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we already have our review online of the data land rx 580 not 580 2048 it's basically a 570 T is what this is and in the review went on to rant about how AMD is lying there's no other word for it by calling this a 580 but that's only half of the story the other half is a more fun one it's to look at what this thing actually is like because this is a different product for us we don't work with the company data land in the US never even heard of it before this product so it should be kind of fun to take apart a different vendors card for once different manufacturers card and see what they do in their assembly process and shroud and heatsink design stuff that we might not have seen in cards that we normally work with now this already has a couple thermocouple sticking out of it we installed those obviously but what we need to do is take apart the rest out reclaim those and see how the quality of components and the heatsink is underneath if only because it's interesting to see a different regions video card the data land X serial this one is called for the rx 580 2048 there's a 570 before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte RT x 2070 gaming OC now available in a matte white model to match the emergence of white pc cases the RT x 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 so for basics if you missed it an rx 580 2048 it is a 570 it's got a little bit higher clock and that's about it as for the rest of this it's a dual fan cooler for the X serial card by data land and that is using a just a plastic shroud pretty cheap really if you kind of you can push the shroud into the fans if you wanted to and that's covering the the dual fan set up for the heatsink the fins are oriented horizontally so the air will exhaust out the front of the card on the back of the card rather than the top and the bottom which can be useful of no in some cases it's got a couple of heat pipes what we need to take it apart to see those closer and then also before the original disassembly where we put the thermocouples on there was a there still but it's damaged there's a sticker on the back that says warranty void if removed which this is a China only product so not going to go on the same rant as we do typically for those because the laws aren't the same there and we're not familiar with them that said we didn't remove it we put a hole through it to get the screw out so it's still on there but where the hole is there used to be the letters T at ul and that company is the parent company for power color so not a hundred percent sure of how the relationship is between this data land product and power color but the t UL branding may be an indication of some kind of subsidiary relationship so let's take this thing apart it's a about 180 USD just to give you an idea of what we're working with and the screws are pretty straightforward is only a couple of them so we can get a quick look at the card and also it's got four gigabytes of RAM so that's gonna come into play in a moment as well so here's the close up of the card you can see the shroud very much fits the X serial branding as they call it so this X series card only has a couple screws in the back and we're gonna use the iFixit Pro Tech tool kit which will link this down in the description below if you want to pick one up so this is pretty straightforward this part it's four screws for the cold plate and the heatsink mounting let's move this stack of video cards out of the way so I can use our mod matte GP teardown grid and this also is on stored Akira's exes Donna if you want to pick up one of these for your own teardown projects it's got PCIe pin out power pin outs things like that as well okay so four screws there there's the warranty void if removed one as noted we didn't remove the sticker so I think we're good if I have to send it back we can still do so that used to say tul though that was the interesting part with that sticker as opposed to normally and let's take care of two more so these are spring tension screws as well these go towards the i/o side of the video card and we're up to six screws at this point this probably comes out okay there we go okay so here's here's the heat sink fan and PCB combination just separate these okay much better than that except excellent okay so VRM straightaway is interesting but not really that interesting we've seen this before on a lot of low-end cards where they'll pack the vrm in over on the left side of the card instead of the right largely for space-saving reasons they can make the rest of the PCB smaller and also part of this requirement of needing to save some space on the PCB because you'll notice it actually has eight memory modules so two four six eight but it's a four gigabyte card now typically you'll see four modules or something like that if it's four gigabytes this one's running eight so they are only 512 megabyte per module in this instance which does take up more space you end up using this whole row here instead of using it for the vrm whereas that could fit elsewhere if it had fewer modules on it so for the vrm let's take a look at that for c 5 5 n is the mosfet for the controller it's an IR 3 5 6 7 B and then for the memory so this one is it all the same memory looks like it's all Samsung and this is gddr5 memory it is all Samsung the interesting thing here though if you look closely there are two memory modules and on the GPU itself that deserve closer attention and that is because you'll see that it looks