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hey everyone we were at CES 2017 I'm at the EVGA suite now looking at some of the new video card cooling designs and we've also got all manner of liquid coolers on the table to talk about today including some four CPUs which is a bit different before getting into that this coverage is brought to you by cyber power and there's cyber excel gaming PC which is a larger PC with an invertible motherboard layout if you want to learn more you can hit the link in the description below so let's start with the video cards just cuz that's what pretty much everyone knows from EVGA and we'll get to the coolers next this is one of the gtx ten series cars 1070 1080 doesn't matter they're all the same sort of ID right now but the difference is instead of a CX this is an eye CX cooler that's new we'll have more detail in the future I have some basics that I can tell you just from looking at it and observing but they can't really tell me a whole lot in terms of functionality and stuff under the cooler and I did ask and we were know how to take it apart so the cooler has a first off fairly functional backplate in theory in that it's all ventilated so that should be good with keeping the back side of the PCB warm we did or cool because we did some testing and saw it was a bit warm and some of our benchmarks depending on the thermal pad layout speaking of thermal pads these coolers do have just from looking at it down the side I can see their own pads on the B rammed the vrm components including the MOSFETs and the capacitor banks and the chokes have direct contact to the base plate so that should all be resolved with IC x cooler this is going to exist side by side with a CX at least for now but they will be at different price points so part of the the price point is going to be because this is a bit more advanced in terms of the base plate and things like that if you look at the base plate that has some really fine tiny fins off to the left bottom left corner from my perspective which would be just southwest of the GPU basically those are supposed to help with dissipation by adding some surface area pretty basic design and then in the middle there's more of that and if we look really closely you can see there's a protrusion from the base plate it's a little and either aluminum or a nickel plated copper going just off of that protrudes down and contacts the vram and that is a bit unique because you don't really generally see the baseplate and the GP cooler for most of these vendors cooling the vram actively by contact at best it's the thermal pad but that's not really that common so that will make the as we've shown before make the GPU diode temperatures look a bit higher because it's cooling multiple devices but overall your experience is better because the GPU diode temperature only needs to be so low before you're concerned about other things so that's the icx cooler I think I got most of it six heat pipes something like that look at that more hopefully end of January other stuff on the video card front there's a new hybrid with quick release so it's a qrg hybrid and we talked about these last year at CES same idea where there's quick release valves you take the orange cap off and you can connect whatever you want to it so that would generally be something like a radiator for cooling the CPU and then you create kind of a semi custom loop rather than the usual CLC and then for CLC's we've got this as the name plate says closed-loop CPU cooler it is not labeling what type of product it is that is the actual name so this is the EVGA closed-loop liquid cooler the it's got some features that are comparable in some way to the kraken series that we tore down and basically the it's a Gen 5 vasotec pump same as the Krakens x 42 X 50 X 62 the pump plate the top is RGB illuminated it should in the near future before launch be able to support actually configuring the RGB LEDs and then disconnecting the cable while saving your settings so that should be possible with a firmware update for radiator size they are in - 80 and 120 millimeter options prices are not final yet this should be below 140 from what I'm told but TBD so big asterisk there the 120 should be somewhere below 100 maybe 90 ish also TBD the fans have a sort of unique design it's hard to say with fans really how much the design matters when you're talking about the fan blade layout and the chassis around it because this chassis does come up a bit it's supposed to reduce the noise emissions we'll have to test it to really know but that's the marketing language behind it the radiators are aluminum and the cold plate is copper it is not a protruded copper cold plate like EVGA normally makes this is meant for CPU cooling you use this one standalone or you buy one of these options to hook it into the rest of the system I think that covers most of the basics there's some software for the AIO that we were able to get a few photos of you can see that they're currently it shows the liquid the actual coolant temperature in theory anyway and it's also got some RGB controls in there fan speed controls based on the coolant temperature which is a bit odd but we've given feedback on that so maybe that will change and then for the sensor itself the thermocouple inside of the chassis if it's anything like the X 42 + theory it's just a thermocouple that sticks straight down into the liquid tank and it's got a bunch of thermal compound around it and that would give you your liquid temperature measurement if it's not contacting something else instead but we'll tear it down and see how it's built so I think that covers it there's a new case as well to dg7 cases a mid tower ATX supports up to 7 fans you can learn mostly just by looking at the case honestly - SSDs on the back - hard drives on the back four total for each and otherwise it's a it's a mid tower case so that is EVGA sweet if you are curious to learn more links in the description below as always patreon link the post roll video to help us out directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you