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KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 HOF 8GB Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2016-12-03

The GeForce GTX 1080 HOF card sports a unique white/silver appearance in order to be fitted inside high-end gaming setups with a transparent side panel. It is equipped with a massive three slot cooling system which does integrate one back plate, one frontal plate, a big heatsink with no less than five heatpipes but also three 90mm silent fans. The back area of the PCB houses a row of blue LEDs which do stay on at all times, while the Hall of Fame logo area does come with RGB LED lighting, which is fully customizable thanks to the Xtreme Tuner Plus utility. 1080 HOF is also pre-overclocked from the factory and performs well in most games at 4K resolutions.

A Closer Look Part III

As mentioned before, we can enlarge the support stick as needed:

Besides the foam material, KFA2 has wrapped the card inside an anti-static bag:

The KFA2 1080 HOF, while heavy has a top-notch build quality and sports a silver/white color scheme, which extends to the PCB itself:

No less than three 90mm fans are installed on the top plastic shroud, each having nine blades. We were quite surprised that while running at low speed even during load, the temperatures are maintained at low levels, which says a lot about the overall cooling system:

The Hall of Fame Logos can be found everywhere:

The massive cooling solution does extend on three slots and we can consider that it is built of four layers: the back plate, the top plate, the heatsink but also the top plastic shroud:

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