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hey let's go on tech lovers welcome back once again to tech Oh tomorrow I've got something really nice in my hands here from the folks over at EVGA now this is their icx sc2 version of the GTX 1080 Ti it comes overclocked out-of-the-box has an awesome amazing cooling apparatus on it including a bitchin backplate so with that said though let's jump in let's see what comes inside the box the features and at the end of the day how this bad boy performs let's go so once we open up the box and we take a look inside you guys can see that obviously the card comes inside of there but you also get a sixpence a pin power connector and you also get the driver CD although I would suggest going online and getting the latest drivers unless you just don't have access to the internet for some reason but the cool stuff is the swag that comes inside of the box you get a very nice poster that'll look really cool on your wall and you also get some stickers so beyond that there's a little bit of nomenclature and stuff like that but I know my fans know how to install a card now the card itself looks excellent I mean just check out that beauty the design on the front is totally artistic it's really cool I like it 200 millimeter fans on the front of the card you guys can see the EVGA logo on the top and on the bottom it says GeForce GTX 1080i and underneath all that stuff you guys can see the cooling apparatus giant huge aluminum heat pins all throughout and the heat pipes underneath that as well now this is the icx cooling from people at EVGA they've been doing this quite a while developing working with it and it works pretty damn well and take a look at the card from the bottom you guys can once again see a lot of those aluminum heat fins you can also see the aluminum heat pipe taking a look at the rear of the card you guys can see the sc2 nomenclature there on my left and you can also see there are five heat pipes emanating from the rear of the card on the top it just simply says EVGA geforce gtx 1080i you can once again see more of those aluminum heat fins all the way across on the right-hand side you see what the fans plug in then there's a six pin and an 8 pin power connector it's recommended that you have at least a 600 watt power supply and the power consumption of the card is 250 watts on the back of the card you guys can see their two sli fingers on the top and once again we see a nice shroud covering the back of the card having a protector is something you guys that I really like and this protector has a lot of slots in it you guys can see all the way throughout it and it also has the EVGA logo of the name with a card and all of those slots help to dissipate heat away from the back of the card so through all those slots you'll see the heat radiating away from that then being blown out for your case and lastly we can check out the inputs there's three display ports a single HDMI 2.0 port and a single DVID port alright tech lovers so there you have it what's inside the box what the card looks like and all that good stuff now this card has a 1670 megahertz boost clock which is about 10 percent slower than the zotac in the gigabyte we looked at but this card does run absolutely quiet which is a very positive thing there's no coil whine whatsoever if I was going to like say anything to maybe a cavity it is maybe the back plate it's kind of made of a plastic thing maybe metal might be in something cooler but not really too much to complain about as far as the card looks and all that stuff now let's take a quick look at our test system check out the scores the temperatures of cards why they're running at the end of the day why you might just think this icx SC 2 is one bad mother-- fracker let's go alright folks so currently our test system is if x99 motherboard 5960 cpu 16 gigabytes of vengence memory really nice 850 watt power supply we're using all the latest herbs that we can get our hands on and everything's patched up with Windows 10 and now mr. buddy says it's time to rock you I love the three other tangy TI's that we use in the testing you guys can see the zotac right at 80 Celsius the Gigabyte the cool is at 69 Celsius and the EVGA tucked right neatly in between at 71 Celsius under full load art everybody so there you have it EVGA gtx 1080i icx sc2 version which you guys can see is a very very nice-looking card has nice scores the temperature range is right in between all the cards 71 Celsius between the highest that we saw in the zotac and the gigabyte which obviously has a much bigger cooling apparatus on it we all know that that thing has a giant cooling apparatus now as far as all these different cards go any of the top level cards that you get disa matter who makes it if it's a strict version of it's a Oris version if it's EVGA is icx if it's a top level card these cards are all going to be very very close and what they're doing they're going to have a little bit better boost clock of maybe 10 to 15 megahertz you know between them all that's how it's going to be and you're going to find with the different cooling apparatus and maybe one of them might run a little cooler but overall there's no like I don't think just King of the Ring that's just winning any card whatsoever I mean the totally fastest card obviously it seems like across the board is usually you see something from ZOTAC or something from EVGA those guys make really SuperDuper fast cards but I don't think that any of these cards you purchase at this price range this cards like you know outside 700 and like 60 bucks I think maybe a little even more I'll have a link down below where you guys can check that out in fact all the link for all different cards this card is the really nice card it's very neutral in its color so any bill that you're going to have to look great in it no flag see RGB lights and all that stuff so if you don't want to deal with RGB and that's not your thing a this card doesn't have it on it at the end of the day it comes down to obviously personal choice but if you're looking for a card that runs very quiet looks great in any system has very good tempers excuse me it has very good temperatures I mean let's just face it hold on I mean this cards cooling apparatus isn't really that big it's really not very nice you know nice to slot cards you're not going to take a lot of inside your system so that's something that matters to you you might want to consider that well so I feel at the end of the day this is a definitely editors choice card in the GTX 1080i world I'm Mallory you've been watching tech of tomorrow me and buddy say goodbye