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02 January 2018
Gigabyte's Auros 1080 ti fully enthusiast-grade in standard or "Xtreme" variant.
7 of 9 found this helpful Gigabyte's Auros product division ranked high amongst great competition in hindsight, looking back now to 2017. Motherboards and graphic cards of varying PCB designs for Intel, Nvidia & AMD were manufactured as consistent, exemplary, stellar &, fresh engineering entries from the stalwart tech company.
There are but two "better designed" power delivery partitions attached to any enthusiast line of 1080 ti, the exceptional Kingpin by HoF & the legendary Lightning, the preeminent sample by MSI. This pair are specialty engineered for liquid nitrogen cooling and thus applicable to a fraction of a percentage point's fraction.
The Auros, with it's fully metal shroud encompassing a broad & dense copper block covering the entirety of active components (GPU die, VRM, & GDDR5X RAM) that extends into 5 thick pipes of copper completely engulfed within tight, vertical layers of aluminum. On the reverse is a back- mounted copper plate embedded in the metal plate , twice as large on the extreme edition but still broad enough to exchange heat on the nearly identical standard Auros 1080 ti. The opposite face features 3 90mm fans, the two on the outside rotating clockwise and the center unit spinning counter with steeply angled fins allowing for substantial overlap creating a fan-stack that is whisper quiet pushing 2088Mhz boost clock and memory that reaches 5500MHz with ease.
The best video card I've ever used, not focusing exclusively on performance, but on this sheer incredible design and integration of the fantastic heatsink fan and windforce stack. Worth every penny.