This thing was cool to work with. Meme fans aside, the rest of it was surprisingly well built. You can even use that name plate thing standalone if you wanted (has USB-C). Check out our fully custom PC build with case modding for a metal band! th-cam.com/video/0r03mcCLQI4/w-d-xo.html Watch our original RTX 4080 benchmarks here: th-cam.com/video/i2_xTUshy94/w-d-xo.html Watch our "RTX 4080 Problem" video: th-cam.com/video/OCJYDJXDRHw/w-d-xo.html We buy a lot of components ourselves these days, and that's made possible by you all. Consider grabbing one of our new Project & Soldering Mats on the store to support us and get something great in return: store.gamersnexus.net/products/gn-project-soldering-mat Or our Large Modmats! store.gamersnexus.net/products/modmat-volt-large
This product kind of seems pointless right? Most if not all 4080 use near 4090 heatsinks as it is correct? My 4080 is nothing special and it's virtually same size as a 4090. I think they mostly reused parts form the 4090 in the 4080. My 4080 on 100% stress load I don't think surpasses like 68-71C and that is with Furmark and CPU stress test together at same time to maximize case heat. I will watch this video but this seems full meme. On a 4090 maybe it would be worth it. But most if not all 4080s are over cooled as is.
Somehow I feel like this isn't even the weirdest entry in the latest fever dream series of products from NVIDIA and friends. I'm reluctantly here for the wild ride.
It's too bad the results weren't better. There's clear evidence of a much better card fighting to get out. Hopefully they are learning internally about the necessary design/execution and can provide excellent products in the future.
Remember the Gigabyte GTX 680 SOC with 5 fans on the side? Thanks for that review. Any half assed job would have just pointed out worse thermal performance on the GPU, when in fact the card in its entirety might be quite better. The fans are a meme, but if that leads to the card being reviewed and disassembled, they won on that.
beautiful piece of engineering and attention to detail. Considering it's their first attempt at a higher end gpu market, I can see only improvement in the future. Kudos.
Most importantly it seems someone cared when designing the card, some room for improvements, but it's promising. Just some weird design decisions, but not necessarily shortcuts. Some small changes to fan and heat-sink and it would improve.
maxsun videocards are awesome . just a bit of bad revieuw here only about temperature and sound tests lol . clearly a better card then nvidea for thier price
It's a pretty decent graphics card. The only thing it's lacking is an anime backstory. 19:15 That gasket could be useful for keeping liquid metal TIM from leaking. But it comes off too easily.
Steve mentioned in the video that for that to be effective it would have to be closer to the core. I imagine all those surface mount devices next to the core would not do well if exposed to liquid metal and they're all inside the boundary of the gasket.
Hey Steve, I think this cards "features" would be better suited in an actual case. I speak from the experience of a recent build I did. I replaced all of my case fans with high airflow noctua ones thinking it would help with gpu temps. It actually made it about 5°C worse at the edge temp. I figured out what's happened is my old shitty case fans were getting overpowered by my gpu fans inside the case which created an effective top to bottom airflow pattern. When I got better fans the airflow was now going front to back. My card has ventilation in the front, so now air that was getting pushed out by gpu fans was getting pushed back in and recirculating. This card doesn't have front ventilation which ironically mounted properly could help create good airflow (at least for my build lol)
Saw a card at one of my retailers called the "PNY GeForce RTX 4080 16GB XLR8 Gaming VERTO EPIC X RGB Triple-Fan. Gonna need scroll bars for these names soon.
I wouldn't pay the mark up but I do appreciate the effort they put in to quality construction and making basically an all metal chassis. This is one of the few partner cards I have seen where the extra money spent can actually be seen in the build. It is a really cool novelty card.
This reminds me of some of the "Hercules" GPUs that had a 4th fan on the side. RGHD made a video a while back about a 980 Ti with that design. Also worth a mention is the Gigabyte GTX 680 SOC that has 5 server-esque fans on the side.
I LOVE that the other components are cooled properly, it always bugged me that in some cards certain parts are just left there to heat up. It might not be that important, but I just love it.
To quote a certain host of a certain well regarded Hardware testing channel, "More fans does not necessarily mean, more better" (or something to that extent)
I really was hoping to see overclocking performance here. Even so, excellent work lifting the quality of hardware reviews. I like this card. I'm just am a sucker for quality; even though results are the important thing in the end.
