6 REALLY UNUSUAL VIDEO CARDS!

you 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 aren't available in north america at all for your viewing perhaps gawking even pleasure [Music] cooler masters 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 pallets calm 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 pipe we measured 13 and a third centimeters not a problem for wider desktop cases like a define r5 but definitely a consideration for a home theater pc and we have another gtx 1050 ti-2 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 is half height so as you might expect it comes with a low profile bracket out of the box which means it's a viable option for a cheap 2u video transcoding box or one of those slim pc's that were so popular a couple of years ago its twin fan design means that it will 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 surprise given that they're otherwise identical but what did blow us away is that pallets actually ran slightly cooler than the low profile 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 founder's 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 i o 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 inno 3d i chill and hercules airbus behemoth whatever it's called sporting not one not two not three but four feds for um reasons i guess but hey maybe with the 150 megahertz factory overclock they're onto something and finally the rgb i chill logo indicates gpu load automatically which is kind of cool even though we would prefer direct control it's colorful twin here the igame 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 oh here we go the turbo button actually boosts the clock speed by about 100 megahertz 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 a little bit behind the inno 3di chill which managed better numbers across the board clearly that fourth fan is uh working wonders finally our craziest card yet the 1080 ti based colorful eye game wow this thing weighs a lot vulcan x and holy balls is that a three slot cart okay technically no because it doesn't have more i o over there but the cooler does definitely cover up the slot directly underneath so like the x top the vulcan x comes with a turbo button that bumps the boost clock to 2 gigahertz then aside from some gamery fans we've got six heat pipes connected to two heatsinks 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 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've still got to give them points for originality though anyway how much does a 2 gigahertz boost get you over a regular 1080 ti 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 went overclocked stayed very very cool though with a heatsink 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 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Keywords: nvidia, video, card, unusual, graphics, gaming, cooling, cooler, air, water, liquid

Id: 0Vh3R4vPLr4

Length: 8min 45sec (525 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 25 2017