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large powerful expensive graphics cards are fun but they often require a

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similarly endowed wallet in order to afford them this can make the

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achievability of high-end gaming rather frustrating enter the rx 480 which may

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just be the remedy you've been looking for at the impressive price of around

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200 us dollars a dose

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cooler masters master case maker 5 features the freeform modular system

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allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade on your own make it yours at the

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link in the video description down below jokes about the new rx naming aside the

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new polaris architecture named after what is commonly known as the north star

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features AMD's new and quite capable 14

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nanometer finfet process which should be especially helpful on the power

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consumption side of things the fourth generation gcn architecture in the rx

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480 features 2 304 stream processors

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running at a boost clock of 1 266 megahertz for a peak performance of up

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to 5.8 teraflops the default memory

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configurations will be four gigabytes of gddr5 memory running at seven gigabits

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per second on the reference config and up to eight gigabytes again of gddr5

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memory but running at eight gigabits per second

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on other possible variations AMD has also stated that aftermarket configs may

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vary but will always feature memory clocks of seven gigabits per second at

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least all that memory will be running on a 256 bit memory interface with a

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bandwidth of 224 gigabytes per second in

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terms of features we now have no no no no no no man walkman

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okay that was lame and that almost fell but it's actually kind of cool at first

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it looks like just a simple overclocking utility and it can be but it also has

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some other cool stuff as well like per voltage point frequency offsets like the

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ones we recently saw toted on the NVIDIA

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1000 series gpus this allows you to increase the normally linear frequency

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offset curve specific amounts per voltage point being applied to the card

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this results in more control over how your card works

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great it also gives you a histogram of the last 20 minutes of your card's

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activity percentage core clock speed

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memory clock speed temperature and fan

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speed which should make it easier to identify issues we'll have more fun with

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wattman later when we get some aftermarket cooled cards the card

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features a cooler reminiscent of the awesome looking aesthetic of the r9 nano

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but just more cheaply there's more plastic incorporated in the design and

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in places where the nano would have had shiny metal the 480 features glossy

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plastic it also features an extension beyond the slightly longer than a nano

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pcb in order to add some more heatsink space and incorporating the fan due to

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this the six pin PCIe connector doesn't sit at the end of the card which some

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people may not like overall on the outside i actually think it's a

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pretty attractive card for this price point if you're going for something that

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isn't too in your face at least also note that naturally there will be

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aftermarket cards if you don't like it for connectivity on the back there are

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three displayport outputs compatible with dp 1.3 hbr3 and displayport 1.4 HDR

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then the HDMI port is HDMI 2.0 b for 4k

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60 and HDR now for the current state of crossfire NVIDIA's sli setup with the

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1000 series and directx 12 was a public

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relations nightmare AMD is going to be

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handling things in a very similar way but leaning heavily on out of driver

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control like in explicit modes for link display adapter mode and multi-display

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adapter mode not much here is changing for the vast majority of users on the

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AMD side in in a visible way so just

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check out my video on sli for more info as much of it is crossover and it's

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probably going to be fine but all the features in the world aren't worth an

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election in north korea if the performance isn't up to par so let's

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take a look at some numbers AMD promised a high level of performance at a price

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point of just 200 and they mostly delivered on that performance at 1440p

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was mostly on par with the gtx 970 in

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current titles with the rx 480 breaking 40 FPS in all of our benchmarks with the

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settings cranked and even blew away the 970 in hitman though that is a heavily

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AMD optimized title the rx480 is even capable of playable frame rates at 4k

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with the settings turned down a bit to around medium now this isn't a top-end

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card but it wasn't designed to be the goal was to raise the bar at the 200

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mark and given that the cheapest gtx 970 on the market at the time of writing

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this review was 260 dollars AMD has put

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forth an extremely compelling card for budget conscious gamers who are looking

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for the quintessential millennium falcon of graphics cards something that isn't

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flashy but has it where it counts especially when you consider that it

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matches the gtx 970 a car that was considered the sweet spot for high-end

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gaming until the 1070s release a few weeks ago and for significantly less

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money i'd go even as far as to say if you don't have the cash for a GeForce 10

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series and just care about raw performance rather than aesthetics or

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manufacturer exclusive features like ansel or smp or something like that

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there's no reason to buy gtx 970 anymore

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now that the rx 480 is on the market the 480 was a smart move from AMD competing

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against NVIDIA's 1080 would have been a little crazy shooting for the value

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option was smart as it fits something that people are actually asking for and

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beating out NVIDIA's recently price dropped cards handily in the price to

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performance department was a perfect target for them to shoot for considering

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how their funds have been trending lately hopefully the community agrees as

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well the k7xx

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limited edition ruby red headphones which are featured over on mass drop at

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the link in the video description mass drop has actually not just that but tons

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of cool products that you can check out everything from camping supplies to

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keyboards to audio products like the k7xxs that i'm showing off now the

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concept over there is pretty simple the more people commit to buy a given

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product the lower the price of that totally authentic product from the

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manufacturer or an authorized distributor gets

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boom lots of people buy price goes down

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spec wise the headphones i'm featuring today are the same as the ones that i

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reviewed last year which you can check out over here with the only real

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difference being that this run uses red accents on the earcups and on the

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headband like many drops this is a limited time at limited quantity drops

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so if you want a pair you're going to have to act pretty

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fast so check them out at the link in the video description if you're looking for

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a really nice open-backed comfortable pair of headphones

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if you like this video like it if you want a shirt you can check that out in

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the video description down below and if you want to join the forums so you can

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hotly debate the hot or not specs of the

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480. you can do that but like debate it in a friendly way or something i guess

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if you want to see another video check up here that's our new 1070 review

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which is like nearly twice the price but pretty cool

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i don't know how i want to outro this we're gonna walk this way usually i walk

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that way i don't know where i'm going