In all due honesty this looks like a great model to pin somewhere for those that wish to buy used later on. The internals look robust, the thermals look robust, the whole card does. If I had to bet, it probably lasts the passage of time much better than other cards.
Its interesting how there could potentially be a higher temp on the core because everything else is being cooled by the same overall heat plate. I'm also interested in whether those small fans might have more of an impact if the internal fin density is much higher. Tbh I'd take a 3 degree jump on the core and hot spot temps if all the memory and whatnot is cooler than before.
G'day Steve, 10:30 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Top Secret Method" That's hilarious Those 2 fans are silly but while it could be better regarding efficiency I like the look of the Shroud & the build quality looks like they did make an effort
I have a 4080 FE in my system and honestly, I've never felt like that card needed more cooling^^ Honestly, it's probably the coolest GPU I've ever had in my rig...
@@pancakegainz sure, but to me that's a good thing, if you have a case that fits it... it runs so cool and quiet, even in intense games like MS FS2020 or hogwarts legacy
please dont. its horrible. the small fans was set to intake when it was an exhaust from the 3 large fans. its largely contradicting. thermals was terrible and the fans was loud as heck
G34WQC user here. It's been with me for the past three years and I love the ultrawide aspect ratio. Reasonable on all fronts, refresh, perceived color accuracy, brightness
I figured those tiny fans would work by running slowly while the big main fans were off, at low load, allowing the big fans to stay off for longer maybe allowing less ramp up etc. Otherwise especially adding case fans etc let alone the main GPU fans make sense they do little to nothing lol. That said, I'm more and more curious about Maxsun as a company for sure.
Whoever's idea it was at 2:20 to fanspin the GN logo, 100% great choice, that should be in every video from now on. If I missed it in others I'm sorry but I love it.
If I were to guess, the gasket may be there to prevent crashing the GPU core when mounting the radiator. When disassembling it, you were removing the screws from the upper side of the PCB. That would probably make it hard to gauge how much strength should be applied to the screws when mounting the radiator (+ no retention springs for what I've seen).
That was my thought. It's likely to help with that mounting pressure. It's not being used as a gasket but rather a rubber shim that can compress a little.
dam ... unfortunate that you guys didn't go full bore on the thermals with this one, after seeing the tear down it really does seem like a good candidate for that kind of testing. Even just to compare with cards available in NA
I hope they also come with the MAGA gamer US exclusive 6 slot card with 6 fans front & back, US flag LEDs front & back and a 99 cent discount for Trump steak!
I hate to focus on just a few seconds of B roll for the (awesome) workmat, but what an awesome surprise to see Gundam! Gunpla build stream soon to advertise the workmats? Lol
I love this Pentagamer card (I mean come on, five fans? The name is *right there*). It may not be the best in design, but the level of care dedicated to it via maxing out their backplate’s capacity shows pride in their product. I’m quite impressed, for a product I could never afford.
I actually wish they sold these in the States. Worst thing about the card to me is the ' GAMER' branding. But even if performance is slightly affected by the amount of work the heatsink has to do for so many components, this level of build quality and thermal pads should definitely be rewarded.
Not sure its worth the extra $200 but the metallic case and those curved edges are giving me Fallout vibes in the design aesthetic, which is pretty unique and might inspire someone to an interesting build.
G'day Ian & yensteel, Yeah or a Mini Vault Dweller theme, A Custom Loop filled with Nuka Cola Quantum plus some POP! Fallout Characters would be Awesome
It's a giant heat-sink with three regular fans and thermal pads up the wazoo, so I'm going to guess it'll keep performing essentially identically even if the tiny, largely decorative propellers fail.
Tiny fans like that are used in servers with large constant heat loads sitting for years in server rooms. There's many decades of experience in the industry making them, so there is nothing inherently wrong with smaller fans that would make their more likely to fail than larger ones.
