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excellent this is the EVGA GTX 10 80 for the win and it's my first look at a 1080 with a custom PCB and especially designed cooler EVGA ACX 3.0 I've already over viewed many of the features of the 1080 in my original video that you can check out via the card right up there so today I'll be focusing on what makes this card different and of course a bunch of benchmarks and some over blocking performance I also want to talk about some of the critiques against the 1080 specifically the potential for GPU clock speed throttling and the current pricing and availability woes that have plagued the good honest people who just want to buy one of these cards for the price at Nvidia announced the matte back in May goddamn it before any of that though a quick once-over of the card itself at the heart of the attend 80 for the win is the GP 104 in videos Pascal GPU that all 10 eighties are based on as well as eight gigabytes of gddr5 X memory running at 10,000 megahertz effective clock speed EVGA redesigned the PCB from the founders Edition which made it a bit taller but they also increase the power delivery to a 10 phase design as compared to the 5 phase setup on the reference board and added another 8 pin power connector to allow for higher overall power draw on top of that is the newly redesigned AC X 3.0 cooler with 200 millimeter double ball bearing fans with swept blades direct contact copper heat pipes down below and a large aluminium thinner a for heat dissipation it's an open design and although it does run cooler than the founders Edition it will be pushing more warm air into your case so keep air flow in mind if you're building a new system the card does light up via the logo along the edge as well as these panels on the fans side of the cooler and these are RGB of course so you can adjust the colors and some of the lighting effects via the EVGA precision xoc software finally there's a two-position physical bios switch which can be very handy if you're playing around with a variety of OC settings and want to easily jump between them rather than using software profiles before the win Edition comes manufacturer overclocked as well with a base and boost clock of 1721 and 1860 as compared to the batteries Edition which runs at 1607 base and 17:34 boost it's also 10.5 inches long I've heard varying opinions on the overall design here and while I personally don't think it's the prettiest card ever I think in the right system it could still look quite badass let me know what you think in the comments down below though ok on to some testing and let's start out with thermal throttling J did a great video on this and I was actually surprised to hear that his original founders edition card throttled so much he started off hitting mid eighteen hundreds clock speeds but after warming the GPU up with some gameplay it wrapped all the way down to the mid to low 1600s that's a pretty significant drop and it's caused by a variety of things including the ASIC quality of your individual GPU the ambient temperature and wear whatever room you're overclocking in the effectiveness of your cards cooler of course and whether the planets of our solar system are synchronized and aligned in perfect orbit battling the severe sucks and it didn't help that at the launch event last month NVIDIA made some bold claims by demoing an overclocked card running at 2.1 gigahertz and only hitting 67 degrees on air this may have been a mistake in my opinion is clearly the demo they're running was not very GPU intensive and no one has found a card yet that can hit that frequency and stay that cool especially with the founder's edition cooler under normal gaming load all that said though I wanted to see what frequencies my 1084 the win and my 1080 founders Edition would level out at after gaming for a while so I concocted a simple test with Unigine heaven on a loop over about 15 plus minutes or however long it took the card to warm up to its maximum temperature due to heat pooling the temperature kind of creeps up slowly until the hit 83 degrees Celsius on the founders edition during which time the fans may ramp up a bits and the frequency may dip down as GPU boost attempts to keep everything under control I did keep the AC on in the garage so ambient temperature was a steady 77 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit or 25 to 27 degrees Celsius and with both cards running at full stock here were my results both cards throttled but not a whole lot my GTA X 1080 founders Edition hit an initial peak frequency of 1873 megahertz but after temps got up to 83 C it pulled back to the mid to high 1700s averaging about 1784 this is still a good 50 megahertz above the advertised boost so not bad the EVGA 1084 the wind being a manufacturer overclocked had an initial peak frequency of about 20 25 megahertz and after maxing out at 75 C underload dawdle back to 1949 again still well above the advertised boost black values so pretty nice for a specially-designed card I'll continue to include throttle testing in my videos though and for anyone who picks up a 1080 I would definitely definitely recommend setting up a loop test to see where your GPUs frequency levels max out after 10 or 20 minutes of gameplay anyway I overclocked this GPU as well and it did give me some extra performance but I was not able to consistently hit over 2.1 gigahertz added 120 points to the GPU and 95 to the memory did an initial OC of 2114 megahertz and then throttled back to about 20 88 after the card warmed up I did use a custom fan profile that ended up doing about 70 percent fan speed at Maxwell benchmarking under full load but it also kept the GPU cooler than when it was running with the stock profile peaking at 69 degrees so go figure it's definitely not a bad overclock but it does seem like these non binned GPUs don't have a ton of extra Headroom although throttling under load was thankfully pretty minimal lesson learned here is definitely to ramp up those fan profiles on your 1080s as it's minimal additional noise but it gives you a decent amount of extra GPU speed my overclocking results can be seen in the first couple benchmark slides speaking of which it's time for some benchmarks this time I have 4k 1440 and 1080 resolution numbers these were all run on an open testbed with an Intel Core i7 59 30k CPU at 4.4 gigahertz 16 gigs of g.skill ripjaws for 2666 speed ddr4 memory an EVGA x99 classified motherboard and a HyperX savage 240 SSD let's roll so it should come as little surprise that the GTX 1084 the wind running about eight to ten percent faster than the founders addition also scores about eight to ten percent better frame rates across all the benchmarks I was actually more impressed with the fact that the GPU temps stayed under control in the mid 70s under load and the fan noise was quite minimal as well since they don't spin up at all at idle and under load only ramped up to 47% speed maximum at the stock profile here's a listen in zero fan mode just for ambient noise here the fans at 47% speed which is the max they got at the stock profile here it is at 69% speed which is as fast as they got when I was overclocking and finally a hundred percent fan speed just to see what it sounds like hear what it sounds it as for power draw though that is the trade-off as I did see power drop peaking above 400 watts with before the wind card whereas my founders Edition only pulled about 305 watts maximum from the wall I would feel a bit better about this if I was able to overclock the card a little bit more incidentally while overclocking I peaked at about 445 watts finally there is the price which at 680 dollars is steep but still less than the $700 founders Edition availability seems to be the biggest challenge right now though as retail cards are selling out instantly and resellers in the US and abroad are charging ridiculous markups we're told that in July though there should be many many more 1080s available on the market so by next month you should be able to get your hands on one for the actual list price all things considered EVGA has built a very nice card around the 1080 with an effective cooler and some extra value features beyond what you get with the founders edition bear in mind though that you're not getting a bended GPU with the for the wind so your overclocking experience might have you wanting if you were really hoping to run at 2.1 gigahertz or beyond if the RGB lighting isn't important to you you could probably get equal performance and save 30 to 50 bucks by going with the super clocked or standard ACX 3.0 version of the 1080 as was all overclocking though it will greatly depend on luck of the draw in the silicon lottery thanks a lot for watching this video though guys links to this card on Amazon as well as my Paul's hardware store are down below hit the like button and get subscribed if you enjoyed it and as always thanks for watching