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everyone we're back for another teardown before the review of this card we just reviewed the MSI 1080 TI gaming X this is the gigabyte GTX 10 80 TI horas extreme gaming video card sort of taking this one apart it is huge it's the biggest one that we've gotten so far I think it's two and a half slots or something to that effect and uses a three fan cooling design that's somewhat interesting we'll be taking it apart and then reviewing it shortly thereafter before getting to that this video is brought to you by the current bundle on the GTX 1060 and DT X 1080 video cards where you can get Ghost Recon wildlands or for honor at checkout this comes alongside new MSRP is for the GTX 10 80 series cards now down to $500 you can learn more at the link in the description below so going over the basics the three fan design here I'm sure they have a name for it if someone has some kind of marketing name but it is a windforce cooler the interesting thing with the fans you look at the side to their normal axial fans the middle one is an axial fan as well except this blade is actually cut kinda in half and the reason it's cut in half is because these other blades come so close to them that if it weren't cut like that they would collide so theoretically this allows gigabytes get an extra fan on there without taking up more width of the the card without making it wider taking up more space now how effective is that we'll see not really 100% sure it's worth it but we'll find out in testing so other features of note there's a copper piece here as part of the backplate this is isolated from the rest of the backplate and connects to the rear side of the GPU down there via thermal pad so theoretically that helps transfer some of the heat off there the hottest area tends to be around this spot where the vrm the MOSFETs and the inductors are but we'll go ahead and give the backplate it has just like we did with the MSI gaming X although that was published only in the article if you're curious to see how much or if the gaming X backplate effects that card will do the same for this one see if this affects this card that normally back plates are primarily for structural support for something that's large it makes a lot of sense you've got a massive cooler with a huge dual set of a Lou them heat sinks and then the baseplate in the cold plate so you want some kind of support here to keep it straight and prevent sagging the fact that they've added this to it means that they are also trying to do something thermally and we'll look at that other than this there's some LED stuff going on here as well and LEDs and the cross bars on the front so in terms of the card beyond that we've got a set of five visible heat pipes that are probably more towards the inside of the card five visible heat pipes that look to be six maybe eight millimeters this might be eight and and then looking down the center of the card I can see that they've got what looked to be two or five millimeter they're all pads in most places which are pretty large so we'll go ahead and start taking it apart and look at all that stuff for this it looks like it's all Philips and part of this disassembly process is so that we can get thermocouples on it to read the set and and other temperatures PCB back plate or backside all that stuff how to peel all the pads off that is a ton of cables okay so this one goes here is more from my information than anyone elses that goes there this one goes there this one goes there and we've got one unused connection here and they are using the lower down one that's more from my info for later all right and so the backplate has these thins these are where the actual Phillips head screws were and then the other ones just you don't do anything with of you as soon as these are out you can just pry the card off the plate off the base plate which is pretty nice that's not only how easy it is then once we get under there you can see that these screws are where the rest of the back plate is being held on so we have to remember to put these back in during the reassembly process they're on the slides horizontally of the GPU one bottom center or bottom Center between these two one near the power and those not spring retained and the screw size is the same this screw actually is I think exactly the same yeah as the rest of what was used in the back plate so that makes organization easier that should be it for the back plate we might not have to remove the cover like expansion cover over there okay all right power cable for LEDs lots of cables on this card I think was a $750 card okay I just taped it in there I mean why not if it works so there's your LED pad I suppose and we've diffuser anyway with LEDs in it that's your now for the thermal solution this you can just pull off as well back Center where the capacitors are there's no pad around the sides of the thermal pad that will conduct heat away and then theoretically expose it to the outside now you would need a fan directed at this or at least case fans to actually get the thing to do anything otherwise just going to saturate and there's no dissipation you need to the patient as part of the equation to cool something when you're conducting so these thermal pads are contacting with the vram backside right here there's no vram backside coverage anywhere else so it's just here and then this line is making contact for this capacitor bank it's on the back of the card actually and this batter pad is making contact it looks like yeah where the MOSFETs are attached on the other side right here so let's flip this over oh and then we've got a hole in the middle for their LEDs so that would probably be the hottest spot and I will it matter probably not MOSFETs can get very high in temperature and they don't really care Oh also there's a front HDMI on this board which is useful if you are trying to do a VR pass-through I guess but that's all that's there for so pretty pretty densely packed board we've got the chokes down the center anything of note well first of all going over the power headers again some of these are for LEDs so there's LEDs on the front in the back and the top of the card this is three of those and then the others are for the fan power and let's just see if the fans if it's a three cables or either one because if it's or two rather