We gamers in China believe, and know for a fact, that Maxsun cares. They are just kinda bad at it… Their devs are really small teams, and they don’t even have the budget to test every high frequency memorys for their motherboards, that they even borrowed dozens of ddr5 kits from their media friends… They have so little budgtes for marketing, basically none, that they asked media friends to shoot free product release video for this mgg card. By media freind i mean just chinese youtuber who has just 100 thousnad subscribers…
They overachieved a bit with the thermal pad. Maybe they went to thick and there is no good contact with the gpu die. But I rly like the gasket around the cold plate. An invitation for Conductonaut application. LM would definitely push it beyond FE thermal performance.(unless the cold plate is reasonable flat)
Thermal Take; I have one of your 2019 cool Mid towers! Don't give up..!!! Great for semi- yearly upgrades, it takes a rebuild well and keeps on WORKING. ( And no, I am not a sales manager from that company) LOL.
Super interesting card from Maxsun, I’d love to see y’all review the next card they make if they do make one. Compared to the build quality and cut corners on say an Aorus/Gigabyte card with its dirt cheap and lack thereof thermal pads it’s super nice to see!
FE was designed by running simulations on the army of Nvidia's industry leading supercomputers. Random Chinese company can not do that, so they have rely on crude methods of just adding more metal and materials to get the same result as a much cheaper and smaller FE card.
By taking a lot of heat from the subcomponents, could this card be considered more reliable despite it's slightly worse performance compared to the Founder's?
I don't know why but the "there are some areas where the quality is pretty high... but before that, the thermaltake case...." Sounded to me like"OMG we have to put an add for thermaltake CASES". As a judgement lacking person who bought one it really did resonate with me.
@@_BangDroid_ Not sure why that isn't obvious to everyone else, it is meant to be a pc screwdriver, but it has a dozen bits (not needed), a fairly stubby shaft (not suitable), a fat handle (not suitable), and potentially a magnet that is actually too strong considering pc work is in tight spaces surrounded by metal... but fanboys will be fanboys I guess. The #2 long shafted philips that came with my be quiet cooler is a lot more suitable, often seen in Gamers Nexus videos too.
Their attention to detail makes an argument for this card potentially lasting longer than other cards on the market. Pretty impressed with the build quality I see here.
Thanks Steve. This is a cool product. I wouldn't touch it with a ten meter pole, but at least they're trying something different. I think they perhaps should have made some revisions before releasing it, which makes me wonder whether it wasn't properly tested, or whether management just ignored(or never heard) the engineers' or QA's advice.
It would be really interesting to try some janky cooling ideas out of the box knowing the backplate conducts well. One of those magnetic usb peltier coolers meant for phones comes to mind.
If it is great build quality thats real good, more quality products can never hurt. As for the fans and design, there is a market for that, cant blame them for doing it. Some people will pay extra for unique design.
Anyone interested-- I bought the ceres case that was at the front of the video like three months ago. I'm 100% happy with it, has a 4090 and 12600k in it and literally never even gets warm.
I Love how other TH-camrs have to say outrageous things in the first seconds just to grab your attention, yet all Steve needs to blow you out of your socks is to say that a product is good.
Good question. Still wouldn't help most likely. Not sure if they have one now, but the 4080 & 70 Ti were the first we saw in this series. Maybe they didn't get allocation from Nvidia.
Super interesting. I'm not in the market for a new gpu right now but if I were I would consider this card after the teardown whereas 30 minutes ago I would of not even looked at the brand. Next time I am looking for an upgrade I will be looking at the brand. Just adding thermal pads to the backplate does most of that work in shifting my opinion and has the bonus of me now being even more critical of brands that don't or even worse make the back plate an insultaion feature. I also really like the idea of trying to cool components that typically get no attention even if it ends up with mixed results its a nice idea and I do sometimes wonder if other cards die simply because less important components are left to hit high temps.
My main worry with this is how loud those tiny fans are going to get over time. My editing rig is X99 based and I have one of those Jingsha X99 E8I motherboards that has active VRM cooling fans that look similar in size and within a few weeks of being brand new they just screamed 24/7
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This thing was cool to work with. Meme fans aside, the rest of it was surprisingly well built. You can even use that name plate thing standalone if you wanted (has USB-C).
Check out our fully custom PC build with case modding for a metal band! th-cam.com/video/0r03mcCLQI4/w-d-xo.html
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I relate to mega gamer but I also relate to serious gaming. I feel like these gpu makers are really starting to understand how to market to me.
