so my plan today was supposed to be an update on the dual
socket 56 core machine i got my heatsink from super micro i got
my instructions
at this color color instructions
wow amazing i got my cooler
and i specifically said i specifically said
the motherboard uses the square ilm it
doesn't match up because these are for the narrow ilm and
the motherboard uses the square ilm
and i cried
first i was sad and then i was mad
and then i was super excited because i actually had something that might even
be cooler to show off to you guys so check this out this is
the world's highest box to card size ratio
video card that has existed in at least 10 years because this used to be a thing
like i remember back when ASUS would have video card boxes that were
literally like this big chain tech like those companies they had
these giant boxes and the idea was that
they were too cheap to buy shelf space to buy frontage space
in the retail stores right because that's what you have to do that's how
the retail industry works they were too cheap to buy the placements so they just
made these gigantic boxes so they
wouldn't have to pay but they would have to get a ton of space on the shelf isn't
it brilliant i mean where's chaintec at today right
anyway so zotac has apparently just reused a box
from an existing gtx 1080 ti you would
think except that this arctic storm thing here that looks
like a sticker in this mini these aren't stickers they specifically went out of
their way to create this this gigantic box
for this tiny graphics card but
its size should not should not dissuade you it should not
tell you anything about its power
because this is a full-fledged
gtx 1080 ti
and it is the size of like a 1050
so zotac has not only engineered a full
1080 ti into something that is the same size as their previous 1080 mini
they have also created a fully custom
water cooling solution so you can see here they've got
they've got coverage for the vrms right here they've got pads on the memory
modules right here and right down this side and then they've got a GPU contact
area for the 1080 ti so they have created a fully custom water block
solution for it as well now i do have some misgivings about
their water block design it does not appear to be
all copper which depending on your loop
configuration may be an issue for you or may not
i'm actually a huge fan of what ek's done with their aluminum lineup of
products all aluminum products that are lower cost and designed to go together
but if you're mixing and matching you can run into issues even if you use
anti-corrosive additives
so what all we got here we do get a dvi port we get
three displayport ports we get one HDMI we get a slightly taller than a pci
bracket pcb so they have cheated a little bit there but you got to kind of
give them give them that because realistically with all this space on the
top for the connections you were i mean you were going to have to have a bit
more space above the card in your case anyway now one thing i wish they had
done was rather than come out this way i wish that they had gone with fittings on
the top and on the bottom like this but again
i'm you know i got to go easy on them dual 8 pin connectors so i would expect
to be able to overclock the stuffing out of this thing and uh in terms of
included accessories they got a couple six to eight pins and then they've got a
couple of three eighths inch fittings um
i remember i still remember back when half inch fittings used to be the the
cat's pajamas and oh interesting i think
these are aluminum okay so yeah it's aluminum block
intended to be used with aluminum products i would recommend or at the
very least make sure you use a healthy mix of anti-corrosive additive
all right so to fully appreciate the scale of this thing i want to show it
next to a couple of other cards first of all here is a titan xp
collector's edition so
it is that much shorter it is a little bit taller
see this there we go so it is a little bit taller
but it should theoretically actually that
would be really interesting it should only take up a single PCIe slot if you
were to cut off the dvi port like we did in our single slot titan mod then
compared to one of the most ginormous graphics cards of all time the 6990 this
thing has way more power much smaller size and
it'll run completely silently assuming that you have a water cooling lube
whoa so there you have it
i don't really have a standard outro for these classic unboxings subscribe and
like and maybe we'll run the credits if someone other than me chops it together