklace if you'd like to help us out directly and i'll mention the sponsor again ifixit.com thank you he used 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