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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and today we're going to take a look at another graphics card and the custom 1080 TI flavor that being the asus rog Strix graphics card this is the first time I've taken a look at an rog grab at the cards since the 290 matrix holy hell of a long time ago bring out the bling in your PC with Corsairs new Vengeance RGB series ddr4 memory with a hassle free lighting controls in superior overclocking performance click the link in the description to learn more so I'm kind of excited to look at this one but I've got a little bit of a spoiler alert I'm not going to be showing you guys a whole bunch of benchmarks slides going across the screen with transitions and stuff because the reality is all the 1080p is regardless of their founders Edition or custom card perform pretty much the same so what I'm going to do instead is I'm going to talk about the specific things you get with this card maybe even do a teardown and we'll talk a little bit about overclocking we'll just kind of see how it does in that arena I asked you guys on Twitter would you want to see and that's what you said so that's what you're getting and you'll like it this is without a doubt one of the most requested graphics cards that I have ever had you guys asked me about because you guys have noticed I've done a lot of Asus graphics card reviews but yet here we are now here's we're going to do we're going to go ahead and show obviously there is a size comparison that needs to be had here because when you go with a graphics card like this it's got three fans on it a custom PCB clearly it is much larger than the founder's Edition card in fact it honors edition cards I'm not mistaken comes in at about 11 inches ladies yeah it comes in at ten and a half inches actually and then it's got a height of about four and a half inches all right measuring tape slow cards four and a quarter close enough but if you compare that to these chicks card right here be Shroud hangs out over the back of the PCB so this is 11 and 3/4 inches long by 4 and 3/4 inch high and it's a slot and a half car or two and a half slot card so it's gonna be able to but these up against each other that's ok most motherboards now we're spacing them out appropriately so as you can see it is bigger all around than the founders Edition yet now let's talk about the cooler here the cooler obviously has three fins they are 0db fans what that means is when it's under idle the fans are going to turn have zero acoustics so it's not gonna make any noise but it's got a very tasteful LED array and here we'll call it an array it's got some lights that shine right through the cooler right here and on the back we do have the ROG logo that glows orange and on the face of the graphics card we have a little Republic of gamers LED that will light right there which is a really tasteful because it's not a lot of lights and in your faces small it's subtle they do glow orange out of the box however you can loot load the GPU tweak software and the Asus Aurora software so you can control the lighting on this to make it match any aesthetic that you want it does indeed have two eight ten power plugs so stepping it up from the eight pin and six pin power found on the founders edition card but you also on the back here have two additional fan headers they are either PWM or DC fan header so you can actually plug some K stands all-in-one cooler fans or whatever you want to this and allow the graphics card to also ramp up your chassis fans to try and help with the additional airflow I like to see that because here's the thing when you have a cooler like this that's exhausting all of its air into the case the case is responsible for taking that hot air away but the graphics card is completely dependent on your chassis airflow for its cooling efficiency now when you actually add the fan headers on the back of the graphics card and allow the fans to ramp up with the load of the graphics card then your chassis is more able to take on the additional heat being put into the case the problem with letting your CPU load or or the standard CPU PWM handle that if the CPUs don't really go under a massive load when you're gaming so the fans will stay kind of cool and quiet as your graphics card is getting hotter than the hot air isn't being cooled out of the case as efficiently so that's something that's really nice to see so in the gaming mode it's a fifteen hundred and sixty nine core clock and then of course it's going to boost under load up to sixteen hundred and eighty three you put in OC mode then you get 1594 megahertz core clock and it boosts up to seventeen hundred and eight now even in OC mode it's going to boost up higher than seventeen hundred and eight because GPU boost 3.0 is going to take over so it's like two things happening there now regardless of which profile you're in is going to boost up higher than that though because of GPU boost 3.0 and those those are kind of like brackets that shift so as you move it from the gaming mode to the OC mode has even more Headroom with GP boost 3 so I saw an average about nineteen hundred and twenty five megahertz and before we talk about overclocking let's go and take a look at this cooler I've already done all of my tests I'm gonna tell you right now that I never saw any hotter than what we see next sixty five see ya 65 C in OC mode is the highest temperature that we actually saw on this so that is among the coolest we've seen yet but what I want to do right here is I want to see how they're achieving that so I'm kind of curious as to what you get here I've never taken one apart so I don't know exactly what's involved but I'm going to be voiding my warranty so anyway that's okay warranties are there to be broken there's a little sticker right there it covers up the screw once you punch that you basically tilt ASIS that you took the cooler off and they're going to go no no I don't