Most COMPACT Gaming Card - Zotac GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm Mini Classic Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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so my plan today was supposed to be an update on the dual
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socket 56 core machine i got my heatsink from super micro i got
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my instructions
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at this color color instructions
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wow amazing i got my cooler
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and i specifically said i specifically said
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the motherboard uses the square ilm it
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doesn't match up because these are for the narrow ilm and
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the motherboard uses the square ilm
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and i cried
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first i was sad and then i was mad
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and then i was super excited because i actually had something that might even
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be cooler to show off to you guys so check this out this is
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the world's highest box to card size ratio
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video card that has existed in at least 10 years because this used to be a thing
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like i remember back when ASUS would have video card boxes that were
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literally like this big chain tech like those companies they had
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these giant boxes and the idea was that
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they were too cheap to buy shelf space to buy frontage space
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in the retail stores right because that's what you have to do that's how
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the retail industry works they were too cheap to buy the placements so they just
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made these gigantic boxes so they
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wouldn't have to pay but they would have to get a ton of space on the shelf isn't
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it brilliant i mean where's chaintec at today right
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anyway so zotac has apparently just reused a box
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from an existing gtx 1080 ti you would
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think except that this arctic storm thing here that looks
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like a sticker in this mini these aren't stickers they specifically went out of
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their way to create this this gigantic box
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for this tiny graphics card but
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its size should not should not dissuade you it should not
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tell you anything about its power
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because this is a full-fledged
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gtx 1080 ti
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and it is the size of like a 1050
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so zotac has not only engineered a full
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1080 ti into something that is the same size as their previous 1080 mini
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they have also created a fully custom
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water cooling solution so you can see here they've got
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they've got coverage for the vrms right here they've got pads on the memory
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modules right here and right down this side and then they've got a GPU contact
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area for the 1080 ti so they have created a fully custom water block
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solution for it as well now i do have some misgivings about
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their water block design it does not appear to be
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all copper which depending on your loop
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configuration may be an issue for you or may not
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i'm actually a huge fan of what ek's done with their aluminum lineup of
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products all aluminum products that are lower cost and designed to go together
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but if you're mixing and matching you can run into issues even if you use
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anti-corrosive additives
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so what all we got here we do get a dvi port we get
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three displayport ports we get one HDMI we get a slightly taller than a pci
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bracket pcb so they have cheated a little bit there but you got to kind of
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give them give them that because realistically with all this space on the
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top for the connections you were i mean you were going to have to have a bit
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more space above the card in your case anyway now one thing i wish they had
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done was rather than come out this way i wish that they had gone with fittings on
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the top and on the bottom like this but again
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i'm you know i got to go easy on them dual 8 pin connectors so i would expect
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to be able to overclock the stuffing out of this thing and uh in terms of
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included accessories they got a couple six to eight pins and then they've got a
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couple of three eighths inch fittings um
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i remember i still remember back when half inch fittings used to be the the
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cat's pajamas and oh interesting i think
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these are aluminum okay so yeah it's aluminum block
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intended to be used with aluminum products i would recommend or at the
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very least make sure you use a healthy mix of anti-corrosive additive
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all right so to fully appreciate the scale of this thing i want to show it
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next to a couple of other cards first of all here is a titan xp
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collector's edition so
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it is that much shorter it is a little bit taller
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see this there we go so it is a little bit taller
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but it should theoretically actually that
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would be really interesting it should only take up a single PCIe slot if you
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were to cut off the dvi port like we did in our single slot titan mod then
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compared to one of the most ginormous graphics cards of all time the 6990 this
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thing has way more power much smaller size and
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it'll run completely silently assuming that you have a water cooling lube
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whoa so there you have it
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i don't really have a standard outro for these classic unboxings subscribe and
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like and maybe we'll run the credits if someone other than me chops it together