so spec wise they're not really saying a whole lot here because i don't really
know how much they've changed about the cooler i've only seen this
in footage from NVIDIA's teaser
so is it all cosmetic or are there
actual changes to the design of the card i love the case
this is the kind of thing where you feel like an idiot for uh
for pulling it out but the thing about collector's edition computer hardware is
that unless it ends up being a very very
iconic piece of hardware like an original mac
i would say in terms of bang for the buck you're better off taking it out of
the package and enjoying it because it's not going
to go up in value for not breaking the seal
i am actually kind of liking this i thought the the aged finish that they
put on it looked kind of tacky in the video but in person
that actually looks not half bad like they've got a pretty convincing effect
on here i'm not quite sure how they did this like it must be uh
it must be a paint application but it looks really good
what's this is this a thing that you're supposed to
instructions not included got a penis stuck in the little port on the top no
no it doesn't it doesn't look like that's the thing you take off so the back plate this is a funny thing they
actually printed the star wars logo as though
it's going to stay in the case forever what a weird thing because the text is
going to be upside down when you install this in a case that is some that is some
classic you know video card mistake stuff right
there so the cooler doesn't look fundamentally redesigned they've got uh
oh this is interesting they've got this cover over the fan that looks like it
would make it hard to install two of them side by side not that i think too
many people would order like a bunch of these and put them in a system
but that heat sink looks pretty similar oh
there's no dvi port on the back
how interesting all right so let's go ahead and uh
throw this onto our zenith extreme test bench here
oh come on i'll unplug the cord
dang it
then we can have a look at the lighting effects
okay time to fire it up
yeah did not think that one through with respect to the uh
positioning of our power cable here
that is looking not too shabby so they've got led lighting all around the
fan they've got led lighting under the
grille here oh look at the way you can actually see
the way they've wired it in so they've just got a little a little tiny like
hard pcb led strip going on there and
then they've just got it wired up inside the heatsink
so there it is unigine superposition running on the titan xp collector's
edition but wait
there's more ah yes
so i don't have to speculate that the galactic empire one looks
better i get to actually find out in
person oh
this i'm excited about
i mean as excited as i can be about NVIDIA totally getting it wrong
jedi order and galactic empire
are not i mean yeah they're like good guys and
bad guys but they're like from different eras of the
star wars universe what is the deal with that
i don't know what it is maybe it's just the fact that it like doesn't look so
banged up gives it more sex appeal
maybe it's just that i actually like in most cases
i hate the glossy black
but man does that ever work here with the glossy black on the titan x
glossy black around the fan you've got the i've always liked the
dark nickel coating on the fins on the vapor chamber cooler
like this card just looks so
good i had actually thought from the video
that the heatsink designs were more different but this one this one just is
better check this out this is a metal piece
on the galactic empire one check this out check this out
so this is metal on here and it's just like a plastic plug
on the jedi order one all right let's shut her down
and let's do the unthinkable NVIDIA sli
on a high-end AMD platform
running galactic empire and jedi order graphics cards
could anything be more wrong than this moment right now
the answer's no oh it's beautiful
it's like christmas it's like my christmas
cause cause it's because it's black and green like christmas
also because it's exciting also it's like mid-november so it's clearly
christmas if you go to a store updating led firmware
since when does an led have firmware
i mean i guess you need firmware if your led looks like that
all right fine fair enough ASUS
boop now let's get some sli go in here
i gotta snap a picture of this for the instagram
i should have known this was going to happen this
this is what you can expect when you put the light side and the dark
side together okay look at this
it's like it's like a half the horizontal
resolutions it's broken okay
let's uh let's try this again why don't we try plugging the HDMI cable into
what is clearly the dominant card which
apparently is the dark side
all right i don't have to stall for time anymore it's done
maximize 3d performance all right let's try again
and
no no that's the tv that's not the computer working
that's a that's a tv screensaver what
you got to be kidding me
why why is my life hard
okay be clear i love my life but this is the kind of crap that i deal
with this is supposed to be the simplest thing ever plug in two graphics cards
and be like ah the jedi order and the galactic empire they're working together
i mean i guess this is kind of funnier anyway this is not the last time you've
seen these cards what i want actually is your guys's
for what you want to see us do with them so leave those in the
comments and uh maybe you will see your idea executed
by being flung out of a window mace windu style