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the first truly impressive board partner GT X 1080 graphics card I laid my hands on was the game with Phoenix goes like Hal edition even today it's still one of the best examples I've seen in fact I like it so much I've been gracious enough to grant a permanent residence in my personal gaming rig we both seem pretty happy with the arrangement recently palette reached out and asked if I could review their gtx 1070 gamer a premium edition naturally I obliged for those of you aren't aware gaming a pallet of one and the same the game wood version this graphics card is called the gtx 1070 phoenix GLH palette then threw in a twist or rather a much welcomed bonus included with the graphics card was a bits power vga waterblock which you might have already seen if you watch the unboxing boxes episode last week bits power make blocks for brands such as gigabyte MSI and ZOTAC it now appears that pallet slash game web can be added to that list as well the supply block is designed to suit their gtx 1070 and 1080 graphics cards I have to assume they don't have the 1070 model ready yet as I was sent the model with the 1080 logo so I guess this 1070 will be playing dress-up anyway before we strip the game on premium edition down to its PCB and slap on the waterblock let's take a quick look at the stock cooler as well as the PCB design as was the case with the game with GT X 1080 you'll notice right away we have a very large graphics card on hand the PCB measures 267 millimeters long and the card stretch is a further 18 millimeters thanks to the oversized cooler this huge cooler takes up not 2 but rather 3 slots at 48 millimeters thick in comparison the thousands Edition cooler measures 35 millimeters thick and 266 millimeters long more typical dimensions for a dual slot graphics card the PCB is also 20 millimeters taller than standard allowing the graphics card to stand 133 millimeters tall under the large fan shroud which I should point out has been constructed from plastic with anodized aluminium trimmings we find - truly massive heat sinks in total there's 120 millimetres by 185 millimetres at 30 millimeters thick worth of heatsink improving efficiency a 3/8 millimeter copper heat pipes along with an additional 2 6 two copper heat pipes these heat pipes are also connected to a large copper base pushing large volumes of air over the huge head sink surface area are two 100 millimeter fans these fans are extremely quiet and even when the card has been placed under load for an extended period the rework PCB features an 8 + 2 phase power design which was also seen on the GTX 1080 model pallet has stuck with the standard 8 pin PCIe power connector though out of the box the car comes clocked at 1670 megahertz for the base with the boost clock of 1873 megahertz the memory has been boosted to 2,000 125 megahertz taking the throughput from a gigabytes per second to 8.5 gigabytes per second around the back we find a huge full-size backplate protecting the card though the aluminium plate is pre boring in terms of design the i/o configuration remains standard with a single dual link DVI output HDMI 2.0 B and three display ports now that we've checked out the gamer premium edition let's install the waterblock and see how the therm was compared to the stock air cooler I didn't get an instruction manual to go off but luckily I've done a few of these by now and it's usually not too tricky I started by removing every screw within sight and once that was done the cooler lifts away easily once a pair of wires were unplugged this gives us access to the next few screws that are wholly on the backplate I proceeded unscrew all of these and again the card lifted away from the backplate to next I peeled away the thermal pads that are on the card already as it'll be replaced by those that came with the water block I cut and applied these to the new shiny water block as you can see some thermal paste went on next and I tried to spread that nice and evenly before plugging in the RGB power plug in the water block and laying the card a new backplate on in position a bunch of black allen key screws going next to lock everything into place and voila I went to peel away the plastic from the cool black dragon cover next and found that I really needed to pull all the screws out to get the last little bits of plastic away but this was no biggie now the card was all together it was time to plug her into my Corp III liquid-cooled build I had so much fun draining it and refilling it that I decided not to put it on camera so all in all as you can see it's a pretty cool looking water block with and without the dragon cover first up in our benchmarks we have battlefield 4 and here the Aled gtx 1070 matched the gigabyte extreme gaming out of the box and was able to hang with your soos troops once overclocked we see much the same when testing with Star Wars Battlefront pallets gtx 1070 was on par with EA soos and gigabyte cards out of the box and overclocked wrapping up the gaming benchmarks is Far Cry primal and again we find very much the same results so nothing unusual to report here them like the framerate performance just seen the power consumption of the pallet gtx 1070 is very similar to cars from a susan gigabyte this means the game Rock premium edition does suck down quite a bit more power than the founds Edition card but with a total system consumption of just 252 what's it isn't exactly a power-hungry graphics card out of the box the pallet gtx 1070 ran it up to 66 degrees when gaming this is quite a bit warmer than the Asus and gigabyte cards but it isn't exactly hot either coming in at 11 degrees cooler than the founders Edition overclocked temperatures reached 70 degrees and again this is very acceptable adding the bits power water block with the GPU overclocked reduced the low temperatures 43 degrees which is very impressive the liquid core configuration was tested in my custom-built thermal take or p3 system the pallid gtx 1070 game Rock Premium Edition performed as expected matching the gigabyte extreme gaming and a soos ROG Strix cards out of the box overclocked he received similar performance to the highly touted a soos from gigabyte cards as well unfortunately pallets gtx 10:17 did run a little bit hotter when gaming though admittedly and just 66 degrees it's still a very cool and quiet graphics card that said if cool and quieter your thing then the custom design bits power water block might be worth looking into as this dropped the operating temperature this is 43 degrees with the GPU overclocked the bits power block also looks awesome and will no doubt be a prized piece for any do-it-yourself liquid core setup it hasn't been made clear if this is just something you can buy separately or palette will do some sort of bundle deal where you can buy a version of this card with the block pre-installed in any case a cool option to have either way pricing is difficult to pin down right now as availability is very poor parlor cards almost don't exist in Australia it seems and I can't find any listed major online retailers such as New Age either typically game with slash palette or competitive on pricing so hopefully this model comes in nearer videos MSRP what do you guys think of this palette card let me know in the comments I'm your host man as always and I'll see you guys next time cheers guys for joining me for another episode of hardware unbox so those of you that already support the channel thank you so much it's truly appreciated and to those of you that would like to support the channel directly I do have Amazon links and a patreon link in the video description below thanks a lot and I'll see you guys next time