Tuesday, June 7th 2016
GIGABYTE Announces the GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming
GIGABYTE launched its flagship GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming graphics card. This card features GIGABYTE's highest factory-overclock for the GTX 1080, supported by a custom-design PCB with a strong VRM, and a meaty new custom design cooling solution. The company's new WindForce Stack 3X cooler features three fans in a "stacked" configuration, with the middle fan slightly receded from the plane of the other two fans. This arrangement, according to GIGABYTE, maximizes air-flow to the heatsink.
The cooler also features RGB LED lighting on an X-shaped design element, and a logo on the top of the card, right next to its two 8-pin PCIe power inputs. The cooler comes with a back-plate. GIGABYTE is including quite a few useful accessories with the card, including a 2U-spaced SLI HB bridge, a front-panel that fits into a 5.25-inch drive bay, giving you two HDMI 2.0b ports, and a pair of USB 3.0 ports relayed from your motherboard header; or a rear-panel bracket that puts out those two HDMI 2.0b ports from the card. GIGABYTE is backing the card with a staggering 4-year warranty (online registration needed).
The cooler also features RGB LED lighting on an X-shaped design element, and a logo on the top of the card, right next to its two 8-pin PCIe power inputs. The cooler comes with a back-plate. GIGABYTE is including quite a few useful accessories with the card, including a 2U-spaced SLI HB bridge, a front-panel that fits into a 5.25-inch drive bay, giving you two HDMI 2.0b ports, and a pair of USB 3.0 ports relayed from your motherboard header; or a rear-panel bracket that puts out those two HDMI 2.0b ports from the card. GIGABYTE is backing the card with a staggering 4-year warranty (online registration needed).
35 Comments on GIGABYTE Announces the GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming
I believe what he is referring to are the changes/improvements they are doing specifically for the 1080.
Waterforce
Come on Gig rep..we should not be beating you to posting this type of stuff.
Concerned about the natural flow direction of the cables here. It looks like it's connected in a way that forces you to mount the radiator to the inside of the case rather than the fan.
This was the problem wit hthe 980 TI version, and why we had to unhook the fan and put it to the opposite of the radiator, then mount it to the case.
Gig rep, can you comment on whether it will be possible to mount the fan to the case in it's default configuration?
As it is, it is mounted correctly to push air through the radiator and out of the case.
All of this had to be done out of the box, in order to get the proper performance.
Intake warm air from within case produced higher temperatures than intaking clean air from outside the case.