Thank you to Corsair for sending me to Computex this year and allowing me to sit with this cow. They have a cool lap
dog product. Check it out in the video description down below. Also, thank you to MSI. Their graphics card is actually
in this roundup. So, basically everyone's aftermarket custom GTX 1080
was leaked before Computex. So, now that
we're here in Taipei, there wasn't a ton to cover, especially because almost none
of them actually released clock speeds. Talking about graphics cards without
being able to talk about how fast they are is rather boring. So, what we're
going to do is like a graphics card gauntlet. We're going to go through
every single manufacturer that I could find at Computex that had a custom GTX
1080 and cover what I found to be their
main card. I'm not going to do things that are two and a half slots. I'm not going to do things that are three slots.
Just going to focus on their main specifically two slot card. So, let's
go. So, the first card we're going to check out is the ASUS ROG Stricks. This
is an RGB card. So, it is compatible
with the Aura system of ASUS products. So, you can have it match the different
colors of all the different components in your system, which is pretty sweet. It features a direct CU3 cooler other
than obviously the RGB changes. And it has a boost clock of 1936 MHz for the
core and a 10,000 MHz clock for the memory. It has one eightpin PCIe power
connector and one six pin PCIe power connector. and a really cool new feature
on the end of the card, which is two four pin fan headers. So, you can plug
system fans into this thing and have the system fans react based on the graphics
card's temperature instead of traditionally the CPU's temperature,
which is actually probably a lot more helpful considering how people use
all-in-one coolers and stuff nowadays. As expected, Windforce has returned in
the form of a G1 gaming graphics card from Gigabyte, but it doesn't say
Windforce anywhere on it. Never fear, it's still a Windforce card. There's
just been some branding changes. The G1 Gaming has RGB LEDs on it, 16.8 million
colors, but it does have some orange accents, although they are under the
card in an area that most people won't see, so it might be okay in your case.
There was also a bold move taken by only putting one eightpin power connector
where a lot of the other guys are putting two. We'll have to see later on if that actually makes a difference in
overclocking. We'll see with OC scanner and stuff. It might. Stay tuned for a
video on overclocking GTX 1080s. Other than that, it is a little bit more
reserved than some of the other cars we've seen at the show, but that might
be fine. That might be what you're going for. Next up is MSI's Gaming X8G. It
features a Twin Frozer 6 cooler, which has some differences in terms of the
heat pipes. It has one 8mm heat pipe and five 6 mm heat pipes that feature a new
flat off squared design near the block, so that it should have more surface area
connection there. And it has new fins, which are slightly more curved as they
go out on half of them. This card is clocked on the core at 1847 MHz and on
the memory at 10,18. For Zotek, I went with their AMP
edition graphics card. It has their Spectra RGB lighting on the front of the
card. It features a really good, very clean looking back plate. In terms of
fans, there are two of them. For heat pipes, you have two 8mm heat pipes and
three 6mm heat pipes for a total of five overall. And a standard connectivity
configuration of three DisplayPort 1.4 four ports, one DVID port, and one HDMI
2.0 port. But I don't know anything about its clock speeds, unfortunately,
as those won't be announced until after the show. Then we have Colorful, a brand
that you may not be familiar with, but in certain parts of the world is
freaking huge. Their card is the X-Ttop
8G GTX 1080. It has a turbo when you
engage the button that is on the IO plate of up to 1847 MHz. and other than
that has RGB lighting, a triple fan cooler, and a pretty cool looking
backlight plate. Below those fans, there's a 1 mm copper plate to transfer
heat from the GPU up into the heat pipes. In terms of power, there's two
8pin PCIe power connectors, giving you a total of 300 W for the card. Next up is
Galax with their EXOC GTX 1080. It has
two fans, both of which are 100 mm. It has RGB lighting just like seemingly
everybody else. It has a metal back plate, but we actually can't see it
because both of their cards are plastered against a wall. And that back
plate will be user upgradeable to an RGB back plate down the line. In terms of
power, there's one 8 pin and one six pin PCIe power with a 6 plus2 powerphase
design. There's two 8mm and two 6 millm heat pipes. And then in terms of clock
speeds, I have no idea. There's no reported GPU clock speed or memory clock
speed. Hopefully, you guys will be able to find out in the next coming weeks as these cards are coming out pretty soon.
All right, guys. Thanks for watching. Hopefully that roundup wasn't too crazy. It was pretty rapid fire. So, if I
skimmed over something too much, like say a last generation cooler that's on a
new GTX 1080, just check out the review of that card from the previous
generation. We should cover the cooler quite a bit. It should give you a good
representation of it. We should be getting more in-depth coverage of these
cards as they show up in the office, including clock speeds and performance
and all that kind of stuff. So, stay tuned for that. Thank you to Corsair for
bringing us here to Computex. Check out their lap dog in the video description down below. It lets you use a full-size
keyboard and mouse to play games on the couch on your TV. Pretty cool setup.
Also, thank you to MSI. They've got their AUS X desktop and their own GTX
1080, which was in this video. If you want to see all the rest of our complex
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