 RCEs 2019 coverage is brought to you by the dbrand grip super grippy case and dbrands prism screen protectors We're here in the asus rog components suite which also Clearly is not fully set up yet, but we found some really cool stuff in here So they've got this demo system. That's not running yet. Oh What that's heavy I? Am not gonna mess with that too much, but it's clearly water-cooled. It's clearly got a motherboard that we have never seen In person before oh, let's just open it up look at that So this is their Dominus extreme. I'll show you that in a little bit more detail later, and they've got the first ever water-cooled video card that doesn't have like an external radiator with tubing to it that you got to like put over here Anyway, that's that system is not actually running yet, but that doesn't matter because I've got the key components over here So this I was actually thinking of doing a dedicated video called Intel your desperation is showing or something like that This is gonna run their upcoming 28 core overclockable CPU But the reason we didn't end up doing a dedicated video even though this thing is nuts look at this four eight pin CPU power connectors three PCI Express power connectors and 224 pin connectors like the entire top of the board is just VRM this entire thing It's just power delivery the reason we didn't end up doing a video is because we don't really know anything about it Six channel memory yeah, just like the Xeon Platinum's for PCI Express slots We don't know pricing of the board. We don't know pricing of the CPU We don't know what realistic overclocking results are Intel showed 5 GHz But that was on like very very chilled liquid, so it just it's kind of like it's like a showpiece right now It's all it really is but Now I'm not gonna help Asus with too much of their booth setup here But I did find this Power brick that is trailing out the back of this thing that wasn't plugged in that seems to fire up the fans on the card And there's a USB cable back here that I'm gonna go ahead and plug into my hey my portable power battery bank Hey look at that see I'm helping I am helping I mean I'm not gonna leave my battery bank here, but that's not the point also. I'm gonna unplug this because Guess what I got I got my tool kit so we're gonna have a look at what exactly a water-cooled graphics card Like this is oh man Hopefully this even like can be pulled off because I've sort of committed to it now No, it's fine guys chill not gonna break it Look if they didn't want a bull running around in their China shop They shouldn't have had him on the guest list okay So the crazy thing about this is that from the front from the bottom from the back from the side Everything about it looks fairly normal to the uninitiated and You know even to the fairly initiated I would say so I think this shiny piece here has to come off. Yeah, okay I thought there might be a screw under there. I no longer believe that there's a screw under there anyway One hint as to what we're about to see though is this so that is like more of a like a Water block style cold plate down there, and then it appears as though They're using the same kind of pump and water block combo unit that we've seen in AIO coolers And then if we look closely instead of just heat pipes running to aluminum fins We've got a radiator here It's just bolted to the front of the card now. I want to get a better look at it I'm having a really hard time figuring out where the additional screws are You know what I'm doubling down I'm doubling down. I'm doubling down on my the screws are under here theory They have more than one of these here, right? Yep. Yeah, I don't know if they have another one to put back on their little demo stand though I mean this adhesive seemed to go back on pretty well. I just want to see the radiator Okay, so there were three screws on the bottom we got those up I haven't taken it apart. You haven't taken it apart. So so you're okay, so it seems more dominant info Now I'm good Okay, so it seems like there's something holding it over here Gary mentioned you wanted to get a part something along here I just want to be able to show the radiator and the block like kind of show how it goes together This adhesive I've had it up and down once already it seems to be holding together pretty well Okay, so we're curious You know what I think I might know what's going on here. I think I might not have the right screwdriver for this There's three screws that are just barely accessible through the back here. Yeah And this is all I have And I can't get to them You know, I fix it kid. Yeah I even thought about grabbing my like more traditional jeweler screwdrivers, but they look so much like a weapon I didn't want to put them in my luggage. I Am really annoyed. Yeah, so I can put this plate back on Oh that sucks That sucks Whoa, whoa, hold on. Okay. No. No, I was just putting the card back together. I had given up. I found the screws So they're they're back there, but I left my my like traditional jeweler screwdrivers at home But then this was sitting down here and it was like that kind of looks like a toolkit But why does it have this on it? apparently