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everyone we're back with another teardown this one is of the new EVGA cooler this is an FTW ultra silent cooler now they put it on a 1070 TI because that's the latest card but this might come to other cards later from EVGA the big change here is that EVGA although they've done some great things with icx this year is still behind in performance numbers whereas some of their competitors who have fatter coolers that's the nature of going with a lot more metal so they've decided you know it enough of trying to fight them in a different game a different league they now have a 2.5 slot cooler of their own so it's pretty phat they actually use the full three slots for the expansion cover and two and a half for the aluminum fins and all that stuff so we're gonna take this apart today and see if it's any different underneath and how this might be relevant for EVGA cards going forward but before we get into that this coverage is brought to you by ifixit.com and their Pro Tech tool kit I fix it as refreshing their Pro Tech tool kit in time for the holidays you can find a link in the description below to the Pro Tech tool kit and other toolkits that iFixit sells we find the Pro Tech and essentials kits to be the most useful for DIY enthusiasts ok so this is the 1070 Ti FTW ultra silent and it's this is not the icx version the HDX version would cost entirely too much it would make basically zero sense given 10 80s nearby in price and even though we're not really looking at performance or anything right now we will but even ignoring the price the performance of this particular card in the 1070 thai class we can still learn from the cooler an EVGA is probably still doing stuff with the cooler for other designs later maybe that's what one would assume given that it's a completely new design they don't want ROI on it so this should be quite a bit different from what they have already at least and mass the biggest challenge EVGA has faced is with their two and a half slot coolers they perform decently but when you noise normalize all the coolers things like the Strix and the gaming acts come out ahead the Strix comes out ahead because it's about this width so it's got a lot more mass in here the gaming X 1080 Ti also has a pretty similar heat fin size or a fin stack size I should say that - so similar to fin stack size and larger fans because it's a taller card but EVGA is falling behind there and they're trying to make up some ground with this card so we'll see if they can actually do it and reduce their noise a bit because by adding mass to the fins they are going to be able to run the fans at a slower speed which will benefit obviously the noise levels so what we have here is we're gonna be using our new mod mat so self-promotion right here this is our new gamers Nexus mod night we are making them now they're in production and we're pretty excited about them that they are up for pre-order if you want one shipping in some time and hopefully January and they are anti-static so it's an anti-static mat comes with an ESD bracelet ground point and all that stuff plug straight into the wall to ground you so pretty cool but for the back plates held on all with Phillips pretty straightforward and easy and it should just pull apart once we get all these out so I will speed through those and then we've got four of the main spring tension screws for the actual cold plate are we stack oh there's a screw hidden under the so this this sticker here this is not a warranty void if removed sticker EVGA won't remove your warranty or prevent you from doing a repair in the place if you break that seal that's basically their from what they tell me to determine if their support team needs to do any additional checks once they get your card in for example looking at the thermal paste this by the way is awesome this is a little magnet that comes with iFixit kit we're using so I think we can now remove the backplate yes and here what you've got is EVGA going crazy with thermal pads like they have been since the ACX cards it's not a bad thing so they've got a decent sized pad here for the backside of the chokes that's what that is on the opposite side of and then we have a pad for what looks like memory okay so they they only have a one pad for one memory bank and it's this one and probably the reason for that is because it's as you can see by the backside here it's adjacent to the capacitor bank and the MOSFETs and the chokes so it's gonna be the hottest memory and they've got a pad on that one they don't have a pad over here or over here they probably don't need it though this is the backside we're talking about not the front side pads here for small components around the GPU proper backside anyway and let's let's pull this off and just get it on the backplate so it doesn't get stuck to the mat now for the heatsink okay my goal here is to remove this without I mean to remove the expansion and that we're gonna have to high okay so DVI we haven't dealt with one of those in a little bit I still prefer that they're on there actually but it does mean we're gonna need another hex head goodbye so another giant throwing pad is EVGA does looks like about 1/2 millimeter 1 millimeter pad maybe 1070 TI GPU which is the same as a 1080 GPU and also a 1070 GPU for that matter so what we have here is the base plate obviously take that off base plate helps spread heat from the underlying components which include memory and the vrm so here's what we got this is an FTW board it's the same as all the other FTW boards this over here is is not if they're all bad it's just a foam block to help provide some resistance from the that side of the cooler when it pushes down so this is just a brushed aluminum base plate it has no surface area no fins so it's not icx icx would have the pin fins as they call them technically that should help but it's largely a theoretical advantage it doesn't necessarily realize in any practical way and you pay a lot more