Have a pic to share of the area your talking about ?

unix443
Hi all.
Just curious I got a pair of GeForce 1080 sc versions a few weeks ago.
I opened them today to put the water blocks on and was surprised to see near the pcie part of the pcb no evga or nvidia emblem it just has like some numbers.
Just wondering what the go is with that lol?.
I can't even find another card that has that in any photos on google or anything.
I'm not complaining by any means just curious.

Thanks. :)

http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2522315
 

CoercionShaman
The NVIDIA logo is under that sticker (if that is the 'numbers' you are talking about).

Nope.

CoercionShaman
At least some of the early reference boards were actually made by NVIDIA, Sajin. I've seen the teardown. They just came from the Taiwan plant. The barcode went over the NVIDIA tag on the PCB. Same components even, though that may have changed as they ramped up production.

Are they eVGA boards now?

The barcode is in a different spot than the nvidia logo. Don't know if they are evga boards or not.

Made in China packaged in Taiwan

CoercionShaman
Still pretty sure it says NVIDIA under that sticker.

The evga/nvidia logo should be in the center. Not to the left or right of center. Did you not look at the videos I linked in post #4?

Didn't have a chance to look until now.  Apologies.  I see what you are referencing.  Perhaps they simply removed the logo.  If I can find it, there is a photo teardown, though, where they removed the sticker on the right and I am pretty sure it had the logo under it.
 
Regardless, you can't look at the board in the earlier pick and have any doubts that it is an NVIDIA board.  It is just too clean.
 
EDIT:  Not the one I was looking for yet, but look at his board here.  http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2497568  That is an NVIDIA board.

CoercionShaman
Didn't have a chance to look until now.  Apologies.  I see what you are referencing.  Perhaps they simply removed the logo.  If I can find it, there is a photo teardown, though, where they removed the sticker on the right and I am pretty sure it had the logo under it.
 
Regardless, you can't look at the board in the earlier pick and have any doubts that it is an NVIDIA board.  It is just too clean.
 
EDIT:  Not the one I was looking for yet, but look at his board here.  http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2497568  That is an NVIDIA board.

That isn't a nvidia board. The nvidia board doesn't say "RoSH compliant"...
 

 

 
 

I like them alot, but eVGA has never put out a board to that spec and that clean.  Same caps, same mosfets, same controller, same wash and same reinforcements as the NVIDIA board is what I was referencing.  But it may not actually have NVIDIA listed anywhere as you stated.  I am still trying to find that teardown.

Inno3D board.  Look familiar minus the additional power phase changes?
 

 
Unless I find the pics of the sticker off, I'll let it go for now and concede the fact that I can't prove it is from NVIDIA otherwise.

ipkha
They will look the same. All EVGA cards except the FTW, Classified, and Hybrid are based on the reference design. Nvidia designed it and the AIB could either add their own Cooling solution or buy the FE cooling from Nvidia. There are very few non reference designed cards out there.

I get that, ipkha.  That's the whole point I was trying to make, though.  In the past eVGA has made a board on 'reference design'.  eVGA made the board.  It was made to the specifications but didn't have all the same components and quality that the NVIDIA board did (as referenced by Sajin with the other thread post earlier).  These appear to come from NVIDIA and aren't 'copies'.  Other manufactureres have the same board.  They are the exact same board.  They are putting their coolers (along with others) on an actual NVIDIA made board.

ipkha
Nvidia doesn't make anything.

Semantics.
 

ipkha
Or it could be that the reference board design this generation specified specific parts. Or given the quick time frame between announcement and availability, there wasn't time to validate different components. I'd think every manufacturers capacitors and the like have different characteristics that might effect the design.

Then there wouldn't be the Hybrid/FTW and Classified boards which sell in a lower volume overall.

I wholly understand how the components affect things.  I've worked on systems and repaired PCBs at the component level since the 80's.  Its just gotten to the point that PCBs are throwaway peices and you swap out bad boards.
 
I know that the tolerances on this chip are tighter than they have ever been previously.  I get that in the past vendors have used the reference board until they could ramp up production on their own.  My point being in that last post was that if partners already figured out how to produce custom boards within tolerance, they could have produced reference spec boards as well.
 
Most all vendors are using a board off the same assembly line at this point, including eVGA.  That isn't there normal modus operandi.  That in and of itself is all I have been referencing.

Don't post your serial numbers.  Black them out and change your photos.
 
It was established in another thread that eVGA is making their own boards.  I just don't understand the 'quality' change to the better that has occurred or the fact that others are using exactly the same board.
 
Regardless, congratulations on getting the build together.  Enjoy it!