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what's up guys Ibraheim connects and today we have something that's been a long time coming so far we reviewed quite a few gtx 1080 and 1070 cards from the likes of EVGA ZOTAC MSI and gigabyte but we finally have some asus rog GPUs in the house I know this little view is a little bit late because one of these cards took a whole round trip across North America and I'm only getting them right now creativity is fueled by the best instruments it doesn't always come easy and in the process you often realize how important quality is the Rd 400 by OCC gives you quality and speed with M de tu interface the Shiban and flash and a PCI bracket making it possible to focus on what matters invest in storage that makes a difference with a 5 year advanced warranty the subjects of this video are the Strix OC versions of the 1080 and 1070 and it's too bad were only getting them right now since I think there's some of the best around but I'll get to that later and for the time being let's look at the specs starting with the 1080 weighing in with the boost speed of 1936 megahertz this card surpasses pretty much every competitor clock speeds even though pricing remains quite fair at $719 just twenty dollars more than the founders Edition and thirty dollars less than the MSI GTX 1080 gaming Z that are reviewed few weeks ago that's pretty impressive and it points towards Asus is competing mindset as for the gtx 1070 GPU it's very much like its bigger brother in fact it has extremely higher clock speeds but actually costs less than something like the zotac amp extreme it's one of the fastest gtx 1070 s currently available even though it costs $10 more than the founders Edition there's actually a reason why I wanted to group these two cards into one review even though they come from very different price points asus has literally used the same components for both at least on surface of things both use a CSS new direct cu3 heatsink which has several LED strips integrated directly into shroud and houses triple 80 millimeter fan which use a unique triple wing blade designed to increase airflow while lowering noise what you can see below is the heatsink itself which has heat pipes that make direct contact with a GPU score this is supposed to boost cooling efficiency but with a core as small as a GP 104 s it may be challenging for ACS is designed to make complete contact the temperature results will certainly be interesting moving your onto the sides some of the differences between the two cars becomes evident the gtx 1080 uses a six plus eight pin power layout while the 1070 which needs less current has a simpler single eight pin both should allow plenty of overclocking Headroom provided a surges software allows for it one of the most unique additions to these cards is actually hiding underneath the heatsinks outer edge and the PCB if you don't know where they are you likely miss them but there's a pair of pwm controlled for pin fan headers with these you can connect system fans which will then be controlled via the cards built-in fan controller rather than the motherboard I'm not sure if this will be beneficial since most users will want their chassis fans to help regulate processor or ambient temperatures but it is still an interesting addition for anyone that has system fans dedicated to direct GPU cooling the back side of the card contains a full coverage backplate with asus logo that's illuminated with some internal LEDs and some cutouts for some additional vrm components you'll notice that the gtx 1070 has less of these secondary capacitors but that's to be expected since I've already mentioned its core and memory needs less power current I should also mention now that the 1080 Strix has a huge eight plus two phase PWM while the 1070 Strix is still well equipped with a six plus one phase layout speaking of LEDs Asus uses a stand-alone software to control both the front and a back LED zones on this card there are several options and the full RGB color spectrum to choose from but there are some limitations too I really do wish both the front and the back zones were to be controlled individually and it would have been nice to have this application rolled into Asus GPU tweak software rather than being loaded as a separate app however it is still easy to use it and gets the job done pretty well the IO is also pretty interesting since it doesn't stick to invidious reference design and it houses a single DVI connector two HDMI 2.0 ports and two DisplayPort 1.4 outputs supposedly this makes it more compatible with upcoming VR headsets which is a nice addition if you are looking into making a jump to a virtual gaming environment so now with all that out of the way let's get into those benchmarks which you've all been waiting for you and as you can see boats tricks OSI cards provide much better performance than the founders edition and comparable frame rates to other custom GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 options while the differences aren't extreme a few extra frames per second here and there for the cards that cost less than their competitors is impressive to say the least there's a good reason for that impressive performance the asus card delivers consistent frequencies regardless of how long they are used the GTX 1080 does get a bit hotter than its little brother and its fan speeds are quite a bit higher but that's we expected given its more powerful core more importantly both cards were able to grant either equal or better temperatures than some more expensive options absolutely incredible this is an interesting result given the low temperatures here let's actually have a listen to the cards on one hand the GTX 1080s tricks OC is a bit noisier than some competing solutions but the gtx 1070 version is whisper quiet it seems like asus wanted to maximize their high-end cards frequencies while sacrificing a bit in the acoustics department but will you actually hear a difference between any of these when gaming likely not overclocking may be an inexact science but one thing is certain here both districts OC cars achieve the highest clock speeds we've ever seen from GT x 1080 and gtx 1070 so far it's not like Asus is offering anything unique here either since a power limit of 120% it's pretty much the course among higher-end Pascal cards maybe this point towards better bidding for the upgraded components making a difference you never know since Nvidia launched their Pascal architecture we reviewed quite a few custom cards and many of them have performed great but I have to say that the Asus GTX 1080 and 1070 cards are among the best even though they cost less than some competing solutions the temperatures the overclocking results and the performance literally everything but step ahead of the table it is almost impossible to find anything wrong with them so much so that we're giving these are damn good value award they should be at the top of the list when you're considering buying high-end NVIDIA GPUs but what do you guys think about these issues cards are there any alternatives that you might be interested in let us know in the comments down below I'm Ivar with hurrican decks thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one