{"video_id":"UVlT_VFI0VU","title":"ASUS GTX 1080 Strix Review - \"I wanna go fast!\"","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":481,"segments":[{"start_s":0.319,"end_s":6.48,"text":"1936 MHz boost clock in OC mode 8 plus2","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.24,"end_s":14.54,"text":"Super alloy power phase design Auto extreme technology GPU controled fan","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.44,"end_s":17.59,"text":"headers and uh AA RGB lighting I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.08,"end_s":28.92,"text":"guess tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.88,"end_s":32.759,"text":"and enjoy a more open internet to try tunnel bear for free check out the link","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.64,"end_s":37.0,"text":"in the video description so the strix 1080 from ASUS is finally here and 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Auto extreme technology GPU controled fan headers and uh AA RGB lighting I guess tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open internet to try tunnel bear for free check out the link in the video description so the strix 1080 from ASUS is finally here and it's rocking an allnew aesthetic cover to their beloved Drex C3 cooler design I think it looks great and I appreciate that they opted to go with a flat black coloring essentially everywhere which will joking about RGB being an overdone feature aside complement the addition of these greatl looking Aura enabled RGB LEDs that support many different lighting modes and can sync with other Ora enabled devices like your a use motherboard keyboard mouse Etc as well for connectivity ASUS decided to switch it up a bit instead of the 1080s standard setup of three display ports one HDMI connector and one DVI connector ASUS opted to ditch one of those display ports for an additional HDMI connector they call this solution vrf friendly HDMI ports which might sound kind of like SLI ready Edition RAM but it's not that bad all it means is that you can have an HDMI based VR headset that connected and some other HDMI device like a monitor or TV without using a DisplayPort adapter for the flat panel display something that's required with the HCC Vive on the 1000 series NVIDIA cards due to their shockingly poor implementation of HDMI over DisplayPort that's it moving on the STX has a 203 MHz overclock in OC mode over the founders Edition 1733 MHz boost clock this results in a freakishly awesome final clock speed of 1936 MHz which hovers in real games between around 1920 to slightly over 2,63 MHz thanks to GPU boost there is an elephant in the room here however the OC mode isn't enabled out of the box and there's no Hardware BIOS switch or anything to turn it on all the 6970 back in the day it has to be enabled through GPU tweak 2 and a sous software utility problem number one this utility isn't that easy to find searching for download GPU tweak 2 does yield an auss download page but for a horribly out-of-date version of the software no if you want it you'll need to scroll a little further to the Reddit discussion thread on how to find it now they aren't hiding it either there's a graphic about it on the box Ard and honestly it's not that hard to track down if you just go to your graphics card support page select the drivers button expand exp what operating system you have then expand the utility section it's right there no big deal the confusing part is this why if the tool is required to reach the performance levels advertised are they not in your face about it if this is what enables the card to be awesome tell me I mean sure in the manual it says to install the driver's disc but like come on lonus basically made a meme out of throwing those things away back in 2009 we have a driver disc don't use this download the L off the NVIDIA website they're inherently outdated and ASUS is a pretty smart Bunch I'd imagine they know as well as I do that the majority of people ignore them and go straight to NVIDIA or AMD's website for the most up-to-date drivers why would they ever find themselves on the ASUS support page it's annoying too because this problem is so simple to fix MSI has an easy to find download page for afterburner so apparently it's not impossible and a surprisingly low number of people are overclocking their cards anyways so shouldn't you be just giving the performance to them that you're saying the card can do anyways right out of the box I mean the card sits at 66° underload not a big deal and you clearly have a BIOS that will run these speeds by default there was that whole Scandal where you were sending out cards pre-loaded with it to reviewers so instead of taking that away from reviewers FYI our card was reflashed with the retail BIOS before testing just give it to everyone problem solved maybe I'm missing something but enough of that let's move on the performance side of things was actually pretty groovy I experienced performance improvements of about 3 to 7 FPS across the board which is rather awesome and that's while these games are running at 4K with everything maxed out beyond their maximum presets that 3 to FPS was clawed for these were in very difficult scenarios if if I turned all the settings down so the average FPS number was higher the FPS that it would have climbed would have also been higher I don't expect many people to pick the highest possible performance preset and then crank further beyond that this card is a beast and will serve you well and all of that while sitting at about 66° and nice and quietly too the card is a beast that doesn't get too hot and doesn't get too loud that's cool so it's a rocking performer out of the box just don't expect it to overclock beyond the GPU tweak OC mode I found this rather surprising I mean to be fair I did manage to get the card stable at around plus 25 MHz but we're talking like 1% here for that level of increase what's the point I just turned it off and to be fair having the card hit 263 mahz or 2 GHz was impressive enough it's just a little surprising that there was no juice left left in the tank they really did seem to cut it close you can either be frustrated by this or you could take that as a good thing they did all the work for you let me know what your feelings are in the comment section down below so in conclusion despite my objections to the way it was advertised this is an absolutely stunning card it looks beautiful in so many ways I love the swap to dual HDMI ports and it is fast as hell I might see some personal rig potential here so stay tuned for that today we're highlighting the k7xx limited edition ruby red headphones which is unlike any of the colors that is currently on me of course Mast drop still has a bunch of other cool products which you can check out at the link in the video description hopefully you guys know about Mast drop already though it's the pretty simple concept where the more people buy something on mass drop a certain product the lower the price of that certain product goes the product we're showcasing today is the same spec wise as the k7xx headphones that lus reviewed last year can check with that video right up here the only real difference is that it uses red accents on the ear cups and headband and that's about it other than the fact that it is a limited edition drop so if you want a pair you're going to have to act pretty fast so if you want to check them out and grab a pair of ruby red k7xx headphones head over to the link in the video description today thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome and you're like wow all that stuff is weird but it's a pretty cool graphics card regardless hit the like button get subscribed or check out the link in the video description to buy the stuff that we mentioned in this video like the 1080 stricks at Amazon and also Link in the description is our merch store where you can buy cool shirts and our community Forum where you can talk about stuff like why don't they have that easier to set up or ra I don't care the cards really good and I do manual overclocking anyway so I don't need that thing uh I don't know check out this video to see like the normal GTX 1080 I filmed it in a little bit of a weird exotic area so check that out"}