I just had occasion to pop open my 2.5 year old FNW Tiki for the first time (upgrading GTX 980 to a 1080 TI), and was pretty impressed with the internals so I figured I'd pop up a couple pictures.
Old card removed:
New one in place:
Anyway, for a no-compromises machine, it's pretty compact - obviously it could be jammed a bit more tightly but it was a pleasure to play around in.
Couple interesting points:
AFAICT, all the fans (including the one on the AIO radiator) are intakes, and then hot air goes out the back - there was an impressively low amount of dust buildup for 2.5 years. It's also very quiet overall, which is quite nice.
The riser is actually two extensions (both pcbs, neither flexible) to get the positioning they want. OEM is Silverstone.
Anyway, only took a few minutes to swap out and the new card works great so far. On the all important "mine small amounts of zcash when not using the machine because why the heck not, power is super cheap here" benchmark, it's about 1.7x the speed of the 980 (though TDP is also 1.5x).
Old card removed:
New one in place:
Anyway, for a no-compromises machine, it's pretty compact - obviously it could be jammed a bit more tightly but it was a pleasure to play around in.
Couple interesting points:
AFAICT, all the fans (including the one on the AIO radiator) are intakes, and then hot air goes out the back - there was an impressively low amount of dust buildup for 2.5 years. It's also very quiet overall, which is quite nice.
The riser is actually two extensions (both pcbs, neither flexible) to get the positioning they want. OEM is Silverstone.
Anyway, only took a few minutes to swap out and the new card works great so far. On the all important "mine small amounts of zcash when not using the machine because why the heck not, power is super cheap here" benchmark, it's about 1.7x the speed of the 980 (though TDP is also 1.5x).
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