**The Cooling System of the Corsair GPU**

The cooling system of the Corsair GPU is an interesting aspect to explore. The thermal pads and VRAM modules are covered with thermal paste, which provides excellent heat transfer properties. The copper plate that covers the cold plate is particularly noteworthy, as it provides a significant increase in cooling efficiency. This feature is not seen in previous generations of GPUs, making it a unique selling point for the Corsair GPU.

The thermal pads and VRAM modules are secured to the copper plate using thermal paste, which ensures good contact between the two surfaces. The cold plate itself is also designed to be in contact with the VRAM, allowing it to dissipate heat through the pump. This design is cleverly executed, as the copper plate makes contact with the bottom of the cold plate, ensuring efficient heat transfer.

**The GPU and Cooling System**

The GPU itself is a GP104 D400 chip, which is a 1080 Ti equivalent. The cooling system is secured to the GPU using tubes or hoses, which are connected to the face plate. The face plate has a shroud around the fan, which helps to focus airflow away from the MOSFETs. However, we don't have much information about the MOSFETs themselves, and it's unclear if they're designed for overclocking or not.

The memory modules are also secured to the GPU using thermal pads, and the PCB is equipped with multiple phases, including 12 inductors. While this may seem like a lot of components, it's likely that they're working together to provide efficient power delivery to the GPU. The cables connected to the face plate are responsible for powering both the fan and pump, which is an important consideration for cooling systems.

**The Review and Next Steps**

We'll be covering the review and detailed analysis of the Corsair GPU in a separate article. However, we will be doing some thermal analysis separately from the review to get a better understanding of how the cooling system performs under load. This will involve measuring the temperatures of the GPU, VRAM, and other components, as well as analyzing the fan performance.

We'll also be comparing the Corsair GPU to the EVGA Seahawk X, which shares many similarities with it. The comparison will help us understand why the Corsair GPU performs in a certain way, and whether its cooling system is superior to others on the market.

**Conclusion**

The Corsair GPU's cooling system is an impressive feat of engineering, providing excellent heat transfer properties through the use of copper plates and thermal pads. While we don't have much information about the MOSFETs themselves, it's clear that they're designed to work efficiently with the rest of the cooling system.

