I've seen some pretty crazy stuff in my time but it's not every day that your
shiny new graphics card comes with a freaking cane to find out why the Zotac
980ti comes with a cane and more about
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graphics card is actually pretty standard outside of its wacky cooling
setup which we will talk about in a moment its various clock speeds have
been untouched sitting at the GPU core
base clock speed of 10,25 and a boost of
1114 it's 6 GB of gddr5 memory is
running at 7,010 mahz which is yet again
stock that being said we'll see what the GPU decides to do later on with GPU
boost for your standard fixings you've got HDMI triple DisplayPort and DVI in
the io Department in terms of connectivity the card connects to the
motherboard through its fairly standard PCI 16x gen 3 connector power through
one 18 pin and one six pin PCI power connector and two other potential
graphics cards through two available SLI fingers on the top leftand Corner the
back of the card features a beautiful and unique back plate design which
features some kind of cool artwork Zotac branding the Arctic Storm branding logo
and the phrase push the limit the back plate also does a little bit of
wraparound reaching to the top of the card on the front of the card we get
more into the cooling Powerhouse that runs this thing Zotac strapped on a
generous offering of three large fans a whole wack ton of aluminum heat sink
fins and a plethora of heat pipes but the card is barely running at a lower
temperature than the stock cooler when under a load scenario of staring at The
Crisis 3 Skybox so what gives well when cooling on air the heat from the GPU has
to pass through the water block which doesn't have water in it not exactly an
ideal situation Zotac makes up for this with their beastly air cooling setup but
yeah anyways next up is that big heavy copper water block which we were just
talking about it's been nickel plated but how does it perform quite well
actually well enough that under looking at the Skyrim Skybox or I mean Crisis 3
Skybox it's running at 54° C the idle
temperatures of this thing when air cooled are 50° C that's a huge
Improvement load it's running at 73° but that's still quite solid all this
cooling adds quite a bit of weight how did Zotac handle this the cane what the
hell this thing is ridiculous like okay cool you identified a problem came up
with a solution that's great and with certain motherboard orientations you
won't need it but the most common motherboard orientation you will now I
prefer this idea over the cards just drooping like crazy and possibly having
issues at this weight I would have torn it apart for being so freakishly droopy
once installed it's scary and they fixed
that problem so high five for that but what if I want to install two graphics
cards what if the height of my case is kind of weird this pole only installs
one way and it's with the bottom of it being at a fixed height I'm sure you
could mod it to work better by drilling through the top and screwing into the
top of your case or something and letting it hang than sawing off the
bottom but damn that's probably a
terrible idea honestly I'm being hard on them for this and it's a great idea I'm
happy they implemented it but it maybe could have used some additional thought
and some additional tooling to be more friendly to various situations now for
performance when looking at these graphs please note that there are three
separate entries for this card depending on whether it was tested with stock
clocks and air cooling stock clocks and water cooling or overclocked with water
cooling performance is rather unsurprising although I was hoping for
GPU boost to do a little bit more than it did when it was with the added
benefit of being underwater this just reinforces how much I'd like to test a
whole bunch of the same graphics card to see how big of a variance GPU boost
really is it overclocked just fine and
as previously mentioned it kept its overall load Temps while overclocked at
a totally acceptable 73° but it barely
beat out the G1 gaming card in terms of overclocked performance there may have
been a little bit more overclocking Headroom but I'm talking maybe 10 to 15
MHz anything above that and the driver was crashing and artifacting all over
the freaking place in conclusion it's an interesting card with some fun Concepts
behind it the cane is a great general idea that could have maybe had some
better implementation procedures behind it the idea of water and air cooling a
card is great for longevity because you can use it in your main computer and
water cool the hell out of it for now and when you retire it later there's no
complication and you don't really need to worry about the potential of losing
your stock cooler as you don't have to store it anywhere because it's on the
freaking card one interesting tidbit before I go though uh I found one place
in North America that sells it to be fair I didn't look all that hard but
there was only 10 so good luck speaking
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