Nice one Sam allowing Steve to use the Titan X, great trust and respect both ways. There's still some top Gents in this world, true support from the well deserved followers.

It's great, you tear stuff apart so I don't have to, satisfies my curiousity and saves me a bucket of cash.

As I suspected, one of the best hardware/tech sites out there has equally awesome viewers. Thanks GN and Sam for making this video possible!

8:35 he paused at 'additional' and I instantly thought pylons

Thank you Steve and many thanks to Sam! also!!!

great stuff man, Best one yet in my opinion

I can't believe NVIDIA is so frugal to not give this channel a titan X. Most youtube channels just do a simple explanation about the specs and then have a very limited amount of non sense making benchmarks when testing a video card. I watched the GTX 1060 review on linustechtips and it was utter crap. They only included 1440p testing and only tested a small amount of games. I watched it on other tech channels as well with the same result. On gamers Nexus they really take their time when covering a product, if it's small or big doesn't matter there will be extensive testing. They give you an explanation of what audience it is targeted towards, they give very detailed benchmarks, comparing them to other videocards. They use useful data such as frametimes, 0.1 and 1% lows, delta T over ambient, scaled over different resolutions. If this isn't already enough to get a card send from NVIDIA they also include an in depth article about everything mentioned in the video and more, so you can easily navigate to it again later on in future or if you want to see the benchmarks again, which are very reliable because of the testing methodology and time put into it. Other then this they also make Hybrid cards, they discuss if the card would have driver issues, how they're going to be fixed. In conclusion you can see that Gamers Nexus really takes its time to cover any product as much as possible while being genuine and original in offering something other channels don't cover. If I buy a card I will definitely check out the reviews of this channel (as I did in the past) to make my final decision. Other tech channels might bring some more humor, but when you as a consumer need to spend your precious money to buy a card you need a very reliable source and this is where Gamers Nexus really shines.

Yes i love these videos. thank you sam

thanks for making this video series! this is very helpful!

I just came to watch this video over seven and a half years later, because someone just gave me one of these because it was being retired from his work-place and they were going to send it to a recycling centre! I'm assuming that I should probably re-paste it and apply new pads, so this teardown video will come in super handy. I know I have to make sure that the pads are the right thickness. It's really easy to screw this kind of thing up! I wish they made graphics cards easier to perform maintenance on.

YESSSS!!!!! I LOVE YOU MAN!!! BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!!!

so keen to see part 2 and 3 of this. interested to water cooled performance of this card

love you sam and this channel .. really informative :)

i hope the owner has a strong stomach

Thanks SAM

love these videos

awesome stuff

Alright..now to apply the hybrid!

Yeaaaaah!!! Steve youre the king!!!! Please do a 1070 watercooled, that's the only card you didnt do in the 10 series :)

Steve i just wanted to say great job, stumbled across your site/channel while researching my next GPU and it's been an invaluable resource to learning all the technical minutia that other "reviewers" never cover. Subbed and keep up the good work! also is there any chance of a Gigabyte 1080 Xtreme Watercooled review any time soon? I am looking into getting that one, seems to be the best hybrid card 1080 market currently. BTW i just wanted to say you remind me of Nathan Explosion :P

Another gr8 vid, i'm still holding out for an evga 1060 sc breakdown and benchmark?

sam is the real mvp

oh here we go again... :D That IFIXIT tool kit looks SWEET

Almost 60k

Sweet, cant wait to see some crazy OC scores from this beast. Not a fan of nVidia's pricing this go around, but its still an epic GPU.

wow i was about to go to sleep then this video popped up, you guys are the best! hhahaha mad scientists

Do you also need a top fan instead of a blower fan ? considering the water cooler might block air flow from blower.

omg I need to see these benchmarks so bad.

thanks for the links for tools, etc. The linked article claims the standoffs are 6.5mm, this is far too large looking at ours. The standoffs are very small, around 4mm or possibly smaller. Could you clarify what the size actually is? Thanks.

can ya give me a link to that hybrid kit ya used?

Would you consider doing a tear down of a budget card, say a MSI Aero or Asus Turbo, in oder to compare them to e.g. Founders Editions?

thanks for clearing the fact that you won't mod anything with voltages, I felt answered XD

please . how did you get those tech

if NVidia have left some extra space for more power, does that mean there will be aftermarket cards? last titan x only gigabyte did one with their xtreme

I'd settle for a set of precision or jeweller's screw drivers. You have way much torque with this multi bit setup, which makes easy to strip the threads of those dinky screws.

Does doing this avoid the warranty of the card?

Wow a $1200 Titon X borrord for testing and water cooling, there are blocks for open loops avalable why not use one for Sam ?

Cool

Shame it's not his card. I was hoping to see Steve slam that thing into the table like he usually does, it's the most adrenaline part of the show :)

I know this build is probably done by now. But I wish you would use a 240mm radiator....

You said this was one of your fans titan xp right ? I'm sure he was scared watching you take it apart lol. Either way I know you know what you're doing, just a bit frightening to do that on a 1200 dollar card. good video none the less!

Hoping nothing bad will happen to the card lol.. If you end up breaking it, oh god rip.

"Hopefully" -Steve Burke.

Hello there

Ask sam if i can borrow it forever

Part 2???

Is there any recent GPU that you havent hybrided?

wow 1.2k$ and you get a chunk of aluminium for a heatsink

1080 and Titan X gets subtitled as Canadian tight necks :D kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fp14gZZ0qd6xgZ8.htmlm33s

Looks so complicated and risky, especially of you don't have all the equipment required and organizational skills... Would rather just 0verclock it and have a noisier pc than to break my 1200 dollars gpu. I ordered one, and planning on getting another one for sli later on in the future when prices dro

It's plain cruel to show these Arctic coolers and not say a word about what they're for. I was really intrigued with the double cooler. It looks insanely massive and 6 years limited warranty??? holy beef!

Here is my post of the hybrid mod I did to my Titan X Pascal... hardforum.com/posts/1042460620/

How to void a warranty, lol.

Wait, does that 1200$ card really just have a backplate... MADE OF PLASTIC?!

i see you got new tools so you don't have to butcher things. looks like it has bits for those nuts

you guys handle the cards very , how shall i put this , loosely ... have you ever had an issue with one of these cards you tear down , .... tl;dr have you ever broken a card after you tear it down ?

i don't know why i like looking at things being teared apart - think i'm sick or smthng

Big surprise it tears down the same as a 1070/1080 lol

Not your card..... THROWS backplate.......

Nvidia saves money on everything but they just puts a hundret tiny screws on their cards which add alot to the manufacturing costs.

wouldnt it be easier to just put a waterblock on it???

I bet Jesus AKA Steve won't answer this

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i want a Evga Titan XP Classified. Nvidia sucks so much. BTW, today in a few games a GTX 960 is as strong es a 780ti. Or, more accurate, the 780ti is getting crippled with purpose. OFC, Nvidia uses the term "Maxwell architecture is more optimized"...well if thats the case, why havent the AMDs like r9 380 and 290 not getting crippled? Dont touch games in which Nvidia is involved...at least dont pay for this shit. Its a shame, its only a 2 years ago when a 780ti was 600 dollars and now they dont optimize its drivers anymore, just to make the new cards like maxwell look stronger. And ofc, they are gonna cripple Maxwells performance now. Im looking forward to a stupid 1060 getting 20% stronger than my 980, already see it coming. That was my last Nvidia.

Why do you have a bracelet with a wire. Its a handcuff?????

While interesting, it's pretty pointless. Why not just use a titan in a custom loop?

Can't you wear gloves? hands have sweat and grease...