So I don't normally review PC tech on this channel and this is my first GPU
review thanks to colorful who sent me this review unit here so it is the eye
game at 1080 TI Vulcan AD, bit of a mouthful but it's another custom 1080 TI
so i'll be putting this card through its paces here and my review i'll cover some
synthetic gaming benchmarks i will also test out some games and compare their
performance of this compared to my other graphics cards that i own now my tests
only testing out 4k gaming on the highest setting so ultra I feel that
most people if they bought a card like this would probably be gaming in ultra
wide or 4k all they want to always push ultra settings and get the best visuals
possible so in the box again a typical instruction manual in Chinese and in
English software and driver CD but you download the latest Nvidia drivers
anyway you get this tiny little black pouch as
well which contains some cable management ties to anti-static
installation gloves counts have seen that before a little screwdriver for
installation as well and then an eye game keyring so the eye game logo there
that to RGB you can customize that while lighting with this software we've got
three fans so similar to the wind force or other graphics cards as well them
custom ones you see out there and this outer frame here that's made out of
metal so the two outer fans are nine centimeters in diameter and then we have
a slightly smaller 8 centimeter middle fan with these cooling fins around the
outside of it and this also has RGB lighting to 8 pin power connectors so
for ports on the back we have one DVI port three display ports one HDMI 2.0 B
spec port and you'll notice that there's this little button here which I honestly
feel they don't need nets normal and turbo modes but most people would just
leave this always in turbo and like pretty much every single custom 1080 TI
there's a metal backing plate on it so the PCB shouldn't warp and it's very
solid and of course you notice that there's the connector up the top there
that's for our sli bridge now for those with small cases the length of this car
it is not exactly the shortest card very long and you'll see you need around
approximately 30 centimeters of space inside your case so the card has in
total ten copper cooling pipes heat transfer pipes we've got four and one
side is six on the other and that's used of course in conjunction with those
cooling fins and the three fans to keep things cool so the speaker PC I'm
running for this test is an AMD rise in 1700 now I've overclocked it to 3.9
gigahertz really great CPU for the price it's an octa-core and I have that paired
up with 32 gigabytes of a g.skill trident ram which is running at 3
gigahertz now you see that the CPU is water-cooled now this is a Corsair h-60
the motherboards rather cheap it's Ana's OU's prime be 350 plus and the power
supply I have in this machine right here - is a 650 watt one from EVGA which is
the bare minimum really that you want to be running with this type of card
so what about fan noise and coil one I'll give you a sample here but you can
hear some coil one differently when you've got vsync disable when you enable
vsync the coil one literally just disappears but it give you sample of it
now under full load now when it comes to overclocking this card I can't actually
push it really that much higher without touching the core voltage I've managed
to get a stable plus 30 megahertz to the core clock which is not a lot at all and
a very decent 600 megahertz more on the memory clock there so what this has done
to the scores here so this is the default factory turbo score here so six
thousand nine hundred and seventy two and once I overclocked that now
firestrike ultra and 4k has now gone up to seven thousand two hundred and ninety
seven so it's a very marginal increase here and probably really not worth the
hassle overclocking this particular card or the core clock that is at least now I
did test out what that little turbo button does so what it does it changes
the BIOS so we've got an overclock BIOS and then a standard one and the
difference between them and clocks you can see here is quite significant so
this right here is the button off so when it's pushed in and you can see here
the maximum boost there is fifteen hundred and eighty-two and then when you
have that enabled which I personally would just always leave it enabled I
don't know why it would want to actually under clock it you've got a 1080 Ti you
want maximum performance that's what you're paying for then that clock of
course goes now to 1709 which seems fairly decent and I'm not gonna touch it
I'm just gonna always leave it in that turbo mode there now when it comes to
thermals out of all of the games I have tested in the whole time I've been
benchmarking this card I have never seen it go over 74 degrees and that was even
with my minor little overclock of 30 megahertz so thermals are really good on
this card never had a problem and the fan noise quite good as well
so there we go as you can see that this is a super powerful card and a true 4k
and ultra wide gaming card at that because we had an average of over 60
frames per second on all of the games I tested running in 4k with the ultra or
highest possible settings there which is really remarkable in something and you
can see that this is a nice step up from my 1080 that I have here so in terms of
build quality it's very good very solid this card we do have the rear backing
plate on there that I showed you at the start middle frame around here to
protect the fans and everything now there's plastic on my Zeus card here
which isn't that great but it is a quality place that they have used on
that one now it does have RGB lighting that surround this fan here and in the I
game logo on the top but unfortunately the crappy software they have didn't let
me and run it properly or even install it correctly so I could not show you
that in this video here and I went on to their official web site which is in an
English colorful website and I could not download any software for that from
their website which hopefully will be corrected soon there so we can at least
control the lighting on here for those of you that want to run for example this
middle fan or the logo and blue to match the rest of your theme of your system
you have in at our PC now there is of course that little switch on the side I
believe that this is really just a gimmick colorful don't need to have this
on here at all because everyone's gonna be running this in the turbo mode and
not the standard mode because standard modes a lot slower and who's buying a
1080 TI to run it under clock door it's slower clocks no one is so that's really
just a pointless feature there so it does retail for about 800 and for the
year us but you must import it of course from China which is a bit of a con there
too that you have to bear in mind that you may be subject to import taxes and
if you do have a problem with it then it needs to be sent back to China for
repairs or replacement now my unit the fan noise very good it gets up to around
50 decibels at maxie and the cooling works really well did not go over 74
degrees Celsius now the coil whine is only obvious in
an issue really when you're running super high frames per second and I'm
talking like running 300 frames per second you will hear this coil whine
that high-pitched noise from that sample I gave you now the same happens on my
1080 as well that when I have vsync on not a problem vsync on with this it's
not a problem either and if you do have vsync off and the frame rate is under
100 frames per second around 150 coil whine then is a non-issue but if you do
plan to run counter-strike at say 300 frames per second or 250 then you're
going to hear some coil whine on this and hopefully over time that will die
down but it is not an issue on this card here it was on this this is actually my
second one I got because the first card I had had a lot of really high pitch
coil whine on this Zeus 1080 strip that I have Strix so that one was replaced
and this card is perfectly fine so a really great card here and it only has
those minor cons but the RGB lighting and really these software support there
with the website that you can't download that software on it but really good card
amazing performance there so if you are into 4k gaming or ultra wide gaming
definitely look for a 1080 TI one like this right here thanks so much for
watching this view and I do have to see you back in the channel soon with my
typical reviews on tablets mobile phones and various are they gadgets and things
mostly from China