This product kind of seems pointless right? Most if not all 4080 use near 4090 heatsinks as it is correct? My 4080 is nothing special and it's virtually same size as a 4090. I think they mostly reused parts form the 4090 in the 4080. My 4080 on 100% stress load I don't think surpasses like 68-71C and that is with Furmark and CPU stress test together at same time to maximize case heat. I will watch this video but this seems full meme. On a 4090 maybe it would be worth it. But most if not all 4080s are over cooled as is.
While it was not the best thermally, the amount of pads are definetly first place.
Why use these tiny baby fans? Just make the heatsink 120mm thick so you can use larger fans.
In my experience the side fans most of the time brokes the air flow and make the card hotter
I loved Steve’s explanation of polarity. “because that’s how magnets work”
Leave it to Steve to be the only person who actually knows how they work.
At least until you research magnetic monopoles and can replace your roads with magtubes.
Can we get this explanation to ICP?
Has someone told the insane clown possey this news yet?
Somehow I feel like this isn't even the weirdest entry in the latest fever dream series of products from NVIDIA and friends. I'm reluctantly here for the wild ride.
It definitely doesn't have the weirdest name. That's reserved for the "Midnight Kaleidoscope"
@@GamersNexus But only because Palit didn't release a Super Jetstream variant of the glorious 20 series super cards...
I'm ready for a triumphant return to 90's design zaniness
Nvidia design>>>>>
There isn't a single AIB card with better cooling than Nvidia's amazing design
"Maxsun"
You know its a good card when its named "Mega Gamer"
Release the Giga Gamer
Ultra Gamer: AMATEURS
I can't believe they ripped off Epic MegaGames
Laughs in Extreme Gamer
@@GamersNexus Giga gamer should be there 4090 card if not miss opportunity
It's too bad the results weren't better. There's clear evidence of a much better card fighting to get out. Hopefully they are learning internally about the necessary design/execution and can provide excellent products in the future.
I like that phrasing - a better card fighting to get out.
there's a better GPU inside us all 🤔
@@zivzulander I don't think I wanna know how you got it in you... 😅
I think Steve was too forgiving for this one. Higher inherent build quality or not, the results clearly show how much of an utter ripoff this card is.
@@arnox4554 Nvidia paying GN under the table to give slightly less critical feedback on their cards? We don't know 😇
With a few more fans this would be my ideal GPU!
😆
some PR moron is going to read this and take it seriously
Dats muh type.
Nvidia design>>>>>
There isn't a single AIB card with better cooling than Nvidia's amazing design
@@Gay-is-_-trash ASUS Strix.
Remember the Gigabyte GTX 680 SOC with 5 fans on the side?
Thanks for that review. Any half assed job would have just pointed out worse thermal performance on the GPU, when in fact the card in its entirety might be quite better.
The fans are a meme, but if that leads to the card being reviewed and disassembled, they won on that.
Actually, no. Haha. I don't think I ever saw that one but will look it up!
@@GamersNexus oh i had one, was really nice for Air OC... But damn loud
@@GamersNexus it was a 3 slot width top to bottom fin stack with 5 40mm fans blowing down though it. They actually aren't terrible somehow.
DUDE! i own one!
@@markus1351 Still have mine , still works its so cool
beautiful piece of engineering and attention to detail. Considering it's their first attempt at a higher end gpu market, I can see only improvement in the future. Kudos.
Most importantly it seems someone cared when designing the card, some room for improvements, but it's promising. Just some weird design decisions, but not necessarily shortcuts. Some small changes to fan and heat-sink and it would improve.
@@irispettson thats literally what the video said
Already doing better than some other well established AIBs over the last few years (remember the XFX Thicc?)
Their "engineering" resulted in the card being hotter than if they didn't touch it at all.
I don't like it. It's just a gimmick.
I like how the pcb was shaped at the end instead of just making it square. Attention to detail in almost every aspect.
maxsun appears to be able to engineer a good product, looking forward to their next products
It being worse than an FE thermally is not impressive
@@Bramble20322 Some people just look at the numbers and only the numbers because that's all that matters to them.
maxsun videocards are awesome . just a bit of bad revieuw here only about temperature and sound tests lol . clearly a better card then nvidea for thier price
Steve looks smaller every new GPU he picks up. Better hit the gym for the 50 series
It's a pretty decent graphics card. The only thing it's lacking is an anime backstory.
