Gadgetory

the defined iOS is quiet compact and it's built for mini ITX water-cooled systems just like this one but watch out if you get one Josh might just show up or your house randomly fractal design to find Nano as is small quiet and built for mini ITX water-cooled systems just like this one but if you get one watch out because frankly josh might just show up at any minute know what Kyle's full of oh well that was immersive and pulse still Nigeria we've been here for like an hour dudes get the hell out of here excellent so remember back when there were almost no GTX 1080s on the market now there's almost too many from the Nvidia founders addition to all the various varieties of third-party designs so how is a custom card like gigabytes GT X 1080 extreme gaming to differentiate itself from the others well five different ways I think cooling noise aesthetics overclocking and extras like accessories and stuff so let's start with accessories and by the way this version that gigabyte sent over is the extreme gaming premium pack which is $700 right now or the same price as the founders edition when it's in stock of course there's some very professional-looking paperwork which does have details on the 4-year warranty which is a very nice long warranty so that's good there's also that wrist protector in there that you've always wanted a double six pin two eight pin a peg power cable an XMP 300 mouse pad with stitched edges that also seems to be pretty good quality and HDMI and USB 3.0 five and a quarter inch front panel Bay that gives you extra connectivity on the front of your case for the extra HDMI plugs on the card itself an expansion slot bracket if you want to route those HDMI ports to the back of the case an extreme gaming 2-way high bandwidth sli bridge with a white led logo and one slot spacing and the ever-important extreme gaming case badge all in all a nice kit of accessories with some good value added especially if you need that high bandwidth sli bridge aesthetics is next this card has sort of an angular industrial design definitely distinct from the founders Edition and while some of the exposed heatsink fins can get bent pretty easily FM I do think it's a pretty good-looking design overall it's a triple slot open cooler with RGB LED lights on the extreme gaming logo and the fan stop light which lights up when the fans stop and yes that can be disabled and there's also RGB LEDs on the X pattern that's over the fans themselves you get 3 100 millimeter double ball bearing fans with the center fan tucked underneath the two outer fans and spinning in the opposite direction gigabyte says this doubles the airflow where they overlap which totally makes sense because there's two fans so twice as much science it does seem to cool pretty well though the shroud is made of metal and it's black with silver and orange accents orange is pretty minimal here but I would have preferred a neutral color to get more flexibility for the RGB LED lighting the backplate is black metal and it also has two thin orange racing stripes going along the length the entire card is eleven point four inches or 289 millimeters long and if you couldn't already tell it's a custom PCB design with two eight pin PCI Express power connectors of course it's also got Nvidia 16 nanometer 7.2 billion transistor pascal based GP 104 GPU in there so all the same specs as the other gtx 280s on the market as well as a gigabytes of 256 bit gddr5 X memory and 10,000 megahertz effective clock speed video arts are three DisplayPort 1.4 's one HDMI 2.0 be one DVI and then the other two HDMI ports on the other side of the card internally which are intended to provide front panel connectivity for VR head mounted displays they can also just be used as regular HDMI ports you don't have to use them for VR but you could connect them with extensions to the front or the back of your PC with the included accessories that I already showed you onwards to overclocking gigabyte told me that the extreme gaming 1080 does not use pin GPUs so the overclocking was pretty standard pretty much all the typical 1080s out there hit about 2100 221 50 megahertz max frequency when overclocked then after temps even out under full load they usually run in the 2000 to 2100 range this card was no different hitting just over 2100 max but fortunately only pulling back to about 2075 under load which i think is attributable to the improved cooling and power delivery compared to the founders edition here are some 3d mark higher strike results with the overclock running just to show you what kind of prefer if you can expect if you go this route for benchmarks I'm going to change things up a little bit and run some live gameplay testing kind of like I did with my rx 480 21 by 9 video last week you can check that out right there I played each game in the preset OC mode at 2560 by 1440 and 4k you can see the on screen frame rates as I play and I recorded the screen so screen capping wouldn't conflict with the results so let's start with some doom using the Vulcan API at 2560 by 1440 all right so we're playing some doom I've have it set to Vulcan using Vulcan so the on screen displays here in the