I WISH you could buy this at MSRP - AORUS Radeon RX 6800 XT Master Type C
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,483 words · ~7 min read
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- It's probably fine. Don't worry about it!
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We're complete professionals around here. At this point you must think I'm some kind of AMD fanboy.
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Here I am looking at the RX 6800 XT again.
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This time it's an Aorus Master and they actually sponsored this ShortCircuit
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just so we can take a look at their unique cooling design
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and all the other things that make this particular card special.
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So clearly the key features of this card
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are exactly the same as a reference or, sorry...
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Yeah, they're reference, aren't they? They're not called anything special. Yeah, the reference-designed 6800 series.
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But if we we look at the rest of the box here,
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we've got MAX-Covered Cooling, which is 2 x 115-millimeter fans
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and 1 x 100-millimeter unique-shaped blade stack fans.
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With Wind Claw design.
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Wind Claw.
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(Anthony laughs) - [David] It's like a cat pawing at the wind. (both laugh)
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- The Wind Claw apparently reinforces and channels the airflow
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to completely cover the heat sink. And of course we've got RGB Fusion to-
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- [Siri] I didn't get that. Could you try again? - Yes, in fact, I can try again.
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I'm putting you in theater mode. And of course we've got RGB Fusion 2.0,
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which is Gigabyte's addressable RGB. And, ooh, what's this?
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LCD Edge View.
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Enthusiast mode. Chibi Time mode. (laughs) Okay.
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Custom GIF mode and Custom Text mode.
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So this has got a display on the side. All right, let's get this opened
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and see what's actually on the card and not, you know, whatever they say is on the box.
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All right. First thing is this little package here.
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Wonder what's in this. "You can enjoy a four-year warranty
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by registering on the website within 30 days of purchase." It's also kind of adorable
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that there's broken English on here too,
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like down here in the corner. "Get extend warranty and manage warranty period.
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Service status more conveniently."
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Okay. Yeah.
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What's this?
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Aw, it's a little metal... Is it metal? Yeah, it looks like...
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Feels like a little sheet of metal. Case badge.
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Let's get to peelin' here.
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Ooh. Where does the plastic begin and where does it end?
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Wow, it tucks under. There we go.
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Wah.
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Hmm. I mean, the shroud is plastic,
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but it looks quite nice. It's got this brushed feel to it,
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so it doesn't feel tacky. It's quite a...
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Well, it's chunky. This is a three-slot card.
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But it looks pretty nice. It's got a lotta weight to it as well.
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And there's a little bit of...
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There we go. The pitch of the heat sink fins is actually quite large.
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There's a lot of space for air to flow, which is actually quite good.
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Presumably that's what the extended heat sink is for,
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so they can space that out a little bit more
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but still have the surface are required to dissipate all the heat that's coming off of this thing.
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Speaking of which, these fans.
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Interesting. Aw, there's more peels.
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Gotta peel 'em. There were two of these on that middle fan.
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I think. No, these are stuck to me.
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They just won't... They won't leave. These fans on the outside here are flanking this middle fan.
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They're actually a little bit above where that fan sits in vertical space.
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So this fan in here seems to be the one with their, um,
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their Wing Claw design.
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It's kinda got like, I don't know, fingers on the tips of the fan blades.
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I guess the design is supposed to be kind of like a scoop
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to pull the air that these fans are kinda pulling in,
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like that, to kinda grab that and push it through.
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So according to Aorus, the way this works
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is that every millimeter of this heat sink's surface area
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is hit by airflow thanks to these fans.
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That lets the fans spin a little bit slower
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and that means that you're not dealing with that super loud whine,
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like when you're in the middle of a game or even if you just start up your computer,
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sometimes they do that. Around the back we've got this nice metal backplate back here.
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Not sure if it's actually cooling anything or if it's just to provide structural rigidity.
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This thing is not twisting at all. But we also have a BIOS selector switch.
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So on the left is BIOS OC, which I think is currently selected.
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Yup. And on the right is Silent, which I presume would further cap the maximum fan speed.
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Finally, on this edge of the card
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we have two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors.
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Sorry, NVIDIA. Nobody cares about your 12-pin connector. And we have this LCD on the side.
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It's kinda cleverly hidden. The glass or plastic...
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I'm not sure if that's glass or not. It kinda looks like it. It is very reflective.
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There's very little to, I guess,
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delineate the LCD itself from the rest of that little bezel.
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Especially since it's picking up fingerprints.
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- [David] I like how you're using the Stealth hoodie and there's a microfiber cloth to your left.
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- Listen. We don't sell microfiber cloths on LTTStore.com.
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We do sell Stealth hoodies on LTTStore.com.
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All right, we're back. We've got a computer.
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The video card is installed and you can see it has lovely...
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I think currently red LEDs. There they are, RGB.
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And that little animation going on on the little LCD,
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which we change if we go into RGB Fusion 2.0.
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Oh! Well, I could just look at the screen. Yeah, GPU temperature, GPU usage, GPU clock,
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fan speed, VRAM usage, VRAM clock, and TGP, the graphics power.
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Custom image. We'll get to that. Custom text.
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Yeah, "Hi, Aorus." Let's do, "Hi, Aorus."
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Is that what it's saying now? - Yep. - Hi, Aorus. - Hi.
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- All right, let's change it to something different then. - [David] Bye, Aorus.
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- No, I changed it to something far more interesting,
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if I'm being completely honest. - [David] Nice!
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- LTTStore.com. Chibi Time. Yeah, that's...
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That's this thing. The frame rates are silky-smooth.
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I don't have the FPS display up right now 'cause I just wanted to stress the card,
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but it is very nice.
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I've got no complaints whatsoever here.
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So every hour you have your computer on it levels up.
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- Nice! - That's, uh... Uh, that's a thing.
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I don't know. That's not very environmentally friendly. I would've thought that it would just level up
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when you're increasing power draw
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or temperature or something. We're doin' it.
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Estimated upload time's (gasps) 11 minutes, 9 seconds?
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- [David] Why? - What?
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Aw. All I wanted to do was give the people
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Flossing Linus on a graphics card.
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So, CPU benchmark, go.
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Part of how it's managing to keep up this level of performance
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throughout the entire test here, and we're running it a second time now,
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is thanks to its entirely unified copper heat plate.
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So the CPU, or sorry, the GPU,
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and the memory are all part of one contact plate and it also has two other contact plates
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for its power phases as well. So it's able to take all of the heat
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from those heat-generating components,
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pipe it out through several heat pipes built into the design,
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and then it goes through the stacked fins
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that are inside of the cooler itself. And it's doing an excellent job.
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It's managing to do all of this, we started the benchmark,
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it spiked up to about 60-65,
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and now it's at 66-66 towards the end of the benchmark.
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So it is doing a phenomenal job. (laughs)
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A lot of warm air is actually being kicked out of the back here.
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And I think the majority of the noise that you're hearing there
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is actually from the CPU fan. That sounds like the Noctua cooler to me.
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In fact, I could very easily figure that out.
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Let's plug that back in then.
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- [David] You unplugged the fan? - Yeah. (David laughs)
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It's probably fine. Don't worry about it!
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We're complete professionals around here. So that just about does it.
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Thanks for watching, guys. Check out the Aorus RX 6800 XT Master Type C
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down below on Amazon and on Newegg,
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and we'll have those linked. And we also have Gigabyte motherboards down there too.
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(PSU clicks off) - [David] Off!