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do you want the eye game kuden only for top 1% of gamer the Vulcan for ultimate performance or eye game Neptune special glory of eye Gambari we're working with colorful card today a 10-7 TTI colorful is trying to get into the Western market I'm sure that wasn't obvious and they're doing so with the 1070 TI before getting to that this content is brought to you by the thermaltake flow RGB closed-loop liquid cooler which is a 360 millimeter radiator + 3 120 fans that are RGB illuminated the if then we'll take it ring fans at that this is a 4.5 done a stack pump which is one of the faster pumps you can learn more at the link in the description below it's a colorful hasn't really worked with US media too much in the past they sent us this card which has had its name changed a few times this is a 10-7 TTI Vulcan X I think is the current name the reason the name has changed is because of the Nvidia lock down on the clock so any of the vendors who had things like overclocked or OC or turbo or things like that and their product names for the most part has had to change them because they're not able to actually overclock the products they're shipping them all base clock though you should be able to overclock them on your own but we'll look at that in the review so this is colourful eye game Vulcan X which I think falls under the Vulcan family for ultimate performance not to be confused with Neptune for special glory of I game brewery and although the Box does make mentions of things like Chanel and Ferrari and rolls-royce I'm not not really sure why so we're just gonna take the thing apart and see what it looks like underneath so that makes more sense to me so here's the card this is the Vulcan access state it's a three fan card it has a shroud that basically covers the middle fan we'll look into that and then we're gonna look at the heatsink in a moment once we tear it apart for the top interestingly there's an LCD up there so that display is something we'll be looking at in the review as well it's supposed I'm waiting on drivers so I don't have any information or performance data today but that's gonna be in there for for looking at I don't know maybe it's a thermal display or something like that or customizable display they have an LED over here that says eye game obviously and then the back plate along with the rest of the cooler this is I think a two and a half or a three slot card it's pretty phat there's your two slots and there's your at least the half more maybe three so a pretty big card but let's start with taking it apart I think for this one it looks fairly simple haven't dismantled it yet but it looks like well you know what let's just start with the obvious the with the heatsink screws and then I'll check these smaller ones and see if we need to remove them in a moment some of the smaller ones over here those might just be holding in the LED panel as for performance reviews we will have those up I think embargo lifts for those on maybe the second or something we're still waiting on finalized information technically I think there's an unboxing embargo lifts today or something unboxing embargoes are stupid and we don't participate in them but we'll take it apart and still do that so how that fits within the rules it's actually useful and it's something we were gonna do anyway and I haven't seen the insides of one of these I game colorful card yet so really curious about that as well Kable number one two more down here so it looks like each fan has its own cable as opposed to a single cable there's your base plate not much going on there definitely no service area aside from the literal surface of it pretty small die compared to what we've been looking at with Vega lately so where do we start with this one let's start with the cables this cable going up here is for the LCD you can see it plugs into the LCD PCB up here with a controller that PCB has the ribbon cable connected from it going to the display I'm not sure if I'm going to dismantle that right now I don't know that I really want to fight with a ribbon cable but that's what's up there down here we have what looked like two fan cables wow that's pretty elaborate actually so the cables are coming in down here and they've got them pinned against the wall of the shroud going down this way and then you can see one of them comes out over here so one terminates in the center the other one is hooked up to extension cables and those are pinned over here and there was circle around to a tiny PCB in there see if I can point it out goes to some LEDs it's down there where the screwdriver is so that's for RGB the other one is for the fan so they are actually all hooked up to one header some spacers here not positive on the surface material this looks like the nickel plated copper cold plate although that's pretty abrasive plating if so for heat pipes we have we have six heat pipes right here going through the cold plate of which it looks like - we get full coverage from these two on the GPU die so these two are covering the GPU I pretty much completely this one's got about a quarter to half coverage this one's got about a quarter to a tenth of coverage on died with the others on the parameter for other cooling solutions what is this contacting is that start jokes so alright so this plate here just sinks down to the PCB level so that's just not positive it's touching the PCB but they wouldn't really do a whole lot anyway I guess it could conduct some heat that's dissipating through the PCB but there's not a lot there to grab for the rest I think we're not to take off the base plate so a base plate we've got no direct contact with the chokes which you don't need and may be no direct contact with the caps which you also don't really need that's fine yeah so the caps end up right here under the heat pipes which is perfectly fine assuming adequate air flows down there we're more concerned about the FETs so let's take a look at those actually I need to see the fats are right here so I need to see if they're contacting anything - no the MOSFETs do not