As we move forward with our review and analysis, we'll be keeping a close eye on the Corsair GPU's performance, as well as its comparison to other GPUs on the market. Whether or not the Corsair GPU can outperform its competitors remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: it's an impressive piece of hardware that's worth exploring further.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone today we're tearing down an EVGA 1080 hybrid that's this right here so this actually uses an FTW board this particular model it is a 1080 FTW hybrid and it's got some interesting characteristics for that reason one we really want to see the PCB because it's obviously not a reference Design This for the record would be a reference Design This is the Corsair Seahawk that we already took apart and so the point specifically of this endeavor is to swap the heat sink on this unit with the one on this unit and vice versa rerun the thermal test because we're getting some performance results that I really didn't expect going into this specifically from the hybrid uh so before getting to this the content is brought to you by iy power and the new element gaming PC which uses an s340 that's been modified to have a large tempered glass side window LEDs for underglow and the fans and is available now so the EVGA hybrid previously when we looked at at the 98 hybrid versus the 98 Seahawk or Hydrographics if if you prefer from Corsair we looked at them this card for the 98 generation way outperformed the Seahawk but corser and MSI have made some changes this generation so this is their cooler this time if we hold up uh hold sort of a laser against this thing you can actually you'll see that the surface is perfectly flat these days and that is conducive to GPU cooling because a GPU doesn't have the same curvature that an IHS has for CPUs talked about this a million times uh but it's flat now and that's good for gpus so that certainly has improved performance a bit it reduces the Reliance on Tim to make that contact between the GPU and a curvature uh found in the cold plate of the previous models that's helped but still the EVGA card does seem like it should be performing better than it is and that leads me to believe that there's there's a few variables here we'll talk about them in the review I don't think we'll be able to get this lower than the Seahawk but we're going to try so that's going to be mostly by dismantling it and swapping the coolers so this thing is uh technically if we wanted to just change the coolers it would be much easier than what I'm about to do but I want to take the whole thing apart because we want to see the PCB anyway just cuz that's kind of interesting to look at and understand what's going on under the hood that's weird okay sogg just before we get any further into this you may have noticed we've already swapped out the fan here this is the Corsair cooler and I've put the EVGA fan on it that was part of some troubleshooting and testing we were doing earlier which you'll see in the review and then we've done the same for the EVGA cooler so that's got the cord s fan on it don't be confused we have swapped the fans these are not the ones that they come with a couple things here these are just kind of protective rubber dampers or cushions we've got some thermal pads here that have been moved around a bit and these what are these adhering to these are sticking to the backside of the GPU plainly so there's the GPU back side of it so that handles that we can clearly see vram modules put this on now that we're under the card so vram vram vram capacitors probably mosfets inductors right there so that's the card from the back side another thermal pad up here so something fell in a little piece of plastic that was hanging off let's see what that is oh there it is ooh that's like a nut of some kind I don't know what that that was just loose in there I don't know what that was holding I believe it actually went it was to one of these sitting on the probably one of these twoo sitting on the inside but let's finish removing the face plate I one thing just to note these are a TR six so we could remove those but uh I don't know that there's really a reason to do so at this point I think right now we are secured by probably a fan cable yes okay so here's the interesting thing with this card there's a couple things very interesting about it and this is why we are doing this endeavor to begin with uh because it it does seem pretty well engineered from uh from the face of things so obviously this is not very exciting this is a cable for LEDs it's an RGB LED uh plate so you got RGB LEDs in here which are there but underneath it we've got a fan that's actually uh not a blower fan it's not well it's not the uh radial fan It's actually an axial fan and the blades are inverted from what you might expect so that's pretty interesting there's a heat sink underneath it used to cool the mosfet components uh and then over here we've got some extra Copper from what would normally be expected I actually wasn't aware of this this changes my hypothesis about what's going on with this which I haven't shared yet just to be clear we we'll share that in the review I've not shared the hypothesis as to why the cooling difference is what it is so this is covering the vram that is new I not seen that on any cards this generation or last generation other than things like the fury X which were very that one was very unique in its implementation and the gigabyte water Force card also has a pretty unique implementation for the 1080 series but we don't have one of those in um so that's pretty cool we'll look at that more in a moment let's get the cooler off and see if it's it should be 100% identical to the one we've used for our own hybrid mods a few times now with the copper protrusion on the bottom of it and it is an aitech cooler just like the Corsair one is an asch cooler but Corsair is using an h55 built for CPUs but they've modified it this generation so that the bottom is flat which is good as I discussed so both a attack cooled but in theory this one is the one with the protruded copper plate which we'll find out in a moment for the cold blate all right very interesting so uh as stated there's your vram thermal pads and that obviously covers the vram modules looks like we've got got some thermal paste on one side of that that's on the table now that's nice uh I don't have any things can you grab me a all right those go together those go together those go together good coverage here you can see that basically the uh the thermal pace is considerably less thick in the center so that's what we want to see that was not necessarily the case on the Seahawk when I took that one apart that one did not have as much either pressure or just uh contact with the Silicon but obviously it worked quite well because it was in the 