neowin The new AORUS Gaming Box 2021 is here, powered by a water-cooled RTX 3080 Ti

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Gigabyte has quietly released its latest AORUS Gaming Box 2021 model, which comes powered by Nvidia's recently launched GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB graphics card. In fact, the variant in question here is a water-cooled WATERFORCE model. For those who don't know, the AORUS Gaming Box is an external GPU solution.

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[Avacado]

Copper base plate with a 100% Aluminum rad, fantastic. 

[BWG]

I'll buy 8

[Joe__Bishop]

I do believe  last one had custom pcb for power delivery under the hood.

 

Last gen picture attached

https://overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/gigabyte_rtx_3090_and_rtx_3080_gaming_strip_down/4

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  On 12/07/2021 at 00:03, Avacado said:

Copper base plate with a 100% Aluminum rad, fantastic. 

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I detect sarcasm ?

[Avacado]

  On 12/07/2021 at 18:48, ENTERPRISE said:

I detect sarcasm ?

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Indeed. I hate mixed metals, even though they probably have enough additives in it for it not to matter for 5 years. Just bugs the * out of me. 

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  On 12/07/2021 at 22:15, Avacado said:

Indeed. I hate mixed metals, even though they probably have enough additives in it for it not to matter for 5 years. Just bugs the * out of me. 

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I agree mixed metals is a poor idea. Unless they mean it is aluminium finned, but with copper internals. However I doubt it.