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recently we made a video investigating the usefulness of video card back plates

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in a shocking surprise to No One the

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thermal benefit was marginal if anything

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at all so then when EVGA called us up

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inviting us to check out their top secret IX technology that was going to

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solve video card thermal issues we had to wonder I mean is this just another

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case of gluing on more bloody fans and back plates or is it a worthwhile

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Innovation the Phoenix oour is a full-sized minimalistically designed

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keyboard complete with Cherry MX switches and a new white backlit variant

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check it out at the link below what the crap is icx technology I

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how do I even pronounce that I I6

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I6 well whatever evga's marketing team

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helpfully describes it as a new and more efficient way to cool with optimized

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airf flow fin design which is a good start because an old and less efficient

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way to cool with an unoptimized airflow fin design would raise a lot of

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questions essentially what it boils down to is this rather than try to sell us a

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revolutionary fan blade design or whatever it's more about data IX relies

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on nine discrete thermal sensors to

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dramatically expand the card's monitoring capabilities so in addition

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to the GPU we now get readings for each

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Bank of vram and the power delivery

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modules the cooler can then take advantage of this sensor data to

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intelligently cool the entire card as

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needed to the point of independently controlling its two fans if let's say

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the GPU temps would allow a normal card to spin down but the the rear portion of

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the card was still hot pretty cool

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concept and they've tacked on every other feature that they can think of as

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well like the perforated heat SN fins low power fans for additional GPU power

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budget really you guys and a back plate that EVGA says helps with cooling a

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claim that seems to be in Vogue these days all of this of course culminating

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in the Bold statement play longer overclock better so how do we test these

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claims in our possession is a brand new EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Super Clock 2 with

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an all metal design with a diecast back plate a clean industrial aesthetic the

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aforementioned perforated heat sink fins and of course icx as a superclocked card

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this sits in the middle of evga's lineup with a 100 MHz bump over the reference

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design and we'll be running it on our RGB test bench so it's a core

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i77700k at both outof the box and

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overclocked speeds time for the fuzzy donut of death yes fur marks back and so

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are the settings from the back plate benches stock settings save for the

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maxed out power and temperature targets the results well that's unsurprisingly

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the first interesting aspect of the icx design there are a lot of them for the

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GPU it was stable at 68° Centigrade

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while the memory came in at 80 and the power delivery hit 81 all of this with

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no thermal throttling traditional tools

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like ferm Mark's integrated GPU temperature readout would have only

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shown us the 68° figure which means that

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already icx is doing its job so then we gave it a tidy 100 MHz overclock to both

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core and memory keeping in mind of course that the superclock 2 is already

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over clocked out of the box and went back to Tim Horton's for another fuzzy

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donut and 68° Centigrade on the GPU 80

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for the memory and 81 for the power delivery again zero throttling I'm

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noticing a pattern here the Super Clock 2 IX is a good card and measures up well

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to the aorist that we checked out recently but this sensor Tech just

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doesn't really seem to do anything for performance directly and under normal

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conditions both fans Go full blast when the cards working hard and sit idle when

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you leave it for a while so why did they

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bother developing this where could it make a difference well there are a

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couple of situations one of which we caught on our thermal camera naturally

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because the independently controlled fans spin Up and Down based on the

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temperatures in their corresponding zones the total time each fan needs to

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stay spun up can be optimized for a quicker return to quiet operation

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so with Precision we can see the temperatures winding down and the

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respective fans slowing down after we

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close a 3D application Situation Number

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Two is less to do with Acoustics and more to do with longevity not every

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video card enjoys the luxury of an open test bench or a full ATX Tower and hot

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recycled air or airf flow restrictions

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in smaller cases could lead to higher

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temperatures for the DRM reducing its efficiency hurting performance and

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shortening its lifespan so with our

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obstruction in the way of this fan we can see some car temperatures Rising

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even when the GPU is not being stressed this is a likely scenario in a compact

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case and IX ramps the fan accordingly

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cool literally in our perfect world

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there is still some work to be done here independent control of the fan curves is

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neat but a robust implementation of a feature EVGA is teasing right now that

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would allow other system coolers to be controlled as well would allow us to for

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example point a side panel fan at the card's back plate which reached a toasty

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74° Celsius in our tests back plates

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don't normally contribute to video card cooling much if at all but in this

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manner it's possible that it could so

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what do you guys think then would you pay extra for more temperature answers

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do you appreciate the extra control let us know in the comments

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