19:15 That gasket could be useful for keeping liquid metal TIM from leaking. But it comes off too easily.
Steve mentioned in the video that for that to be effective it would have to be closer to the core. I imagine all those surface mount devices next to the core would not do well if exposed to liquid metal and they're all inside the boundary of the gasket.
if they put anime waifu holding guns on it then $200 extra gonna worth it, heck even $400
Hey Steve, I think this cards "features" would be better suited in an actual case. I speak from the experience of a recent build I did. I replaced all of my case fans with high airflow noctua ones thinking it would help with gpu temps. It actually made it about 5°C worse at the edge temp. I figured out what's happened is my old shitty case fans were getting overpowered by my gpu fans inside the case which created an effective top to bottom airflow pattern. When I got better fans the airflow was now going front to back. My card has ventilation in the front, so now air that was getting pushed out by gpu fans was getting pushed back in and recirculating. This card doesn't have front ventilation which ironically mounted properly could help create good airflow (at least for my build lol)
I hope to see the Ultra Gamer card to be announced soon!! 😀
Saw a card at one of my retailers called the "PNY GeForce RTX 4080 16GB XLR8 Gaming VERTO EPIC X RGB Triple-Fan. Gonna need scroll bars for these names soon.
I had a PNY XLR8 GeForce GTX 260 CORE 216 896Mb PCIE 2.0 16x back in the day lol. Names are about the same as since those days
This card looks like it came from an alternate reality where '90s GPUs actually needed fans and a shroud.
Name checks out too.
I wouldn't pay the mark up but I do appreciate the effort they put in to quality construction and making basically an all metal chassis. This is one of the few partner cards I have seen where the extra money spent can actually be seen in the build. It is a really cool novelty card.
It's not an international product so it's not exactly a markup card
This reminds me of some of the "Hercules" GPUs that had a 4th fan on the side. RGHD made a video a while back about a 980 Ti with that design. Also worth a mention is the Gigabyte GTX 680 SOC that has 5 server-esque fans on the side.
Did I miss the over clocking results? I would think that the MEGA gamer’s thermals might hold up better under an increased amount of heat.
I LOVE that the other components are cooled properly, it always bugged me that in some cards certain parts are just left there to heat up. It might not be that important, but I just love it.
MOSFETs always need some sort of cooling; otherwise they go kaboom.
I don't know how you guys got the GN prism spinning on the GPU fan but that was a beautiful shot, well done!
To quote a certain host of a certain well regarded Hardware testing channel, "More fans does not necessarily mean, more better"
(or something to that extent)
Hahaha. That's about right!
@@GamersNexus
I'm mega GAY for you Steve ;(
@@BBWahoo pause
Honestly a great looking, all metal card. love the ease of disassembly, too! Hope they keep improving with more cards in the future!
I really was hoping to see overclocking performance here. Even so, excellent work lifting the quality of hardware reviews.
I like this card. I'm just am a sucker for quality; even though results are the important thing in the end.
2:28 Putting the cube on there was really cool
In all due honesty this looks like a great model to pin somewhere for those that wish to buy used later on.
The internals look robust, the thermals look robust, the whole card does.
If I had to bet, it probably lasts the passage of time much better than other cards.
Its interesting how there could potentially be a higher temp on the core because everything else is being cooled by the same overall heat plate. I'm also interested in whether those small fans might have more of an impact if the internal fin density is much higher. Tbh I'd take a 3 degree jump on the core and hot spot temps if all the memory and whatnot is cooler than before.
Did you guys get new cameras? The video quality on this is incredible.
G'day Steve,
10:30 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Top Secret Method" That's hilarious
Those 2 fans are silly but while it could be better regarding efficiency I like the look of the Shroud & the build quality looks like they did make an effort
I wish the card performed better they clearly put quite some effort into it and therefore I wish them success.
I have a 4080 FE in my system and honestly, I've never felt like that card needed more cooling^^ Honestly, it's probably the coolest GPU I've ever had in my rig...
Because almost all of the 4080s use 4090 coolers.
