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as we get to the end of our country takes cover egde it's time for a little roundup while neither AMD or nvidia launched a new graphics card or graphics architecture at the show that didn't stop a bunch of bored partners from showing off their latest designs since it is the newest GPU on the market many of those focused on the gtx 980ti with what they consider 2nd generation products to fill in some niches within their lives the end result is some very unique looking designs with some pretty interesting features but before we get into those a quick message from our sponsor this year is complex coverage is brought to you by fantex Coolermaster and msi so let's kick things off for the zotac and unlike many other board partners they aren't focused on building bigger and faster cards this time around for the ultra high end of the market they have the amp extreme editions but rather this time things that the booth were going small and I mean really small this is the gtx 980ti mini what is labeled as the world's smallest 1080i that's right after shrinking the GTX 970 and a 1080 ZOTAC is now going to launch AGP 102 based graphics card that's designed specifically for small form-factor systems it measures just 8.3 inches long runs at stocks beans and even packs the dual 8 pin power connectors from the reference card according to ZOTAC they've been able to achieve this miracle by carefully selecting which course they use and installing one of those best compact coolers on the market that's the eye stone cooler which comes with a pure copper contact plate five millimeter heat pipes any massive aluminum Finnair a right now pricing hasn't been announced but if we were to go past the mini series launches I don't expect so tractor prices too much higher than the reference cards but there's one more tiny card here say hello to the GTX 1080p an Arctic storm mini which is actually the world's smallest water-cooled graphics card it also happens to be one of the lightest weight GPUs with a pre-installed block to basically what so tucked in here is take the mini that I talked about just a few seconds ago and attach a slim full-coverage water block to it unfortunately they weren't able to provide pricing for this one either but doesn't it look great moving on to MSI and we go from mini-me graphics cards to supersize ones that overcome to the limit this is the lightning Z and if our history with previous lightning cards is any indication this will be among the fastest gtx 980ti cards on the market it comes with three modes where the boost clock is 1582 megahertz in solid mode which is also nvidia stock clock and 1695 megahertz in gaming mode but if you want to throw a caution into the wind there's also lightning mode which goes even further with a 1721 Beggar's boost clock I'm actually quite sure that the final clock speeds when the Lightning Z is running in your system may be even higher even the memory speed to get on action with a slight bump to 11,000 112 megahertz those frequencies are made possible due to a massive triple slot cooler that features three of MSI's custom torques fans and a massive fin area below the shroud feeding this monster isn't the usual duel apron either because this card goes in is a crazy territory by needing three eight pin inputs to function that may be overkill in the extreme but when talking about lightning why not this edition of the lightnings we won't come cheap either but MSI wasn't quite ready to discuss pricing just expect it to be well above the gtx 980ti is $650 price tag but moving from the utterly bonkers to something that's actually useful there's the MSI GTX 1080i gaming X 11g just by looking at this card you won't see anything particularly interesting since it uses twin 405 heatsink that's so many MSI cards have been known for however in this situation it has been massively expanded so it takes up three slots that's a bit of a disappointment since the last generation of this tape tank was pretty compact and it only ended up using two slots being a gaming extraversion expects higher clock speeds and the ability to overclock with an invidious prescribed limits the interesting part about the gaming X 11g is on the rear i/o panel there's actually a USB C port here but don't go far to assume that you'll be able to plug in an external drive or anything other than a monitor to do it basically what MSI is doing here is provided native compatibility with future monitors that utilize USB sees DisplayPort alternative mode to run a video signal through a universal USBC cable let's come this as a novel addition to a API card right now its users are a bit limited but from the pretty normal we had to go find some more wild things and that's when we stumbled upon colorful are you tired of the usual RGB lighting on a graphics card and want something different visible through a case window well then this gtx 980ti vulcan expo c has you covered since it has a full LCD embedded into the fan shroud that displays information like GPU usage clock speeds and temperatures it looks absolutely spectacular and it also happens to be one of the fastest GTA X 1080 eyes on the planet with a boost clock of 1730 megahertz hopefully we'll be able to get one of these can enhance very quickly and what roundup of the greatest GPS wouldn't be complete without EVGA well they certainly brought their a-game to the table because this is the GTX 1080p on kingpin addition according to EVGA this was designed to be the best gtx 980ti in the world for overclocking and it is actually guaranteed to hit a consistent core clock speed of at least 2025 megahertz it comes with an updated version of the ICS cooler which is now made of 100% copper fence and the end result is pretty striking to the eyes and it only takes up two slots EVGA knows that excess power input connectors are simply marketing BS and they decided to show their middle fingers to card like the lightning lee by including a pair of eight pin inputs honestly guys the water is provided by to a pin connectors along with the PCI slot is more than enough for any gtx 980ti including this one with its guaranteed overclocking Headroom the kingpin has also been designed with cable management and control in mind both aping connectors one from the cards back and next to them is an input for each is handy evbot controller there's also nine thermal sensors and completely asynchronous fan control for the position X obviously software the 1080i kingpin will be the fastest graphics card on the planet when it's overclocked but what happens if you're looking for something a bit more compact this happens to be one of the only single slot graphics cards we've seen in a long time and it's called the gtx 1070 katana not only does it have a small PCB but that cut down length allows for a thin blower soft fan so that that pushes air through an advanced compare heatsink that means clock speeds remain exactly the same as the reference version and while you may think Tana will be loud gal exclaims that will run quietly even under load it really does look cool and a lot of people tend to ask for single slug graphics card but I'm interested in seeing how many people will actually buy this honestly I think this will be an awesome conversation piece at LAN parties so that wraps up our walkthrough of some of the more interesting graphics card designs we saw at copy Tex 2017 if you're wondering about where AMD cards are well the last radeon gpus was launched almost a year ago and many of their board partners are looking forward towards Vega unfortunately that meant a lack of unique models and hopefully that will change as their next architecture reaches maturity so thank you guys for watching this video make sure to let us know which of the GPUs you ended up liking the most amiibo with hurricane axe thank you so much for watching don't forget to subscribe for more similar content and we'll see you in the next one