18ish degrees range Delta when we did the thermal test and here so here's the I'm interested in see that compound contact there we look here uh very plainly these were meant to be connected to one another so if it's not obvious it would look as if the vram is sinking into the thermal pads into this copper plate copper plates making contact through Tim very good contact actually with the bottom of the cold plate and that would theoretically heat up the cold plate at least in the perimeter and depending on on what the micr fins look like inside that transfer should be in in done in such a way that the vram is dissipating some of its heat through the pump and that is the unique aspect of this that we have not seen in previous generations that's actually pretty exciting Discovery okay so here's what we've got that I've explained that I've explained in a few different videos these communicate with one another to the GPU the GPU quite clearly is a gp104 d400 chip it is a 1080 that is what all 1080s are and it's an A1 rev uh the next bit this secures the tubes that's all it does or the hoses and really nothing else this is the face plate the face plate has a little shroud here around the fan to help it Focus its air so it's pulling air out that's the interesting bit this is inverted as I said pulling air out away from the mosfets I'll have to take that off I suppose and actually look at the mosfets which I'd really prefer not to do but but we're going to memory it's the same Micron gddr5x as we've seen before we've got 8 gbit chips modules so total of 8 gigabytes uh cuz there are eight modules and then we've got capacitors like crazy ton of inductors or chokes if you prefer that terminology and the mosfets are under here and we've got a couple phases it looks like potentially for memory backside I don't particularly see anything special other than this IC here uh but we'll talk about that separately in another video so let's take the fan part of this apart oh that was very easy looks like aluminum here black painted aluminum we've got a thermal pad here big one and that contacts with the mosfet and then uh the sink itself is just aluminum finned heat sink the cables that's the cable going it's the pwm on the board that powers both the fan and the pump so that's that covers our power not going to take the fan off no real point the mosfets are there are a lot one what do we have here for phases but uh we wrote an article a while ago that covers that and then in the review I'll discuss it more directly once I have a chance to look at it off camera but just looking at it obviously very simplistically there's 12 inductors here and we've got a couple more littered across the board for the memory the vram phases so that's the PCB the basics uh the cooling I've pretty thoroughly described but we will have a complete detailed video with the review I've got to figure out if we want to do thermal analysis separately or Not by the time this goes up it'll all be within hours of publication so be sure to subscribe if you haven't so that you can see those videos as they go live it will be a very interesting duel between the corer unit and and the EVGA unit especially and when I say Corsair I mean Corsair and MSI the Seahawk X or the Corsair hydrographic same thing uh so I'm going to put this on here and we're not going to bother doing a separate video for it just going to do it see how it works and then we'll we'll have our answer as to why the performance is the way it is uh but yeah as always subscribe patreon like the postal video to help us out directly thank you for watching and we'll see you all next time forhey everyone today we're tearing down an EVGA 1080 hybrid that's this right here so this actually uses an FTW board this particular model it is a 1080 FTW hybrid and it's got some interesting characteristics for that reason one we really want to see the PCB because it's obviously not a reference Design This for the record would be a reference Design This is the Corsair Seahawk that we already took apart and so the point specifically of this endeavor is to swap the heat sink on this unit with the one on this unit and vice versa rerun the thermal test because we're getting some performance results that I really didn't expect going into this specifically from the hybrid uh so before getting to this the content is brought to you by iy power and the new element gaming PC which uses an s340 that's been modified to have a large tempered glass side window LEDs for underglow and the fans and is available now so the EVGA hybrid previously when we looked at at the 98 hybrid versus the 98 Seahawk or Hydrographics if if you prefer from Corsair we looked at them this card for the 98 generation way outperformed the Seahawk but corser and MSI have made some changes this generation so this is their cooler this time if we hold up uh hold sort of a laser against this thing you can actually you'll see that the surface is perfectly flat these days and that is conducive to GPU cooling because a GPU doesn't have the same curvature that an IHS has for CPUs talked about this a million times uh but it's flat now and that's good for gpus so that certainly has improved performance a bit it reduces the Reliance on Tim to make that contact between the GPU and a curvature uh found in the cold plate of the previous models that's helped but still the EVGA card does seem like it should be performing better than it is and that leads me to believe that there's there's a few variables here we'll talk about them in the review I don't think we'll be able to get this lower than the Seahawk but we're going to try so that's going to be mostly by dismantling it and swapping the coolers so this thing is uh technically if we wanted to just change the coolers it would be much easier than what I'm about to do but I want to take the whole thing apart because we want to see the PCB anyway just cuz that's kind of interesting to look at and understand what's going on under the hood that's weird okay sogg just before we get any further into this you may have noticed we've already swapped out the fan here this is the Corsair cooler and I've put the EVGA fan on it that was part of some troubleshooting and testing we were doing earlier which you'll see in the review and then we've done the same for the EVGA cooler so that's got the cord s fan on it don't be confused we have swapped the fans these are not the ones that they come with a couple things here these are just kind of protective rubber dampers or cushions we've got some thermal pads here that have been moved around a bit and these what are these adhering to these are sticking to the backside of the GPU plainly so there's the GPU back side of it so that handles that we can clearly see vram modules put this on now that we're under the card so vram vram vram capacitors probably mosfets inductors right