@@pancakegainz sure, but to me that's a good thing, if you have a case that fits it... it runs so cool and quiet, even in intense games like MS FS2020 or hogwarts legacy
What you guise do is so valuable, garding and informing the PC builder crowd. Keep it up.
Man, the thunk when it hit the table a little was something else. I'm amazed the table didn't break
I wish we could have more GPU's like this Maxsun 4080, that are unique regarding cooling. Reminds me of the iChill X4 Series !
But for no real performance gains and costing more for no real good reason. We want more of this?
please dont. its horrible. the small fans was set to intake when it was an exhaust from the 3 large fans. its largely contradicting. thermals was terrible and the fans was loud as heck
If I understood right, those two fans cools the back plate? They make a small breeze for those back components.
G34WQC user here. It's been with me for the past three years and I love the ultrawide aspect ratio. Reasonable on all fronts, refresh, perceived color accuracy, brightness
Love seeing testing and tear down of GPUs from manufacturers less known in the US. Look forward to more of these.
I figured those tiny fans would work by running slowly while the big main fans were off, at low load, allowing the big fans to stay off for longer maybe allowing less ramp up etc. Otherwise especially adding case fans etc let alone the main GPU fans make sense they do little to nothing lol. That said, I'm more and more curious about Maxsun as a company for sure.
Can't wait for the "Mega-Super-Ultra-Giga-Chad-Hyper-Compensating-Gamer" Edition.
Whoever's idea it was at 2:20 to fanspin the GN logo, 100% great choice, that should be in every video from now on. If I missed it in others I'm sorry but I love it.
I have to give credit where credit is due, their thermal pads implementation is amazing.
If I were to guess, the gasket may be there to prevent crashing the GPU core when mounting the radiator. When disassembling it, you were removing the screws from the upper side of the PCB. That would probably make it hard to gauge how much strength should be applied to the screws when mounting the radiator (+ no retention springs for what I've seen).
That was my thought. It's likely to help with that mounting pressure. It's not being used as a gasket but rather a rubber shim that can compress a little.
Yep, I thought the same too.
I doubt it's needed, but they clearly put a lot of thought into the entire thing (aside from the tiny fans).
dam ... unfortunate that you guys didn't go full bore on the thermals with this one, after seeing the tear down it really does seem like a good candidate for that kind of testing. Even just to compare with cards available in NA
6:00 the *OUT OF THE BOX* thermals flashbacks are real.
Memes aside this card looks absolutely amazing
Not to my taste. Looks dated
Ah yes, my gpu can finally be aerodynamic
It's just a soap bar with fans, kinda meh to be honest.
imo it looks really clean and modern, might not be to some people's styles but fits in lots of builds
I hope they also come with the MAGA gamer US exclusive 6 slot card with 6 fans front & back, US flag LEDs front & back and a 99 cent discount for Trump steak!
I'll never buy this card but I just watched 28 minutes worth of in depth analysis. Fantastic work guys.
Old school stupidly high end... I like it! I'll have to get one on ebay in ten years!
I hate to focus on just a few seconds of B roll for the (awesome) workmat, but what an awesome surprise to see Gundam! Gunpla build stream soon to advertise the workmats? Lol
Mega Gamer Nexus
I love this Pentagamer card (I mean come on, five fans? The name is *right there*). It may not be the best in design, but the level of care dedicated to it via maxing out their backplate’s capacity shows pride in their product. I’m quite impressed, for a product I could never afford.
This is really well-designed..aside from the 2 mini fans XD. That shroud! wow!
14:04 "Impressive. Most Impressive."
Thanks Steve.
Maybe the plastic gasket for the GPU die is to protect it from too much pressure on the die corners during assembly or repasting?
I actually wish they sold these in the States. Worst thing about the card to me is the ' GAMER' branding. But even if performance is slightly affected by the amount of work the heatsink has to do for so many components, this level of build quality and thermal pads should definitely be rewarded.
the gamer branding adds to the overall meme potential of the card, making it far more valuable
Built quality looks pretty good.
Nice Maxsun👍
I remember a few AIB models back then with the GTX 500 series that also had a bunch of fans on the side.
Not sure its worth the extra $200 but the metallic case and those curved edges are giving me Fallout vibes in the design aesthetic, which is pretty unique and might inspire someone to an interesting build.
