WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:03.940 - It's probably fine. Don't worry about it! 00:00:03.940 --> 00:00:08.720 We're complete professionals around here. At this point you must think I'm some kind of AMD fanboy. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.773 Here I am looking at the RX 6800 XT again. 00:00:13.690 --> 00:00:18.620 This time it's an Aorus Master and they actually sponsored this ShortCircuit 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:22.080 just so we can take a look at their unique cooling design 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:25.080 and all the other things that make this particular card special. 00:00:25.080 --> 00:00:28.450 So clearly the key features of this card 00:00:28.450 --> 00:00:32.390 are exactly the same as a reference or, sorry... 00:00:32.390 --> 00:00:38.940 Yeah, they're reference, aren't they? They're not called anything special. Yeah, the reference-designed 6800 series. 00:00:38.940 --> 00:00:43.230 But if we we look at the rest of the box here, 00:00:43.230 --> 00:00:49.170 we've got MAX-Covered Cooling, which is 2 x 115-millimeter fans 00:00:49.170 --> 00:00:53.800 and 1 x 100-millimeter unique-shaped blade stack fans. 00:00:53.800 --> 00:00:55.883 With Wind Claw design. 00:00:56.900 --> 00:00:58.573 Wind Claw. 00:00:59.922 --> 00:01:04.950 (Anthony laughs) - [David] It's like a cat pawing at the wind. (both laugh) 00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:09.440 - The Wind Claw apparently reinforces and channels the airflow 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:13.170 to completely cover the heat sink. And of course we've got RGB Fusion to- 00:01:13.170 --> 00:01:17.793 - [Siri] I didn't get that. Could you try again? - Yes, in fact, I can try again. 00:01:19.340 --> 00:01:23.270 I'm putting you in theater mode. And of course we've got RGB Fusion 2.0, 00:01:23.270 --> 00:01:29.070 which is Gigabyte's addressable RGB. And, ooh, what's this? 00:01:29.070 --> 00:01:30.663 LCD Edge View. 00:01:32.180 --> 00:01:36.080 Enthusiast mode. Chibi Time mode. (laughs) Okay. 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:39.380 Custom GIF mode and Custom Text mode. 00:01:39.380 --> 00:01:42.920 So this has got a display on the side. All right, let's get this opened 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:48.230 and see what's actually on the card and not, you know, whatever they say is on the box. 00:01:48.230 --> 00:01:53.043 All right. First thing is this little package here. 00:01:54.350 --> 00:01:58.040 Wonder what's in this. "You can enjoy a four-year warranty 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:02.660 by registering on the website within 30 days of purchase." It's also kind of adorable 00:02:02.660 --> 00:02:05.920 that there's broken English on here too, 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:11.120 like down here in the corner. "Get extend warranty and manage warranty period. 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.657 Service status more conveniently." 00:02:14.950 --> 00:02:18.430 Okay. Yeah. 00:02:18.430 --> 00:02:19.293 What's this? 00:02:22.436 --> 00:02:26.670 Aw, it's a little metal... Is it metal? Yeah, it looks like... 00:02:26.670 --> 00:02:29.823 Feels like a little sheet of metal. Case badge. 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.363 Let's get to peelin' here. 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:43.910 Ooh. Where does the plastic begin and where does it end? 00:02:43.910 --> 00:02:46.853 Wow, it tucks under. There we go. 00:02:48.828 --> 00:02:49.661 Wah. 00:02:55.940 --> 00:02:59.050 Hmm. I mean, the shroud is plastic, 00:02:59.050 --> 00:03:05.020 but it looks quite nice. It's got this brushed feel to it, 00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:08.523 so it doesn't feel tacky. It's quite a... 00:03:08.523 --> 00:03:11.830 Well, it's chunky. This is a three-slot card. 00:03:11.830 --> 00:03:16.950 But it looks pretty nice. It's got a lotta weight to it as well. 00:03:16.950 --> 00:03:18.900 And there's a little bit of... 00:03:20.430 --> 00:03:25.620 There we go. The pitch of the heat sink fins is actually quite large. 