Teaser: Using Tape on Video Cards
Added 2017-04-25 03:28:29 +0000 UTCThe image attached to this post isn't the stock configuration of EVGA's new 1080 Ti SC2 -- it's our special take on it. The card is riddled with holes and, from what EVGA says, that should help with cooling. We decided to look into that claim by plugging the holes.
The results have thus far been interesting! There's a lot more to do, but the testing is coming along. We're hoping to air our 1080 Ti SC2 review on Wednesday or Thursday, with a Titan Xp tear-down going up Tuesday. Lots of other stuff in the pipe, too, with GN Patrick heading-up more Phenom II tests. We've also received our Optane samples, but are putting them on hold to wrap-up other benchmarking and reviews.
This EVGA hole-plugging testing has given us ideas for some other unique GPU tests that we'll hopefully kick off soon-ish. Before then, though, we've got obligations to finalize a couple of our Trashputer benchmarks.
As always, thanks again for your ongoing support. Patreon has become a major boon for us. If you have not already joined our Discord community, please feel free to do so -- you should have instructions in your initial Patreon email (connect your Discord account to your Patreon account, then join the GN channel).
And for folks who haven't purchased one yet, our new store has shirts available for everyone: https://store.gamersnexus.net/
Just wanted to give you a teaser as to the tests to come! Pretty fun stuff. Again, the Patreon support helps justify our extra time expense to do these things. We'd have to move on to the next project much quicker without your help.
- Steve.