warranty that anymore it's kind of a gray area anyway Linus did a great video about product warranties and whether or not you're allowed to take things apart and if that can hold your warranty but I digress so once you remove those four spring-loaded screws around the GPU perimeter this is what you get we've got one two three four five six heat pipes on here a massive heatsink array as you can see now I would have liked to have seen these heat sinks run-length rather than hike like this because we talked about this actually with the sapphire card review that when the air can actually run the length of the card and come out the backside it's more a little bit more efficient air flow than having to hit the the bottom right here against the motherboard and bounce but then again you do have some air coming up out of the top sort of because you have this little plate right here that kind of blocks some of that air flow some can make it out here some can make it out there but regardless this is actually one of the easiest cooler than taking apart because it's just those four screws you've got two headers right here one is an LED header and one is a fan header so on the back here we have our back plate we've got some cutouts here to allow some heat to escape the back of the power delivery and of course you've got access to your GPU screws without having to take the back plate off so that's kind of nice on the face of the card here you've got the teach spreader that's touching all the DRM that is screwed down into the back plate so it seems and once together making a good contact we've got heat pads on those this is our power delivery right here make lasers you got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten phase power delivery on there and of course a heat pad as you can see right there look how thick that heat head is holy cow now that heat pad makes contact with the cooler which part of the yeah so it touches basically right here it just touches the heatsink fins now what I would have liked to have seen an EVGA actually started doing this because it they kind of learn their lesson was instead of having it touch the sharp edge they actually made a 90-degree Bend on all of the fins where it touches the heat sink or heat pad just to give a better contact and it'll transfer of heat so that would've been nice to see but you do have at least a heat pad on the BRM on the heat spreader touching the heatsink right there yeah that's kind of nice I'm not gonna bother taking the fans out no reason to do that and then back here this is just this is just a heesu that's two-sided tape I'm not even sure why that's there to be honest with you now for those that are wondering yes I did do my initial testing with the stock thermal paste that comes with this graphics card and I am pleased to report but the hottest we saw this card get even in 4k is about 65 feet and that's what the stock band profile if I bump the fan profile up to about 55% which is where you can just start to hear the fans and it's at it like 54 C unfortunately that warranty sticker basically says if there is a water block that is developed for this card you void your warranty you put it on not many graphics cards that I've taken apart have a warranty sticker on the screw to keep you from taking the cooler off that's a lot of the brands I've dealt with actually welcome water cooling say yeah water cool it make it as fast as it can be bro now it's no surprise at this date into the mid-60s on the stock Sam profile and down into the deep 50s when it comes to messing with the fan profile and speeding up the fans a little bit if you don't mind sacrificing a little bit of acoustics in terms of better cooling if you're overclocking you better turn fans anyway but again that isn't an open-air testbench so if you're concerned about cooling then make sure you guys have adequate chassis cooling in your case lots of intake lots of exhaust and maybe even utilize the fan headers on the back of this so there you go guys the Asus 1080 TI Strix card a pretty good performer stays really cool and overclocked pretty well to almost 20 100 megahertz 2088 seems to kind of be the middle ground where like 90% of the cards will hit and only a select few will actually make it into the 2100 and above range I think I'm going to focus more so on moving forward though of cards of the exact same tier like 10 atti versus 1080i focusing more on the feature sets the coolers and doing little tear downs like that than just sitting there and running eight to ten hours where the benchmarks and showing you guys that look it's within two FPS of this card I mean that's that's cool and all but yeah I meant you're more interested in what you get for that money let me know if there's any other graphics cards want me to take a look at moving forward I have the Poseidon card coming in here in the near future that's the one that has the built in water block into the heatsink so you can actually leave it air cooled if you want or hook up some tubes to it and water actually flows through it you don't have to switch the block on there so that'll be worth taking a look at here especially as a water cooler myself I don't think I'm going to be doing the the massive amounts of benchmarks when it comes to comparing 1080p is versus other 1080p is because I guess that they're all within like one or two FPS of each other the frame rates are so freakin high with this graphics cards even in in like 1440p you're not going to notice the difference between them and that's what really hangs a lot of people up when it comes to buying these cards or like I don't know what you want to get they all seem like they're the same the little things that come with the package that that really should be more important on where you're spending your money hey guys time to go thanks for watching let me know what other things you want me to incorporate in GPU reviews and I'll try and do it but that said I will see you in the next one