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so recently we did a video about SLI with our MSI gaming extra cards 220 atti sli cards with custom PCBs and an air conditioning hooked up to it and we took three world records while we wait for the real overclockers to get there Ln two setups and their cards up and running but we're gonna go ahead and show what us regular guys are able to get our hands on and how far our custom PCBs can actually go we did that with MSI now we're gonna take a look at the asus strix cards a very popular brand that very that most people are familiar with it's ready to see what the thermals are like with the overclocking is like the acoustics and of course see what kind of single card scores we get so with that let's unbox it not this one though this one didn't come in a box that one did it's we're an open now today's video is sponsored by North Vee PN a company I'm very passionate about and have been using for several years now VPN stands for virtual private network it keeps your data online encrypted 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presence when you're in Micro Center looking around you're like God that one's big that one got my attention that's what she said so here's what you get right here nice soft foam and installation saw your driver's and stuff right here right a CD why guys come on thumb drives are cheap enough just don't even include anything velcro strap card nothing under the card okay so no support bracket or anything like that which the previous Strix models came with so I guess we won't be testing sag though because we're using my open air test bench on this alright so here it is the Strix 2080 ti with its nice brushed back plates there we go that has been handled now it is a dual BIOS card but the only thing that really changes with the BIOS which is the fan curve it doesn't change things like the power limit it doesn't increase the power limit it doesn't increase the voltage it's just a fan curve thing which I guess makes it kind of nice if for some reason you had to reflash the BIOS or something corrupt so you have another BIOS ready to go but I've never really had that happen before I've only had BIOS corrupt because I corrupted them by trying to flash them with something custom but that's besides the point we had this new button right here this is a power led on/off button so you can long press that to turn the lights on or off quickly without having to load up I guess your your Asus tweak software which is kind of interesting because I mean most people have a case it's not like you can just reach in and turn it on and off you take your side panel off so we've got three fans just like the previous Strix card these are high static pressure fans though you can see how it's not just blades it actually has a ring around the outside of the blades that connect all of the blades so the air can't splash off the side it gets forced through the blade down through the fan into the heatsink now you can see that the heatsink runs the full length of the card the only gap we have right here is in the middle fan we can see where the heat pipes actually are other than that that there is a very major use of thinner II that's we're gonna dip we're gonna have it thinner it's called thinner II but I can see we got one two three four five vapor chamber heat pipes in this they also stuck with the stock dual eight pin PCI Express power connector where you can work are we looked at the MSI trio had two eight pins and a six pin so I'm curious to see what this does in terms of power draw on what the power limit is on this because it does look like we're sticking with the stock at least current on this in typical Strix fashion we also have an RGB header on the back okay this is really interesting actually so this is a twenty eighty and I think this might be an engineering sample like I said didn't come with a box or anything the twenty eighty as you can see has the RGB header and two fan headers that way you could actually connect things like your intake fans on your case or something to the card that way when the card would ramp up and pull more you know fan rpm it would also increase your case fans who supply as much air to the card as it needs interestingly enough though the twenty atti does not have that you can actually see where they would be but they're blank so that's really curious I wonder why they did that and I will say that the twenty eighty is also running a dual eight pin and not the eight pin and six pin so yeah okay so as you can see with the heatsink though it's very thick this is a two and a half maybe a two point seven five slot card this is the power delivery or the vrm so you can see there are heat pads on that connecting it directly to the fin stack I don't think there's a heat pipe going through there not that I can see and of course you can see that all of your RAM chips are touching the cooler as well and obviously the die itself so it's going to get this on the test bench and see exactly what kind of results we get with this I'm curious to see if we can't go higher than around the 2100 mark which seems to be kind of a hard wall for many cards at least maintaining that core speed because as we showed in our original founders edition review power limit has been the limit on how far these cards can go so the Strix card now has been running for 15 minutes or so yes it is in an open-air test bench once again I say this in every video we test open air that way we know what the coolers limits are not what the case is interfering with so your results will vary now we are running the P mode or the performance mode on the bios which which is just a little bit more aggressive fan curve because it's an overclocking card we also are running on OC mode in ASA software which is the OC tweak too so yeah I also want to show if this LED button does right here so you see how the LEDs are just sort of glowing red because that's their color I guess if you hold it you can see that the lights turn off and then if you push it again the lights turn back on I mean it's a neat thing but are you gonna take your site side panel off every time you want to push that no probably