{"video_id":"86wXT_XvIOM","title":"EVGA GTX 980 Classified Nvidia GeForce","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2015-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":366,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.359,"text":"the 980 classified from EVGA has been out for a little bit now and while we've","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.879,"end_s":10.559,"text":"been tied up with things like the miner oil project we thought better late than","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.0,"end_s":15.0,"text":"never so here we go by the way I suggest you guys stay subscribed as a little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.599,"end_s":19.84,"text":"bird may have told me that whole room water cooling part one is probably","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.52,"end_s":19.84,"text":"coming","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.56,"end_s":30.599,"text":"soon from December 13th to 20th 2014 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referen gtx980 stacks up against the gtx980 classified EVGA has increased the effective memory clock of their 4 GB of vram by an earth shattering 10 megahertz this may seem a little bit funny but it's actually a very good idea gtx980 cards are equipped with auto balancing power rails which take the total power of the card is allowed to use and instead of having it a hard split between the core and memory they allow it to be used as a pool and allocated to whichever you prefer EVGA seems to have recognized this and has widely focused their power budget on their core overclock instead of their memory overclock which improves performance by a lot more than memory overclocking itself increasing the base clock speed from 1126 to 1291 MHz and the Boost clock speed from 1216 to an actually Earth shattering 1393 MHz but we'll take that even further later on the I has been altered but going from the stock set up of dvii one HDMI and three display ports to dvii one DVID one HDMI and one DisplayPort this feels like a strange Choice given that g-sync displays require DisplayPort to enable g-sync on them and given that DisplayPort can be inexpensively adapted to dvii I would have preferred to have left this as the default config the car is also slightly longer than the reference at 11 in and a lot taller at 5.94 in compared to the stock cards 4.36 7 Ines these size changes were made to accommodate the Monstrous ACX 2.0 cooler the cooler features dual 100 mm fans with 11 blades each just above the extremely large heat sink EVGA claims that it will perform 26% cooler and 36% quieter than a reference card and our testing it was able to impressively keep this card at a relatively cool 68 de while overclocked and under heavy load we don't have an acoustic chain bird yet so I can't tell you exactly how loud it was but even when we made it suffer it wasn't annoying amongst the sleek black shroud and red accenting we also found a tastefully illuminated logo that in a standard configuration at least will face out of your case but what's that just above the logo is that a BIOS switch does this card support dual BIOS no it does not it has triple BIOS support the three BIOS modes allow you to have your TDP change when you change the bias modes and also change the fan curve accordingly the three modes are ln2 mode overclocking mode which is just a slightly more tame version of ln2 mode and normal mode for the casuals out there in the box you'll find a poster a DVI to VGA adapter two nicely seed dual six pin to eight pin adapters a case badge various EVGA pamphlets and a non-conductive film just in case you want to switch to another aftermarket cooler overclocking was simple enough with auto balancing power rails I recommend you only really focus on your core clock speed just so you know I cranked voltage and then power limit and then started fiddling around with the core I found it went above a I found if it went above a certain threshold GPU boost would kick in and throttle the card back down to exactly 1450 MHz this was a little odd as GPU boost is usually a little bit more Dynamic than that but regardless after applying a core clock of plus 110 I found myself with an allaround overall St stable overclock of 1570 MHz the highest we've been able to achieve on a GTX 980 of any kind so far after pouring over my benchmarking numbers it was fairly clear that this was a significant boost over the reference 980 also please note that Shadow of Mordor has an FPS cap of 100 so both the reference 980 and the classified card were both capped off as with all of our GPU reviews we're using our standard test bench the specs for which you can I guess find on the screen you're looking at right now and all of the graphics cards that are used in this test are overclocked if you want to see my settings for them you can check the link in the description down below speaking of down below what could be lower than Audi's price for a month's membership you might be able to answer that question after listening to money Master the game seven simple steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins after recently listening to a TED Talk hosted by Tony Robbins I've been interested in his works and if you're interested in them as well you can listen to them while driving commuting or on public transit working out doing almost anything as long as you can have an earbud in if that sounds interesting to you head over to audible.com SL Linus and give their monthly membership a try you get an Audi book with your month and any audiobooks beyond that one have a fairly Hefty discount so check out audible.com and I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself all right guys comment down below what you thought about this graphics card like dislike the video subscribe share all those kind of things if you want to jump off YouTube jump over to lips.com I'm sure there'll be a forum post about this which you can probably find in the description of this video if Nick did all those things correctly uh check out new office. line Tech tips.com if you want to see how the crowdfunding campaign is going and click the support us button in the top rsh hand corner of the main website if you want to check out stuff like our Amazon links to give us a little bit of a kickback when you buy things on Amazon thank you guys for watching I'll see you next time he"}