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hey what's up guys Jays two cents here and trust me when I say that there are very few times in life or sighs truly matters trust me I would know but don't tell that to zou Tek because with their new GT X 1080 amp Xtreme they obviously let the extreme stand for its size because behind this is a standard founders edition card which is I've never actually looked so little and puny until now remember this this is this is crazy the new z170 classified motherboard from EVGA features eight phase PWM four-way SLI support along with top notch components to offer gamers and enthusiasts more of what they want badass motherboard with no compromises click the link below to learn more all right now I don't want to spend a lot of time going over the specs that we already know this is like the 6th 1080 review we've done it's the same 16 nanometer GPU 106 FinFET Pascal core 256-bit memory bus a gigabytes of g5x the memory coming out of the box on here is actually overclocked 2500 and 60 CUDA cores and it's got a boost clock of 1911 megahertz out of the box the base clock on this card is faster than the boost clock on the founders Edition obviously this one is much much bigger it's got 2 8 pin power connectors on here 270 watt TDP on this card so obviously that's up almost 100 watts from the standard founders Edition allowing it to pull a lot of power to try and get the best overclocking out of box but we'll talk about that in a minute trust me overclocking was something I really wanted to spend with our time with on this card but it's got its Icestorm triple fan design here it's got massive heat pipes on here running the length of the card the card measures about a foot long it's a really really long card and it's a triple slot card so you want to keep that in mind that small form-factor builds this is not exactly a small form-factor card now just like the other app cards in the past it's got this very really kind of a in-your-face gunmetal in yellow design which actually fit perfectly in the sim rig because I've got a black and yellow theme going on in there but it's got this this light on the back here that says push the limit and unfortunately I agree with some folks that this kind of looks gaudy I think this takes away from the whole appeal of the car it's not a sticker that you can just peel off you got to keep that in mind this card right here is humongous now kind of keeping a tradition with the other ten eighties we've seen this does not have a multiple bio selection on it which is kind of interesting because with the 980 T is we saw lots of graphics cards that had bio selector switches for higher voltages and more overclocking options more fan options but so far none of the Tenet's I've taken a look at actually have that feature and I'm wondering if that has something to do with the core or in videos getting involved with that so on the front of the card here these do light up light the zotac logo here lights up white and this actually pushes a lot of light down in your case so when it's facing like this you are going to see the lit so tach right here and this is going to push a lot of light down so it's going to light what's underneath the card pretty nicely but with that said let's go and talk about the things you guys want to know how does it perform well let's go ahead and find out right now okay so before we jump into the benchmarks I know I just told you we were going to do that but then we didn't do that I wanted to point out obviously as you can see the LEDs on the front right now are not white and that's because I didn't realize that if you downloaded the firestorm app it was actually a an LED chip that's changeable colors in there now it's not true RGB because you can't choose from the 18,000,000 color spectrum on there it's just selectable lighting colors is like seven colors that you can choose from you can change the lighting including that silly push the limits logo on the back plate to change a color to be whatever you want but although it's a gunmetal and yellow back plate it's going to look good in a black and yellow build kind of like the old skunk works or like a bumble bee theme or even like a fallout 4 theme or something like that would look really really good with this card but then again you know I've always wondered what the point of RGB is or color selectable LEDs when the card already has its own color theme anyway I digress again let's go ahead and jump into those benchmarks transition you okay holy hell if this isn't like the ron jeremy of Tanna tees oh my god it is freaking the okay fortunately in the in your endows are going to continue on this because let's just face it there's some huge material to work with yeah that was cringeworthy but i move on and i digress that this is the fastest 1080 out of the box that I've had come through the channel yet I've already checked out several of these cards custom PCBs founders editions and out of the box this thing boosted all the way up to 2050 megahertz on its own without touching anything no additional fan curve no additional power limit no