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welcome back to however unboxed okay a couple of things firstly that wasn't a clickbait title i will indeed be taking my shiny and much-loved doris gtx 1080i graphics card and seeing if it can survive the unthinkable having liquid poured on it now I don't mean I'll be putting the card in front of me pouring some c1000 on there cleaning it off letting it dry and then seeing if it still works because it almost certainly will what we're going to do in a moment well I'm going to do in a moment and we'll both watch and complete horror it's Paul cooler on the backside of the graphics card while it's connected up to the system and playing some games this isn't a backplate test either the extreme magicians armor has been removed exposing the naked PCB there are of course a few holes as well on the PCB so the liquid is pretty much going to get everywhere now with the six months or sub experience I have creating content on YouTube I know there'll be those of you preparing to charge of the comment section in protest letting me know your unsub because this is stupid and somebody could have really enjoyed using this graphics card well before you go all humongous lady on me just wait a moment a feature gigabyte have been advertising on all our high end graphics cards for some time now is aerospace-grade PCB coding now what this is is a coating that they say protects the graphics card and all the vital components from things like dust insects drop screws drill shavings and abrasion they also state that it offers moisture resistant properties that allow the cards to survive things such as a liquid cooling leak they even show a photo on their website with some orange liquid on the backside of a card to illustrate this point gigabyte has also created a few marketing videos which are on YouTube showing liquid spilling onto the back of a card and claimant had no impact no real evidence was shown though and up until this point I really haven't had the plums to try it out for myself why I've decided to finally test gigabytes claims with the most expensive graphics card they've ever sent me is beyond me let's not try think about that one too much to be clear this is now my graphics card to keep gigabyte have intended to leave it with me for future testing we probably didn't have this in mind so this is my GTX 10 atti and yeah a bit on the line here if I kill this fantasy gigabyte won't be too happy and I can't imagine I'll be sending me another one that said the card does come with that extreme care for you aren t surely given their claims water damage won't void the warranty yeah I'm going to keep telling myself that now as York doesn't make any bold claims with their Zed 97 extreme for motherboard and I dare say if this thing even gets a whiff of any cooler it's going to pack up shop and retire early the BitFenix 750 watt power supply is also located directly below the graphics card and at a wild guess I would say pouring liquid into this thing is a bad idea and could even cut my youtube career short amongst other things so I'll remove the power supply I'm relocated around to the backside of the case also in an effort to avoid any liquid flowing back into the PCIe slot and damaging the motherboard I will tilt Thermaltake scorpy v case on a slight angle so the liquid should drain away from the system right so that's about it time to liquid cool my horas GT X 1080 Ti okay so as you can see I've start the system currently running over watts it's just a bot match spectating so run for the next 20 minutes or so and I guess now it's time to do the unthinkable just to prove it this is playing off this card there you go plug the DisplayPort back in so that is that card hooked up to that monitor and we're about to put some of this on there okay so in the syringe I have 10 mils of c1000 coolant and we're going to simulate a leak yep we're going to do this all right here we go well that way terribly that went terribly indeed that was only a small amount of liquid all right I'll take the card out I'll take it all apart clean up all the liquid dry it off and see if it works I mean that doesn't look good I was kind of hoping that aerospace coating would allow the card to just keep working that's how it's advertised so I'll be back in a minute I hope you haven't killed this graphics card okay so I noticed a bit of a coolant went back into the PCI Express slot which could have caused the artifacts we saw on the screen likely did so I've cleaned up the motherboard cleaned up the graphics card I plugged in another graphics card tested at this computer the test system is fine played perfectly fine and overwatch again with a different graphics card I haven't tested the tane TTI yet but I'm not hopeful it'll ever work again so let's fire it up and see what happens all right I can't believe it the computers actually turned on it's looking like it works at the moment well I like I can't believe this we'll play some games in a minute and see if it does actually still work in games it's so far it's looking positive who is tense okay so I've dried the card out plugged it back in file it back up as you can see it's once again playing overwatch which is quite incredible so as you can see it's still working there we go back on so I think it was just the the our coolant getting in the PC I've swapped there on the gold pins I don't really want to push my luck but the card did survive once I dried it out is working again as you can see so I thought I want to try it again because I could easily have faked this this footage could be of shot before I did it so you guys be none the wiser so I'm going