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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and you have been bugging me to do the for the win 3 review from EVGA this is a highly anticipated card and I'm not mistaken I believe this is the first time EVGA has incorporated three fans into the cooler so when I asked you guys in the last video which graphics card you really wanted me to do many of you were surprised I hadn't gotten my hands on one of these yet you're right I didn't get my hands on one I got my hands onto you cooler masters master key Pro series of keyboards offer 16.7 million color RGB genuine cherry switches a variety of sizes as well as surface mounted controls allowing full customization without the need for stand-alone software learn more by following a link down below now if you want your very own EVGA GTX 1080 Ti for the win 3 the long name they stick around to the end of the video because we are giving away one of these internationally well not one of these these are actually mine these are these are going into my personal rig ok you can't have it but you can have one exactly like it anywhere in the world where giveaways are legal so with that said stick around to the end of the video to find out how but moving forward here it is right here one of the most anticipated cards of the year it's one of EDG A's I believe the TV Jay's very first design with a three fan cooler which is kind of neat to see they've always stuck to the two fan design and what makes this one a little bit unique is so far it's the only GT X 1080 that I've seen that sticks with a 2 slot width a lot of the cards that we've looked at so far and cards that actually have sitting upstairs waiting to be reviewed and ones that are on their way are all two-and-a-half slot it's a lot of heat to maintain so they've decided to just go ahead and go with bigger coolers and because of Nvidia getting away or doing away with 3-way 4-way SLI is official support a lot of the motherboards have spaced out their 16x PCI Express slot which is good because now the cards are separated enough to where the extra thicknesses are going to be a problem it's only be a problem if you're running it on an older motherboard that wants you to put the two the two cards in the slots are right next to each other if you're running a two and a half slot card it's not going to work now I still wouldn't recommend running a card like this sandwiched up against itself like this any motherboard because as you can see you are going to choke off one of the those cards very badly when it comes to airflow it is going to throttle so I still wouldn't recommend doing that but that's just worth mentioning at least that's the reason why to slot in two-and-a-half slot is even matters at all speaking of dimensions it actually measures 11.8 inches long and five point six inches high now because I said inches in my last video you guys wanted to castrate me for using imperial so I'll go ahead and make the rest of the world happy and let you know it is 299 million elite errs the familiar with our liquids no all right by one hundred and forty two point six millimeters tall in the last video I also didn't show any charts which made some people mad and most people happy so I'm going to make you in the middle we're going to put up some fire strike scores compared to the 1080p eyes we've already taken a look at on this channel so you can see how it stacks up we're going to go ahead and do that right now now among the 410 ATT eyes we've taken a look at and mind you with stuff three or four more coming through here this is so far top dog in terms of scores but as you can see the scores are all very close close enough to where the overall gaming experience in a blind taste test you would not be able to differentiate one card from the other but hey at least it gives you some sort of an idea of where it stacks up so we're going to focus on today is obviously the cooler and what makes this card still kind of stand out in the market it still has their eye cx-9 sensor technology so it's got sensors on the GPU it's got sensors on the memory it's also got sensors on the back side of the GPU as well as the power delivery so you can keep an eye on all of the temperatures going on in here obviously that's because of the cooling issue that they had with the for the wind to card which unfortunately led to some hotter than desirable experiences with the graphics card so that's been remedied here not only now had they remedied it with a cooler design but you can monitor it as well and they do have patents on that I believe so I don't know if anyone else can incorporate that but it doesn't really matter because you're getting it with this one you got three fans here all three of these fans are independently controlled by the different temperatures on the PCB so you have GPU fan curve controlling one fan memory fan curve controlling one fan and then the power delivery controlling the third fan now if you don't want them independent you can link them so that you could have one fan curve that controls all three for the testing that you guys saw though in temperatures they were independently as they come out of the box no adjustment of fan curve or anything literally the settings were out of the box but anyway moving on we've got two eight pin power