there so that's the card from the back side another thermal pad up here so something fell in a little piece of plastic that was hanging off let's see what that is oh there it is ooh that's like a nut of some kind I don't know what that that was just loose in there I don't know what that was holding I believe it actually went it was to one of these sitting on the probably one of these twoo sitting on the inside but let's finish removing the face plate I one thing just to note these are a TR six so we could remove those but uh I don't know that there's really a reason to do so at this point I think right now we are secured by probably a fan cable yes okay so here's the interesting thing with this card there's a couple things very interesting about it and this is why we are doing this endeavor to begin with uh because it it does seem pretty well engineered from uh from the face of things so obviously this is not very exciting this is a cable for LEDs it's an RGB LED uh plate so you got RGB LEDs in here which are there but underneath it we've got a fan that's actually uh not a blower fan it's not well it's not the uh radial fan It's actually an axial fan and the blades are inverted from what you might expect so that's pretty interesting there's a heat sink underneath it used to cool the mosfet components uh and then over here we've got some extra Copper from what would normally be expected I actually wasn't aware of this this changes my hypothesis about what's going on with this which I haven't shared yet just to be clear we we'll share that in the review I've not shared the hypothesis as to why the cooling difference is what it is so this is covering the vram that is new I not seen that on any cards this generation or last generation other than things like the fury X which were very that one was very unique in its implementation and the gigabyte water Force card also has a pretty unique implementation for the 1080 series but we don't have one of those in um so that's pretty cool we'll look at that more in a moment let's get the cooler off and see if it's it should be 100% identical to the one we've used for our own hybrid mods a few times now with the copper protrusion on the bottom of it and it is an aitech cooler just like the Corsair one is an asch cooler but Corsair is using an h55 built for CPUs but they've modified it this generation so that the bottom is flat which is good as I discussed so both a attack cooled but in theory this one is the one with the protruded copper plate which we'll find out in a moment for the cold blate all right very interesting so uh as stated there's your vram thermal pads and that obviously covers the vram modules looks like we've got got some thermal paste on one side of that that's on the table now that's nice uh I don't have any things can you grab me a all right those go together those go together those go together good coverage here you can see that basically the uh the thermal pace is considerably less thick in the center so that's what we want to see that was not necessarily the case on the Seahawk when I took that one apart that one did not have as much either pressure or just uh contact with the Silicon but obviously it worked quite well because it was in the 18ish degrees range Delta when we did the thermal test and here so here's the I'm interested in see that compound contact there we look here uh very plainly these were meant to be connected to one another so if it's not obvious it would look as if the vram is sinking into the thermal pads into this copper plate copper plates making contact through Tim very good contact actually with the bottom of the cold plate and that would theoretically heat up the cold plate at least in the perimeter and depending on on what the micr fins look like inside that transfer should be in in done in such a way that the vram is dissipating some of its heat through the pump and that is the unique aspect of this that we have not seen in previous generations that's actually pretty exciting Discovery okay so here's what we've got that I've explained that I've explained in a few different videos these communicate with one another to the GPU the GPU quite clearly is a gp104 d400 chip it is a 1080 that is what all 1080s are and it's an A1 rev uh the next bit this secures the tubes that's all it does or the hoses and really nothing else this is the face plate the face plate has a little shroud here around the fan to help it Focus its air so it's pulling air out that's the interesting bit this is inverted as I said pulling air out away from the mosfets I'll have to take that off I suppose and actually look at the mosfets which I'd really prefer not to do but but we're going to memory it's the same Micron gddr5x as we've seen before we've got 8 gbit chips modules so total of 8 gigabytes uh cuz there are eight modules and then we've got capacitors like crazy ton of inductors or chokes if you prefer that terminology and the mosfets are under here and we've got a couple phases it looks like potentially for memory backside I don't particularly see anything special other than this IC here uh but we'll talk about that separately in another video so let's take the fan part of this apart oh that was very easy looks like aluminum here black painted aluminum we've got a thermal pad here big one and that contacts with the mosfet and then uh the sink itself is just aluminum finned heat sink the cables that's the cable going it's the pwm on the board that powers both the fan and the pump so that's that covers our power not going to take the fan off no real point the mosfets are there are a lot one what do we have here for phases but uh we wrote an article a while ago that covers that and then in the review I'll discuss it more directly once I have a chance to look at it off camera but just looking at it obviously very simplistically there's 12 inductors here and we've got a couple more littered across the board for the memory the vram phases so that's the PCB the basics uh the cooling I've pretty thoroughly described but we will have a complete detailed video with the review I've got to figure out if we want to do thermal analysis separately or Not by the time this goes up it'll all be within hours of publication so be sure to subscribe if you haven't so that you can see those videos as they go live it will be a very interesting duel between the corer unit and and the EVGA unit especially and when I say Corsair I mean Corsair and MSI the Seahawk X or the Corsair hydrographic same thing uh so I'm going to put this on here and we're not going to bother doing a separate video for it just going to do it see how it works and then we'll we'll have our answer as to why the performance is the way it is uh but yeah as always subscribe patreon like the postal video to help us out directly thank you for watching and we'll see you all next time for\n"