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Inno3D GTX 1080 iChill X4 Review

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I have been testing my Inno3D GTX 1080i iChill X4 card over the last few days and here are my thoughts.

The box only came with the card. No additional power adaptors or Graphic port cabling adaptors. The only other things in the box were a Inno3D mouse mat and serial numbers for 3DMark and 3DMark VR which was nice.

The card maybe is not to every ones taste, but to me it looks like a beast and I love the design.

The LED's are not custom controlled and the iChill logo changes colour based on the temperature of the card. (Blue - Green - Orange - Pink - Red)

Out of the box with no overclocking, GPUz and Afterburner were reporting the card running at 1974Mhz GPU and 5200Mhz MEM under full load after 5 mins.

So far my maximum overclocking is disapppointing on the GPU, but with afterburner I have no voltage control, so maybe it could go higher.

I managed on air to get +50Mhz in the GPU and +350Mhz on the memory to give me 2025Mhz and 5555Mhz as reported in GPUZ after it settled.

This was stable and I left Valley running full load for an hour and I was amazed that the card hit a maximum of 71 degrees with 89% fan.

BUT at 89% fan, I could not hear it. My hearing is not brilliant, but I could not hear it unless I put my head next to the closed case.

Very impressed,

My system is a 5960 O/C to 4.5Ghz and 32GB RAM with a custom CPU water block. The card was on air. Ambient temperature was about 21 degrees

Here is the 3DMark link, quite impressive scores with voltage locked at the moment.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/12691133

Some images and screenies.

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Over all for £589 I am extremely impressed and happy with the card. I would recommend it for those wanting a quick out of the box card that is very cool and quiet under load.
 
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Looks erm..... big!

Decent price for such a good cooling solution though, by looks of it. Little bit disappointing with the overclocking, but it looks to be so fast out the box that overclocking it is a little bit redundant. I woulda considered this had it not been so large as possibility of going SLI would be removed.
 
Still a decent overclock. Make sure to test the memory at slightly lower clocks to see if performance improves.
 
Is that a fan on side for cooling VRM's?

Would think a fan that size would need to spin at a fair old rate and potentially be noisy?

I do quite like the look of it though. Looks beastly.
 
Interesing that the 1080 is 8+6pin. I've got the 1070 version and it's only 8pin. Overclocking wise I hit similar clocks, 2076 stable, dropping to 2063 under heavy load. Very similar temps, couldn't believe the size of it though!
 
I've got the basic two fan version. A very rough and ready oc last night saw 2113 on the base clock. My card 'only' has the single 8 pin connector but this is more than enough to deliver the power that any 1080 needs.

My fans can be heard during stress testing but quiet during gaming. I think all 1080's are 'about' 2100mhz and all the AIB fancy cards are a waste of time/money in terms of overclocking but I do see they look nicer/sound better etc.
 
Been following Inno through the years and this is their most subtle X4 yet, although led colours and that red bracket are all over the place
- Still the card to buy along with Palit/Gainward as far as I'm concerned: goofy and "different" but with great coolers.

You shouldn't be concerned about the clocks, that's all people get from those cards - 2000/2100, there's nowhere else to go and Boost 3.0 does most of the job.
 
BriT said:
My voltage in afterburner shows in % and not mv and does naff all.
Click to expand...

Yup just tested and % and according to GPUZ the VDDC is not changing accordingly. (with the latest AB Beta)

Shame, will try one of the other OC utilities.
 
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