Brotherhood of Steel power armor theme?
@@yensteel That might work!
G'day Ian & yensteel, Yeah or a Mini Vault Dweller theme, A Custom Loop filled with Nuka Cola Quantum plus some POP! Fallout Characters would be Awesome
I wonder if this card will perform better in a case environment. Especially if a case use bottom side as intake
This top-secret testing "Ouch" method sounds like it should be studied and mass distributed, the world needs to know.
LOL Steeve pulling a Linus klick it to the floor trick.
Mega gaming indeed! I wonder how the small fans will fair over time.
Mega noisy
It's a giant heat-sink with three regular fans and thermal pads up the wazoo, so I'm going to guess it'll keep performing essentially identically even if the tiny, largely decorative propellers fail.
Tiny fans like that are used in servers with large constant heat loads sitting for years in server rooms. There's many decades of experience in the industry making them, so there is nothing inherently wrong with smaller fans that would make their more likely to fail than larger ones.
They're going to fall apart, just like the rest of these fans. Nvidia's fans are simply higher quality than the 2 cent fans the AIBs make
@@FuburLuck yeah, in principle they'd fare well.
We gamers in China believe, and know for a fact, that Maxsun cares. They are just kinda bad at it…
Their devs are really small teams, and they don’t even have the budget to test every high frequency memorys for their motherboards, that they even borrowed dozens of ddr5 kits from their media friends… They have so little budgtes for marketing, basically none, that they asked media friends to shoot free product release video for this mgg card.
By media freind i mean just chinese youtuber who has just 100 thousnad subscribers…
damn that sounds so sad lol
Don't you mean "We MeGa gAmErS"?
They overachieved a bit with the thermal pad. Maybe they went to thick and there is no good contact with the gpu die. But I rly like the gasket around the cold plate. An invitation for Conductonaut application. LM would definitely push it beyond FE thermal performance.(unless the cold plate is reasonable flat)
Finally a thumbnail that uses red circles correctly.
Need a head to head with the Asus Noctua 4080
Thermal Take; I have one of your 2019 cool Mid towers! Don't give up..!!! Great for semi- yearly upgrades, it takes a rebuild well and keeps on WORKING. ( And no, I am not a sales manager from that company) LOL.
Super interesting card from Maxsun, I’d love to see y’all review the next card they make if they do make one. Compared to the build quality and cut corners on say an Aorus/Gigabyte card with its dirt cheap and lack thereof thermal pads it’s super nice to see!
Honestly, my takeaway from this video is that the FE is really good..
the 4090 FE was already a pretty good card, and it gets even better when you strap it to a gpu that consumes more than a hundred watts less power
FE was designed by running simulations on the army of Nvidia's industry leading supercomputers. Random Chinese company can not do that, so they have rely on crude methods of just adding more metal and materials to get the same result as a much cheaper and smaller FE card.
By taking a lot of heat from the subcomponents, could this card be considered more reliable despite it's slightly worse performance compared to the Founder's?
yeah.
That flip chip info was great. I know it was only 1 line among many, but I had no clue!
I don't know why but the "there are some areas where the quality is pretty high... but before that, the thermaltake case...." Sounded to me like"OMG we have to put an add for thermaltake CASES". As a judgement lacking person who bought one it really did resonate with me.
This GPU looks like a Refrigerator from the 60s ! 😮
as a linus tech tips fan i can say i watch him when i wanna have fun i watch you when i want to learn something and uh i learned.
Yes the repeated 420 and 69 jokes on ltt are oh so much fun, doesn't make me want to poke my eyes out with an overpriced screwdriver at all.
@@-opus I love how that screw driver handle is so thicc, it makes it hard to even work in a PC case
@@_BangDroid_ Not sure why that isn't obvious to everyone else, it is meant to be a pc screwdriver, but it has a dozen bits (not needed), a fairly stubby shaft (not suitable), a fat handle (not suitable), and potentially a magnet that is actually too strong considering pc work is in tight spaces surrounded by metal... but fanboys will be fanboys I guess. The #2 long shafted philips that came with my be quiet cooler is a lot more suitable, often seen in Gamers Nexus videos too.
I can't wait for their Ultra Super Mega Extreme Revolutionary Gamer GPU from Maxsun!
