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looking for ultra small form-factor but don't want to sacrifice performance well I have good news because the new desk mini from asrock features Intel's 6th generation CPUs USB 3.0 type C multiple m2 slots and Wi-Fi all while maintaining an extremely small footprint learn more about as rocks new desk mini by following the link down below so how many of you have found yourself in this position before you get your nice new AMD graphics card does really good a 1080p gaming even does some 1440p stuff it's got reference cooler on it and it gets pretty damn toasty well what do you do oh you know what you do you just you just get yourself a custom board partner card you know one that's got a big cooler and stuff on it it's got a big cooler and stuff on it and then you find out it actually runs just as hot as this guy right here finding out that they've kind of let you down I'll tell you what you do you water cool that son of a bitch that's what you do damnit editing J knock it off it's not that dramatic well it is kind of cool though I have to admit someday I'll actually get a little bit unlace and actually hook up a capture card so I don't have to keep pointing my camera at the screen like a noob we want to see what this does out of the box don't touch anything we're going to use heaven here this is not a benchmark run guys I'm not benchmarking all my games and stuff I'm curious as to what the temperatures and the power is going to be I made this as big as I could I know pink is kind of hard to see but white was even harder hopefully you guys make this out anyway voltage is sitting at 1.05 and it went to 12 66 immediately which we would expect because that's the boost clock of the 480 100% GPU load 34 C is where we're running right now on the temperature but look at this we're only pulling 105 point 8 watts do you remember when I did the gigabyte review in the last video where that was pulling somewhere in the neighborhood of like 125 to 130 on air at stock settings and this was still throttling down a little bit like that I mean that's crazy this was never at 1266 on the gigabyte even at stock settings look at the wattage here 103 104 that's pretty do you mean how much energy is the fans actually using remember this is a total TDP that's that's the whole package the card the fans everything so you take the fans out of the equation look at how much power reduction there was already Wow okay all right obviously we want to see how far the single overclock so let's go ahead and see how far we can go on stock voltage let's try 1366 with stock memory let's see if we can get a hundred megahertz overclock on stock voltage okay so it didn't crash immediately that's a good thing stock voltage actually bumped up a little bit to 1.08 709 3 so it's a little bit higher than the O 5 but it is dynamic it is going to change we're at 1366 that is a 100 megahertz overclock but look at this look at once again 100 18.9 119 120 37 c is we running at temperature-wise look at the I think I'm more impressed with this number right here than I am with the core clock or the temperatures but without touching a damn thing on the voltage we're up to 1366 all right let's let again let's see how far we can go without this thing immediately crashing on stock voltage 1375 again voltage is at 1.09 3 again the temperature is at 37 c and the core TDP is 116 hundred and seventeen so we'll call it 121 watts 121 gigawatts 141 to go once ok 1375 out of the box didn't do nothing but put on a water block man that's kind of a big something it's a hundred and ten dollar water block but what I digress alright I digressed are you happy are you happy I did it I tried thirteen eighty and see if we can what and I don't believe this now I know some people were saying in my video with the gigabyte card debt some folks under volting or leaving their volts at stock was actually giving them better results but with that gigabyte card that wasn't the case I had to up the voltage to get any sort of overclock going because it didn't want to overclock again this is a card sent by AMD but it has better components in the gigabyte card did the gigabyte card kind of cheaped out on the MOSFETs and stuff 25% weaker MOSFETs all around but that's not going to change its overclocking ability that's only going to change how much abuse those MOSFETs could take before they finally blow up stri 1390 see if that works it didn't immediately crash that's what I'm looking for here's where as where is it going to just like not even load holy hell do 1390 stock bolts again 1.09 3 it's even come down to 1.08 7 vrm is being actively cooled so the prm's I don't have a way to monitor that I don't have a vr and monitor tool I mean I'm sure people are curious but the VRMs are also being actively water-cooled although a water bubble keeps appearing in that part of the block but that's because the way I have the block oriented in the way I should have switched the inlet and outlet on block that's my bed that's naughty case ball oh my 14 up there goes it finally crashed on stock bolts okay let's go and do this I'm just going to max out the core voltage I'm going with the plus 100 millivolt and imma leave it at 1,400 that is typically where on an air cooler that for ATS were just like screaming for mercy because they were so damn hot so I'm gonna apply that so now the voltage as you can see one point 187 so it did go up point 100 like we wanted but look at the TDP look how much it jumped to 144 but when I wet plus 100 