**Six Unconventional Graphics Card Designs**

The world of graphics cards is known for its innovation and creativity. However, every now and then, we come across designs that are truly one-of-a-kind. In this article, we'll be taking a closer look at six unconventional graphics card designs that are sure to raise some eyebrows.

**First Up: The Founders Edition Graphics Card**

Our journey begins with the Founders Edition graphics card. This card features a single blower fan to exhaust case heat out of tiny holes in the rear I/O and also just out into your case. It's impressive that the designers managed to include three outputs, meaning you're not losing out on connectivity. What's even more surprising is how it measures up performance-wise, with shockingly good results right up there with our Founders Edition.

**A Sound Dilemma**

However, this card does have a major drawback - its sound insulation leaves a lot to be desired. The Thermals scream like we were smashing its toes with a hammer the whole time. This card is definitely not one that you'd want to use in a case without some sound isolation or really at all unless you really need a single slot card.

**A Pair of GTX 1080s from Ino 3D**

Next up, we have a pair of freaking heavy GTX 1080s from Ino 3D. These cards are strikingly similar with the in3d I chill and Hercules airboss Behemoth whatever it's called sporting not one, not two, but three fans for reasons that aren't entirely clear. But hey, maybe with the 150 MHz Factory overclock they're on to something.

**A Colorful Twin: The iGame Xtop**

The iGame Xtop is a colorful twin of the in3d I chill. It features a distinctive feature - a turbo button that allows you to boost the clock speed by about 100 MHz. However, it's worth noting that we would prefer Direct Control.

**Four Fans and RGB Lighting: The Ino 3D Eye Chill**

The Ino 3D Eye Chill comes in a surprisingly well-written if somewhat rambling box with no specs whatsoever. We hit up the website and were greeted by a surprise - the website is coming to hit us a surprise that sounds painful. Let's see what else we got here.

**A Surprise at the Website**

The RGB Lighting on the logo is definitely eye-catching, but there's also a turbo button that actually boosts the clock speed by about 100 MHz. Neat! However, we're not sure why you wouldn't run it that way all the time because as for performance, it still falls a little bit behind the Ino 3D Eye Chill which manages better numbers across the board.

**A Three-Slot Card with a Cooler**

Finally, our craziest card yet - the 1080 TI based Colorful AME. Wow, this thing weighs a lot! Vulcan X and Holy balls is that a three slot card? Okay, technically no because it doesn't have more IO over there but the cooler does definitely cover up the slot directly underneath.

**A Turbo Button and LCD Screen**

The Vulcan X comes with a turbo button that bumps the Boost clock to 2 GHz. Aside from some gamery fans, we've got six heat pipes connected to two heat sinks which on its own would be impressive. But what's that on the side next to the GeForce logo? That's a screen baby - a pretty crappy old school LCD screen.

**Performance and Value**

The Vulcan X also comes with a screen that displays fan speed, core temperature, core frequency, and memory usage conveniently on a little hard-to-read display inside your Tower instead of in a sensible software interface. No well, neither does ours because there's no software in the box and none on the English version of the website. I still have to give them points for originality though.

So how much does a 2 GHz boost get you over a regular 1080 Ti? Looks like significant gains in synthetics and real-world numbers, with a couple frames higher than our Founders Edition. To its credit, it even stays very cool when overclocked, thanks to the large heat sink.

