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today we're taking apart the gtx 1660 TI and this is the EVGA XC model so it's it's small in one dimension and it's pretty fat in the other we're gonna be taking this one apart we also got the gigabyte model in this morning so this needs to go through standard testing still but we might look at it after but there is a reference board design as usual for the 1600 series the reference TDP as well as 10 watts less than what you VGA is running it's 120 watts versus 130 so this is basically one hundred and eight hundred nine percent offset power offset out of the box so we're gonna take it apart look at the cooler quality the attachment of the cooler to all the components and then the components themselves before that this video is brought to you by iFixit and their I'm a genius campaign which ribs Apple's Genius Bar and sets out to defend the consumers right to repair their own products as write to repair laws have entered the spotlight iFixit wants you to share a short video with them 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out through the sticker they actually don't void the warranty which is pretty nice it is a tamper seal to figure out if they need to check the Throne paste or anything like that on our RMA so anyway we've got four screws and then we can reveal the die for the first time once we get in here because we haven't seen the 1660 di di we haven't seen the 1660 ti die yet that was harder to say that should have been so this should be pretty easy yep alright well there's not much content here today yeah the cooler comes out with four screws actually pretty interesting and I will note we're working on the G on medium mod matte which can grab on stored on camera Sachs has done that if you like this work surface that I'm on we do have them there you can get them on reserve because we sold through the first round already but here's the card so to have family a different style cut out for EVGA in the baseplate that's kind of new for them let's just go ahead and instantly reveal that die that's what I'm most interested in it this paste is feels like should natsu or something paste pretty standard stuff you can see they definitely covered their bases though like that's that looks like actually maybe not I wasn't say that looks like it's done by a silkscreen cuz Easton tech uses so experience for their paste but I actually can't tell okay there's the die pretty small even compared to a 20 20 60 tu 1/16 - 400 a 1 so the 1060 was a GP 106 I think - 481 as well so follows the same naming scheme except it's 116 and it's terrine so I think that's 268 millimeters squared like I said we have an official chart with information we can maybe put that on the screen or something if we need to but that's the die very basic stuff for the rest we have a base plate it's an aluminum base plate we have three heat pipes that look like they are ten millimeter heat pipes and they are the flat style heat pipes which are nice because you can get more service area contacting the fins it's actually pretty standard practice these days but just in case you're not aware flat heat pipe allows them to get direct more direct contact to the fence tack rather than a round heat by where you need to go through more solder and the rest has just soldered I to connect to everything so that's most the cooling solution on the bottom there's a copper cold plate that's an interesting shape just to fit the mount in the holes but that's because this card is so small that they've got some of the memory right here and we'll reveal this in a second approaching or encroaching on the GPU territory hence having the cutout over here I would be interested to see if they have I mean it's not really necessary but it would have been interesting to see if the copper here extended to cover those vram modules as well but it's honestly just completely unnecessary so the vram will be cooled well enough by the aluminum plate in the fan and then the rest we have some thermal pads actually let's just take this base plate off and look at the rest so there's a just nothing screw combo on each side of these for the i/o the expansion plate we can track those on our now a dual sided civil GPU silhouette mod mat and these hold in the base plate okay then two screws here that look like they do nothing right there except actually they do hold this inner plate in which goes on top of some of the video outs and then that connects to the base plate as well via screws so we're just gonna unscrew it from the outputs right here get these last two screws there we go that connected to the lower plate so here's our card we have memory modules so we've got one two three four five six of those at the six gigabytes I like the indents they're interesting just holes in the baseplate curious about those but yeah so so indentations there from baseplate but let's see what kind of memory it is I previously called this tool a spudger but I've been informed that it is in fact a Jimmy it's a it's an easy mistake anyone could make it this is actually a Jimmy not a spudger my apologies to Jimmy's family so memory it looks like it is micron that's micron okay micron memory 12 gigabits per second over clocks to about 14 in our testing at least that's covering the shunt resistor so you've got a shunt resistor right there that would be that thing 5 milli ohm and you could short the shunt resistors one of them if you wanted to boost the power target I suppose there's another on the back I guess we can check which one corresponds to the pins versus the PCIe slot but before doing that check there's the inductors so we have a two-phase memory vrm and then a four-phase for the GPU VRM the MOSFETs are on semi NCP 3 0 to 1 5 5 power components on the back we have another on semi 4 5 4 9 1 and we have and onto my NCP 8 1 2 7 6 on the top ok so now this is not too particularly relevant for most use cases of this card but we're gonna check the shunt resistors and see which one corresponds to a PCIe cable so if for some reason you wanted to lift the power targets on this card I guess you could probably get it pretty close to have like overclocked but you get like 10 7 TTI performance for sure I think well maybe that but you'd get it you got a pretty close to stock 10 so TTI pros I think without a power target but let's just check which ones go to go to what so for this test it's pretty easy we're just gonna check a a 12-volt pin on PCIe verse is the shunt resistor lag resistance or checking for continuity and these are this is a we've got on the mat here so let's do a few things you can see on the mat so again our new medium mod mat we have some shunt resistor examples here these small things number 12 and if you check the leg of number 12 versus the yellow the 12 volt line on the power connector you can then figure out which one corresponds to that versus to the PCIe slot in the bottom so what's gonna be on the bottom and then what we're looking for on the DMM there we're looking for a zero not a well but zero zero point two is pretty close to zero so that that's continuous so that shunt resistor corresponds to that PCIe header if you did want to short the shunts for some reason so that's really it on the card it's it's very simple it's a small card there's not a whole lot going on the die is there so if you haven't seen that before you can see it now it does not have the retention bracket around the outside of the the substrate as we see on some cards but the twenty eighty and down I think dropped that retention like metal housing that's on it normally and that's fine it's not that big and then the cooler just has three ten millimeter heat pipes they go right through the only spot that matters which is where the die is this is pretty direct contacts they're big copper cold plate some fins you have some L shaped fins over here like the 45-degree angle all shapes that's right there mostly for air flow purposes air passage sometimes this can be used for increasing surface area - they're all pads if there's a thermal pad under it you get a bit more surface area while still allowing air flow to go through so that's a typical reason to use those and then the straight 90 is for the rest and I think that really covers the card it's it's very simple and I don't know that this even has I don't think this even has LEDs I don't know I don't look at the cards when we're patching them we don't really care about Ellie's but I don't think it has them so that's the EVGA SiC 1660 TI XE and we have a review on the channel already for performance you can check that subscribe to the channel for more of course we're gonna try and work with this one as well as we find time for all these cards so this is probably on our list for thermal testing and stuff like that so that's 1660 ti let us know what you think performance-wise or the build and I don't know what else to say really memorizing the name has has consumed all of my mental capabilities so we'll end it there subscribe for more is 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