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hey Ron we're at EVGA --zz offices in Brea Brea California is not too far from industries that's where we visited some of the other folks you've seen videos or articles out of and I've got in front of me an EVGA a 1080 classified card so this we haven't seen since Computex we're actually gonna do I think I think it's not too hard to tear down so we're gonna do a quick teardown on site I don't have my normal tool kit but we're gonna take it apart and see what the PCB looks like things like that with a cooler it looks like this card on the surface so some of the core things to note the FTW hybrid would be the other high-end card that is semi comparable to this this one is also a 2+2 8 pin power header setup but it does two 45 Watts versus 215 Watts maximum power draw on the hybrid so that's a major difference and then the vrm is a bit different as we'll see in a moment PCB is a bit larger but otherwise they're both fairly high-end cards and this one does have an AC X 3.0 cooler on it so should be decent for free cooling as far as air goes in terms of the assembly the back plates all held on by Phillips screws as you might expect you can see the four spring tension screws for the cooler itself and then on the top side there are technically Allen keyed screws in there as well but those just hold on kind of the accessories so the EVGA plate and I think they also if you look in here we might have a shot of that I think they also show the or secure the LEDs to the faceplate of the card just from looking at it so I think that's what we're working with for the tools and other than that it's gonna be fairly straightforward so we'll just jump in and tear it down now this is what we normally cut together just a lot of a lot of unscrewing I guess I can note there is next to the screwdriver right now there's an Ln two and a normal switch performs the same function as the master slave switch on the hybrid FTW hybrid basically if you go into the ellentube mode you end up with a hundred and thirty percent power target max through precision or whatever software you want to use as opposed to one twenty so that's what that does I think we've got all of the screws out see if there's also some probit voltage reading stuff up in the top up or over here somewhere up there if you want to plug in a multimeter or something like that and there's an Eevee bot header so if you have the old EVGA evbot hardware you can plug that in for some additional voltage analysis or control it's really in there no this is it so this scrim on right now has a washer which I somehow got with that drop in and I think it's no that's it's just a washer for some reason very tiny washer you ready maybe not oh they all have little like washes on them or something I can just leave them in yeah okay so top corner up here there's a little nut on the other side you can just hold on to it there's like a lot of these if not all of them have some kind of a small washer on them so rather than pulling it off of all of the all the screws I'm just gonna leave them mostly in the back plate so that's that's what we have there there's an example of the small washers that are on most these are actually they're not of washers they are it's just adhesive so it's not even a washer just sticky adhesive which is why these two which three or four that got left on here you can see it's just a black cover basically I guess to prevent direct contact from the screw doesn't really do anything functionally but that is there some leftover adhesive here and we can see the back side now I think all that's left is to do a couple these other underline screws that were under the back plate and then get to the cooler three screws for the backside under the back plate all the back plate screws over here yeah there's for spring screws and then it looks like the face plate can separate from the cooler too okay so that should separate now fan cable they're an LED cable on here - yes trying to avoid pulling by the cable but not really not really working with me okay okay cool there's one that is led LED and fan much easier okay cool that's pretty advanced air cooler so we have one two three four five how many heat pipes is that that's a lot of heat pipes but uh at least five heat pipes see one two three four five and then there's another one right here that doesn't go through to this side so that's six heat pipes and with the six heat pipes I'm assuming nickel-plated for the copper so that's a copper cold plate that's nickel-plated it looks that way anyway these are probably nickel plated aluminum fins almost definitely and then you can see some solder points or something on the heat pipe here but so basically held together like that the cooler itself goes on the card something like this so this is how it lines up with the PCB if you look at the PCB on the cooler it shows a few things mostly that the the chokes here are the inductors which are actually a different kind of inductor I haven't seen this generation those go in the slotted part in here accompanied by the capacitor banks so there's your capacitor banks and was that is that more capacitors MOSFETs things like that capacitors or inductors so for the the phases it's a 14 plus three-phase power design and it's 14 V Core 3 for the memory in theory you get a little more stable voltage I guess I'm not sure if it's using any doublers or quadruplets or anything how does this come off it was it's already loose do you care about the thermal pads the thermal pads are so sticky that they actually have the micron logo and the vram the text from the vram on the thermal pad so probably fairly high quality adhesive at least if not their whole conductivity itself is out of the way a bit so there's your vram this is a 1080 so it's the same as every other one just to recap these are micron chips they are gddr5 x they hit about 10 gigabits per second or so and they are eight gigabit chips so one gigabyte purged for purpose a module not chips but so two four six eight gigabytes total as every 1080 will be and then for any further analysis really on the PCB we'd have to get billed to it on that because he is the expert but I can tell you fourteen plus three phases and then what's going on here I will ask builds item we'll put a title card in this video these I think might be doublers the main benefit of having doublers like this is that it spreads out the heat over a larger area so that would make sense to get 14 phases but that is the EVGA 1080 classified as far as double or quadruple airs or whatever it doesn't really necessarily mean a whole lot you can watch our gigabyte ft or our gigabyte PCB analysis in our FTW hybrid PCB analysis both talked about doublers quadruple errs and how these things actually come together and what it all means and if it if it has any impact on quality so that's the board fairly large board the extra pins you have there's evbot where's that it come off with the thing oh yeah so Evie bots up here and all the other stuff we've already talked about so if you have further questions or you want any any other information the article links in description below as always pretty straightforward process if you wanted to do this for some reason like to put it under liquid that would be the the main reason would be to put this under an open loop or something like that if you wanted to do a closed loop you might as well buy the FTW hybrid because it it will effectively do the same thing I guess this would be a slightly higher quality board to put under an AIO loop but you probably won't gain a whole lot in terms of overclocking potential but if you're buying this anyway then that's one option I suppose so that is the card as always patriotic the post roll video links the description below subscribe for more information I'll see you all next time