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other than EVGA s cards at their booth at Gamescom we were able to see a couple of other video cards for the new Nvidia r-tx series on the show floor that includes the founders edition design from Nvidia MSI's dual fan card and then a ZOTAC three fan card so these three are the others that we saw at the show aside from EVGA s solutions that we already detailed there are three of those two before that this video is brought to you by thermal takes view 37 case the vo 37 focuses on highlighting custom PC builds with its full panoramic window and tinted front acrylic and our thermal testing the view 37 performed reasonably well when considering its looks focused build which is partly thanks to the airflow design and the removal of a bottom power supply shroud for a balance of looks and performance check the link in the description below for the view 37 let's start off with Nvidia's reference card this one the biggest change is the dual fan cooler with a vapor chamber covering the entire lower part of the card this of course completely obstructs air flow to the PCB the result is that anything which lacks direct contact the vapor chamber will run hot as it won't have any airflow at all in theory anyway the reference cards that two fans are also spaced very wide apart which is something that we're curious to look into later the card is completely enclosed with minimal space for warmed air to escape the periphery of the video card forcing it to escape out of either just the back or a couple of side ventilation boards and Vidya has a lot of distance to go to really make this design competitive despite the company citation of a quote one-fifth noise level of the original blower note also that decibels are logarithmic and that 1/5 the decibel level assuming we're going by pressure is closer to 3 dB regardless it should be quieter that much is for sure and the GPU will need all of that extra cooling this is also the only card which is allowed to have an env link connector cover as we understand it today industry sources have indicated to us that Nvidia restricts the NV link covers to the FE design and then it's also got 2 by 8 pin power connectors which you can see on the edge of the card but the power balancing between each header improved over the previous generation from what we understand as well interestingly and Vidya is also using a synchronous fan control something that EVGA designed with icx we're not quite sure what the relationship here is if any or if there's any agreement in place but EVGA does hold several patents pertaining to its icx asynchronous cooling moving on to msi shown prominently at the HP booth where the company intends to use the new nvidia r-tx graphic solutions and future omen obelisk systems the MSI card in terms of looks is pretty similar it deviates the least from the reference design or the founders edition design thus far but the cooler itself is substantially different we can immediately spot for heat pipes at the right side of the cooler which indicates that Emma size portrayed card is sticking it with a more typical heat pipe based design rather than using the board covering and expensive vapor chamber that Nvidia is using on its EFI card this is the first non red and high card and some time aside from a couple of duke cards and fits the NVIDIA theme extremely closely including some green highlights very atypical for MSI these days from what we've heard part of this has to do with limited partner time to wrap a product and MSI is likely to come out with full custom PCB solutions and custom cooler solutions at a later date past the launch of most of the cards the fans are the same diameter or very close to it but do have a 14th blade to the FE is 13 and they do use Emma size more traditional fan design likely provided by power logic finally though tax amp gaming 2080 was on display at the case king booth where we previously detailed all of this generations EVGA cards the zotac card is significantly different from reference and the card we just showed from MSI but it does still look like a reference PCB underneath at least it does for right now there's a chance that ZOTAC makes a custom PCB later and this might just be for show due to the extremely limited window where partners had almost no information really so tack routinely makes some of the least effective coolers of a given mass but there's time yet for that to improve with touring for large heat pipes like the 8 millimeters our larger hand over the edge of the PCB where half of the rightmost also over Haines we were able to spot several large thrown paths between the PCB the baseplate and the cooler which does indicate a potential improvement by ZOTAC over the previous generation with the 1080 TI series cards so this is something that's good to see but ideally those pads aren't quite so thick they look close to two millimeters and we'd rather than be closer to 0.5 or 1.0 as it's more optimal for efficiency either way it looks like a potential improvement for ZOTAC but we won't know more until testing and then finally most of the PCBs you'll see at launch will be reference PCBs even if they have a custom cooling solutions but custom PCBs will come later just to clarify those previous thoughts the 1 to 3 month window that we heard originally was for Foley custom solutions whereas you should be seeing some reference PCB solutions with some sort of custom coolers at launch with the nvidia efi card it's just that there's full custom solutions will come a bit later because they didn't have enough time with the spec to build out the card so that's what we know for now for the other 3 cards at Gamescom that we were able to find we've seen 6 now you can check the channel for the EVGA coverage subscribe for more as always go to store dock cameras axis net to help us out directly and patreon.com slash gamers in access to help us out there as well hopefully that Co wasn't too loud we were recording in a hotel room past midnight so bear with us on that one thanks for watching I'll see you all next time