Gadgetory

so my plan today was supposed to be an update on the dual socket 56 core machine I got my heatsink from Super Micro I got my instructions look at this color color instructions Wow amazing I got my cooler and I specifically said I specifically said the motherboard uses the square ilm it doesn't match up because these are for the narrow ilm and the motherboard uses the square ilm and I cried first I was sad and then I was mad and then I was super excited because I actually had something that might even be cooler to show off to you guys so check this out this is the world's highest box to card-sized ratio video card that has existed in at least 10 years because this used to be a thing like I remember back when a soos would have video card boxes that were literally like this big chain Tec like those companies they had these giant boxes and the idea was that they were too cheap to buy shelf space to buy frontage space in the retail stores right because that's what you have to do that's how the retail industry works they were too cheap to buy the placements so they just made these gigantic boxes so they wouldn't have to pay but they would have to get a ton of space on the shelf isn't it brilliant I mean where's chain attack at today right anyway so ZOTAC has apparently just reused a box from an existing GT x10 atti you would think except that this arctic storm thing here that looks like a sticker in this mini these aren't stickers they specifically went out of their way to create this this gigantic box for this tiny graphics card but its size should not not dissuade you it should not tell you anything about its power because this is a full-fledged GT X 1080 Ti and it is the size of like a 1050 so ZOTAC has not only engineered a full 1080 TI into something that is the same size as their previous 1080 mini they have also created a fully custom water cooling solution so you can see here they've got they've got coverage for the V RMS right here they've got pads on the memory modules right here and right down this side and then they've got a GPU contact area for the 1080 Ti so they have created a fully custom water block solution for it as well now I do have some misgivings about their water block design it does not appear to be all copper which depending on your loop configuration may be an issue for you or may not I'm actually a huge fan of what ek is done with their aluminium lineup of products all aluminium products that are lower cost and designed to go together but if you're mixing and matching you can run into issues even if you use anti corrosive additives so what all we got here we do get a DVI port we get three DisplayPort ports we get one HDMI we get a slightly taller than a PCI bracket PCB so they have cheated a little bit there but you kind of kind of give them give them that because realistically with all of this space on the top for the connections you were I mean you were gonna have to have a bit more space above the card in your case anyway now one thing I wish they had done was rather than come out this way I wish that they had gone with fittings on the top and on the bottom like this but again I'm you know I got to go easy on them dual 8 pin connectors so I would expect to be able to overclock the stuffing out of this thing and in terms of included accessories they got a couple six to eight pins and then they've got a couple of 3/8 inch fittings I remember I still remember back when half-inch fittings used to be the the cat's pajamas and all interesting I think these are aluminum okay so yeah it's aluminum block intended to be used with aluminum products I would recommend or at the very least make sure you use a healthy mix of anti corrosive additive all right so to fully appreciate the scale of this thing I want to show it next to a couple of other cards first of all here is a Titan XP collector's edition so it is that much shorter it is a little bit taller see this there we go so it is a little bit taller but it should theoretically actually that would be really interesting it should only take up a single PCIe slot if you were going to cut off the DVI port like we did in our single slot Titan mod then compared to one of the most ginormous graphics cards of all time the 6990 this thing has way more power much smaller size and it'll run completely silently assuming that you have a water cooling loop cool so there you have it I don't really have a standard outro for these classic unboxings subscribe and like and maybe we'll run the credits if someone other than me chops it together