Is this too XTREME??? - AORUS RTX 3080 XTREME 10G Video Card
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·2021-05-05
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- This unboxing is brought to you by AORUS. This is the AORIS XTREME GeForce RTX 3080.
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And it promises to, (lid falls)
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not fall out of the box, if I do that. Sorry, that came off a little bit, there.
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This is one of the most overbuilt 3080's out there.
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And it features what they're calling Max-Coverage Cooling.
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(plastic rustles)
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I promise, it's gonna be worth the effort. (laughs)
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I get such a kick out of how freakin' heavy
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these 3,000 series cards are. (plastic rustles)
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Now, other board makers, they've gone out and they've done
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triple slot coolers. But AORIS, they said,
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"No! Four slots is the right amount for the RTX 3080."
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You hear that sound in the background? That's the engine revving.
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Actually, there's construction going on in our office, right now. And we can't delay them, or it's not gonna be done
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before the end of the year. Let's peel this puppy.
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(plastic peels)
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She's a thick boy, all right. - [Jono] Looks like a 3090. - [Linus] Jebus.
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Well, you know they have the same GPU, right? - [Jono] Yep. - So, overclocking the snot out of a 3080
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means you pretty much need a 3090 class cooling solution.
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There's some other accessories in here. Let's have a, let's take a minute here, though.
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All right, what all we got in here? All right, fancy case badge.
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Whoops. And whatever this guys is. Ca-caw!
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- [Jono] Is that Batman? - I think it's somewhere in between Batman,
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Birdperson and some kind of, what's that Pokemon,
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with the bone? - [Jono] Oh, Cubone. - Ca-caw.
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Oh, I fell down. This is actually not bad. (mouth sounds)
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Okay, enough of that. Let's have a look at the card. This is cool.
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This isn't even in my talking points. Check this out, Brandon. Now, you can't use all of them simultaneously,
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because that's a limitation of the Ampere architecture of the GPU.
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But look at this, three Display Ports and three HDMIs.
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What that lets you do, is have the upmost in flexibility.
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You wanna run, you know, three LG C10 48 inch TVs
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at 120 Hertz? Boom, you're covered! Three HDMI 2.1's.
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Or if you wanna run three PC displays at high refresh rates,
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let's say, you know, 1080p 360 Hertz monitors.
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Boom, you can do that as well, without having to use any adapters.
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Of course, it uses PCI Express Gen 4. And no NVLink SLI fingers.
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You have to step up to the RTX 3090 for that.
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What they do have up here though, is a little toggle switch.
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So, you can either throw the BIOS in OC mode
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or silent mode, depending on what kind of a profile you wanna run in.
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Now, I would imagine that in silent mode, this thing would be pretty freaking silent.
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They've got three fans, with one of them counter rotating here, in the middle.
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And what looks like a very silence optimized heat sync.
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So, it's large, but more importantly than that, you can actually see that the fin spacing
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is quite a bit less dense than you might see
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on some of the cards that aren't quite so thick.
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A less thick fin stack does mean that there's less
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overall surface area of metal per cubic inch.
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But what it also means is that it's easier for the air to pass through the heat sync,
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with less turbulence. That's another interesting thing, here. So, it doesn't quite have the same amount
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of pass through as NVIDIA's design on their Founders Edition,
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but you can see they are actually leveraging this edge fan, which is fed by five heat pipes,
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to do a lot little bit of pass through cooling over here, on the side.
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This card continues the trend of NVIDIA's partners not thinking too much of their proprietary 12-pin connector.
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Although, I guess it's hard to think much of it, when they were probably as surprised by it
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as anyone else was. So, it uses three 8-pin connectors. And it doesn't look like much right now,
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'cause it's just like a black mirror, but this, right here, is a display that can be loaded
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up with images and GIFs. So, we're gonna throw it onto a bench and try it out real quick, here.
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I have very high expectations for this cooler. Especially given that it's got a vapor chamber
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that I didn't even notice before. So, heatpipes feed this entire fin stack, over here.
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And then, this one over here, actually has a combination. It's got two heatpipes, plus a vapor chamber,
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handling the GPU and the memory. Which are the hottest components on this board.
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So, we've got 10 gigs of GDDR6 RAM.
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Do I have a keyboard and mouse by any chance? - [Jono] Yeah, it's right behind you. - What a boss.
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- [Jono] You said to get everything prepared. - I say lots of things.
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- [Jono] You said you wanted a horse, so I gave you a horse. - That's true, you did give me a horse.
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We went clip clop, that day. Everything's goin' well, so far.
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Plenty of time for it to not output anything, though. Let me get you guys a better look at the display, there.
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Not bad. That's pretty sick. This keyboard is really cute,
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but we might have to switch off of it. Thanks, like, who doesn't need arrows in their daily life?
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How sick is this desk pad, by the way?
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Can we just take a moment, to appreciate lttstore.com's fantastic desk pad?
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Look how gigantic this thing is. Now, let's see how we hold up for coil whine
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when we're actually stressing the GPU. Huh, actually, not bad.
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Here, hold on a second. Let me get my mic, here. Is this boom in the shot?
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(fans blow)
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Not bad, eh? Dang, it also looks like we're gonna settle in around like,
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65 degrees, with this puppy. Not too shabby.
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All right, AORUS, that plus a four year warranty
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makes this look like a pretty compelling card. Of course, if you've got the budget for it,
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versus a more basic one. So, as always, you can check it out
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at the link in the video description. And as always, you should make sure you are subscribed to ShortCircuit.