To make sure that no one will open it because that's exactly what I need Okay, so let's try this This is gonna be really really hard to put back together I Legitimately don't know if I'm going to be able to put these screws back in and but they're already out now So since the ship has sailed We might as well just proceed Like if you're already going to hell, you know Why stop I think I got it There we go those three screws released this Nice okay, where's my screwdriver? Get off there off she goes There it is So that is how they're doing it And I'm glad that I got this popped off because there's already at least one thing that I got wrong here So I was telling you guys that it looked like they had used a pump CPU block combo here But what they've actually done is they've used this extremely compact pump right here So this allows Asus to avoid any issues with the Asetek patent that prevents third parties from using unlicensed block pump combo units and It still manages to be small enough to install Directly on top of a graphics card now in terms of the cooling capacity here Crazily enough they actually haven't compromised much there So as far as I can tell this plate right here is just a protective piece So naturally we'll be removing it No, it looks like I'm not gonna be able to get that off that easily So this is a protective piece for the tubing there's a little bit of a gap here But it's a protective piece for the tubing. There's no reservoir. So just like a typical closed-loop cooler. It's just Prefilled at the factory and then it Wait what? Now hold on a minute Maybe you can help me with this so we've got the inlet on the pump Then we've got the outlet right here going to the GPU block power comes off the board right here This is a super small pump by the way Then so we've got our cold plate down there Which presumably is covering both the GPU and the HBM memory modules. Is that correct? I mean, I can't imagine That they didn't do that I don't see anything else down here Yeah, it's hard to it's hard to go any further than this Unfortunately, you guys we've got VRM over here, which is handled just with downdraft cooling from the fans up here And then this is weird see this here So unlike a normal radiator, there's kind of the end tank is in the middle And I don't know how the flow path works But out from the GPU block comes in the underside right here on a normal radiator It goes in the one side on the end tank Down then you have a smaller end tank on the other end it goes over and then through these thin tubes right here But it's coming right up here, and then it's coming out here So I can only imagine that they've done some kind of routing you know what I think I know what they did I think this is how it works, so it goes in the bottom here, and then there's a divider here It goes it fills this tank goes over here through the skinny end tank and then out here Then it's a parallel flow path I think it goes in here down this side of this one Through this skinny end tank and then up here, and then the cooled water comes together back through the pump over to the GPU again now I don't have verification of this, but I Can't imagine that it would work any other way because it couldn't just go straight from here to here You wouldn't get any cooling out of it That is something I did not expect to see here So while I put this back together Let's talk about what kind of performance you could expect from a 2080 Ti that is water-cooled well a lot but Maybe not quite as much as you'd hope because of the way that Nvidia has restricted their partners abilities to overvolt their GPUs You're probably only looking at a couple percent faster than a well air-cooled 2080 Ti now with that said What Asus claims is that like other liquid cooled graphics cards which have existed in the past? but with a separate radiator this one will run much cooler and that'll mean that the card will be able to maintain its maximum power state more Consistently and more stably and another thing to consider is that while many benchmarkers run their tests in a room Temperature room your room might not be that temperature So if you're from somewhere that's particularly hot or you don't have air conditioning or whatever the case may be Then something like this might be necessary in order to get the maximum performance out of your card This was stressful and there we go The card is reassembled all that remains is to oh wow the box that was being used as a stand for this one's pretty beat Up hopefully they have another plan for that all that remains is to see if their demo still works Yeah Do the fan still spin Hey and We're done, so thanks to Asus for being really good sports about all of this and Thanks to you guys for watching and thanks to dbrand for sponsoring us here at CES 2019 their dbrand grip cases which I will be doing plenty of drop tests with are super grippy their impact resistant and They're built with the same precision you'd expect from dbrand with nice accurate cutouts for your camera your touch sensor Anything else you might have like say for example a headphone jack or stylus. 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