plugs on that that's because we have a two hundred and eighty watt power draw from this card up 30 watts from the 250 watt that ships with the founders Edition card and you have a dual BIOS I love that EVGA includes dual BIOS on theirs on their cards I mentioned before that a lot of companies have done away with that and they're now going with these profiles basically they both boost the same the difference is one has a higher power target so you have more power draw available to it but what I thought was kind of confusing though is it's called master and slave and I don't like that not because it's called master and slave that promise' the old IDE cable days what what I don't like is it was confusing and I thought that master was going to be the faster power target or the higher power target bios but it's not the slave is so my recommendation to them would be to rename that maybe standard and OC that way you know which one is better suited for OC anyway moving on since we're here here's the backplate vents where it matters behind the GPU event or it matters behind part of the power delivery and then where the MOSFETs are you have a solid piece of metal where it's making contact through heat pads on the backside of the power delivery as well as the front side lots of heat pads even the copper pipe we'll talk about that a second so you have lots and lots of cooling for the power delivery EVGA was like ah not today when it comes to the overheating once again to the prm's I think they took a problem and I think they might have overcompensated a little bit that's okay we like overcompensating some things around here and the founders edition card took away the DB I in lieu of better airflow for the blower style cooler EVGA puts it back which is nice to see and you still have the HDMI and two or three DisplayPort which is nice to see one thing I'm not a fan of though is I'm not fan of the size of the fonts that faces you it's kind of nice that you've got an LED that lights up this right here but I think they made that a little bit too big in my opinion it's like really in your face especially we have two of them in the system and they light up it's really kind of in-your-face they are RGB of course all the LEDs on the card or RGB but they are white out of the box now on the edge right here you have the GPU memory and power delivery LEDs again you can change the color based on temperature now or you can turn them off entirely if you want these are just to give you kind of a quick glance idea what the temperatures are like of your particular components if you're in a game and you don't have an overlay up those are there are end up talking about it let's go and take the cooler off and show you what's different because they change some stuff inside the cooler as well this is kind of a bitch to get off because it's cut one two three four five power cables that have like no slack on them you can see right here where they flattened up a pins where it makes contact with the thermal pad which gives it better adhesion and surface area to touch on the pins when this is responsible for cooling participating the heat coming from the power delivery same thing right here where touches the heat pipe and that's what I want to talk about next check this out so this is where I said not only do they like solve the problem they'll play over-engineered it which I don't know if it's really such a thing but anyway I digress these are the pin fins and we saw these on the icy X 1080 cooler but one of the things that the CEO of the company had told me was he didn't think they were tall enough he want them to be taller so that's exactly what they did here I mean look at the additional height of those pin fins that's pretty that's pretty ridiculous there but the idea is to get the heat again coming off of the power delivery up into the air flow right here you can see how that middle fan pushes down right there so there's where the middle fan pushes down as well so the heat is going to be dissipated out the sides there's more surface area right here on the pin fins that are pulling that heat up so they're more like a cooling tower if you know anything about how a heat sink works it's just about surface area so it's go ahead and pull this back and see what we got for the power delivery cooling look at that yeah so when they say we're not going to make that mistake again this is what they've done but you can see we have a copper base right here that's touching the VRMs not just an aluminum piece or aluminium excuse me or wherever you're from but you have a copper base right here with the heat pipe coming back over here as well so you've got a lot of cooling for the for the vrm that's a big deal all right as long as one thing left to do I don't know maybe force Nick to put that one back together and we take this one and we go and play around it and see exactly how well it over flux here it is right now on the slaves bios which allows a little bit more power tardy but we haven't just anything yet I haven't touched any of the sliders I got the new precision x OC running it's running at nineteen hundred and sixty two megahertz and 59 see guys this is 58 it's at 58 59 it's been running now for probably about 45 minutes in total because we've been doing some testing on this to see if this was like was something weird