top right that'll have the frame rate as far as video settings go starting off at 2560 by 1440 FXAA and then now we have set to the ultra quality pretty much and of course Vulcan no no not bad at all Vulcan definitely give some added performance compared to DirectX 11 now let's try 4k 3840 by 2160 okay moving on to some gta5 I am set up for 2560 by 1440 right now everything's mostly set to very high with some stuff set to high you can see all the settings right here and I've also set up the webcam so you guys can get a closer look at the actual framerate okay we are now at 4k 3840 by 2160 everything else pretty much the same no AAA and everything else is it higher very high oh I dodged you sir I'll watch as I just gas this monster van just gonna easily outrun these police cars maybe not okay moving on to super mirage because why not so starting off back in 2560 by 1440 we are at epic graphics quality and I've set the render scale to 100% to make sure that it doesn't automatically change it because that kind of messes with your actual results anyway just going to play quick play game alright so as you can hopefully see by me dying repeatedly my frame right here it's been fluctuating it's definitely fluctuating more but my favorite some fluctuate a little bit but generally in the low range has been in the 110 to 120 and then beyond that it's being it has been peeking it like you know 130 to 150 in certain situations but you know I don't know I don't know how to explain that exactly oh look a lemonade someone and finally here's some epic settings overwatch at 4k so say in 60 to 70 frames per second maybe up to 80 not too bad at all again we're 4k playing overwatch at epic settings so if you've got a 60 Hertz 4k monitor like a s right about where you want to be gigabytes extreme engine software can be used for overclocking fan control and LED lighting for overclocking it gets the job done has all the necessary sliders that it needs but I think it still needs some additional features in my professional opinion specifically the monitoring window which can be popped out but cannot be resized and also it does not show any min and Max values over time or any values when you mouse over the histogram so I'll be sticking with MSI Afterburner or EVGA precision X for now anyway though the LED control is there and can be used to set the LEDs to solid color breathing flashing or reactive modes based on GPU temperature or load for example you can choose a single color or the rainbow mode and you can also punch in RGB or hex color values for the single color which is actually a really great option to have and why you can't control the individual lighting areas on the card you can control the lighting for two different extreme gaming GPUs and the sli bridge at the same time all via the software so I've talked about aesthetics overclocking and extras but what about cooling and noise cooling is awesome on this card I don't know if it's the overlapped fans or the huge triple slot design or what but this is the coolest running 1080 that I have tested heading only 60 see max under load while testing ambient temperatures by the way we're steady 77 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit or 25 to 27 degrees Celsius this is using the stock fan profile and the OC mode in the extreme gaming software as for fan noise I will let you listen for yourself here's the fan at idle or zero fan mode here's 40 percent which was about the average speed under load here's 70 percent which is what the fan would hit if the GPU ever got up to 80 degrees C which it never even got close to and here's the fan at 100% speed just to hear what it sounds like and now it's conclusion time so based on those five criteria cooling noise aesthetics overclocking and extras gigabyte has designed a very nice gtx 1080 in the extreme gaming with all the extra stuff you get for the seven hundred dollar price tag this kit should be a no-brainer compared to the founders edition but there are other third-party designs to consider if you like gigabytes design aesthetically if you want a cool and quiet card and if you are interested in a two-way SLI configuration of the future I think it's a relatively good value if I were to ask for more I would have liked to see binned GPUs in this card like they did with the extreme gaming 900 series as overclocking wasn't really any more or less impressive than other cards like the EVGA gtx 1080 for the win or even very much over the founders edition if you don't consider temperatures and throttling the orange accents also need to go and it would be nice to see more protection for the cooling fins that protrude and just seem very prone to getting bent of course there's also the VR features to consider and front hdmi ports for a head-mounted display are pretty damn useful in a lot of situations I'm very curious to hear what you guys think of this card though so leave me your comments in the comment section down below links to this card on Amazon and my Paul's hardware store where you can buy shirts are down there as well hit the like button and get subscribed if you enjoyed and as always thank you very much for watching my videos