for icx we like the technology on icx but for a 1070 TI class piece of hardware it doesn't necessarily make sense to pay for because you could step up to a 1080 and pay the same for a little bit better performance at the same price as icx so this is non icx you can see a little bit of grease there from the thermal pad which contacts with the cooler let's look at the cooler and see if is this a solid plate under here yes so they actually have a solid plate what looks to be actually not sure if that's aluminum I would guess yes or if it's a nickel plated I'm going to I'm going to go with probably aluminum so aluminum plate for direct contact via thermal pads the vrm components and that will touch which ones definitely got the MOSFETs covered and actually it's the chokes chokes are in there so it has to be pretty tight to contact the mosque as well doesn't mean it can't but so EB J's got a couple different types of fin design here you can see they have the normal straight 90-degree fins these are still out air to come through from the cooler the idea of this is that it spreads the heat but air can come through and dissipated obviously so that the fins can continue spreading that heat and then there's these flat ones which actually there's another one too where is it these these are they call these l-shaped fins so this all has to do partly with acoustics partly with heat spreading maximizing the surface area by getting that extra little L at the end of the fin there on the end again you get into territory where theoretically it makes a lot of sense but practically it's really difficult to actually test that and know how much it matters but just wanted to plan out the different types of fins they use there's a reason for those fins the l-shaped ones were introduced with icx and the straights been around forever flat is normally used for blocking off a passageway for one reason or another or for making direct contact with something which isn't the case here but it can be the case on other cards underneath we actually have fan connectors in here for probably a triple fan if they wanted to so down there in the middle there's a couple more headers another four pin GPU fan header right here that could be used to hook up a third fan they've got two on this card probably won't see an FTW three for the 1070 TI that'd be a bit excessive but I think they have the cabling to do it if they wanted to heat pipes we've got I want two large pipes these are what looked to be eight mil and then we have one two three four six mil pipes I think that's all of them one yeah I think that's it - oh there's one hiding here now as far as the cooler goes so the heat sink itself is a bit fatter and now let's see two centimetres thick for the for the actual heatsink this is a bit large it's half-ass lot bigger than the other ones as you'd expect let's look at the board same GPU as every other 1070 Ti so there's a GP 104 GPU and then we have a shunt located over here it looks like oh no here we go so that one two three so shunt shunt one down here as well and four components I think it's gonna be the same as the other FTW cards he's 69 30s for the memory of erm we've seen these a lot on a lot of multiple cards actually but especially EVGA so they're still using 69 30s over here these are on semi NCP eight one three eight ones and these are 25 amp power stages and they have a peak current capability of 60 amps as for the phase layout we have ten of them so you can count ten phases here so let's walk through the vrm a bit this is our memory vrm right here these two these are east 69 30s these chokes go with those and then right here we have 10 chokes and MOSFETs the on semi FETs or the other power stages so 10 power stages and if you look over here we have 1 2 3 4 5 doublers so it's a five phase design it's one of the better ones you just it's it's a doubled 5 phase spreads the heat out over a wider area and it's more current capability than this card's gonna need stock for sure and for the doublers okay so these are on semi also and they are current balance they're doublers as expected so on semi doubler is eight one one sixty two for the model and then what about controller eight one two seven four so that's the board it's the basics of the PCB for recapping key parts here doubled five phase we have two on the memory and the cooler is an extra half slot larger which measured against our ruler here is 2 centimeters exactly almost Oh actually so looking at it this way you can see some holes going through here that's something else they introduced with icx it's supposed to help a bit with a few things like giving the air a channel to be guided through once it gets down into these fins so once you get into these straight fins allows the air some places to escape and dissipate some heat off of the inner circle on its way out but it's mostly to get heat out and or air and heat out and away from the PCB so it's ejecting that way it gets a bit away from the board that we're not just blowing hot air onto the board all the time so that's the 1070 TI FTW ultra silent I think it's called it was that a bio switch - I think that's a bio switch on the top as well unless it's LEDs or something silly like that okay yeah so there's the card I don't know what it costs actually if it's 500 bucks then you're obviously entering into territory of 1080 class hardware but the cooler is pretty good so it's gonna depend what you're trying to do we'll review it once we get past all the Titan volts of stuff but in the very least you can see what the new EVGA coolers look like and know what they're probably gonna look like going forward for whatever happens to be after Volta for gaming so that's it for this one as always you can help us out directly by going to store that gamers and access net slash mod mat if you like the mod map we used for this you can pick it up there on pre-order aiming the ship in January sometime the factory and then if 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