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more welcome to my unboxing and first look at something where
oh am I just trolling you guys this is
no no don't worry what's actually in here is not an 8800 GT this is the
GeForce GTX 770 from NVIDIA so this is a
new generation product a 700 series product but what you'll notice is it
actually shares a lot in common with the
last generation GTX 680 so it has the
same GK 104 core so that is it to say
that it has a 256-bit memory bus the
stock card has 2 gigs of RAM but there
are non-reference cards that are going to be available with up to 4 gigs of RAM
however the RAM is where the really special part of this video card really
comes into play because this is the first graphics card on Earth to ship
with 7 GHz gddr5 what that means is more memory
bandwidth and we've actually already done a fair bit of testing on this card
so what I can tell you right now is that yeah the higher clock speeds versus the
GTX 680 yeah this is a 7D class card
that is pretty much a replacement for the last generation Flagship GTX 680
except that it's actually even faster so yeah it's got higher clock speeds but
particularly at higher resolution so greater than 1080p that extra memory
bandwidth helps a lot for it to really
pull ahead of the GTX 680 it also supports some other new cool 700 series
features such as GPU boost 2 so GPU boost 2 allows this card instead of
relying just on information about voltage clock speed and then the overall
power Target of the board now is able to compensate for temperature as as well so
if you tell it GTX 670 I am comfortable
with you running at 90° it'll kind of go okay Roger Dodger and then if you put a
water block on it so it's running at you know 45 degrees no matter what you do
then it will continue to strive to Turbo itself up to the absolute maximum clock
speed that it can sustain all the time no matter what now the GeForce
experience came out of beta with GTX 780 and obviously it supports the GTX 770 as
well what that means is you've always got the latest drivers and you've got
recommendations for the settings that you should run in the various games you
have on your computer so that you're never running it wrong I mean honestly
my little brother's a great case of this I hope he's not watching this video but
I gave the kid a GTX 275 this was a couple years ago back when that was like
you know a pretty decent card and I go over and he's running some Call of Duty
game at low details at like 1280 by 800
or something ridiculous like that on his 108 DP monitor I'm just I'm looking at
the kid I'm like really you're not let it's running at like 300 frames per
second you can actually turn the details St I turned the game up and he was like
oh that's what it's supposed to look like yeah that's what it's supposed to look like so GeForce experience maybe
isn't for you the viewer right now maybe it's not for you at all maybe you don't
care maybe you want to dial in your own settings personally I do but maybe it's
for someone that you're recommending a card for where you know that they're
just not capable of remembering to upgrade their own drivers or choose
their own setting so there you go I hope my brother's not watching this um also
NVIDIA is going to be introducing a new feature in GeForce experience called
Shadow play which is going to allow you to use the built-in h264 encoder on your
card at a nominal performance hit maybe about 5% to record your gameplay up to
the last 20 minutes of gameplay on the fly all the time so you never miss a
moment when you're making up your gameplay videos or or whatever else very
cool stuff all the usual NVIDIA Technologies are supported SLI up to
three-way now NVIDIA yeah they have cards that support four-way but they're
really not talking about four-way SLI anymore it really doesn't scale very
well two-way SLI scales great on this card three-way SLI is going to scale
okay at higher resolutions four-way SLI tends to not scale that much so it does
support all the SLI whichever ones you want it has a six pin and 8 Pin power
adapter the TDP of this card is slightly higher than the GTX 680 that it comes in
and replaces but don't worry because the price is lower which is what going to
make this card so attractive is that not only do you get that GTX 680 performance
but I've seen a lot of speculation that from the leaked pictures of GTX 670 that
NVIDIA was building not quite the same
level of quality of a cooler that they put on the Titan and the 780 with its
aluminum construction and polycarbonate window on the aluminum fins with the
noise dampened fan that's actually got an updated profile that makes the car
not only run fast but also incred ibly quietly and illuminated GeForce GTX logo
on the top all of that is false this features the same level of quality of
cool cool the same cool cooler that has
a high level of quality that's what I meant to say and it looks absolutely
outstanding in your rig and now you can I mean I have heard people buy Titans
because they love the way it looks now you can get the look and a lot of the
performance for a significantly lower cost with that said no this card is not
gk10 based it is not in the same league as Titan and GTX 780 but what it does do
is it comes in an attractive price point and is able to deliver better
performance than the outgoing GTX 680 particularly at higher resolutions
you've got full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision surround allowing you to have up
to three plus one displays so three and Surround with one auxiliary display and
of course stereo 3D on supported 3D Vision enabled monitors PCI Express 3.0
interface is down here on the bottom and most of the exhaust from this card is
going to go out the back of your case while some of it will go out these fins
here and that's going to help cool some of the voltage regulation modules on the
PCB itself I think that pretty much does it for my GTX 770 overview don't forget
to check out my review content for this card as well where we walk you through
the nitty-gritty of its performance thanks for watching and don't forget to
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