millivolts on the gigabyte card that went up to almost 190 here's what I do now I'm just gonna push it as far as I can when I see what the final numbers are and we'll see what we get - with stock bolts are not suckles with the + 100 volts it's kind of fun okay here's what we got fourteen hundred and seventy on the core fourteen seventy five crashes nearly immediately so I don't know how stable this will be in the long run holy I was thinking for a second there I was going to hit 1500 on this would be absolutely amazing but still fourteen seventy that is no joke in legis 40 C 40 39 to 40 C holy man 152 153 155 up and there's a crash okay so we'll pull that back to say 14 60 curious as to if it's gonna at 1460 Pass fire strike normal so I'm going to run it real quick we'll see if it passes if it does we'll compare what the score was when I did my previous test what the fans ramped up at max at twelve hundred and sixty-six we'll see how much of a benefit there really was adding a water block and overclocking 200 megahertz well just just under 200 makers right 1466 would have been 200 megahertz alright so on the second test here in fire strikes so far we have not crash but what I want to point out though is the clock as you can see right here is adjusting a little bit but it's not thermal adjusting so we're at 42 C under 100 percent load but what I believe is happening here is we are hitting the TDP limits or the power limits because even though I have the + 50 percent on there it can still only pull so much power through the power to the PCIe connector 75 watts right with the PCIe 6 pin and then 75 watts pull through the motherboard so that 6 pin can still only apply so much additional power regardless of would you put the power limit too that's why I believe the clock is adjusting itself slightly in some of these tests I believe its power limit obviously it's not thermal throttling you cannot call that thermal throttling because it's hit 42 C so yeah we go all the way up to 165 Watts right here so I'm pretty sure that that's why this clock slows down a little bit because I think 165 is going to be the max power that this card is allowed to pull so as you can see it's gonna obviously depend on games how much power it's pulling how much GPU load is it going on it to determine whether or not that clock is going to change so water doesn't change that we got a graphic score here 14,000 746 and I do know for a fact that that is quite a bit higher than the twelve hundred and sixty-six run as you would expect but Wow I mean fourteen hundred and fourteen thousand seven hundred forty signals hired at GTX 1060 as well even though I was able to achieve an additional 100 megahertz overclock over what I could do on air this exact card when I got it when it first came out I took it i over clocked it I want to see what how far I could go and I was able to achieve about a thirteen hundred and 60 megahertz overclock just shy of a hundred megahertz and that was disappointing to me although it was still a very good overclocker compared to like the fury cards I could only get like fifty or seventy-five megahertz I was hoping for more but what's I what's really strange about this is once I took those fans off put it on water I achieved a fourteen hundred and sixty six megahertz overclock yeah guys like off-camera I did the 1466 it was bugging me that it wasn't a perfect 200 megahertz so I did validate that it tests are that it passed so 200 megahertz overclock on this guy here's the question that begs to be asked though and I don't think it's a simple answer and that being is it worth taking a 280 dollar graphics card like the 8 gigabyte 480 and put another hundred and ten dollars worth of water block on it I'm the kind of guy that would say no it's not worth it to take a $280 graphics card and throw another 110 dollars with cooling on it because now you're in gtx 1070 territory where you can actually find some 1070 graphics cards in that price point believe it or not I know they're hard to find but they do exist if you keep your eyes open MSI makes one I personally would not take a 480 and water cool it when I know that I could for a few extra bucks above what this cost mow another lawn or wash another car or just don't eat out twice could buy a gtx 1070 giving me much better thermals not been on water but then this thing was on air and way more performance i can't necessarily recommend that unless you have a serious size constraint because this card on the water block is extremely short it's very very short you could fit this into a small form-factor water-cooled build if you want it but again it's just i have a hard time recommending a card that I know is slower when the overall price of it is is the round the same as a card that is much much faster like the 1070 so that's why I usually would never recommend water cooling a mid-range card because ok you don't want to get a 1070 fine you could get a 390 or 390 X for the same price as what this cost is a total package with a water block on it so that's where you have to decide if it's worth it to you personally I wouldn't do it that's just me though so it is what it is but performance wise you can't deny that this our X 480 certainly does wake the hell up on water and I don't know if anyone else has already done a water block for 80 but I don't care you guys wanted me to do it there were like 800 likes on Twitter saying do this so I did it you guys tell me what you think time to go as always I will see you in the next video and of course thanks for watching