like there's a different attachment method for the ease where it almost looks manual like it was done not by a pick-and-place machine so you look at the border of this memory module and you'll see the black out border whereas the other ones don't have it and we'll talk with some of our manufacturing contacts and ask why you would typically see this this type of border it's not like and it's glossy but it's not like it's thermal pad grease you could kind of you might think it's throne pad grease because it does look wet but that's just gloss it is not thermal pad Greece so we'll ask why or if you know feel free to let us know why this would happen in an assembly or manufacturing process but it does look like the these may have been attached by hand or at least separately from the other six modules which would be interesting but not 100% sure of the significance of that and then as for the GPU let's just clean it off and see if it says anything I have the GP is typically do not say anything on them whereas Nvidia will label their model number yes nothing on there but that is in fact an RX 570 which has been called the RX 580 in this instance so you haven't seen polaris in a while there is your reminder of what it looks like hasn't changed with a cooler this is we've got a copper cold plate in the middle direct contact cold plate and then we'll look at the rest in a second so clearly if they're all pad to contact the entire vrm over here you can see the doubler imprints there with MOSFET imprints as well and then the inductor line so all the chokes end up in this chamber they don't have direct contact to the heatsink but that's actually okay because they can take a whole lot of heat and the thermals are actually not bad on this thing based on our testing separately the inductors are immediately below a fan anyway so having that direct contact really is kind of irrelevant in this instance because it's got a fan blowing straight onto them they can take current 50c they're fine so that's the chamber for the inductors we have an aluminum base plate for contact to the memory which you can see over here and is this aluminum I'm going to say yes that's got the marks of aluminum on it so that is aluminum so aluminum base plate for the memory contacted via pad and then also the vrm shares that same plate for the MOSFETs as for this plate let's take this thing apart and just I mean should really just reveal the heatsink but it shows part of the assembly process so we can take that off as well so we take these screws out this by the way this is what we this is what we would have been looking for in that XFX Fatboy why they didn't do this it's kind of unclear their version of of the plate is a bit odd but either way this plate will contact everything without leaving gaps between things without using stainless steel which is really a not a good conductor oh whoa interesting that was unexpected got some rails in there oh cool I haven't seen that kind of assembly before it's just some rails inside d-delenn it's got a better assembly process that's how the XFX card so you've just got some rails in there this is not a good way to do this necessarily either we've seen better but for a cheap card maybe it makes sense either way doing the rails in there means that the screws have something they can mount to and secure against a while still enabling a fully flat plate for conduction purposes so that's good and by the way I just reminded of the throw the heat pipes here so for the heat pipes there are three of those and they look to be about eight millimeter heat pipes to eight millimeter one six millimeter heat pipe by eye can't get in there it started the heat pipe to the plate so even though it's got those screws in it for retention I guess we would have to decouple the plate from the fins and the heat pipes this is a reasonably good quality actually better than expected so yeah in order to to separate this you'd have to break the solder the bond between the rest of it between the fin stack the heat pipes and the plate so this is actually better assembly than expected despite those things kind of being a bit of a surprise so we're not gonna be able to remove that for the rest of it then it's all pretty basic it's a two fan cooler it's got three heat pipes it's really not amazing but considering the relatively low amount of heat output it's dealing with a couple hundred watts max it's fine so that's the data land rx 570 TI that Andy has created and there's really not much else to say about this one it's pretty straightforward there is however looks like there is actually a bio switch though one more thing to remove here is the backplate of the PCB got distracted by the cooler well they forgot to put the barcode the part ID and the EAN code on it there's nothing special at all on the backside so standard backside of a PCB for a video card and that at this point that is all there is to the RX 580 2048 if you're interested to learn more about this card it is assembled form go to the review we have that online talking about performance numbers for it thermals included noise included and of course gaming benchmarks versus the actual rx 570 and actual rx 580 the real one with 23:04 FP use instead of 2048 so thank you for watching subscribe for more as always go to store not gamers exes net if you want to pick up a mod matte like this one which we use for screw tracking and also a helpful PCIe and EPS wiring guide patreon.com slash gamers access to beyond helps out there we'll see you all next time