**EVGA's GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition: A Review**

I personally love the new look and I commend EVGA for being the first company to hire a colony of bees to design their cooler. The build quality here is second to none, and the mesh pattern is backlit with RGB Lighting configurable in the latest Precision X software. Branded on the side also gets the RGB treatment and lighting effects for all LEDs on the card include static color cycling and breathing mode, though I couldn't get the breathing effect to work in my testing.

Behold, the breath holding effect, sorry that was horrible still the RGB Lighting on the GTX 1080 Ti is among the best I've seen on any graphics card to date. The colors are accurate and vibrant and produce an even glow with no visible hotspots. The lights can also be disabled for all of you joyless fuddy Duds beside the illuminated logo.

We see EVGA has added an extra 8 Pin PCIe plug over the founders Edition, giving us two in total with a Max total Graphics power draw of 258 watts to further Aid power delivery. They've also doubled down with a custom 10 plus2 powerphase design over the reference 5+1 solution assuming you don't draw the Short Straw in the Silicon Lottery these welcome changes should theoretically improve the card's overclocking performance and stability.

While it's easily missed, the custom PCB also features a dual bio switch next to the power plugs on the back. We find a beautiful brush metallic back plate with some more of that fun honeycomb mesh; it's hard to quantify how much exactly this reinforces the circuit board but when a back plate looks this good who even cares? Finally, the rear sports the reference layout of display IO with one dual in DVI, three display port 1.4, and a single HDMI 2.0b for testing.

I ran the card on my x99 test bed rocking a 5820k at 4400 MHz with 16 gigs of DDR4 on a Gigabyte x99 Gaming G1 Wi-Fi when overclocking the card I was only able to squeeze another 50 or 60 MHz out of the GPU clock due to it already being pushed pretty heavily by EVGA. One could go so far as to say that overclocking this card is kind of like forcing a heroin junkie to smoke weed; he's already so high that there's little room to push him further without experiencing total instability.

As a result, today's numbers will showcase the card's Factory overclocked performance 3D Mark fir strike extreme being an exception where I show stock and OC results in order to illustrate the slight gains achieved when overclocking the card throughout my testing. The chip stayed moderately cool never topping 76° C; the ACX 3.0 cool kept quiet as well.

Here's a listen, all games were run at 1920 x 1080, 2560 X 1440, and 4k on Windows 10 using the latest 368 Wickle driver from Nvidia on that note, my friends, let's turn this up to 11 and dive into the benchmarks.

Alrighty so as we'd expect the 1080 Ti Win beats out the founders Edition in pretty much every test at every resolution most of the time it's a marginal Victory by 3 or 4 FPS on average but I'd imagine we'd cop an extra frame or two when overclocking with that additional 60 MHz I was able to dial in earlier.

Obviously, the card crushes at full HD in 1440 and even 4K gaming isn't out of the question as long as you're okay with disabling anti-aliasing and some additional eye candy in shell what EVGA brings to the table here with their for the Win Edition is an enhanced version of what's already the fastest single GPU card on the market that stays well below reference temps and Acoustics if I'm being nitpicky, I would like to see more LED effects added in the future as the lighting on this card is just really badass.

and it would be a shame not to take full advantage of that. Also, I did encounter some frustration with the packaging plastic wrap being stuck underneath the screws; congratulations EVGA you've somehow managed to take away the joy of peeling off plastic wrap. Overall though, this is a feature-packed card that checks all the boxes for what a good aftermarket card should be and I'm confident any Enthusiast gamer will enjoy all it has to offer.