**Conclusion**

There you have it - six totally non-mainstream graphics card designs that are sure to raise some eyebrows. While some may take more dramatic approaches, others are similar to ones that were once popular with more performance than we've ever seen in those form factors before. Would you buy any of these Hot Topic versions of graphics cards or stick with comfortable Conformity? Let us know in the comments below.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou know I'd forgive you for thinking video cards these days are all such conformists plastic shrouds everywhere two to six heat pipes your choice of blower or two to three fans and that's it where has the style gone to China apparently with some help from our friends at Nvidia we Tracked Down the five most mold-breaking graphics cards of the current generation many of which are aren't available in North America at all for your viewing perhaps gawking even pleasure cooler Master's 25th anniversary edition Cosmos 2 features a unique dual curved tempered glass side panel check it out now at the link below okay so some of these cards are actually fairly well known by now and pallet Colm X GTX 1050 TI is one of them it was first announced back in February of this year and sports no fan whatsoever just a rather sizable heat sink and two lengthy heat pipes that means that case clearance might be an issue if you decide to pick one of these up since from the card's Edge to the end of the Heat hpe we measured 13 and A3 CM not a problem for wider desktop cases like a defin R5 but definitely a consideration for a home theater PC and we have another GTX 1050 TI too this one's from MSI and it's got the same specs but a pretty different approach while it also Sports a dual slot design with roughly the same overall length if you count the cooler its width is much less and the card itself self is half height so as you might expect it comes with a lowprofile bracket out of the box which means it's a viable option for a cheap 2u video transcoding box or one of those slim PCS that were so popular a couple of years ago it's twin fan design means that it'll generate some noise but we shouldn't actually see any thermal throttling and in our testing these two were actually neck and neck the whole time which really shouldn't come as that much of a surp priz given that they're otherwise identical but what did blow us away is that pallet comx actually ran slightly cooler than the lowprofile actively cooled MSI and this is in a closed case working our way up the ladder this one should be very exciting to small form factor enthusiasts we've got the GTX 1070 Katana from Galax while not appreciably longer than a Founders Edition GTX 1070 the katana takes up only a single slot thanks to its heavy use of copper and aluminum to make the whole shroud part of the cooling setup it's got a single blower fan to exhaust case out these tiny holes in the rear iio and also just out into your case and they even managed impressively to include three outputs meaning you're not losing out as far as connectivity goes all this and without a back plate but how does it measure up performance-wise well shockingly it's actually right up there with our Founders Edition though The Thermals leave a lot to be desired and it screamed like we were smashing its toes with a hammer the whole time this card is definitely not one that you'd want to use in a case that doesn't have some sound isolation or really at all unless you really need a single slot card next up then is a pair of freaking heavy GTX 1080s from Ino 3D and colorful and I do mean pair because these cards are strikingly similar with the in3d I chill and Hercules airboss Behemoth whatever it's called sporting not one not two not three but four fans for um reasons I guess but hey maybe with the 150 MHz Factory overclock they're on to something and finally the RGB ey chill logo indicates GPU load automatically which is kind of cool even though we would prefer Direct Control it's colorful twin here the iigame xtop has a distinctive feature of its own check this out it's got a turbo button ah that brings me back to a simpler time when PCS were beige and windows was up to version 95 anyway this card comes in a surprisingly well-written if somewhat rambling box with no specs whatsoever we hit up the website and whoa the website is coming to hit us a surprise that sounds painful let's see what else we got here RGB Lighting on the logo and uh oh here we go the turbo button actually boost the clock speed by about 100 MHz neat I'm not sure though why you wouldn't run it that way all the time because as for performance it still actually fell little bit behind the Ino 3D eye chill which manag better numbers across the board clearly that fourth fan is uh working wonders finally our craziest card yet the 1080 TI based colorful AME wow this thing weighs a lot Vulcan X and Holy balls is that a three slot card okay technically no because it doesn't have more IO over there but the cooler does definitely cover up the slot directly underneath so like the xtop the Vulcan X comes with a turbo button that bumps the Boost clock to 2 GHz then aside from some gamery fans we've got six heat pipes uh connected to two heat sinks which on its own would be impressive but what is that on the side next to the GeForce logo that's a screen baby a pretty crappy old school LCD screen but a screen nonetheless does your graphics card show fans speed core temperature core frequency and memory usage conveniently on a little hardto read display inside your Tower instead of in a sensible software interface no well neither does ours because there's no software in the box and none on the English version of the website I still got to give them points for originality though anyway how much does a 2 GHz boost get you over a regular 108ti well looks like significant gains in synthetics and real world numbers a couple frames higher than our Founders Edition and to its credit by the way it even when overclocked stayed very very cool though with a heat sink this big that shouldn't exactly be a shock so there you have it six totally non-mainstream graphics card designs some are similar to ones that were once popular like low profile single slot or passive but with more performance than we've ever seen in these form factors before While others take more let's say dramatic approaches so would you buy any of these Hot Topic versions of graphics cards or would you rather just stick with comfortable Conformity let us know in the comments below whoa we've got new Tuttle bear talking points countless businesses use vpns every day to work securely in the office or while traveling and now there's tunnel bear for teams so you can painlessly secure your whole team it's the Simplicity of tunnel bear but for business so tunnel bear for team makes it easy to secure your Wi-Fi on any network browse privately keeping all of your browsing activity away from your isps and local networks and connect to a network of over 20 countries tunnel bear for teams comes with priority support easy team management