have direct contact to that plate so right here is where the MOSFETs are where that thermal pad is and that's feeding them in a straight line under here there's no contact from the heatsink so heat sinks kind of wasting some potential there we'll look at it and testing of course as always but that's where it would contact if it did it may be the case that they don't actually need that contact it depends on what their vrm is and it depends on how much power it pushes depends on a lot of things but we'll test all of that when the time comes so let's get the base plate off this base plate is more familiar to cards that weren't designed in the last maybe your or so because just a flat piece of what I assume is aluminum yeah flat piece of aluminum as opposed to surface area created by like pin fins to use EVGA s phrase or things like that tiny heat sinks stuff that we've seen lately on MSI use cards but again may not need all that stuff we'll see especially if it's not pre overclocked which it isn't if they're on pads holding us down okay obviously we've got memory so this is gddr5 it is not gddr5 ex unlike some of the rumors said originally it is normal gddr5 and then thrown pad here though there's no direct contact to the heatsink but it is contacting the base plate and then we also have while that is some seriously like bend that out of shape pretty easily so if you take this apart yourself be careful if I go past this point it's kind of snap we've got some pads here for the feds memory and a couple more fats over here actually so what we have is these so these are East 69 30 MOSFETs we've talked to at least a couple times in some of our tear downs and PCB analysis videos that builds IED has done and we have a total where those 69 30s a total of two if 14 total with faces doubled for sure where the doublers I think we need to take the back plate off - okay back plate there's your double errs now how things make a little bit more sense okay so back plate obviously a piece of metal with a coating to prevent shorts and things like that though it does mean that it's not really good a transfer any heat at all just like we saw in so tax card so kind of mixed on those ideally you just put some spacers somewhere or rely on like the pads to prevent direct contact and shorts about whatever the some of the companies coat this stuff and it kills the some of the transfer potential where there could be some but actually do they cover it up here too now okay well alright so that's good so they cut out the plastic where there's actual thrown pad contact that's a good thing that's what we want to see so our doublers are here you remember I counted I think 14 phases or 14 MOSFETs I should say not phases and we have a set of doublers those are the e 69 30s on the other side doublers are on the backside and that's what allows you to get use of the phases and if you look here this is where there was that contact plate this thing which kind of seems like it was touching the PCB for really no reason now knowing what's on the other side I guess it would actually transfer some of that heat away from the MOSFETs how significant that or I should say from the doublers excuse me not the MOSFETs so transfer some heat away from here from this area how significant that is remains to be seen on testing but that's the idea for their implementation then they've got a pad here to contact the top side of them which sinks into the baseplate and hopefully you have some kind of direct cooling on that because otherwise it doesn't do any good and that's true for every baseplate not just this one so for the rest this is kind of going off EBG A's approach they've got a big thermal pad here contacting the plate also that's on the backside of the chokes so that will pull some heat away from this area we have in testing with ACX cards and other cards including zoo attacks found some significant gains by making a move like this and like this with thermal pads so it does actually help it's not always necessary and in most cases it's not necessary and so far as you're already operating within spec of the MOSFETs they can take quite a lot of heat however it doesn't hurt to get the things cooler especially if it's as easy as a thermal pad so they've done well there too and we will again see and test a and how that holds up but that's most the card I think - 8 pins if I didn't mention that what is this then LEDs this is LEDs and then what's this thing over here ok so that's kind of interesting so you see the plug over here little jumper hooked up to a button not actually on the back so here's a button which I think says like turbo and normal or something can't see it from here but I'm guessing that's your fan speeds so kind of curious to see how that impacts the fan profiles but if you're into shunt shorting those are over here three of them right here I'm not going to tell you how to short the shunts I don't know what the best way to do it is with this card because I haven't tried but let's look at the GPU at GP 104 - 300 a one the GTX 1080 which at this point feels ancient is GP 104 400 and the gtx 1070 is GP 104 200 so they are all GP 104 GPUs and the 1080 could be if you had for example 10 80s that fail validation and that may be cores it didn't work theoretically as a manufacturer and Vidya could bend them down it's something like this or the 1070 so that's where it comes from yeah that's the I game Vulcan x-gamer customization ultimate performance Edition not to be confused with the Neptune or a kuden or whatever the other names how hard will be looking at this pretty soon we are still under performance embargo as stated we don't do unboxings but hopefully this gave you some actual content to look at rather than a bunch of marketing fluff that was put under a special separate embargo because that's the thing that the industry does now so as always thank you for watching you can help out directly on patreon.com slash gamers Nexus and the store doc gamers Nexus net if you'd like to buy a shirt like this one subscribe for more so that you can catch the 1070 I review I'll see you all next time