But let me know what you guys think about this thing in the comments below and don't forget to toss me a like on this video; If you enjoyed it, before you go, you can check the description below for Quality shirts of the geeky variety or bookmark my Amazon affiliate link and use it when you buy stuff; it helps me a lot as always I'm Kyle with Awesome Sauce Network. Thank you guys for watching, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I will see you all in the next video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys today I'm taking a look at the first of hopefully many custom GTX 1080s on the channel this is evga's GTX 10804 the win Edition and it comes bearing loads of improvements over nvidia's reference design I mean just look at the two side by side which one would you want inside of your slot in regards to evga's own product stack the four the win Edition ranks above the superclock version and just below the classified model in terms of feature set and Factory OC intensity so we can expect the price and out of thebox performance of this card to fall somewhere between the two on the base clock of our full GP 104 GPU we see an aftermarket bump to 1721 MHz with a boost clock of 1860 MHz after some GPU boost 3.0 Magic the card managed to press on and hit 1987 MHz or about 250 MHz higher than the reference boost clock the memory clock stays unchanged at 10 GHz effective being a GTX 1080 we get 8 gigs of gddr5x on a 256-bit bus along with the full number of 2560 Cuda cor with the arrival of Pascal we see a completely revamped cooler from EVGA aptly named ACX 3.0 the cooler spans 10 1 12 in long and features two 100 mm fans that use double ball bearings to increase their lifespan up to four times longer than the competition which means they'll probably outlive most musicians these days to keep Acoustics in check the fans stay put when the system remains in a low power state only ramping up when the GPU begins to generate more heat the swept fan blades move air downward onto a heavy FY fin stack using six nickel-plated heat pipes four of which are 6 mm and the other two 8 mm thick the black plastic shroud Sports an interesting combination of brushed metallic plating and a honeycomb mesh I personally love the new look and I commend EVGA for being the first company to hire a colony of bees to design their cooler the build quality here is second to none and the mesh pattern is backlit with RGB Lighting configurable in the latest Precision X software branding on the side also gets the RGB treatment and lighting effects for all LEDs on the card include static color cycling and breathing mode though I couldn't get the breathing effect to work in my testing behold the breath holding effect sorry that was horrible still the RGB Lighting on the GTX 10804 the win is among the best I've seen on any graphics card to date the colors are accurate and vibrant and produce an even glow with no visible hotspots the lights can also be disabled for all of you joyless fuddy Duds beside the illuminated logo we see EVGA has added an extra 8 Pin pcie plug over the founders Edition giving us two in total with a Max total Graphics power draw of 258 watts to further Aid power delivery they've also doubled down with a custom 10 plus2 powerphase design over the reference 5+1 solution assuming you don't draw the Short Straw in the Silicon Lottery these welcome changes should theoretically improve the card's overclocking performance and stability while it's easily missed the custom PCB also features a dual bio switch next to the power plugs on the back we find a beautiful brush metallic back plate with some more of that fun honeycomb mesh it's hard to quantify how much exactly this reinforces the circuit board but when a back plate looks this good who even cares finally the rear Sports the reference layout of display IO with one dual in DVI three display port 1.4 and a single HDMI 2.0b for testing I ran the card on my x99 test bed rocking a 5820k at 4400 MHz with 16 gigs of ddr4 on a gigabyte x99 gaming G1 Wi-Fi when overclocking the card I was only able to squeeze another 50 or 60 MHz out of the GPU clock due to it already being pushed pretty heavily by EVGA one could go so far as to say that overclocking this card is kind of like forcing a heroin junkie to smoke weed he's already so high that there's little room to push him further without experiencing total instability as a result today's numbers will showcase the card's Factory overclocked performance 3D Mark fir strike extreme being an exception where I show stock and OC results in order to illustrate the slight gains achieved when overclocking the card throughout my testing the chip stayed moderately cool never topping 76° C the ACX 3.0 cool kept quiet as well here's a listen all games were run at 1920 x 1080 2560 X 1440 and 4k on Windows 10 using the latest 368 39 wickle driver from Nvidia on that note my friends let's turn this up to 11 and dive into the benchmarks n alrighty so as we'd expect the 1084 the win beats out the founders Edition in pretty much every test at every resolution most of the time it's a marginal Victory by 3 or 4 FPS on average but I'd imagine we'd cop an extra frame or two when overclocking with that additional 60 MHz I was able to dial in earlier obviously the card crushes at full HD in 1440 and even 4K gaming isn't out of the question as long as you're okay with disabling anti-aliasing and some additional eye candy in shell what evj brings to the table here with their for the win Edition is an enhanced version of what's already the fastest single GPU card on the market that stays well below reference temps and Acoustics if I'm being nitpicky I would like to see more LED effects added in the future as the lighting on this card is just really badass and it would be a shame not to take full advantage of that also I did encounter some frustration with the packaging plastic wrap being stuck underneath the screws congratulations EVGA you've somehow managed to take away the joy of peeling off plastic wrap over overall though this is a feature packed card that checks all the boxes for what a good aftermarket card should be and I'm confident any Enthusiast gamer will enjoy all it has to offer but let me know what you guys think about this thing in the comments below and don't forget to toss me a like on this video If you enjoyed it before you go you can check the description below