happening here it's the it's the factory fan curve now mind you on the slave BIOS the factory fan crypt a little bit more aggressive but it's still pretty damn quiet and inside a case you wouldn't hear that at all so keep in mind to open air test bench testing means the only thing limiting the cards temperature is going to be the cards cooler itself so make sure if you're putting this obviously in a case you have good case airflow and you should similar results but 58 c57 see it's like it has not even hit 60 yet with this particular bios so on the master bios which is the one that has a little bit less power target and a little bit less fan curve hit 6dc we never even saw 61 so that tells me we've got a lot of headroom for overclocking that is freaking amazing this is what precision x OC looks like for the IC x cards especially the for the win three cards you've got three fan curved here if this was a two fan card you'd see two fan curves but you can link them through these little link buttons right here just like you would sli cards you can see the separate sensor temperatures by hitting the sensor button here they are right there so we can see the power temperature on the back of the card the GPU temperature the memory temperature surrounding the cards you can really keep an eye on what things look like the temperatures and speeds you just saw we're all based on factory fan curve and factory settings now the GPU clock is not idling down so we do have preferred performance mode going in the 3d settings inside the driver as well as because we're on the slaves bios - it's going to keep the fans running at all times so it's one of the difference - between the master and slave so as we're going to do we're going to increase that power target which is allowing up to 117 percent when I put the priority at temperature so that's 90 it's never going to hit anywhere near that let's just try a basic 100 megahertz offset on the core and let's see what happens here I know the text is really small but it ramped up to 2,000 76 temperatures currently at 46 C it takes time for that to ramp up and we didn't get any immediate crashing so what I want to do now is one I want to add just a little bit more frequency it just drops to 20 63 so it starts kind of high then it steps down as a temp starts to come up a little bit so we're going to do here to is I'm just going to go ahead and add voltage let the voltage go as high as it can which is 100% that basically means you're not increasing the voltage which you're increasing is how early in the frequency range the voltage will go to its max setting it's part of that GPU boost 3.0 curve thing I'm not a fan of it but that's just the way it is we have to live with that so I'm going to also bump this up to 125 keep in mind I have not had any 1080s come through here yet and be able to achieve a above a 20 88 I'm also going to go into the fan curve I'm going to set it to aggressive see and we got an instant crash with an additional 25 so I think we're going to see about the same Headroom unfortunately in the for the wind three-card as we saw in just about everything it's kind of funny how the cores this seems to be a lot less lottery involved in fact the lottery now doesn't seem to be whether or not you win it seems to be whether or not you lose because most of the cores now reach about the same Headroom mark and then every now and then the loser is much lower there's very few winners anymore well unfortunately the second car didn't beat the first one in fact it's a little slower at 2025 so this one's about 30 megahertz faster a difference you wouldn't even notice though if you put these side by side that's still over 400 megahertz faster though than the actual base clock of that GPU from Nvidia so you're still getting a massive amount of headroom because of GP boost 3.0 anyway if you want to win your very own for the win three icx graphics card 1080p eye with this awesome looking shroud people either love it or hate it either way I really like the looks of this when I first saw it I might have nerdgasm Dal ittle bit follow the link in the description of this video it's a gleam giveaway I've teamed up with EVGA it's really simple just follow some social medias and subscribe to the channel and you would be entered into this worldwide giveaway except for we're prohibited all the rules and regulations are in the giveaway so make sure you guys read it we're going to run the getaway for two weeks from the day this video airs which is Friday May 5th and then we will notify the winner and we'll go from there anyway guys good luck I hope you guys hope you guys win this card it's pretty amazing I've got to look at me an SLI we'll talk about that in the future but again click that link I know you guys are like you know what there's gonna be a million entries I'm never going to have a chance but you all the way you guarantee you don't win is by not entering so just enter what do you guys have to lose nothing gosh anyway time to go guys tell me what you think about the for the win three cards you wanted to see it I had it all along I was teasing it and hanging on to it and waiting for you guys to get all excited about it and here it is so what that said time to go thanks for watching and I'll see you in the 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