those back plates that you find on some graphics cards are like a bra for your
graphics card they look sexy and alluring making the reveal of what's
underneath that much more fun and that sag prevention is a bonus but do they
help with cooling I mean you can find people asking about this everywhere from
the Linus techtips Forum to overclock.net to Tom's Hardware to
evga's own forums Reddit and even super
user forums they're all asking the same question and the answer has always been
nope no cooling benefits just Aesthetics
and rigidity though you'll find the odd mention of protection for the components
on the back from things like dropped screws abrasion or small water cooling
mishaps which is valid but not cooling
right well that's what I thought but orus recently released their GTX 1080
extreme Edition 8G a beastly looking card with an advanced copper back plate
cooling they claim that excess heat from your GPU not only gets dissipated by the
massive cooling module on the front you know the standard graphics card heat
sink de but also through the backside
with a ribbed copper plate providing a well-rounded thermal solution for the
GPU well they've piqued my interest but
they don't say exactly by how much the advanced copper back plate cooling
solution will actually reduce temps by
there is this giant aggro 3 that's just
chilling on the ground graic of the back plate so I guess we're going to go with
that welcome to episode one of manufacturer say where we're going to
test if oris's new solution can stand up to their bold
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drink tubs check it out at the link below let's set the playing field this
is a non- reference NVIDIA GTX 1080 but we'll start with a Founders Edition 1080
it also has a backplate but doesn't claim that it improves Cooling and
there's no shiny copper on it just a few weak sauce thermal pads that are
probably there mostly to make sure that the back plate isn't detrimental to
cooling I threw it on a test bench and loaded up furmark the fuzzy donut of
death I left the card at stock settings other than cranking the temp Target up
to 83° and after letting it burn for about 20 minutes just to be sure it was
at a stable 79° C all right time to take
it back off the bench and remove the back plate this is a relatively simple
process four screws around the GPU two bigger ones near the I/O and then
there's a ton of tiny little incredibly
annoying screws
everywhere be sure to have a magnetic part tray if you don't have one we have
this handy guide on how to make one out of a dead hard drive because these
little Devils will run away on you God they are annoying anyways bench time
again the fuzzy donut is back and the results 79° no change whatsoever this is
starting to feel like the workshop we even took some shots with our Flur
thermal camera to give you guys a more complete picture of what's going on but
in a nutshell the founders Edition card
well the back plate didn't really help anything but a challenger approaches
aggressive Ang Les animalistic symbols refined copper metal and Industrial
styling same process slot it in lock it in place screw it in crank the thermal
and power limit to Max overclock the core and memory by 100 MHz each apply
the fuzzy donut and wait 20 minutes results 67° and that's at over 2 GHz on
the core this is a pretty wicked card it's fast it runs cool I hit a voltage
limit at that overclock but uh yeah I'm liking it so far but how about that back
plate well looking at the Flur thermal imaging there is a cold spot right where
that back plate sits but does that translate to a difference in core
temperatures time to find out remove the three random screws from the back plate
then the four ones around the GPU realize that there are more internally
remove the entire heat sink unplugging all four plugs from the inside and
undoing two remaining screws find another Power connector behind the back
back plate for the glowing orus logo try not to break the connector when removing
it as it's rather fragile attach the cooler again but leave the back plate
off put it back on the bench and conclusion time 67° that's the result
67° is not lower than 67° 67° is the
same damn thing as 67° these results are
not different the Fleer footage doesn't show the cold spot anymore but as there
was no improvement the core is not less hot the card is not running any faster
does the back plate look really cool yep does it cool things maybe maybe the back
of the PCB but not the GPU or anything else that is going to affect performance
it's hard with the tools that we have to say whether this is to do with poor
thermal transfer through the PCB or the thick thermal pad that's on the copper
plate and the card does perform well so
we aren't saying not to buy it or anything just brace yourself for
disappointment if you're a hardcore copper back plates for their GPU cooling
abilities nerd I guess if that exists
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