00:03:25.620 --> 00:03:29.420 There's a lot of space for air to flow, which is actually quite good. 00:03:29.420 --> 00:03:33.300 Presumably that's what the extended heat sink is for, 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:36.840 so they can space that out a little bit more 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:42.310 but still have the surface are required to dissipate all the heat that's coming off of this thing. 00:03:42.310 --> 00:03:44.993 Speaking of which, these fans. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.403 Interesting. Aw, there's more peels. 00:03:50.430 --> 00:03:57.660 Gotta peel 'em. There were two of these on that middle fan. 00:03:57.660 --> 00:03:59.853 I think. No, these are stuck to me. 00:04:00.870 --> 00:04:06.440 They just won't... They won't leave. These fans on the outside here are flanking this middle fan. 00:04:06.440 --> 00:04:12.750 They're actually a little bit above where that fan sits in vertical space. 00:04:12.750 --> 00:04:16.220 So this fan in here seems to be the one with their, um, 00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:18.913 their Wing Claw design. 00:04:20.820 --> 00:04:25.073 It's kinda got like, I don't know, fingers on the tips of the fan blades. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:30.860 I guess the design is supposed to be kind of like a scoop 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:33.743 to pull the air that these fans are kinda pulling in, 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:38.483 like that, to kinda grab that and push it through. 00:04:39.340 --> 00:04:42.530 So according to Aorus, the way this works 00:04:42.530 --> 00:04:46.930 is that every millimeter of this heat sink's surface area 00:04:46.930 --> 00:04:50.050 is hit by airflow thanks to these fans. 00:04:50.050 --> 00:04:53.510 That lets the fans spin a little bit slower 00:04:53.510 --> 00:04:57.410 and that means that you're not dealing with that super loud whine, 00:04:57.410 --> 00:05:01.350 like when you're in the middle of a game or even if you just start up your computer, 00:05:01.350 --> 00:05:06.580 sometimes they do that. Around the back we've got this nice metal backplate back here. 00:05:06.580 --> 00:05:10.600 Not sure if it's actually cooling anything or if it's just to provide structural rigidity. 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.670 This thing is not twisting at all. But we also have a BIOS selector switch. 00:05:14.670 --> 00:05:18.920 So on the left is BIOS OC, which I think is currently selected. 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:25.030 Yup. And on the right is Silent, which I presume would further cap the maximum fan speed. 00:05:25.030 --> 00:05:28.100 Finally, on this edge of the card 00:05:28.100 --> 00:05:32.690 we have two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors. 00:05:32.690 --> 00:05:39.370 Sorry, NVIDIA. Nobody cares about your 12-pin connector. And we have this LCD on the side. 00:05:39.370 --> 00:05:43.260 It's kinda cleverly hidden. The glass or plastic... 00:05:43.260 --> 00:05:48.520 I'm not sure if that's glass or not. It kinda looks like it. It is very reflective. 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:52.810 There's very little to, I guess, 00:05:52.810 --> 00:05:57.420 delineate the LCD itself from the rest of that little bezel. 00:05:58.540 --> 00:06:00.840 Especially since it's picking up fingerprints. 00:06:02.650 --> 00:06:09.130 - [David] I like how you're using the Stealth hoodie and there's a microfiber cloth to your left. 00:06:09.130 --> 00:06:14.420 - Listen. We don't sell microfiber cloths on LTTStore.com. 00:06:14.420 --> 00:06:17.773 We do sell Stealth hoodies on LTTStore.com. 00:06:19.830 --> 00:06:22.960 All right, we're back. We've got a computer. 00:06:22.960 --> 00:06:26.170 The video card is installed and you can see it has lovely... 00:06:26.170 --> 00:06:29.940 I think currently red LEDs. There they are, RGB. 00:06:29.940 --> 00:06:33.160 And that little animation going on on the little LCD, 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.367 which we change if we go into RGB Fusion 2.0. 00:06:37.732 --> 00:06:43.650 Oh! Well, I could just look at the screen. Yeah, GPU temperature, GPU usage, GPU clock, 00:06:43.650 --> 00:06:48.423 fan speed, VRAM usage, VRAM clock, and TGP, the graphics power. 