Their attention to detail makes an argument for this card potentially lasting longer than other cards on the market. Pretty impressed with the build quality I see here.
So, they have the potential to engineer great cards, but this isn't one?
Please get your hands on the 5-fan GTX 680 as well!
I have one, but it's a bit of a trip from Australia
Thanks Steve. This is a cool product. I wouldn't touch it with a ten meter pole, but at least they're trying something different. I think they perhaps should have made some revisions before releasing it, which makes me wonder whether it wasn't properly tested, or whether management just ignored(or never heard) the engineers' or QA's advice.
It would be really interesting to try some janky cooling ideas out of the box knowing the backplate conducts well. One of those magnetic usb peltier coolers meant for phones comes to mind.
I love the construction and look of this card. It really is a shame it isn’t a better performer.
That's 100 dollars per extra fan.
If it is great build quality thats real good, more quality products can never hurt. As for the fans and design, there is a market for that, cant blame them for doing it. Some people will pay extra for unique design.
Anyone interested-- I bought the ceres case that was at the front of the video like three months ago. I'm 100% happy with it, has a 4090 and 12600k in it and literally never even gets warm.
It could be good if we saw an overclock results of this card.
What an odd time to release a vid and FIRST!
Unpredictable video launches is what we're best at!
No one wakes this early. You've been up too long. 😂
@@hrdcpy Bro dont remind me hahah
@@hrdcpy No one wakes up this early ???
GN is not a Americas only channel, there are other countries with different time zones
At 0:07 , the card has 6 fans.
I Love how other TH-camrs have to say outrageous things in the first seconds just to grab your attention, yet all Steve needs to blow you out of your socks is to say that a product is good.
No 4090 version. Such a shame.
Would definitely like to see the impact of the cooler on higher power draw
This thing is INSANE! Lmao
Hahaha it's kind of crazy
@GamersNexus yeah but I kinda love it. Just over the top and extraordinary!
The Zotac apocalypse 4090 also has 5 fans. 3 on front and 2 on back.
I hope to see a 5 fan GPU sequel video.
makes more sense to have more fans on the back..
though I had to wonder whether fans on top were meant for a specific build
the best i can offer is seven fans
I'll bring in my 5-Fan video card expert.
@@GamersNexus 🤔I can bring 6 fans, myself & my GTX680SOC Windforce5
Your next GPU will have a case of its own.
Dell already did it and failed: Alienware GPU amplifier
Good thing I kept my Cooler Master HAF 915 😋
It already exists ! Gigabyte made it for their "no cable pc build"
I may or may not be saving for a Yeston Sakura. I'm craving uniqueness man. I would love more themed cards.
Just from reading the video title i expected either a comically long 5 fan card, or one with fans on both sides.
Why not give a 4090 5 fans at this point, instead for the 4080?
Good question. Still wouldn't help most likely. Not sure if they have one now, but the 4080 & 70 Ti were the first we saw in this series. Maybe they didn't get allocation from Nvidia.
Exactly. 4080 already has overbuilt cooler running below 60c on most models
Super interesting. I'm not in the market for a new gpu right now but if I were I would consider this card after the teardown whereas 30 minutes ago I would of not even looked at the brand.
Next time I am looking for an upgrade I will be looking at the brand. Just adding thermal pads to the backplate does most of that work in shifting my opinion and has the bonus of me now being even more critical of brands that don't or even worse make the back plate an insultaion feature. I also really like the idea of trying to cool components that typically get no attention even if it ends up with mixed results its a nice idea and I do sometimes wonder if other cards die simply because less important components are left to hit high temps.
The GN trophy spinning on the fan made me sputter
My main worry with this is how loud those tiny fans are going to get over time. My editing rig is X99 based and I have one of those Jingsha X99 E8I motherboards that has active VRM cooling fans that look similar in size and within a few weeks of being brand new they just screamed 24/7
Yeah, to me they seem like more of a problem point. Little fans don't tend to last too long unless they are of extremely high quality (like laptops).
hack out the fans, noctua 40mm fan swap 😁
Running this card's little fans is neutral-to-harmful anyway, so just disconnect them.
Ahh yes, the good old 'silent ouch' method. Used it a few times on Legos left on the floor at night.