EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 with iCX Cooling Solution Pictured

btarunr · Mar 3, 2017

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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theonedub · Mar 3, 2017

It looks a lot better than the ACX coolers they had on the 1080/1070.

nickbaldwin86 · Mar 3, 2017

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

Fluffmeister · Mar 3, 2017

Looks good to me! Bring on the reviews.

ZoneDymo · Mar 3, 2017

Lets hope they did not gimp on thermal pads or whatever it was on this one

hv43082 · Mar 4, 2017

Looks bad ass. Time to upgrade. Hopefully the order page will be up soon.

Hood · Mar 4, 2017

ZoneDymo said:
Lets 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.

Jack1n · Mar 4, 2017

Hood said:
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.

Yes, they want you to pay a premium price to solve an issue that should not have been there in the first place.

ixi · Mar 4, 2017

Sadly, but they will not include thermal pads.

Owen1982 · Mar 4, 2017

Yet another 1080Ti reveal that means absolutely nothing to me without mention of the clocks.

Finners · Mar 4, 2017

The rep for EVGA on a overclockers UK forum said not to expect these until May!

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/30566506/

P4-630 · Mar 4, 2017

Nice render....

PowerPC · Mar 4, 2017

Hood said:
EVGA 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...

Hood · Mar 4, 2017

PowerPC said:
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...

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...

Agony · Mar 4, 2017

does it fit on corsair 240 air ? it looks wide ...

cdawall · Mar 5, 2017

Agony said:
does it fit on corsair 240 air ? it looks wide ...

No, not even close. LOL

Slizzo · Mar 6, 2017

PowerPC said:
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...

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.

Blueberries · Mar 6, 2017

includes 9 (or more) temperature sensors

Okay so GPU, VRM, (Memory ICs?), ... ???

I'm lost.

Hood · Mar 7, 2017

Blueberries said:
Okay so GPU, VRM, (Memory ICs?), ... ???

I'm lost.

This page explains all - http://www.evga.com/articles/01084/evga-icx/

Nordiga · Mar 7, 2017

Best looking 1080ti easily.

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