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I'm back boobs are sweaty okay we're ready here what's up ladies and gentlemen or lady and gentlemen if I'm being real we've got another 1080p eye to take a look at here there is no lack of 1080p is anytime new graphics card comes comes out we've got a bajillion different flavors took a look at today it's the arse expert gaming Edition now even though I've got two graphics cards on the desk right here I don't have to 1080 TI's one's a 1080 and one's a 1080i and the reason why I'm doing that is they made some minor changes between the two that's going to take a quick tour around the car to make sure I got the 1080 TI there that's they look very similar obviously but they're not the same so one of the most identifiable traits of a norris graphics card is the inclusion of a copper block we'll call it block / heatsink on the backside of the GPU the idea here is it kind of made it like a super backplate where they actually using copper to allow some of the heat to just pay off the back side of the card I've always said back lights are good as long as you have thermal conductivity or a thermal pad or something back there they obviously took it a step farther you've also got this white we'll call it the martyr your goal now finger burrs reference their logo on the back that does light up and then on the face of the card the part you actually look at which is like that you've got the RS logo which is again RGB get a fan stop logo which lights up to tell you the fans are not turning because it's got 0 rpm idle mode and it looks like that's about it on the front of the card we'll call it the front the fan side found fan shroud side of the card you've got an X here that lights up because remember to texture it is also RGB you have three fans here the center fan actually overlaps the front to fan so I'm assuming that's for the biggest most amount of static pressure you can get through these fins because there are a lot of fins as you guys can see we've got one two three four five what appear to be five millimeter possibly six millimeter heat pipes and then of course all of your components that matter are indeed touching the the heatsink there are VRMs our memory as well as our GPU core and it looks like it's a copper base so it not just like an aluminum base or a steel base it's definitely a copper base that is touching on there okay so what's different than between the 1080 P I and the 1080 rather than obviously just the GPU core well these curds if you remember not just this one but all pesco cards invidious huge marketing push was to be already if you are ready now you've got V r-rated graphics cards we already motherboards I don't know what that bat crap is I've even seen VR ready memory I mean Kyle did a really good skit but put VR and anything and suddenly it's some more sales worthy but I digress I'm on a tangent here if we take a look at the 1080 you can see on the backside here we've got two HDMI ports on the back side of the card and that's for hooking up your HMDs like your vive and your oculus some people have both and instead of having to switch them out they want to give you lots of HDMI options so that you can have them all plugged in at the same time the problem is when they had it facing inside of the case that makes it really awkward to plug into I mean that's cool and all but yeah that it makes it kinda hard to plug in so what they do is they removed one from the interior facing side of the card technically the back of the card from here so you can see we've only got one on this and now we've moved it to the output side of the card so you actually got six outputs here on the 1080i you've got a DVI to HDMI 2.0 and then three DisplayPort so you can see compared to the 1080 obviously that it's not on there now you do have to make a choice though you can't have you can't use the DVI and the HDMI too at the same time so there is a trade-off like that and obviously that has to do with you know display controller and whatnot so I don't know if that's the limitation of the core or what but just worth noting you can't have them hooked up at the same time so with that said before I start talking about build quality and stuff like that let's put it through the paces its compared to the other 1080p eyes I've already had come through here on things like firestrike times by temperatures and core speeds and all that gaming wise guys they they pretty much are going to scale the same so let's just see how this does I'm really curious let me tell you why this is actually I forgot to mention it this is a three slot card I talked about two slot in two and a half slots this is a three slot card I mean that is insane look at the girth on this coconut monkey would be proud are you proud oh yeah yeah yeah it's all about links so it's links link so as you guys saw it pretty much compares with every other 1080p eye out there there's such a minut difference between them but what makes them different obviously is they're cooler implementation and they're software this right here is the former OC guru it's now the Auris graphics engine and of course we do have a monitoring piece of software here but let me show you what really sucks about this and I want you getting close on this so I want you to see this this right here is showing obviously we had a max of 2000 and a min of 1807 but as soon as this part of the vlog moves off the chart the min max changes it only shows you what's min max for the section then it's actually visible on the chart whereas something like MSI Afterburner shows you min Matt max for any period that the the log has actually been open so that's obviously better but watch this right here watch when we start to move off the chart here as soon as this section right here which is 2,000 drops off our max will change to 1807 so if you were doing a long testing that would obviously would be very useful and boom you see that so that piece of software is obviously useless you also can't adjust the range it just goes to 2,000 so if it over clock this card and it goes to 2025 or 2050 then the little line is just going to go off the chart I mean so yeah also to these modes right here and this applies to all companies that are doing this this is stupid these modes I don't know why anyone would want to slow down their card and no matter what you're going to want all the performance right so OC mode should be the default out of the box as far as I'm concerned and if you want to go farther than manually overclock it with something like MSI Afterburner or EVGA precision X they are far superior pieces of software as far as I'm concerned the only reason you should use this would be to control the lighting on the card if its proprietary sometimes the built-in like MSI lighting or even the EVGA precision X lighting features can kind of communicate with the card but that's hit or miss so that would be the only reason I would ever recommend even installing this software now in terms of temperatures we saw all the way up to about 67 68 C depending on the load 4k obviously is a higher load but you can control the fan curve an MSI Afterburner again or precision EXO I would definitely do that and only one up to 47% fan speed during it the highest low which got to almost 70 see the problem is it made no audible noise in terms of fan delays on an open-air test bench you could get away with much higher fan curve have lower temperatures better GPU boost experience and not have a really invasive acoustical experience so I think that everyone should be bumping up their fan curves now you guys are always asking me about things like coil one and I can tell you that for the win three cards did not have coil whine my Strix card did not have coil whine and neither did my msi card the founders edition card I don't recall had any coil line either what I'm going to show you right now is what this card sounds like this is what the card sounds like right now in 2d mode just on the desktop and that's what the card sounds like when it's in 3d mode so you can hear there's a little bit of coil line you probably wouldn't hear in a case but you guys would ask me to do coil whine test so there you go if we go ahead and turn it off that's what it sounds like in 2d mode so it's really not that bad that leaves me with one topic left to talk about and that is build quality you guys remember when I got the gigabyte card basically the Xtreme before they went to orous and I did a whole video about we're fixing the fans on it because the fans couldn't turn well what had happened is when it was put in the box and they put all the packing on it they shoved the cooler down so hard they squished it and when they squished it the fans couldn't turn that's because they're using although a metal shroud it's a very very thin aluminum piece of metal so you can see here there's all kinds of flex right like that you see how much that can move I'm not using a lot of force but I know I'm kind of a strong guy but I'm not using a lot of force with that and when you when you hold it it's waiting and waiting things and heavy things mean quality right but that the problem is you could feel the weight but you can also feel the Flex so you're kind of going doesn't feel all that strong MLE I know that's gonna make some people cringe but it has to be said it has to be shown this metal needs to be changed out with something else I would take a plastic shroud over something that is this flimsy even if it's metal because watch this I just went and broke a piece off the cooler for you guys just to show you how flimsy the metal really is the card is great in just about every aspect except for this anyway that's been my two cents guys take it for what it is thanks for watching subscribe if you're new around here and I'll see you in the next one yeah I broke that for science I broke it for science boom you