for Quality shirts of the geeky variety or bookmark my Amazon affiliate link and use it when you buy stuff it helps me a lot as always I'm Kyle with awesome sauce Network thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I will see you all in the next videowhat's up guys today I'm taking a look at the first of hopefully many custom GTX 1080s on the channel this is evga's GTX 10804 the win Edition and it comes bearing loads of improvements over nvidia's reference design I mean just look at the two side by side which one would you want inside of your slot in regards to evga's own product stack the four the win Edition ranks above the superclock version and just below the classified model in terms of feature set and Factory OC intensity so we can expect the price and out of thebox performance of this card to fall somewhere between the two on the base clock of our full GP 104 GPU we see an aftermarket bump to 1721 MHz with a boost clock of 1860 MHz after some GPU boost 3.0 Magic the card managed to press on and hit 1987 MHz or about 250 MHz higher than the reference boost clock the memory clock stays unchanged at 10 GHz effective being a GTX 1080 we get 8 gigs of gddr5x on a 256-bit bus along with the full number of 2560 Cuda cor with the arrival of Pascal we see a completely revamped cooler from EVGA aptly named ACX 3.0 the cooler spans 10 1 12 in long and features two 100 mm fans that use double ball bearings to increase their lifespan up to four times longer than the competition which means they'll probably outlive most musicians these days to keep Acoustics in check the fans stay put when the system remains in a low power state only ramping up when the GPU begins to generate more heat the swept fan blades move air downward onto a heavy FY fin stack using six nickel-plated heat pipes four of which are 6 mm and the other two 8 mm thick the black plastic shroud Sports an interesting combination of brushed metallic plating and a honeycomb mesh I personally love the new look and I commend EVGA for being the first company to hire a colony of bees to design their cooler the build quality here is second to none and the mesh pattern is backlit with RGB Lighting configurable in the latest Precision X software branding on the side also gets the RGB treatment and lighting effects for all LEDs on the card include static color cycling and breathing mode though I couldn't get the breathing effect to work in my testing behold the breath holding effect sorry that was horrible still the RGB Lighting on the GTX 10804 the win is among the best I've seen on any graphics card to date the colors are accurate and vibrant and produce an even glow with no visible hotspots the lights can also be disabled for all of you joyless fuddy Duds beside the illuminated logo we see EVGA has added an extra 8 Pin pcie plug over the founders Edition giving us two in total with a Max total Graphics power draw of 258 watts to further Aid power delivery they've also doubled down with a custom 10 plus2 powerphase design over the reference 5+1 solution assuming you don't draw the Short Straw in the Silicon Lottery these welcome changes should theoretically improve the card's overclocking performance and stability while it's easily missed the custom PCB also features a dual bio switch next to the power plugs on the back we find a beautiful brush metallic back plate with some more of that fun honeycomb mesh it's hard to quantify how much exactly this reinforces the circuit board but when a back plate looks this good who even cares finally the rear Sports the reference layout of display IO with one dual in DVI three display port 1.4 and a single HDMI 2.0b for testing I ran the card on my x99 test bed rocking a 5820k at 4400 MHz with 16 gigs of ddr4 on a gigabyte x99 gaming G1 Wi-Fi when overclocking the card I was only able to squeeze another 50 or 60 MHz out of the GPU clock due to it already being pushed pretty heavily by EVGA one could go so far as to say that overclocking this card is kind of like forcing a heroin junkie to smoke weed he's already so high that there's little room to push him further without experiencing total instability as a result today's numbers will showcase the card's Factory overclocked performance 3D Mark fir strike extreme being an exception where I show stock and OC results in order to illustrate the slight gains achieved when overclocking the card throughout my testing the chip stayed moderately cool never topping 76° C the ACX 3.0 cool kept quiet as well here's a listen all games were run at 1920 x 1080 2560 X 1440 and 4k on Windows 10 using the latest 368 39 wickle driver from Nvidia on that note my friends let's turn this up to 11 and dive into the benchmarks n alrighty so as we'd expect the 1084 the win beats out the founders Edition in pretty much every test at every resolution most of the time it's a marginal Victory by 3 or 4 FPS on average but I'd imagine we'd cop an extra frame or two when overclocking with that additional 60 MHz I was able to dial in earlier obviously the card crushes at full HD in 1440 and even 4K gaming isn't out of the question as long as you're okay with disabling anti-aliasing and some additional eye candy in shell what evj brings to the table here with their for the win Edition is an enhanced version of what's already the fastest single GPU card on the market that stays well below reference temps and Acoustics if I'm being nitpicky I would like to see more LED effects added in the future as the lighting on this card is just really badass and it would be a shame not to take full advantage of that also I did encounter some frustration with the packaging plastic wrap being stuck underneath the screws congratulations EVGA you've somehow managed to take away the joy of peeling off plastic wrap over overall though this is a feature packed card that checks all the boxes for what a good aftermarket card should be and I'm confident any Enthusiast gamer will enjoy all it has to offer but let me know what you guys think about this thing in the comments below and don't forget to toss me a like on this video If you enjoyed it before you go you can check the description below for Quality shirts of the geeky variety or bookmark my Amazon affiliate link and use it when you buy stuff it helps me a lot as always I'm Kyle with awesome sauce Network thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I will see you all in the next video\n"