EVGA iCX Technology is not JUST a Cooler.
It is a combination of new PCB, Thermal Modules, LED and Precision XOC.
- Featuring a total of 11 global patents (pending and granted), iCX is efficiency perfected.
- 9 Additional Sensors and MCU's embedded on the PCB.
- Purposefully-directed Airflow Chambers.
- Newly Designed Die-Cast Baseplate and Backplate.
- Full Control Using EVGA Precision XOC.
- EVGA's iCX is the Very Definition of Interactive Cooling.
WHY WAS iCX CREATED?
After the ACX 3.0 cooler was verified to operate within spec on Power and Memory section from independent third party testing, we determined that on an enthusiast graphics card, one thermal sensor is just not enough. On an enthusiast graphics card, equal importance should be given to the Power and Memory, not just focused on GPU. This type of thinking required a drastic change in the way thermal management is performed on a graphics card.
WITH EVGA iCX TECHNOLOGY, A NEW ERA OF PC GAMING IS COMING!
GPU fan determined by GPU temperature (Left Fan)
Power / Memory fan determined by Power / Memory temperature (Right Fan)
Each sensor can be monitored in real time and displayed on PXOC OSD.
Control the VGA/Power fans simultaneously or asynchronously.
User customized RGB color and visual alarm settings*
An EVGA ONLY fuse adds another layer of protection to your card and system.
Fin holes direct airflow through fins Half open fin maximizes airflow and L-shaped fins increase surface contact.
Maximize heat dissipation with increased surface area on baseplate
Makes direct contact with all vital components.
Double ball bearing fans with 4x longer lifespan, and low power consumption motor means more power for your GPU.
Sync your graphics card to your EVGA CPU Cooler and more!
*Coming Soon
Features
- EVGA Double BIOS
- Simultaneous Multi-Projection
- VR Ready
- NVIDIA Ansel
- NVIDIA SLI w/ HB Bridge Support
- NVIDIA G-SYNC
- NVIDIA GameStream
- NVIDIA GPU Boost 3.0
- Microsoft DirectX 12
- Vulkan API
- OpenGL 4.5 Support
- PCI Express 3.0
- Max Digital Resolution - 7680 x 4320
- HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 1.4 and Dual-Link DVI
- Built for EVGA PrecisionX OC
- 10 Phase Power Design
- Adustable RGB LED
- Asynchronous Fans
- 9 additional temp sensors to monitor Memory and VRM
- GPU / Memory / PWM Thermal Status Indicator LEDs
- New vented heatsink fin design and pin fins for optimized airflow
- Safety fuse to protect components from damage due to improper installation or other component failures
- Redesigned colling with L-shaped contact fins to improve contact surface area for better heat dissipation
- EVGA iCX Technology
GPU
- 1920 CUDA Cores
- Base Clock: 1607 MHz
- Boost Clock: 1797 MHz
- Bus: PCI-E 3.0
- 2-way SLI Ready
Memory
- Memory Detail: 8192 MB GDDR5
- Memory Bit Width: 256 Bit
- Memory Clock: 8008 MHz
- Memory Speed: 0.24 ns
- Memory Bandwidth: 256.3 GB/s
Pros: - Aesthetics - Mine boosts to 1987 mHz stable out of the box. - Individual fan curves. - Detailed temperature monitoring. - Replacing thermal paste, pads, or installing a custom cooler does not void the warranty. - Great customer service. The card came with a free Unigine Superposition license, but I had not received my code even a few days after applying for it. I emailed customer support and had my code within an hour. Same story when I had a question about thermal pads.
Cons: - After I installed the card and drivers, I fired up Unigine Heaven and Mass Effect: Andromeda and was not impressed at all with the noise and temperatures. My fans were ramping up to 60% and my temperatures hovered around 81-82C (22C ambient temperature). I suspected it was the thermal paste and, sure enough, when I took off the cooler the middle of the GPU die had almost no thermal paste on it (I could actually read the "Nvidia" etched onto the silicon!). I cleaned it off and replaced it with Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste and my temperatures stabilized at 72C with 45% fan speed. Much better. I then undervolted the card and got fan speeds down to 35% at the same temperature with a clock speed of 1974 mHz @ 0.931V. The card now runs fantastically and I don't have to worry about a voided warranty thanks to EVGA's great warranty terms. - You can only control both fans with EVGA Precision XOC. If you use another program like Afterburner, you can only control the GPU fan while the VRM fan will remain idle. This wouldn't normally be an issue, but Precision XOC randomly crashes on me, so I can't reliably use it to tune fan curves. Luckily, the default fan curve is pretty quiet and future updates will likely address the issue.
Overall Review: Take my experience for what it is, an anecdote. My guess is that I got unlucky with the thermal paste as I have yet to see anyone else with this card have an issue with it. The card would still have run just fine if I didn't change the thermal paste, but the noise would have been noticeable. Now that I've dealt with everything, I couldn't be happier with this card.