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the last couple of videos I've done I've tried to play off this arctic Exelero on a 1080 T I just subtly in the background and hope that no one would notice actually I didn't want to show it off just a little bit although what do you guys wanted to see how I install this cooler on this card and also the before and after temperatures so today I'm going to be testing it against the GTX 1080 Strix which has a really good aftermarket cooling solution on it and it uses 100 watts less so we're going to be putting this thing up against some of the best out there and also on that note I don't recommend pulling this off as it'll void your warranty and you really don't want to do that but it's always cool to see things like this so we've just pulled off the Titan X reference cooler here that's the GTX 1080 and you see there's just so many thermal pads there and also these little ones here that relate to sort of other different cooling so what we've got here is I've already put the applies to the heatsink song with a bit of heatsink plaster and so that should be in place now and I thought you guys might want to know how I'm thinking about going about this since a lot more people want me to explain things so we can see here it's really a tight fit we don't want to get the heatsink anywhere near the little surface mount devices there whether they be caps or resistors otherwise you will have a smoky graphics card the memory the gb gddr5 X memory that's generally a simple affair you just put it on dab it on little bits dab dab dab dab dab dab drop the heatsinks on and then you're ready to go you can then plaster the main heatsink on here the accelerators are going to be dropping that on the Titan sorry the GTX 10 atti and then we're going to join the family there so that's a 980ti so for the thermal piece I'm going to use some thermal Grizzly I like to call it a thermal Griswald and this got sent in from a subscriber he's actually requested that I test this versus liquid cooler Bora Tori's liquid pro that came out wrong but anyway we had put those head-to-head on a belated 7,700 cake off to like 5.1 gigahertz so stay tuned for that but in the meantime I trust that it's better because like a lot of pee the thing it's better in the overclocking forums and stuff like that so says here do not use with aluminium heat sinks now it looks copper to me so we're just going to go with that and put it on here but we have to be very careful with this because if it leaks over or touches one of those little chips to the side of the die then your card will short out and have to take it all off again and then clean it up and it's just the waste of time so we'll try and get it right the first time and hopefully this works so we've basically finished the lair here - really really thin layer we had to clean up that spill before because it just came like shooting out man that was insane like I you know I'm used to I guess I'm just used to the liquid pro stuff which is kind of really small and slow but yeah you get a lot more of this stuff so it feels like exactly like liquid pro except you just get a lot more of it so I guess that's the benefit with thermal grisly but that's just in terms of like spreading the stuff and whatnot so it's trying to put the cooler on the dreaded task this is going to be interesting so I was going to mount this with no backplate since these little screws here actually lock into the existing heatsink via this method and then they screw on the back there so one important thing that we're losing here is there I guess the rigidity of this input/output shield here so it's sort of like flimsy so that said we're going to have to put on the backplate somehow on the back of here and so what I'll thinking was was using these screws and then putting the front there and then tying down the actual backplate with the cooler itself so because that way when we mount it into a case this isn't going to break in the future we can see there it's a little bit flimsy without any support so there it is there's the first stage now we have put on half a back plate so that's something you don't see every day and we've got here the balance when you put on these coolers you have to make sure the balance is so right on this so looking right in there and the heat things are kind of blocking it out on this side but when we turn it around at this side we can see that it's pretty level I mean that should be good so you're going to make sure that this this part here is level with the dye on the PCB so it looks pretty good this should be cooling really well well you there you guys have it the custom 1080 TI Exelero does extremely well not only is it really quiet but the temperatures are extremely low for a graphics card that puts out even more power than a 980 TI overclock so this thing overclocked I was getting around an extra 30 to 40 mega Hertz over the reference cooler and the temperatures were much lower but even compared to something like a 1080 Strix this thing was still performing better in my opinion I mean the Strix uses like 100 watts less and also the fans get a little bit noisier if we set the same custom fan profile so once you do set those custom fan profiles to around the same levels when the temperatures are actually very similar it's just that this thing is a lot quieter at those same custom fan profiles so though kudos to Arctic for making a phenomenal aftermarket cooling solution now all these coolers here artic don't even know that I'm making these videos I just bought all these myself and the first time they came into one of these coolers was in Japan when I bought a GTX 780 which was like a junk cooler but it still worked once I cleaned it all up it had one of these included and I was just blown away by the performance of these coolers they're just simply phenomenal ultimately the Exelero is just a really cool mod to do though keep in mind you will void your warranty so I don't recommend doing it unless you've got a bit of experience and if you want to gain a bit of experience maybe going to the used graphics cards and pick up something really cheap get some practice like I've done in the past and then you'll be on your way to getting much better temperatures and even better overclock but then guys hope you enjoyed this video and if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what you think of the new Exelero in family and I'll be sure to catch you guys in another tech video very peace out for now way also the 4k performance the GTX 1080 had slightly higher clocks and it was around about a 25 to 33 percent gain in those three games that I tested so 1080 Ti is the legit graphics card really beast but of course it does come with that beastly price tag