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the 980 classified from EVGA has been out for a little bit now and while we've

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been tied up with things like the miner oil project we thought better late than

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never so here we go by the way I suggest you guys stay subscribed as a little

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bird may have told me that whole room water cooling part one is probably

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select retailers click now to learn

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more let's start with a brief overview of how the referen gtx980 stacks up

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against the gtx980 classified EVGA has

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increased the effective memory clock of their 4 GB of vram by an earth

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shattering 10 megahertz this may seem a

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little bit funny but it's actually a very good idea gtx980 cards are equipped

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with auto balancing power rails which take the total power of the card is

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allowed to use and instead of having it a hard split between the core and memory

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they allow it to be used as a pool and allocated to whichever you prefer EVGA

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seems to have recognized this and has widely focused their power budget on

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their core overclock instead of their memory overclock which improves

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performance by a lot more than memory overclocking itself increasing the base

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clock speed from 1126 to 1291 MHz and

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the Boost clock speed from 1216 to an actually Earth shattering 1393 MHz but

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we'll take that even further later on the I has been altered but going from

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the stock set up of dvii one HDMI and

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three display ports to dvii one DVID one

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HDMI and one DisplayPort this feels like a strange Choice given that g-sync

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displays require DisplayPort to enable g-sync on them and given that display

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port can be inexpensively adapted to dvii I would have preferred to have left

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this as the default config the car is also slightly longer than the reference

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at 11 in and a lot taller at 5.94 in

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compared to the stock cards 4.36 7 Ines

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these size changes were made to accommodate the Monstrous ACX 2.0 cooler

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the cooler features dual 100 mm fans with 11 blades each just above the

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extremely large heat sink EVGA claims that it will perform 26% cooler and 36%

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quieter than a reference card and our testing it was able to impressively keep

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this card at a relatively cool 68 de while overclocked and under heavy load

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we don't have an acoustic chain bird yet so I can't tell you exactly how loud it

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was but even when we made it suffer it wasn't annoying amongst the sleek black

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shroud and red accenting we also found a tastefully illuminated logo that in a

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standard configuration at least will face out of your case but what's that

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just above the logo is that a BIOS switch does this card support dual BIOS

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no it does not it has triple BIOS support the three BIOS modes allow you

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to have your TDP change when you change the bias modes and also change the fan

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curve accordingly the three modes are ln2 mode overclocking mode which is just

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a slightly more tame version of ln2 mode and normal mode for the casuals out

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there in the box you'll find a poster a DVI to VGA adapter two nicely seed dual

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six pin to eight pin adapters a case badge various EVGA pamphlets and a

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non-conductive film just in case you want to switch to another aftermarket

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cooler overclocking was simple enough with auto balancing power rails I

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recommend you only really focus on your core clock speed just so you know I

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cranked voltage and then power limit and then started fiddling around with the

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core I found it went above a I found if it went above a certain threshold GPU

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boost would kick in and throttle the card back down to exactly 1450 MHz this

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was a little odd as GPU boost is usually a little bit more Dynamic than that but

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regardless after applying a core clock of plus 110 I found myself with an

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allaround overall St stable overclock of 1570 MHz the highest we've been able to

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achieve on a GTX 980 of any kind so far

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after pouring over my benchmarking numbers it was fairly clear that this was a significant boost over the

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reference 980 also please note that Shadow of Mordor has an FPS cap of 100

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so both the reference 980 and the classified card were both capped off as

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with all of our GPU reviews we're using our standard test bench the specs for

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which you can I guess find on the screen you're looking at right now and all of

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the graphics cards that are used in this test are overclocked if you want to see

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my settings for them you can check the link in the description down below

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