![]() It appears that Corasir has made a running change to its production. NOTE: Corsair has released a marketing video which teases the protruded coldplate on the Hydro GFX, despite the fact that our review sample did not include this. We might mod the Hybrid to cut intake ports in the front (which is actually a plastic grill, made to look like a real grill) to determine impact on cooling. The VRM fan has no meaningful way to intake/exhaust air through the shroud, and must exchange all air through the exposed face. Still, enough of the VRAM copper sink is exposed to post benefit from increasing the VRM fan speed.ĮVGA has, oddly, decided not to make any cuts to the shroud to improve breathability of the VRM fan. EVGA has fitted a backswept blade design to its VRM for the VRM cooling, but the VRAM is indirectly cooled by the GPU coldplate. The FTW is using a 10-phase vCore VRM and 2-phase memory voltage VRM, deploying onSemi Conductor power phases and MOSFETs with a doubler (5x2 phase, effectively).ĮVGA's board uses 2x 8-pin power headers and the M/S switch to toggle additional power to the board.Ĭooling is handled by the same Asetek 4.5 Gen liquid cooler with the protruded copper coldplate, but now uses some more unique cooling methods to dissipate heat from VRAM. EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Tear-Down & PCBĪbove is a look at the PCB used in EVGA's 1080 FTW Hybrid, and we've got a forthcoming PCB analysis (from “Buildzoid”) to further explain the components. Aside from the cooler, the two primary changes made by EVGA include a pre-OC to 1860MHz – or thereabouts, depending on how Boost 3.0 feels – and a master/slave switch that toggles to allow +130% power target. The GP104-400 chip remains constant across all GTX 1080 cards, and so the specs are largely the same. GTX 1070, GTX 1080, GTX 960 NVIDIA Pascal vs. Noise and power testing are additionally available, along with some unique Boost functionality discussion. In this review, we'll primarily and most heavily be focusing on thermals between the Sea Hawk X and the EVGA 1080 FTW Hybrid, but will also look at FPS and overclocking performance. The FTW Hybrid has better power management and delivery, in theory, alongside a far more advanced cooling solution than we instituted on our own DIY Hybrid. The EVGA version, though, is more official – and it's also using an FTW custom PCB rather than the 5-phase reference board we relied upon. We're finally reviewing the real EVGA GTX 1080 Hybrid ($730), having built our own several months ago by using a liquid cooling kit. ![]()
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