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so we're back with 10 from the EVGA lab and we wanted to show off some of the well this Frankenstein cards because I guess you know you look at like a kingpin PC and that Linus is in the room before that this video is brought to you by Emma sighs x57 a motherboard lineup Emma size X 570 motherboards will be available on July 7th with the launch of Verizon 3000 series CPUs and now include flagship brands like godlike ace and creation the MSI edge will be among the more affordable mid-range motherboards appealing for most rise in 3000 builds while the godlike has more overclocking support an abundance of LEDs and OLED and a server grade PCB for improved PCIe for signal integrity keep an eye out for Emma size X 570 motherboards for the rise in 3000 launch or learn more at the link in the description below you start with like a kingpin PCB and you look at that it's got kind of a lot of the stuff I guess you do for the except in a much cleaner fashion no it's actually pretty clean already so this is what we do for the extreme vrm testing so I connected extra copper plain likes to a very heavy gauge wires so this is a reference PCB right yes this is a reference 1080 PCB one of the samples we got during the development phase of this product and also like 1080 kingpin Edition so it have extra wires so we can connect the scope and do like that what line testing way so these are probe points effective yes this apropos for the DMM so you can like see the adapter right there so you can shop the normal probe and it's not it's like a vicar yes this is solder to the vicar pads right behind the GPU so it's like one of the places where the kepco and these probes to connect the same location and this was connected to custom hardware to monitor so we can look over time like run different tests like benchmarks 3dmark different stress test and measure actually load line like how big it is do we need to reduce it or increase and there are also extra caps like this different color ones so we try different amount of caps can affect how much noise you have on the rail so like okay you don't want too much because otherwise your urine will be too slow and very heavy to drive all those capacitance and you don't want to less otherwise your voltage will drop too much so when you when you're doing this when you get the reference boards and how much of this is is trying to prep for the extreme overclocking stop versus just research for the new GPUs well actually its alliance in time almost like close together because we still need to do all the vrm testing and part Union and find out what the limits are on the vrm side and then that transitions into the extreme overclocking so I'll be working on this card maybe like four couple weeks make sure all the power is clear and like we can understand what's going on and then after that I'll pass the car to wins and he will mount the ln2 container and run for the extreme overclocking and really how does it behave and then this process utilizing a cycle so we repeat like like okay we get like 2400 for example right now we want to run higher we would maybe try better via Ram so what is the spoil stuff you've got coming up here or oh it's not foil what is this that's the very thick copper plate so instead of running have 100 wires like this I just use the copper plate connect directly to the vrm yeah and then this will translate into something like this one so this is the same 10 a DTI card but with connected with the power classified so this way when people say like zombie mod is that yes this is precisely the so-called zombie mod because you have separate PCB like it's completely different this and this is just the vrm so all the power is supplied now from this external vrm to the GPU and CPU handles like the memory memory power that's the from the main PCB okay we still have the like provirus different solar voltage controls and extra caps so extra caps on the back and then what was this one that was actually the voltage probe point for the memory so that the memory shape goes there and we can do the extra testing for memory and is this this and all the EBG cuz you guys used to have like power boards didn't ya yes this is actually 4th revision and we already have the new one which is still available the EVGA classified a power 5 so this one you need to use the evbot externally to do the control and monitoring but new ones have everything integrated so you can use like all the controls on the board already you write any external hardware how much when you're working on this stuff like that that other card we're looking at second leo how long does that take you to kind of figure out when when you get a new prototype in or a new reference model and um so usually like within days okay like because we know like this this process is not something we invent for every new card but it's like we applied the same knowledge for every generation so we started flow from like 580 and 680 like attaching the external VRMs and then like every generation we just repeat the same thing and like see what's the differences because usually on the power delivery side like the overall concept is the same like you take the 580 gtx card or you take the RT modern r-tx 980ti the idea is the same it's just different implemented right so a lot of it then I guess you're doing some preliminary research for a new line like when the new GPU yes it was like even like from there when we decide what solution what we're in solution we will use on the new custom car like FTW or you kingpin car then we will need to know before before we start design phase we need to know like okay we need to 16 phases or twelve phases or ten phases or how many we need to handle the power together for the normal use and for the extreme overclocking woodwinds right so that's we need to kind of find the balance which still can implement on the PCB and have the normal still cooler so it like production yes so I guess some of this is back to like you know what's the point of buying like the higher-end PCBs so I even just KP but just talk like FTW 3 or FC ultrasone some non reference design because I guess in theory if you're you you could take a reference model and get it sounds like pretty far along yeah but there is so like always some difference like usually would get better results on our custom cards right you don't have so extra parasitics and so it's our nose from the oldest zombie mods and and also this it's not like this happens instantly either this is yeah this takes a couple hours to do it and then actually to test it's more much more than that like days and years of experience to get to that yeah right so couple hours not like go home and try and get it done in a couple hours yeah it's one of those things you don't drive home very right cool so these are which which were these this is a tennis is 1080 Coco's it's a 1080 zombie mod card and then another 1080 with without the zombie board but with a bunch of probes and wires sticking off of it and I guess we got some close-up b-roll shots of that but that to look behind the scenes of some of the engineering that mad scientists do at the companies before getting the products out so give you a close-up look at what happens before you get the fully packaged nice looking card I'm not saying this doesn't look nice Tim I don't mean to insult your work well but it's amazing so that's the cards thanks for watching check back for additional videos with 10 from the lab you can subscribe for more and thank you for joining me we'll see you next time