additional template that 270 watt TDP is at the hundred percent power lemon on there which they allow you to go to 120 percent which means you could do a lot of power draw on this card with the two 8-pin connectors on there but yeah i boosted all the way up to 2050 and the crazy thing about that is the fan curve on this with the three fans and it's custom fan design and the massive heat pipes on this and just the Boheme ithaca cooler kept this thing under 66 C the entire time what's kind of funny about that is that's right on the threshold of where the fans turn on and on this card here it's the only card I've seen that's come through this channel yet that's been able to turn the fan on in the middle of the test and cool itself off enough to turn off again during the stress test oh yeah it turns back on pretty quickly but it actually will go on off on off while stress testing and I've never had a cooler that's been good enough yet on a tiny to manage to do that but the fan curve on this is actually very very noise friendly where you're never going to hear the fans on this ever and that's without even touching touching temp limits and stuff you play with the fan curve even a little bit you can get a lot of additional boost out of this but twenty fifty in my scenario here that's 139 megahertz faster than the advertised 1911 boost speed so out of the box this is the fastest 1080 I've looked at yet but like I said the Indian your endows continued unfortunately even though it has a dual eight pin power plug design 270 watt TDP eight plus two power phase and a massive cooler the size of Manhattan I cannot achieve a stable twenty one hundred megahertz overclock on that that's only fifteen megahertz faster than it boosts - on its own although that be 139 megahertz faster than its booze clock of 1911 on the box yeah 10 80s just that that seems to be a magical number 2100 above is not easy for them to achieve ironically the only cards I have that can continuously hit 2100 and be stable are my Founders edition cards which have left a lot of people wondering if Nvidia maybe was handpicking these cores and hanging on to them for the founders edition all three of my founders edition cards can achieve 2100 or more this exact one I'm holding my hand good 2,136 the one I already put the waterblock on can hit twenty one hundred and sixty six megahertz on air that I haven't even tested on water yet yeah so again single eight pin power and standard power phase design these are going farther than all of these custom cards now that said it is the farthest boosting bar card out of the box yet these didn't boost this far so if you're the kind of person that wants to get a massive card and just put it in and know you're getting you're going to get over 2,000 megahertz guaranteed then it's it is a fantastic card it really is as an overclocking enthusiast myself I was hoping with all this extra extreme power and stuff that it would get me 2100 and higher 2150 or maybe even like the unicorn 2200 not even close unfortunately at 2100 I started seeing black artifact artifacting on the screen without even touching the memory because again the memory runs at just under 11,000 on its own it's like 24 80 so it's like ten thousand nine hundred and forty or nine hundred and sixty so it's really fast memory out of the box I didn't even touch that yeah I was getting artifacting at 2100 with be sink or g-sync off of course when when g-sync and vsync is on the megahertz can ramp up the core isn't under as much load and it can actually stay stable but the problem is once you let the FPS run away and go to its max generated fps something happens in the calculations and then the core just falls on its face at the same speed it's stable at with vsync on but if you're a die-hard overclocker again silicon lottery is going to make the biggest impact on how far your card is going to overclock there's no way of knowing what's going to happen until you get out and try it so there you go guys the zotac 1080 and stream card the fastest boost clock out of the box that I've tested yet if you're a die-hard overclocker remember Silicon Lottery matters more than anything that you put on the card and there's no way of knowing how well that card is going to perform until you get it and check it out you might get a unicorn you might get a dud again that's why it's called the silicon lottery tell me what you guys think down in the comments about this card I find a lot of people love it and a lot of people hate it not many people in the middle brown and it all comes down to the styling the styling on this is really kind of in-your-face some people like that in some don't you guys tell me do you like it and what other cards do you guys want me to check out because I'm going to kind of cut off the 1080 reviews here pretty soon I don't want to do too many 1080 reviews and obviously we've got the 1060 launch and right around the corner and I want to look at some more 1070 s with that said guide with that but that said guys I'm gonna go ahead and get on out of here thanks for watching and I will see you guys in the next video