because if they've individually separated the cables we could actually disconnect the middle one and see if it does anything of note in the noise and temperature Department there's the middle one okay so it's pretty hard to see but down this channel there the middle fan is connected to a pass through or extender cable extension and that's going out to one of these other ones it's probably probably this one but that's going out of the side so we could actually disconnect some of the fans if we wanted to out to try that and see if it works the way I would like it to work now in terms of the cooling solution beyond the fans what we've got is a massive copper cold plate for the GPU and for the vram so this quite clearly contacts the GPU and then these make contact with the vram modules this one is missing the same V Ram modules every other 1080 TI we've opened so far same physical position and then on this so we've got vram contact theorem conflict the your own contact all thanks to the same copper cold plate and then that's getting cooled by the heat pipes for the heat pipes you can see that there are five really small ones in there pretty interesting so we got five there a bigger one still not a six mil though bigger one that's routed into this aluminum block and that terminates in here so there's the terminating I'm just down there or you can see it's crimped and then this heat pipe routes around goes it looks like goes under the plate with the vram then potentially back in so that's what we've got for the cooling solution there are four screws here which I'm not it looks like those help secure it to the aluminum thin stack and then cut these like massive bolts on here to this thing is really built up in in a big way in terms of hardware there's even holding on now let's let's mess around with this and see what happens so four screws here thinking this might come loose and this by the way this design we've talked about it a few times now but it's basically because they are deciding to cool the GPU and the vram that's kind of a new thing the last year or so it's gotten popular that means your GPU core temperature will be higher than if they only cooled the GPU core if you're cooling multiple things of the same plate and the temperatures get so like if we took this and we physically cut that off the GPU core temperature would look lower in software but you lose the via Ram cooling efficiency in theory so it's it's a good trade normally an extra couple group degrees doesn't really kill you on the GPU core but having that extra cooling on the vram is nice these are eight millimeters there's another one in there so I'm not really sure we're going to get anywhere with this but we can try it just because I haven't seen anyone do this on a video card cooler ever I'm sure it's been done I haven't like been in the industry so many years nine years or so but this is new to me so we're going to mess with it where are we mounted oh here's the other one there's not a big bolt down there oh I think I got it so another screw hidden down here there's some of the most industrial assembly of a card I've seen any time lately oh it's kind of real pain that's not going to be fun to reassemble so notice Li because the cables and the routing of the cables all right so the thing I was curious about what the big bolts going through here with the what are these eight mill nuts on the end this is just like it looks like a another spacer type thing that will actually fall off if you let it so not that I want you to be doing this but be aware of that you can see that kind of dents and damage here that's from where the cables are routed the center channel is a bit the same density same thin density it's just got this bar down the center which we've seen several times in other cards but I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going on with these bolts running through and might just be structural support like we could take we try and take those out I would need a an l-shaped allen wrench to do it it's very sharp there's something I can do that and on this reach I really think that okay so this is all this is doing having looked at it out these bolts running through if you were to loosen this and pull it out which good luck with that you'd have to get this one off too would you loosen them and remove them I believe this aluminum thin stack would separate from the copper plate which makes sense because they're not going to manufacture this then all I want its the copper plate will be made separately from the aluminum heatsink so that's how that's held together I believe Hansa just five small heat pipes in here the other one there we've got another set of like three or we've got five more total coming out of this side which is the vram saw or vrm sight excuse me so you've erm and inductors and all those components are cooled by this directly as indicated by the thermal pads contact and you can see the indents contacting the components there's a little rubber bumper here and that more or less sums up the cooling solution we'll have to see how it works in testing okay so these things right here the sets these are fairchild six eight two three C's which are part of their it's a driver I see and it integrates to fetes that'd probably be your highside and low-side and then it's also got a diode in there and what's a ultimately a six by six package so that's the fairchild dual FET or it's a driver IC with two that's high and low side I believe they'll joins the expert on that for the channel but that's what I'm starting to learn here and then other than that I think we've pretty much gone over the card so full review is forthcoming we'll have the usual overclocking testing have a lot of thermal testing to do on this one not 100% sure how much we'll do in the first run for the review might revisit it shortly after for more button the very least we'll be testing the BRM temperature as we've done in the past so that will be comparable to some of the other vrm temperatures house we've done like the 1080 TI gaming x from msi do the GPU temperature our frequency stability all that stuff check back for all that as always you can subscribe for more patreon.com/crashcourse Nexus delves that directly the store for shirts if you are a fan is stored out gamers Nexus net thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you