 Google Home Max latest hell OnePlus No way They're finally here. I thought Anthony was just throwing money away buying graphics cards on Aliexpress. Let's go check these things out After I tell you about today's sponsor Be quiet's dark rock for and pro for near silent air coolers feature wave contoured cooling fins and easy top mounted installation Learn more through the links below Okay, so apparently what we think we ordered is an Elsa GTX 1080 and a Maxon GTX 1060 5 gig and And this is what we've got. So why don't we start with the one that has no box? So we've got Elsa on here. That's actually like Molded so, you know, presumably there's some kind of volume to this production and then it's got a sticker on the fan that says Debroglie or Debroglie is but it doesn't sound very good The board feels pretty heavy. It's got a lot of memory chips back here. So this seems somewhat credible, but there's no No recognizable part number Anywhere on it. It's got what looks like a serial and then a warranty void by a tear or damage And that's about it. I gotta say though. This Shroud is sketching me out a little bit I haven't seen many 1080s that are that sort of cheaply constructed alright, so we know already that this one doesn't have 5 gigs of memory because Nvidia doesn't make a GTX 1060 with 5 gigs of memory. This is a funny thing for me. So Maxon is using a Really cheap heat sink design on this thing. Holy crow I haven't seen something like this on a card above the like $100 price point in my memory. So you see even though it has all of these aluminum fins This is just a What is it like a cast? Design I'm gonna check with Alex. Would this be cast aluminum? And you see how the fins don't go all the way through actually know this was extruded extruded Okay so his theory is that it's actually extruded and that makes a ton of sense because then they just have this profile and they'd have the aluminum just kind of push through it and then they could just slice off heat sinks like this and then it's very little work to create these little slices for air to pass through and Then these little spots where they can throw in a couple of heat pipes This is a very inefficient way of cooling versus having fins that actually pass all the way through so you've got a lot more airflow there's nothing really else about it that sets off warning bells other than the plastic backplate which will Previously not only serve no purpose for cooling because even metal ones don't do that but actually could make it worse Holy crap. This might actually have 5 gigs of RAM. What is a 160 bit bus? Am I mistaken is there a 5 gig that like look, you know what? Let's just alright So we've got benchmarks run for our reference founders edition GTX 1080 already which means we can go ahead pull that puppy off the bench here and Throw on the Elsa de Broglie How much less did we actually pay? I thought the idea was we were supposed to find things that were like cheap Okay, so 720 US for the 1080 325 US for the 1060 Okay, they've got some kind of tape over the SLI fingers Why would they do that? And not like a like a temporary looking tape like this doesn't look like it's intended to be taped Like this doesn't look like it's intended to be taken off these little heat sink fins on the back Don't actually appear to be like Attached to this aluminum plate in any meaningful way. So I doubt sincerely that they're really doing anything for cooling It does show up as a GTX 1080 Benchmarks almost done and honestly everything here is looking pretty good so far We haven't like power throttled or anything like that so 6551 Average FPS of 49. How does that compare to our Founders Edition Anthony? Our Founders Edition did 6576 okay So this one is bang on That's actually pretty cool because compared to the overpriced mining cards that were available at the time Even though we did pay a lot of money for this thing and getting a warranty for it would Probably be a pretty sketchy ordeal We at least did save a significant amount of money Spoil it for me was there anything I was supposed to notice that was bad about this one that shroud is for a GTX 980ti Not a 1080 Did they reuse the PCB as well the PCB is for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition? But then they're just using a 980ti shroud on it. Yeah Okay, our model numbers on the back that coincide with an Apple Mac Pro GeForce 7300 GT So it's not like it's not a little sketchy But by and large we got what we paid for I consider that one a success all right this one oops I Am not quite as hopeful about These fans are exactly as cheap as the heat sink. Oh wait. Hold on. Maybe they're not at no They're not as bad as I thought it out Out okay, you stop that This is like an AMD card or something is it okay? No, no don't don't tell me don't tell me well I'm not sure if I'm expecting it, but we should See performance similar to a GTX 1060 frame rates look like about what I would expect from a 1060. Let's see what it is It's actually showing up as 1065 gig with memory running at 4 gigahertz so that would be 8 effective so at 35 32 that's about 300 points less than we got with our founders edition 1060 but Every piece of data we can find seems to confirm that this is in fact a 5gig card so those of you who have heard us rant on What was it the 1070 Ti video and at various points on the WAN show will be aware of How we feel around here about manufacturers saying this is a 1060 It's got six gigs of RAM, and this is a 1063 gig, but oh by the way It's actually also cut down in some ways. We don't like it, but apparently they're screwing around with this even more in other regions Okay, so after some digging what it looks like happened here is Nvidia actually released a China specific 5gig version of the 1060 with the only difference same number of Cuda cores with the only difference being the bus width and The amount of memory so it performs as we saw fairly similarly to a regular 1060 But what with the whole global DRAM shortage and all that it comes in at a lower price And it is intended for internet cafes So this card ended up Accidentally on purpose on a marketplace, but it was actually For OEM sales only to these kinds of land cafes that are much more popular over there than they are over here So once again we actually got an ok value and the product itself was legit So buying GPUs on Aliexpress good idea bad idea. 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