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whether you're looking for a pump reservoir custom GPU block or a complete loop and a box alpha cools wide range of products can make your next water cooling adventure and easy one click the link in the description for more details ok before you start throwing stuff at your screen hear me out because I know I said I wasn't going to do any more GT X 1080 reviews but Wenzhou tech reached out to me and asked if I wanted to do a fairly exclusive Arctic storm which is a foam custom full cover water block on their 1080 I was like you know what yeah yeah I'll do it don't hate me you guys know I love water cooling so of course I'm a sucker and I'm going to say yes to this which is why I've got a a temporary loop setup back here because it is a full cover custom water block on top of one of their amp graphics cards at least I think it's an amp graphics card they didn't tell me actually which card is based off the amp for the amp extreme even though I did compare the PCB to the amp extreme and saw that it was identical so I don't really know but regardless guys I'm not going to talk a lot about specs of the GTX 10 80 because we've done so many 1080 reviews on here there's plenty of resources we can find the actual specs but today I'm going to talk about two specific things maybe three I want to talk about the water block itself won't talk about the construction quality of it and want to talk about the cooling of it I want to also talk about temperatures and I want to talk about overclocking those are the three things I really care about overclocking temperatures and the waterblock design itself now because I know that you guys are just going to fast forward to the benchmark numbers anyway and someone's going to put a little button down there and they're like oh just click here to not listen to the idiot talk but just see the charts I'll go ahead and put them up for you now member now it's kind of interesting about this is this card features a seventeen hundred and seventy one megahertz boost clock sounds kind of nice especially when you compare it to the founders edition boost clock but this guy only went up to nineteen hundred and thirty six using GPU boost 3.0 reason why I say only is because other 1080s that came in here automatically out of the box for boosting up just as high on air the other thing I find kind of interesting though is I don't feel like ZOTAC is taking a full advantage of the amount of GPU boost Headroom that they have at these temperatures with only a seventeen hundred and seventy one megahertz boost clock because the amp card which is the two fan air-cooled card not the three fan extreme the two fan has an eighteen hundred and twenty two megahertz boost clock so I feel like this card could have performed better out of the box if they've been a little bit less conservative with the boost clock on it so I'm not too sure why they did that but regardless it is what it is that's the way that it shifts now overclocking on the other hand is something completely different and I'm pleased to say that this card has matched the fastest frequency 1080 I've had come through this office yet which happened to be the EVGA GTX 1080 classified at twenty one hundred and sixty-four megahertz this card is running twenty one hundred and sixty-four megahertz right now it is solid and stable all day long in fact I was able to get twenty one hundred and seventy seven megahertz out of it but it wasn't passing all of my tests it was only passing some and that to me is not stable so twenty one hundred and sixty-four megahertz is where it is but at the same frequency it's actually performing faster than the classified card was and that's because of the Headroom of the temperature and what's happening here is as the temperature staying so low down into the high 30s low 40s like I said forty C is as hot as mine got the fluctuation in frequency is not happening it is not going up and down several steps it is staying solid and locked at twenty one 64 at all times which is really one of the benefits to going with a water-cooled graphics card GPU boost is always dynamically controlling the frequency based on various factors power target power limit temperatures and of course the frequency so as things start to change a little bit or various scenes might load a card on air to go higher which might ramp up the fans a little more and take up some of that power limit then the card will start to dynamically slow itself down slightly we're talking a couple of steps here steps of 12 megahertz at a time maybe 25 megahertz at the most which I usually only accounts for about one or two fps ever at its max but still when you can get the card to be completely stable and locked in at a particular frequency you're going to get better more consistent results so that's why this card at the same frequency is performing better than the other card at the same frequency because this one never changes obviously 20 164 is an amazing frequency but it is still all luck of the draw when it comes to the Silicon Lottery now ZOTAC assures me they did not hand pick cherry-pick this card they even told me that they do not emphasize overclocking on any of their cards they're more about the out-of-the-box experience so as long as what they say is 100% truth and have no reason to believe it's not the overclocking results are completely luck of the draw on my end here and again I guess I've only had two cards come through here that have gotten this frequency and this happens to be one of them coil whine on this thing is an absolute minimum only if you're in a menu system that's getting like 2 or 3,000 FPS likes like witcher you're not going to hear any coil whine or buzz whatsoever it's got a lot of extra features on there that are really cool especially if you download the zotac software where you've got full spectrum RGB control of the block itself now speaking of the block it is a full cover water block that is touching all the things that matters trust me I checked it's touching the VRMs it is touching the MOSFETs and chokes it is touching the core obviously and it's touching the memory and all of those things are being actively cooled so obviously there's a lot of heat on that block that has to be carried away but the block has a very very high efficiency high flow design where all of the fluid is being transported and moved through a micro fin heat sink in there that is carrying away as much heat as possible and it's doing it very very efficiently because I'm not running like a DD C or d5 pump on this I'm running a $40.00 cheapo little pump that you could get from like performance pcs and it's doing a fantastic job at keeping everything nice and cool obviously I died the coolant purple I thought you know with the green on are going purple be kind of a cool Batman type of theme you know Joker whatever the only thing I have to say that I don't like about this is the fact that you cannot bring the ports in on the top of the card they have to come in either from the side which with the extra height of the card in many cases there's not going to be room to put fittings sticking straight out like technically they are on this bench pointing straight up they can only go from the bottom or straight out they can't go from the top and I think a lot of people would rather route their cooling to go from the bottom of the card out to the CPU or the other way around out from the CPU to the top of the card and out at the bottom so the only way you could achieve that is if you were to include some sort of 45-degree adapter on there which means you have to buy more stuff but if you're doing a custom loop these are things you'd have to consider anyway so if you're in the market for a high-end GTX 1080 that is has a lot of potential Headroom for overclocking is not going to fluctuate on you and has already water-cooled so you have to worry about doing it yourself and you can get past the either love it or hate it yellow and gunmetal back plate design which admittedly would have looked absolutely phenomenal in the yellow skunkworks build this is definitely worth taking a look at and doing some more research on alright guys thanks for watching if you've got a custom water-cooled GT X 1080 do me a favor in the comments of this video tell us what card you have what water block you have and what frequency and temperatures you are getting I think you'd be kind of neat to sort of compare results with that said guys it's time to go and as always I will see you in the next video it won't be about a 1080 I promise that's like two videos from now