to do it again I'm going to try and keep the coolant away from the PCI Express expansions or the PCI Express slot this time and hopefully it'll keep playing even with the liquid on there I don't really want to do it again but like I said it would have been quite easy to fake what I've done so far so I want to make it quite clear that I'm not faking this so it survived once I'm shuttle survived again so we're going to pour the liquid probably around I might even will last time I went a bit back up here I might go right on directly behind where the GPU is and then some around the vrm area so let's try this again alright we've got a fair bit on there alright this time it seems happy I put a bit near the vrm area okay you can see it's pouring everywhere card still working try and get some more on the back of the card here okay so that once again locked it up shut it down I'll clean this off and we'll see what happens that's incredible so for the second time I've cleaned up the card use the baby wipes alcohol wipes would have been a lot better but I didn't have any so as you use these dry it best I could with paper towel dry it out with the hairdryer again not the best way to do it but it looks like it's worked twice and then I clean the card up whoo so I take the heat sink off that was a heap of our c1000 liquid around the GPU around the memory as well as legs back under there the heat sink was full of it as well so I've cleaned all that out dry it out put it back on and I'm actually quite shocked that it's working so if you do have a leak from your liquid cooling system onto a Norris graphics card or any of the gigabyte cards that have that special occurring things like you will have a bit of an oh you know what moment where your panic the whole system locks up I mean it may not lock up you saw that it ran for a little bit it was until I spread it across the card that it found somewhere where it upset it but it didn't blow nothing up didn't know the shorts cause any permanent damage the system is working fine I'm quite shocked really the both times when the system locked up or you know you still the artifacts on the screen I was certain that was the end of the card so I've had cards before I'm sure those guys watching that I've had liquid cooled systems that I've had a leak from here before and I had two drops go on to a thing was a GTX 680 back in the day loved that card two drops onto it that was it completely cactus never worked again so yeah I was very upset about that but this card even more expensive obviously a lot more powerful it's a lot newer and twice I've simulated one sort of reasonable was it was a big leak the first one I did squirted about four mil onto the graphics cards that's a lot of liquid you can see there's still three mil in there so that's you know and it survived that that second time I put on twice as much I just just so I put the whole length of the graphics card that was liquid everywhere I thought that was the end of it slide back up into Windows I'm about to try overwatch again that's not making any weird noises sighs I can see from here there's no weird artifacts so yeah quite incredible well there you have it guys gigabytes aerospace-grade PCB coding isn't just a whole lot of marketing rubbish it actually works and if you have a leak from your liquid cooling system is a good chance or it seems like there's every chance that the car will survive without a problem you just have to pull it apart and clean it which is you'd have to do that anyway but if the systems on running and that happens the worst case scenario happens you get a leak you're not going to lose $700 us+ graphics card which is yeah phenomenal relief because that's the worst thing that could happen in a water leak you lose your your expensive graphics card I want to pull it down I'm going to put the backplate back on so I pull the whole card apart make sure there isn't anything I've missed give it a proper clean with some alcohol wipes order some of those and then you put the card back together and I expect it will keep working like it is now yeah totally blown away this was a bit of a nerve-wracking most nerve-wracking video I've done I was very very nervous doing this but happy I haven't lost my much-loved GTX 1080i graphics card I keep checking the screen expecting to have a fax or something on there but yet the gigabytes claims of their aerospace or aerospace grade PCB coating sounds like a whole lot of rubbish but it's a pretty bold claim to make and it looks like it's true okay so I have completely disassembled the card since we do our little leak test experiment cleaned it all up I was quite surprised there was a heap of red cool and in the spins of the heatsink so that's all being cleaned out I bought a spray can of electrical parts cleaner and gave both sides of the PCB a once-over so that should all be nice and clean now no contaminants left on the board and I have since put it all back together and the card does work perfectly I left it for a day to dry out before I did that before I test it against make sure but yeah all good and the good news is that over clocks just as well as the day I got it as you can see though I have completely disassembled the card once again I did that to get a few b-roll shots of it all cleaned up so I've done that and now I'm going to put it back together and I can start actually using it for some real benchmarking anyway that's it for this one I hope you guys enjoyed watching and watch me suffer through this video glad this ordeal is over and I'm really thankful I haven't lost my $1,200 Australian graphics card I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys