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what's up guys Jays two cents here and just when you thought it was safe to not have to see another GT X 1080 review especially when everyone is just constantly waiting for the highly rumored yet none confirmed 1080 TI we are going to take a look at another GT X 1080 but this one's interesting because this guy here speaking directly to my international followers so what you think you know I'll be honest I'm a kind of impressed by its proportions I know right alright let me show you something here I kind of like the thin ones but this one is about form factor yeah but mine can fit in tight spaces with girth you could open tight spaces it's like a master key whether you like thick or thin the ITX lineup from fractal design is sure to have something that tickles your fancy remember it's not the size that matters it's all about how you use it not its deadly the girl no thinness garrett david scary is no contest though there's contents obscure today we were taking a look at galaxy's new GT X 1080 Hall of Fame card it's not the first Hall of Fame car to take a look at but I did not take a look at the 980ti stuff to my finger oh wow I did not take a look at the 980ti Hall of Fame but I did take a look at the 980 and one of the first things I noticed while taking a look at this card is aesthetically it is pretty much identical nice long box here because it is a nice long card you get a bunch of stuff in here you get go-go-go Hall of Fame game in progress donot sturb put that on your door installation guide and of course the card itself what is this guy Oh check this out that's neat that's something I have not seen actually included with a graphics card before this is an anti sag Pole no it's not for your grandma actually designed to support the weight of your cards you put that in your case and you can put this underneath the card and help support it and then you can I guess it helps I don't find out I'm not putting this in a regular case though but anyway it that way your card doesn't sag because it is pretty darn heavy other things that you get in here it is yes well we'll be right back here we go that make sense so it's almost identical to the other Hall of Fame cards we've take a look at in the past here but this one here it's got this little bracket that you actually attach to the back of the graphics card so you're not just like pushing up on the cooler shroud this actually attaches to the back of the card right here with the included screws like so just like that and then when this is attached to it this guy here just pushes up into that little rubber spot and then this is how you support the back of your card that's actually a pretty neat idea because something people have complained about quite a bit with big heavy graphics cards like this is the amount of sag and stress it puts on the motherboard socket so anyway here it is right here it is still got the bare kind of a brushed aluminium backplate on there it's got two eight pin PCI Express power plugs and of course the massive PCB on this thing which is white that's one of the things that people have always loved at the Hall of Fame cards is they are perfect for white builds they have a white face white fans people think they should have gone with a white backplate I tend to agree but an aluminum backplate in and of course the white PCB something else that's cool about this little adapter too though is it looks like you don't have to mount it just on the back you can mount it right here on the side as well if you want to do it that way there are also some mounting points there now looking at the cooling pads on this thing I can say that this does appear to be cooling the vrm as well as the RAM as well as of course the GPU itself that's something I know people are going to ask because of the whole recent fiasco thing with EVGA so yeah I can say that we do have thermal pads touching the VRMs and are going to their own heat sink right here this this is a plate I just showed you on the side is not only an adapter for it mounting that little bracket but it's also a heatsink itself as well now I'm not going to go into all the specs and stuff of a GTX ten eighty this has been out since May this is now going into December almost December we have heard these specs over and over and over so I'm sorry if you've never heard of that before but I'm not going to go into it I want to spend more time doing some real-life overclocking and benchmarking of this guy right here because I'm curious as to what the overclock sir like this has a pretty beefy cooling shroud underneath the heatsink not only does it have all of its heatsink fins or pipes here one two three four five heat pipes on here we also have this huge shroud that is touching things like the VRM and the RAM and the MOSFETs and all that stuff which is going to give you some good active cooling as the air blows down through the cooler to cool those components as well so now that's my Steam library has finished updating let's go ahead and install this guy today's video is not going to be a complete over claw or excuse me a complete review I'm not going through all my benchmarks I'm not going to be putting up all the FPS numbers and a card like this I'm curious as to how far it overclock so that's going to be the main focus of my video today this is my desktop running Windows 10 on my test bench I kind of have to if I want to take advantage of all of the dx12 stuff when I'm doing these tests but whatever anyway we have all stock settings going right here I do not have the eber mode fan button pushed I don't know exactly what it's called but when I push that button the fans basically go to 100% we're not doing that right now we're just going to be checking out here my own settings we're going to play with so we need a baseline we're gonna go ahead and run time spy here to give ourselves a baseline number so that we can actually monitor how far we actually came otherwise we don't know how much you've improvement there was that's kind of the point today's video how far it is this graphics card overclocked and is it good I don't know let's find out so while the test is wrapping up here it looks like our core is settled at about 1987 and just dropped down to 1974 temp so as you can see 62 C and yeah GPU load 100% and we have a lot of power limit available to us this is only at set 69 70 percent it's bouncing in the low 70s high sixties that tells us we have a lot of power limit available I don't know how much core limit we're going to have though I have not personally had a card come in here that can achieve a 2200 number 2162 are the highest numbers I have seen yet come through this office and only two graphics cards have done that so I'm curious to see what this one's going to do and then this is just the CPU test right here so this has nothing to do the GPU at all okay so we started out here with a graphics core of a 76 34 that's not too bad we'll have to see how far that comes up now series we're going to do we are going to go ahead and we're going to bump the power limit all the way up to 116 I'm gonna do the core voltage percentage all the way up to 100 what basically what that does is it moves where the voltage slider is going to go to 100% core clock we're going to add 100 memory clock we're going to add 500 and then for fans we're just going to go ahead and kind of bump the curve up a little bit because we are overclocking it in fact those fans are very quiet we barely even barely even heard it so these are the settings we're going to try now everything is applied let's go ahead and go and run this again see what happens so that time we went up to 20 88 and that's where it so I should bumped up to 2112 but then it settled back down at 20 88 our 21 14 excuse me that was its Mex that gave us an improvement up to 81 53 so that's actually a bit of an improvement right there but I do think we have a little bit more in this let's go ahead and go 150 let's apply that do this again now with a one hundred and fifty megahertz offset that should put us right around 20 160 before it steps down but we have to see if it even starts to pass that 2100 and 60 megahertz mark as you can see we're getting a lot of artifacts right here at 2177 a lot of artifacts but no crashing that's weird so let's go ahead and cancel that test okay so it's apply our overclock again here so I'm gonna do 130 I'm gonna go back to 500 on the memory and I'm gonna put this back to 85% we're going to apply all that let's try it again now same artifacts so I guess we will try 125 and then that'll be our final test because I don't think we're going to get much higher than the plus 100 we saw and we'll talk about that here at the end of the video why that is and we still a little bit of artifacting here happening at 21:52 so unfortunately this graphics card is not going to be one of my top overclocking cards that I have had come through here yeah and at 21:39 we're still getting all the artifacts so we're going to call it at plus 100 being as far as it would go it's not bad I mean that got us a 2114 that stepped down slightly to a 2088 one other thing to show you real quickly too is the button on the back here what it does to the fan speeds what you're hearing right now is 100% automatic it's how it is out of the box but if you push this button on the back it literally overrides everything it puts the fan at 100% but be warned it's noisy unfortunately the hall-of-fame car did not break any overclocking records here in fact it's pretty run-of-the-mill 1080s are just there they're so cookie cutter all of them go to about twenty fifty to twenty eighty eight some of them go farther up to about twenty one sixty two some of them don't even pass two thousand but they're all I'd say 80% of them are right around the middle of about twenty eighty eight this one being no exception regardless of how much you give it extra power how much cool a thing it's all comes down to Silicon Lottery for the core now let's talk about why these cards are so damn similar when it comes to where they perform the court the main core on this the Pascal core for the 1080 is rated at sixteen hundred and seven megahertz with a seventeen hundred and thirty three mega Hertz boost clock this card as you saw automatically on its own without touching anything and using GPU boost 3.0 overclocked itself to over 2000 megahertz and then once it started to warm up a little bit it slowed down to about nineteen eighty eight so if you compare where this card is sitting now compared to where the founders edition card is which is where Nvidia you know it specs the card is actually overclocking itself approximately two hundred and fifty megahertz that's that's actually really good we're only able to achieve about an extra 120 ish megahertz by going in and playing with settings of doing stability testing so unless you're the kind of person that just really loves to tinker and play around the settings just to get the that met that last little millimeter of performance then this is the kind of card that you would just put in leave it and know that you're getting really good performance I know it's rare to hear me say a card doesn't need to be overclocked but you kind of don't have to with a card like this it's over built it's over cooled it's got everything you need when I say over that's good we want more cooling than we need we want more power delivery cleanliness than we need because that's going to give us a really good gaming experience now the weird thing about this card is if you live in the United States it's it's kind of a unicorn it's very hard to get your hands on them they are not sold by retailers in the United States this is an internationally available card which means that for once I had a video here that really was aimed 100% at my international follower base which is kind of unique and kind of rare around here anyway guys that's it for today sound off in the comments if you have one these cards let me know how far'd overclocked what your temperatures are like and what kind of system you're running it in it helps everyone to kind of make an informed decision rather than just taking my word for it which I would never recommend don't take only my word listen to kind of form your own opinions by listening to everybody alright thanks for watching guys as always I will see you in the next video