Zotac RTX 5080 Solid Overclocking, Thermals, Noise, & Gaming vs. Founders Edition (Review)
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The Zotac RTX 5080 Solid OC is in for review and testing. Our benchmarks include overclocking the RTX 5080 Solid, thermal testing, noise levels and acoustics, a tear-down of the Zotac card, and more. Unfortunately, the biggest immediate killer of the card is its value, especially with its seemingly arbitrary and variable day-to-day pricing that makes it anywhere from 10% to 30% more expensive than NVIDIA's baseline MSRP for the RTX 5080 GPUs. That alone makes the card lose any recommendation from us (to save you the time), but we'll still go through all the benchmarking and testing for anyone who may end up considering buying one of these anyway.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - TLDW Don't Buy
02:54 - Zotac 5080 Solid Basics
03:59 - Marketing
05:37 - Tear-Down and Disassembly
10:10 - Removing the Heatsink
15:08 - Thermals vs RTX 5080 Founders Edition
16:30 - Frequency Validation
17:02 - Noise Levels and Acoustics
18:04 - VBIOS Frequency Differences
18:15 - VBIOS Thermal Differences
18:35 - Gaming Benchmarks vs Founders Edition
20:00 - Overclocking in Steel Nomad
21:14 - Overclocking Gaming Performance
22:43 - Overclock Frequency Chart
23:43 - Conclusion
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