00:06:49.450 --> 00:06:54.060 Custom image. We'll get to that. Custom text. 00:06:54.060 --> 00:06:56.137 Yeah, "Hi, Aorus." Let's do, "Hi, Aorus." 00:06:57.300 --> 00:07:00.363 Is that what it's saying now? - Yep. - Hi, Aorus. - Hi. 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:06.430 - All right, let's change it to something different then. - [David] Bye, Aorus. 00:07:06.430 --> 00:07:10.030 - No, I changed it to something far more interesting, 00:07:10.030 --> 00:07:13.223 if I'm being completely honest. - [David] Nice! 00:07:16.332 --> 00:07:21.390 - LTTStore.com. Chibi Time. Yeah, that's... 00:07:21.390 --> 00:07:24.640 That's this thing. The frame rates are silky-smooth. 00:07:24.640 --> 00:07:29.560 I don't have the FPS display up right now 'cause I just wanted to stress the card, 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.350 but it is very nice. 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:36.193 I've got no complaints whatsoever here. 00:07:37.060 --> 00:07:40.320 So every hour you have your computer on it levels up. 00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:44.180 - Nice! - That's, uh... Uh, that's a thing. 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:48.570 I don't know. That's not very environmentally friendly. I would've thought that it would just level up 00:07:48.570 --> 00:07:51.840 when you're increasing power draw 00:07:51.840 --> 00:07:54.113 or temperature or something. We're doin' it. 00:07:56.090 --> 00:08:00.320 Estimated upload time's (gasps) 11 minutes, 9 seconds? 00:08:00.320 --> 00:08:04.251 - [David] Why? - What? 00:08:04.251 --> 00:08:08.870 Aw. All I wanted to do was give the people 00:08:08.870 --> 00:08:10.843 Flossing Linus on a graphics card. 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:14.653 So, CPU benchmark, go. 00:08:16.130 --> 00:08:19.130 Part of how it's managing to keep up this level of performance 00:08:19.130 --> 00:08:23.700 throughout the entire test here, and we're running it a second time now, 00:08:23.700 --> 00:08:28.700 is thanks to its entirely unified copper heat plate. 00:08:28.780 --> 00:08:32.780 So the CPU, or sorry, the GPU, 00:08:32.780 --> 00:08:37.440 and the memory are all part of one contact plate and it also has two other contact plates 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.900 for its power phases as well. So it's able to take all of the heat 00:08:40.900 --> 00:08:44.090 from those heat-generating components, 00:08:44.090 --> 00:08:48.600 pipe it out through several heat pipes built into the design, 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.310 and then it goes through the stacked fins 00:08:52.310 --> 00:08:56.200 that are inside of the cooler itself. And it's doing an excellent job. 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.090 It's managing to do all of this, we started the benchmark, 00:09:00.090 --> 00:09:03.240 it spiked up to about 60-65, 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.220 and now it's at 66-66 towards the end of the benchmark. 00:09:07.220 --> 00:09:10.810 So it is doing a phenomenal job. (laughs) 00:09:10.810 --> 00:09:14.440 A lot of warm air is actually being kicked out of the back here. 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:18.470 And I think the majority of the noise that you're hearing there 00:09:18.470 --> 00:09:24.020 is actually from the CPU fan. That sounds like the Noctua cooler to me. 00:09:24.020 --> 00:09:26.373 In fact, I could very easily figure that out. 00:09:29.380 --> 00:09:31.173 Let's plug that back in then. 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.460 - [David] You unplugged the fan? - Yeah. (David laughs) 00:09:35.460 --> 00:09:38.623 It's probably fine. Don't worry about it! 00:09:40.690 --> 00:09:44.270 We're complete professionals around here. So that just about does it. 00:09:44.270 --> 00:09:49.690 Thanks for watching, guys. Check out the Aorus RX 6800 XT Master Type C 00:09:49.690 --> 00:09:53.400 down below on Amazon and on Newegg, 00:09:53.400 --> 00:09:57.110 and we'll have those linked. And we also have Gigabyte motherboards down there too. 00:10:00.163 --> 00:10:01.880 (PSU clicks off) - [David] Off!