not alright so let's see where our temperatures are stuff have balanced out now we're using 1440p max settings on heaven because although this is an older benchmark heaven still puts a lot of heat into the system we use it to test our temperatures and I've also found that heaven is some of the most at least personally for me heaven has been some of the most picky when it comes to overclocks looks like we've been sitting and bouncing around the 1860 to 1845 range right now it's at 1890 so that's kind of a high and low we did wrap all the way up to nineteen hundred and eighty when it first started but of course that's when the temperatures were nice and cool now because we're an OC mode the Strix has automatically a plus 10 on the power limit so it's actually at plus 110 now if we take a look to at our core GPU boost it only adds plus 15 and then the memory and stuff all stays the same so we're going to do right now is we are gonna go ahead and max out this slider to 125 we're gonna hit apply on that and we're gonna see what happens to our core clock you can see immediately jumped up into the 19:20 19:30 it's at 1905 right now back up to 1920 and i'm gonna give it a little bit more fan speed too I think so the settings that kind of landed on is plus 155 on the core plus 0 on the voltage we know this is the slider is questionable at what it really does I mean they say voltage overhead but it didn't change at all on my testing when I tested it plus 900 it says plus 1800s really plus 900 on the memory merits 900 times 2 because double data rate Asus just shows it in the actual effective frequency fans are at a hundred I didn't notice any power draw changes by dropping these so these fans are fairly efficient they're probably not pulling enough wattage to make any difference to the total TDP in this because this is like 330 watts I think when it's fully overclocked to the plus 125 or plus 25 for a 125 power limit and are everything else is just kind of left external fans beat so this is where you would actually control the external fans if it had any it seems to think that there's fan headers on the card which don't actually exist so interesting you can see now we're sitting around 2040 2010 it's bouncing around it did spike 220 115 for a minute that's where it would go to if we weren't hitting power limit but unfortunately as you can see down here as is the our TX 2080 standard we are just hitting the power wall before we ever hit our core limit so that's a little bit unfortunate and then our GPU temperature right now is sitting in the mid 50s 55 56 because the fans are at a hundred percent so we're gonna do right now is I'm gonna go ahead and compare this in 3d mark x by extreme so the 75 54 that was with my msi card and that beat my previous 7507 so that was what I was kind of comparing to with the Asus card but unfortunately after several tests we just weren't able to get the core speeds as high so the first test was a 73-68 adjusted settings a little bit got it up to a 74 29 then the last test I ran we got is 74 47 and then past that we just kept crashing and crashing now this comes down obviously all the way to Silicon Lottery and this is performing much better than even the founders Edition card that we were given because that card was hitting power limits even sooner so let's go and have some final thoughts about the Strix card all right so the Asus Strix is pretty much giving you what you would expect a card that is giving you better cooling better well not so much better acoustics to be honest the fans on this I found once around that 80% or above they sound very choppy it's the best way to describe it so the card is sitting here right now at its default fan curve and the noises you're actually hearing are like the vrm fans on the motherboard and the radiator fans you can't actually hear the GPU but as soon as we turn the fans to a hundred percent you'll see what I'm talking about when I say they have a little bit of a choppiness to them instead of being a real consistent woosh it's kind of Oh at least that's what I hear whether the mic here is it I don't know so it goes one of those things where when it comes this is gonna be just like Pascal the card that you should buy quite honestly is going to depend on the aesthetics these are all gonna probably perform very very close to each other because they're all gonna hit the same power limit and when someone does come out with one that just pushes that power limit to the extreme you're just gonna hit core limit right above where the power limit was that's been our experience so far anyway any crash that we've experienced on any of our r-tx cards has been specifically when it kind of kicks up to that high number for a split second before power limit was a problem that's where the crash happened every single time but what I love about the Strix cards is area they are very minimalistic black IO shield right here black cooler black fans black everything black PCB allowing you to with the RGB included on the you know the lighting software and being addressable RGB in here you can set it to whatever color you want or just leave the modes that are on there past that guys tell me what you guys thinks I mean Asus is a brand that has been around for a long time they've definitely set the bar high with their custom designs and this one is no exception although it didn't take the leaderboard for our studio here that's probably coming down just to Silicon lottery lottery but that just comes down to the silicon lottery so guys sound off in the comments below tell me what card you're interested in us taking a look at around here we've got a few more they're still making their way in custom PCBs are still being designed by many of the AI bees and obviously we'll be taking a look at them as we always do every time there's a new graphics card so I'm gonna go guys thanks for watching this review of the very high level click review of the GeForce r-tx 2080 ti Strix from Asus and as always we will see you guys in the next one allergies way to burn up tape you have much money it cost per minute to run production around here is just something about the way new electronics smell I don't care