and lots and lots of bears so start your 7-Day free trial over at tunnel bear.com LT and try TunnelBear for teams today so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one as well as our community Forum which you should totally joinyou know I'd forgive you for thinking video cards these days are all such conformists plastic shrouds everywhere two to six heat pipes your choice of blower or two to three fans and that's it where has the style gone to China apparently with some help from our friends at Nvidia we Tracked Down the five most mold-breaking graphics cards of the current generation many of which are aren't available in North America at all for your viewing perhaps gawking even pleasure cooler Master's 25th anniversary edition Cosmos 2 features a unique dual curved tempered glass side panel check it out now at the link below okay so some of these cards are actually fairly well known by now and pallet Colm X GTX 1050 TI is one of them it was first announced back in February of this year and sports no fan whatsoever just a rather sizable heat sink and two lengthy heat pipes that means that case clearance might be an issue if you decide to pick one of these up since from the card's Edge to the end of the Heat hpe we measured 13 and A3 CM not a problem for wider desktop cases like a defin R5 but definitely a consideration for a home theater PC and we have another GTX 1050 TI too this one's from MSI and it's got the same specs but a pretty different approach while it also Sports a dual slot design with roughly the same overall length if you count the cooler its width is much less and the card itself self is half height so as you might expect it comes with a lowprofile bracket out of the box which means it's a viable option for a cheap 2u video transcoding box or one of those slim PCS that were so popular a couple of years ago it's twin fan design means that it'll generate some noise but we shouldn't actually see any thermal throttling and in our testing these two were actually neck and neck the whole time which really shouldn't come as that much of a surp priz given that they're otherwise identical but what did blow us away is that pallet comx actually ran slightly cooler than the lowprofile actively cooled MSI and this is in a closed case working our way up the ladder this one should be very exciting to small form factor enthusiasts we've got the GTX 1070 Katana from Galax while not appreciably longer than a Founders Edition GTX 1070 the katana takes up only a single slot thanks to its heavy use of copper and aluminum to make the whole shroud part of the cooling setup it's got a single blower fan to exhaust case out these tiny holes in the rear iio and also just out into your case and they even managed impressively to include three outputs meaning you're not losing out as far as connectivity goes all this and without a back plate but how does it measure up performance-wise well shockingly it's actually right up there with our Founders Edition though The Thermals leave a lot to be desired and it screamed like we were smashing its toes with a hammer the whole time this card is definitely not one that you'd want to use in a case that doesn't have some sound isolation or really at all unless you really need a single slot card next up then is a pair of freaking heavy GTX 1080s from Ino 3D and colorful and I do mean pair because these cards are strikingly similar with the in3d I chill and Hercules airboss Behemoth whatever it's called sporting not one not two not three but four fans for um reasons I guess but hey maybe with the 150 MHz Factory overclock they're on to something and finally the RGB ey chill logo indicates GPU load automatically which is kind of cool even though we would prefer Direct Control it's colorful twin here the iigame xtop has a distinctive feature of its own check this out it's got a turbo button ah that brings me back to a simpler time when PCS were beige and windows was up to version 95 anyway this card comes in a surprisingly well-written if somewhat rambling box with no specs whatsoever we hit up the website and whoa the website is coming to hit us a surprise that sounds painful let's see what else we got here RGB Lighting on the logo and uh oh here we go the turbo button actually boost the clock speed by about 100 MHz neat I'm not sure though why you wouldn't run it that way all the time because as for performance it still actually fell little bit behind the Ino 3D eye chill which manag better numbers across the board clearly that fourth fan is uh working wonders finally our craziest card yet the 1080 TI based colorful AME wow this thing weighs a lot Vulcan X and Holy balls is that a three slot card okay technically no because it doesn't have more IO over there but the cooler does definitely cover up the slot directly underneath so like the xtop the Vulcan X comes with a turbo button that bumps the Boost clock to 2 GHz then aside from some gamery fans we've got six heat pipes uh connected to two heat sinks which on its own would be impressive but what is that on the side next to the GeForce logo that's a screen baby a pretty crappy old school LCD screen but a screen nonetheless does your graphics card show fans speed core temperature core frequency and memory usage conveniently on a little hardto read display inside your Tower instead of in a sensible software interface no well neither does ours because there's no software in the box and none on the English version of the website I still got to give them points for originality though anyway how much does a 2 GHz boost get you over a regular 108ti well looks like significant gains in synthetics and real world numbers a couple frames higher than our Founders Edition and to its credit by the way it even when overclocked stayed very very cool though with a heat sink this big that shouldn't exactly be a shock so there you have it six totally non-mainstream graphics card designs some are similar to ones that were once popular like low profile single slot or passive but with more performance than we've ever seen in these form factors before While others take more let's say dramatic approaches so would you buy any of these Hot Topic versions of graphics cards or would you rather just stick with comfortable Conformity let us know in the comments below whoa we've got new Tuttle bear talking points countless businesses use vpns every day to work securely in the office or while traveling and now there's tunnel bear for teams so you can painlessly secure your whole team it's the Simplicity of tunnel bear but for business so tunnel bear for team makes it easy to secure your Wi-Fi on any network browse privately keeping all of your browsing activity away from your isps and local networks and connect to a network of over 20 countries tunnel bear for teams comes with priority support easy team management and lots and lots of bears so start your 7-Day free trial over at tunnel bear.com LT and try TunnelBear for teams today so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one as well as our community Forum which you should totally join\n"