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boy oh boy did I receive something cool in the mail today and this box right here is a gtx 1080i from xlr8 i will admit in the past that brand which is kind of like p and wise gaming division has struggled with their cards looks you expect them to look about as powerful as they are right 1060 s look decent 1070 s look even better in 1080 s top-of-the-line look absolutely do but on the wide scales like that but it does so I decided to do an unboxing slash first impression segment in the beginning of this video to validate accelerates claims that this is their best card to date in terms of looks also in terms of performance it is a 1080i after all let's unbox this thing and see if what they told me is true or not and yes we are wondering this is an i3 73 50 K yes it is also my box opener it's a stupid processor should be used for nothing other than to open boxes here is the card GTX 1080 Ti the i3 73 50 K also works as an excellent plastic and wrapper can't confirm okay are we ready for this the moment of truth just how good does this card look it's really all about looks at this point we all know how powerful GTX 1080s are I just want to see how good Wow Wow that is incredibly small which is super cool Wow I cannot get over how tiny discards it's so small which is super cool because most attended UTIs are extremely thick at least with these aftermarket coolers on them they're usually two-and-a-half slot cars and they're super stick you know they extend out past the PCIe slot quite a ways but this card is it's literally it fits the form factor of the PCB perfectly saved a little extension it hangs over just a bit more which is perfectly fine for cooling purposes now look by this point we all know how powerful GTX 1080p is are the accelerate version brings nothing unique to the table in that respect what I do want to do is differentiate some of the qualities that blower style cards have these cards get rid of one of those obviously is sound the other is actually frequency within videos new dynamic frequency controller that's just built into these cards you'll find that as temperatures approach 80 85 degrees Celsius blower style cards those frequencies those core frequencies and even memory in some very rare cases will be adjusted accordingly meaning that it will drop those frequencies just ever so slightly to keep those temperatures in check from exceeding a certain limit so 85 degrees Celsius was the barrier for the PNY 1080i this card didn't even get close to 80 85 degrees Celsius back to stayed below 70 degrees Celsius while running Unigine super position benchmark so apart from the extreme difference in sound the difference right here we also have to account for the frequency fluctuation found in the P&Y blower style card it's unique to blower style cards for the most part unless you plan on overclocking you'll find that if you do overclock the accelerate version which you could probably get a few maybe a hundred megahertz or so out of it if you wanted to overclock it is a reference PCB those would keep that in mind you're not gonna have that extra power needed to perhaps overclock to around two thousand or twenty one hundred megahertz you still might find those temperature's rising past that threshold at a certain point and in which case you would notice that frequency being adjusted ever so slightly so we saw that the PNY card was around eighteen eighteen fifty megahertz and then that dropped to a little below eighteen hundred megahertz when the temperature approached eighty five degrees celsius again none of that occurred on the accelerate version which is great news for anyone who just wants to pull the card out of the box plug it in and never have to worry about it again now I do want to say a few more things regarding accelerates design choice for their 1080p I make no secret of my opinion in this case I think this card is one of the best looking cards ever produced period and I was not paid to say that I wasn't persuaded to say that I received another ten atti from PNY and I thought it looked ok I didn't think it looked excellent it just had an old-school vibe to it some people were for some people weren't but in this case it just it looks like the future and it looks compact it looks quiet and that's exactly what this card brings to the table I'm a huge fan of the metal sheen on top I love how it's not too colorful it's got subtle hints of red in it which is cool but if you don't like the red no worries unless you're just opposing a card upright you won't see the red at all it's just black and silver which means that it'll match pretty much anything in your PC so no worries about color coordination in this case another thing I should mention there are no LEDs in this card whatsoever none of the fans none in front where the gtx logo is there aren't any period and I actually am ok with this you know there are so many RGB LED cards out there even just cards that have white accent LEDs I'm just kind of sick and tired of at this point you know I look at cards like these and I'm like ok well if I wanted to light up I can just put an LED strip in my case apart from that though the card itself is just going to do what it needs to do and that's about it I don't need it to light up I don't need it to to be you know seeing from 10 miles away this card is subtle but it's powerful and that's your vibe this is the card for you now the last thing I did was take this card apart I wanted to see what was on the inside other than what I could see through the fans here I wanted to see how they were cooling the VRMs how they were cooling the vram all of that was just I was kind of the back of my mind I was like okay well they're getting great temperatures let's see why especially considering how thin this card actually is I was pleasantly surprised to find dedicated heat sinks where they should be as well as thermal pads lining the perimeter of the GPU this is where your vram exists so this card was built well it was built to last it was also built to keep things extremely cool if you ask me this is one of the best-looking gtx ten ATT eyes money can buy but it will not be the best overclocker which means that it will not be the best performer so while you might not scrape out those extra 5 to 10 FPS in games granted you'll probably be gaming in well over 100 FPS anyway this is still a great car to consider as always you can find it linked in the video description if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up thumbs down for the obstacle you subscribe but if you haven't already know catch you in the next video this is science studio thanks for learning with us