Gadgetory

our CES 2019 coverage is brought to you by the D brand grip super grippy case and D brand's prism screen protectors we're here in the asus rog components suite which also clearly is not fully set up yet but we found some really cool stuff in here so they've got this demo system that's not running yet oh that's heavy I'm not gonna mess with that too much but it's clearly water-cooled it's clearly got a motherboard that we have never seen in person before let's just open it up look at that so this is their Dominus Xtreme I'll show you that in a little bit more detail later and they've got the first ever water-cooled video card that doesn't have like an external radiator with tubing to it that you got to like put over here anyway that's that system is not actually running yet but that doesn't matter because I've got the key components over here so this I was actually thinking of doing a dedicated video called Intel your desperation is showing or something like that this is gonna run their upcoming 28 core overclockable CPU but the reason we didn't end up doing a dedicated video even though this thing is nuts look at this for eight pin CPU power connectors three PCI Express power connectors and two 24 pin connectors look the entire top of the board is just vrm this entire thing is just power delivery the reason we didn't end up doing it video is because we don't really know anything about it 6 channel memory yeah just like the Xeon Platinum's four PCI Express slots we don't know pricing of the board we don't know pricing of the CPU we don't know what realistic overclocking results are Intel showed 5 gigahertz but that was on like very very chilled liquid so it just is kind of like it's like a showpiece right now it's all it really is but now I'm not going to help Asus with too much of their booth set up here but I did find this power brick that is trailing out the back of this thing that wasn't plugged in that seems to fire up the fans on the card and there's a USB cable back here I'm gonna go ahead and plug into my hey my portable power battery bank Hey look at that see I'm helping I am helping I mean I'm not gonna leave my battery bank here but that's not the point also I'm gonna unplug this because guess what I got I got no kids so we're gonna have a look at what exactly a water-cooled graphics card like this is oh man hopefully this even like can be pulled off because I've sort of committed to it now not a lot fine guys chill not gonna break it to you look if they didn't want a bull running around in their china shop they shouldn't have had him on the guest list okay so the crazy thing about this is that from the front from the bottom from the back from the side everything about it looks fairly normal to the uninitiated and you know even to the fairly initiated I would say so I think this shiny piece here has to come off yeah okay I thought there might be a screw under there I no longer believe that there's a screw under there anyway one hint as to what we're about to see though is this so that is like more of a like a water block style cold plate down there and then it appears as though they're using the same kind of pump and water block combo unit that we've seen in aio coolers and then if we look closely instead of just heat pipes running to aluminum fins we've got a radiator here it's just bolted to the front of the card now I want to get a better look at it I'm having a really hard time figuring out where the additional screws are you know what I'm doubling down I'm doubling down on my the screws are under here theory more than one of these here right yep I don't know if they have another one to put back on their little demo stand though I mean this adhesive seemed to go back on pretty well I just want to see the radiator okay so there were three screws on the bottom we got those up you haven't taken it apart so so you're okay so it seems now I'm good okay so it seems like there's something holding it over here something along here I just want to be able to show the radiator and the block like kind of show how it goes together this adhesive I've had it up and down once already it seems to be holding together pretty well in case you're curious you know what I think I might know what's going on here I think I might not have the right screwdriver for this there's three screws that are just barely accessible if you get back here yeah and this is all I have and I can't get to them yeah I even thought about grabbing my like more traditional jeweler screwdrivers but they look so much like a weapon I didn't want to put them in my luggage I am going through the really annoyed yeah so I can put this plate back on that sucks whoa hold on it's okay no no I was just putting the card back together I had given up I found the screws so there they're back there but I left my my like traditional jeweler's screwdrivers at home but then this was sitting down here and it was like that kind of looks like a toolkit but why does it have this on it apparently to make sure that no one will open it okay so let's try this this is gonna be really really hard to put back together I legitimately don't know if I'm going to be able to put these screws back in and but they're already out now so since the ship has sailed you might as well just proceed like if you're already going to hell you know why stop I think I got it there we go those three screws released this nice okay where's my screwdriver get off there off she goes there it is so that is how they're doing it and I'm glad that I got this popped off because there's already at least one thing that I got wrong here so I was telling you guys that it looked like they had used a pump CPU block combo here but what they've actually done is they've used this extremely compact pump right here so this allows a soos to avoid any issues with the ASA Tech patent that prevents third parties from using unlicensed block pump combo units and it still managed is to be small enough to install directly on top of a graphics card now in terms of the cooling capacity here crazily enough they actually haven't compromised much there so as far as I can tell this plate right here is just a protective piece so naturally we'll be removing it no it looks like I'm not gonna be able to get that off that easily so this is a protective piece for the tubing there's no reservoir so just like a typical closed-loop cooler it's just prefilled at the factory and then it maybe you can help me with this so we've got the inlet on the pump then we've got the outlet right here going to the GPU block no power comes off the board right here this is a super small pump by the way then so we've got our cold plate down there which presumably is covering both the GPU and the HBM memory modules is that correct I mean I can't imagine that they didn't do that I don't see anything else down here yeah it's hard to it's hard to go any further than this unfortunately you guys we've got DRM over here which is handled just with downdraft cooling from the fans up here and then this is weird see this here so unlike a normal radiator there's kind of a the end tank is in the middle and I don't know how the flow path works but out from the GPU block comes in the underside right here on a normal radiator it goes in the one side on the end tank down then you have a smaller end tank on the other end it goes over and then through these thin tubes right here but it's coming right up here and then it's coming out here so I can only imagine that they've done some kind of routing you know what I think I know what they did I think this is how it works so it goes in the bottom here and then there's a divider here it goes it fills this tank goes over here through the skinny end tank and then out here then it's a parallel flow path I think it goes in here down this side of this one through this skinny end tank and then up here and then the cooled water comes together back through the pump over to the GPU again now I don't have verification of this but I can't imagine that it would work any other way because it couldn't just go straight from here to here you wouldn't get any cooling out of it that is something I did not expect to see here so while I put this back together let's talk about what kind of performance you could expect from a 2080 ti that is water-cooled well a lot but maybe not quite as much as you'd hope because of the way that NVIDIA has restricted their partners abilities to over volt their GPUs you're probably only looking at a couple percent faster than a well air-cooled 2080 ti now with that said what a sues claims is that like other liquid cooled graphics cards which have existed in the past but with a separate radiator this one will run much cooler and that'll mean that the card will be able to maintain its maximum power state more consistently and more stable E and another thing to consider is that while many bench markers run their tests in a room temperature room your room might not be that temperature so if you're from somewhere that's particularly hot or you don't have air conditioning or whatever the case may be then something like this might be necessary in order to get the maximum performance out of your card this was stressful and there we go the card is reassembled all that remains is to oh wow the box that was being used as a stand for this one's pretty beat up hopefully to have another plan for that all that remains is to see if their demo still works yeah do the phones still spin hey and we're done so thanks to my sous for being really good sports about all of this and thanks to you guys for watching and thanks to D Bren for sponsoring us here at CES 2019 there dbrand grip cases which I will be doing plenty of drop tests with our super grippy their impact resistant and they're built with the same precision you'd expect from D brand with nice accurate cutouts for your camera your touch sensor anything else you might 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