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vengance gaming to learn more welcome to what amounts to basically an unboxing

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and second look at the GeForce gtx770

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direct to you to from ASUS now I call it a second look because I've already had

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this card out of the box and I have

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actually already had a chance to Benchmark it so okay I'm going to spoil

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the surprise a little bit it's a GeForce GTX 770 which means it's based on the

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same GK 104 core as the gtx680 a fully

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enabled core to be more clear so okay so

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it's a GTX 680 no because it's clocked

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higher this one in particularly because it's an OC level card and it also has 7

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GHz gddr5 memory as opposed to the 6 GHz

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gddr5 memory that we found on the original GTX 680 now the first things we

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find inside are a nice black ASUS box with some gold printing on it as well as

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a bunch of accessories that we didn't get with our reference card that came

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direct from NVIDIA so it's interesting to see what ASUS includes so they've got

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a quick start guide as well as some drivers and GPU tweak software that

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you'd do well to download directly from the ASUS website and finally last but

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not least a dual six pin to single eight

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pin PCI Express power adapter next up is

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the card itself now the first thing you're going to notice about it in all

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likelihood is going to be the cooler the

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direct CU 2's cooler gets its name from The Copper heat pipes as well as the

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direct contact that they make with the GPU itself this improves thermal

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efficiency as well as improving overall performance of the card especially in an

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overclocked environment there are two fans on it Each of which is sealed

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against dust making it dust proof and adding to the longevity of the card and

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allowing them to cover a wider area of

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the card itself providing more air flow not only to cool the GPU itself because

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it's connected with these nice fat heat pipes to all of these fins but also the

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other components under the heat sink fins all over the entire PCB of the

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graphics card on the back of it we find not a whole lot that you can see except

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for a back plate this contributes to the rigidity of the card which is especially

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important when cards are get longer and heavier and they're installed in chassis

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that only really fasten them at the screws at the top here as well as the

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PCI Express slot and the last thing that we see are a couple of diagnostic LEDs

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right under the six pin and 8 Pin PCI Express connectors that tell us if

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there's any kind of a power problem causing the card to be nonfunctional

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direct cu2 cooler are also well regarded for their quiet operation and we did

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indeed have the same experience with this card so I can happily say that it

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sits proudly with the other direct cu2 cards that we've had the opportunity to

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play with here's a cool feature for liquid coolers and Tweakers and just

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generally guys who are willing to push the limits of their Hardware sort of no

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matter what the uh no matter what the risk by simply removing four screws on

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the back of the card you can remove the entire direct cu2 cooler this allows it

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to be cleaned or just completely removed and replaced with something else should

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you see fit although most people

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probably aren't going to bother with that you will have to break a seal in

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order to get the cooler off

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however that risk is entirely up to each

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individual user and check that out it comes apart just like that to reveal the

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way that the card is cooled so we get thermal go on the GPU itself no thermal

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pads present on the memory because of what I mentioned before the way that the

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direct2 cooler provides so much air flow to the rest of the card you don't really

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have to worry too much about that we can see the entire 8 plus 2phase power

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design this is compared to okay so 8 plus 2phase digital power design

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compared to the 5+ one phase analog power design that you're going to find

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on a reference card and a dedicated heat sink for the mosfets themselves that

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allows that that's the hottest part of the power delivery that allows them to

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stay cool now there's more to a custom PCB design than just designing the PCB

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you also have to use higher quality components if you're going to get any

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benefit out of it whatsoever so that's where isus is sap or super alloy power

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components come in most of the power

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delivery circuitry actually is comprised of these specially designed components

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that ASUS has engineered in order to deliver better over clocking better

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efficiency cooler operation longer Lifetime and this is sort of this hits

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pretty close to home for me less coil wine because coil wine is just annoying

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and then mind you so are dead cards and cards that consume more power for no

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reason but that was the rationale behind

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redesigning it in order to use their own components it was to achieve all of

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those things but how did it all work out in the end my final word on this card is

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going to be about GPU tweak and the actual results that we were able to

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achieve because all of this is fine in theory but what does it yield in the

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real world our direct cu2 card

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overclocked higher than our reference card take that for what it is this is a

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very small sampling but in our experience we did manage to get a

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slightly higher sustainable boost clock

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okay so it was only 35 or so some odd

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megahertz higher than this particular card but there you go higher is higher

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and we did get better performance out of a direct cu2 card than we did out of a

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reference card also using GPU tweak was

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a fairly good experience I've never used it before at least not extensively but

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it does have some special features that allows it to work better with ASUS cards

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particularly the ones that use their custom vrm designs that are pretty

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different from all the other things that are out there on the market and with the

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integrated GPU Z utility as as well as the ability to set up monitoring as a

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widget it's pretty handy thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look

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at the gtx770 direct to YouTu from ASUS

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