Best GTX 1080s at Computex!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,171 words · ~5 min read
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Thank you to Corsair for sending me to Computex this year and allowing me to sit with this cow. They have a cool lap
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dog product. Check it out in the video description down below. Also, thank you to MSI. Their graphics card is actually
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in this roundup. So, basically everyone's aftermarket custom GTX 1080
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was leaked before Computex. So, now that
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we're here in Taipei, there wasn't a ton to cover, especially because almost none
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of them actually released clock speeds. Talking about graphics cards without
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being able to talk about how fast they are is rather boring. So, what we're
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going to do is like a graphics card gauntlet. We're going to go through
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every single manufacturer that I could find at Computex that had a custom GTX
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1080 and cover what I found to be their
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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.
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Just going to focus on their main specifically two slot card. So, let's
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go. So, the first card we're going to check out is the ASUS ROG Stricks. This
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is an RGB card. So, it is compatible
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with the Aura system of ASUS products. So, you can have it match the different
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colors of all the different components in your system, which is pretty sweet. It features a direct CU3 cooler other
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than obviously the RGB changes. And it has a boost clock of 1936 MHz for the
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core and a 10,000 MHz clock for the memory. It has one eightpin PCIe power
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connector and one six pin PCIe power connector. and a really cool new feature
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on the end of the card, which is two four pin fan headers. So, you can plug
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system fans into this thing and have the system fans react based on the graphics
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card's temperature instead of traditionally the CPU's temperature,
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which is actually probably a lot more helpful considering how people use
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all-in-one coolers and stuff nowadays. As expected, Windforce has returned in
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the form of a G1 gaming graphics card from Gigabyte, but it doesn't say
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Windforce anywhere on it. Never fear, it's still a Windforce card. There's
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just been some branding changes. The G1 Gaming has RGB LEDs on it, 16.8 million
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colors, but it does have some orange accents, although they are under the
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card in an area that most people won't see, so it might be okay in your case.
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There was also a bold move taken by only putting one eightpin power connector
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where a lot of the other guys are putting two. We'll have to see later on if that actually makes a difference in
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overclocking. We'll see with OC scanner and stuff. It might. Stay tuned for a
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video on overclocking GTX 1080s. Other than that, it is a little bit more
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reserved than some of the other cars we've seen at the show, but that might
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be fine. That might be what you're going for. Next up is MSI's Gaming X8G. It
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features a Twin Frozer 6 cooler, which has some differences in terms of the
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heat pipes. It has one 8mm heat pipe and five 6 mm heat pipes that feature a new
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flat off squared design near the block, so that it should have more surface area
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connection there. And it has new fins, which are slightly more curved as they
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go out on half of them. This card is clocked on the core at 1847 MHz and on
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the memory at 10,18. For Zotek, I went with their AMP
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edition graphics card. It has their Spectra RGB lighting on the front of the
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card. It features a really good, very clean looking back plate. In terms of
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fans, there are two of them. For heat pipes, you have two 8mm heat pipes and
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three 6mm heat pipes for a total of five overall. And a standard connectivity
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configuration of three DisplayPort 1.4 four ports, one DVID port, and one HDMI
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2.0 port. But I don't know anything about its clock speeds, unfortunately,
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as those won't be announced until after the show. Then we have Colorful, a brand
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that you may not be familiar with, but in certain parts of the world is
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freaking huge. Their card is the X-Ttop
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8G GTX 1080. It has a turbo when you
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engage the button that is on the IO plate of up to 1847 MHz. and other than
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that has RGB lighting, a triple fan cooler, and a pretty cool looking
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backlight plate. Below those fans, there's a 1 mm copper plate to transfer
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heat from the GPU up into the heat pipes. In terms of power, there's two
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8pin PCIe power connectors, giving you a total of 300 W for the card. Next up is
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Galax with their EXOC GTX 1080. It has
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two fans, both of which are 100 mm. It has RGB lighting just like seemingly
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everybody else. It has a metal back plate, but we actually can't see it
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because both of their cards are plastered against a wall. And that back
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plate will be user upgradeable to an RGB back plate down the line. In terms of
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power, there's one 8 pin and one six pin PCIe power with a 6 plus2 powerphase
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design. There's two 8mm and two 6 millm heat pipes. And then in terms of clock
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speeds, I have no idea. There's no reported GPU clock speed or memory clock
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speed. Hopefully, you guys will be able to find out in the next coming weeks as these cards are coming out pretty soon.
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All right, guys. Thanks for watching. Hopefully that roundup wasn't too crazy. It was pretty rapid fire. So, if I
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skimmed over something too much, like say a last generation cooler that's on a
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new GTX 1080, just check out the review of that card from the previous
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generation. We should cover the cooler quite a bit. It should give you a good
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representation of it. We should be getting more in-depth coverage of these
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cards as they show up in the office, including clock speeds and performance
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and all that kind of stuff. So, stay tuned for that. Thank you to Corsair for
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bringing us here to Computex. Check out their lap dog in the video description down below. It lets you use a full-size
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keyboard and mouse to play games on the couch on your TV. Pretty cool setup.
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Also, thank you to MSI. They've got their AUS X desktop and their own GTX
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1080, which was in this video. If you want to see all the rest of our complex
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