Friday, March 3rd 2017

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 with iCX Cooling Solution Pictured

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EVGA is giving final touches to its premium custom-design GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, the EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3. This card features one of the largest VGA air-cooling solutions ever deployed by the company, its new large variant of the iCX cooler it introduced with the GTX 1080 FTW2. Three 100 mm fans are suspended along an industrial-looking frame-like cooler shroud, which holds an illuminated company branding on top. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and as our EVGA iCX reveal article details, the cooling solution goes beyond the heatsink and its fans; and includes 9 (or more) temperature sensors located at various points of the card, not to mention asynchronous fan-control, which lets you tweak the speeds of individual fans.

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19 Comments on EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 with iCX Cooling Solution Pictured

#1
theonedub
habe fidem
It looks a lot better than the ACX coolers they had on the 1080/1070.
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#2
nickbaldwin86
The edge of the card is an advertisement... no need to ask "what hardware you have in your system?"

pretty sick card tho! wonder how much over the "$699" that bad boy is going to cost
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#4
ZoneDymo
Lets hope they did not gimp on thermal pads or whatever it was on this one ;)
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#5
hv43082
Looks bad ass. Time to upgrade. Hopefully the order page will be up soon.
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#6
Hood
ZoneDymoLets hope they did not gimp on thermal pads or whatever it was on this one ;)
Pay attention, man - the new iCX cooler was specifically designed to ensure that those embarrassing ACX cooler thermal problems could never happen again. All those (9) thermal sensors will ramp up the fan or fans at the first hint of high temps, and high performance thermal pads are everywhere possible. EVGA has a very good reputation to uphold, and the beefy new cooler should restore confidence lost in the aftermath of those thermal failures.
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#7
Jack1n
HoodPay attention, man - the new iCX cooler was specifically designed to ensure that those embarrassing ACX cooler thermal problems could never happen again. All those (9) thermal sensors will ramp up the fan or fans at the first hint of high temps, and high performance thermal pads are everywhere possible. EVGA has a very good reputation to uphold, and the beefy new cooler should restore confidence lost in the aftermath of those thermal failures.
Yes, they want you to pay a premium price to solve an issue that should not have been there in the first place.
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#8
ixi
Sadly, but they will not include thermal pads.
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#9
Owen1982
Yet another 1080Ti reveal that means absolutely nothing to me without mention of the clocks.
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#12
PowerPC
HoodEVGA has a very good reputation to uphold
NOPE. What they did with the thermal pads is unforgivable. There are like 10 other companies I would choose over EVGA for a graphics card right now. And it wasn't a mistake, someone high up in their company must have approved the idea to save a few cents on those "thermal pads", you know, who needs them?!? Oh, and by the way, it was on one of those cards they tout as "premium" that did cost over $500...
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#13
Hood
PowerPCNOPE. What they did with the thermal pads is unforgivable. There are like 10 other companies I would choose over EVGA for a graphics card right now. And it wasn't a mistake, someone high up in their company must have approved the idea to save a few cents on those "thermal pads", you know, who needs them?!? Oh, and by the way, it was on one of those cards they tout as "premium" that did cost over $500...
So you are saying you have inside information about this, and it was a deliberate move to save a few cents on thermal pads? Please post the relevant internal EVGA memos or emails that led you to this conclusion. What? You say you made that stuff up to support your view point, but you just have a "feeling" that it happened that way? Thank you for sharing...
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#14
Agony
does it fit on corsair 240 air ? it looks wide ...
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#15
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
Agonydoes it fit on corsair 240 air ? it looks wide ...
No, not even close. LOL
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#16
Slizzo
PowerPCNOPE. What they did with the thermal pads is unforgivable. There are like 10 other companies I would choose over EVGA for a graphics card right now. And it wasn't a mistake, someone high up in their company must have approved the idea to save a few cents on those "thermal pads", you know, who needs them?!? Oh, and by the way, it was on one of those cards they tout as "premium" that did cost over $500...
I think it was proven out by a few people (reviewers and others investigating) that the issue was down to some faulty components. The thermal pads were an ancillary issue, but not directly related to the actual blown up cards.

But yeah, this ICX cooler is same design overall to that of the one for the 1080. These cards will be fine.

IIRC, the 1080 FTX was around $680? So I would expect this to carry the same ~$70-$80 premium over the $700 MSRP.
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#17
Blueberries
includes 9 (or more) temperature sensors
Okay so GPU, VRM, (Memory ICs?), ... ???

I'm lost.
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#19
Nordiga
Best looking 1080ti easily.
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