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for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC look no further than the

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obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more it's as though

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Gigabyte is determined to have all of their cards look pretty much the same

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it's yet another day and yet another windforce graphics card from Gigabyte so

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this one is the GTX 780 Ti wi for it's

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clocked at 1,20 MHz base clock 1,85 MHz boost clock

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it's got 3 gigs of 7 GHz gddr5 memory on

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a 384-bit bus and unlike the 290 X wind

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force it is pretty much the same price

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as other OC cards it's actually only about a $20 at or over a reference

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cooled reference clogged card making it a very interesting option it's got a

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massive six heat pipe triple fan cooler with their triangle cool uh slanted

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airflow redirection block with a Max cooling capacity of 450 WTS although

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guys it should be noted that not all windforce cards use this exact cooler

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this particular one is very very strong 450 Watts like I said it has a six pin

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and an8 pin PCI Express connector on the top and then that's pretty much it up

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there PCI Express 3.06 connector on the bottom at the back we find not a whole

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lot except we did notice that this card uses a reference PCB so in spite of the

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clock speed and cooler differences it has the same PCB as a reference GTX

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780ti so that's a 6 plus two-phase power design it supports the usual NVIDIA

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technology so that's SLI up to four-way with those two connectors on the top GPU

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Boost 2.0 Cuda physx GeForce experience

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so that's gameplay recording and streaming as well as the allnew gsync

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which finally has some sweet monitors to

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go along with it inside the Box the usual stuff's included a couple adapters

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anti-static beds driver disc Etc but what we're really interested in is the

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performance of this card with GPU Boost

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2.0 performance is directly affected by

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the GPU temperatures and that should in theory result in better clock speeds

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both at stock and overclocked settings at stock this was definitely the case

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although likely due as much to the much higher base clock of the card as

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anything else but we overclock all of

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our cards before testing and what we discovered is that that while the card

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ran relatively cool and quiet we did not

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get a Lucky Chip and the card actually didn't overclock as well as our

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reference 780 Ti bear in mind that our reference 780 Ti is a bit of a beast we

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were lucky on that one but in general

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let this be a lesson to you in the Silicon Lottery there is no sure thing

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we have found that reference cards usually lose and non-reference cards

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usually win when it comes to overclocking performance but here's the

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proof that there are exceptions I'll hand this over to Luke to deliver the

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bad news with this card it seems like we hit a luck of the draw case our

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reference card seems to be quite fast and with this card if I tried to make it

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as fast as our reference card we actually had some problems with artifacting and Screen glitches and some

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pretty serious issues it wasn't going to run that fast I was hitting power and

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voltage limits like crazy and I just couldn't go any higher they may or may

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not be some voltage mods out there that you could try if you run into this on

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your own but not going to go there um it

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it performed actually quite well just not as fast as our reference card and

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the main thing that I liked about it considering I couldn't make it go any faster was actually how quiet and how

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low temperature it was it was really not that loud at all it was really hard to

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hear which is a good thing and it usually sat around like 70° which is

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actually really solid for a graphics card so that was totally fine like and

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dislike the video as always in the comments below are you interested in

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something like this a reference design with an after market cooler on it or are

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you someone who's going more for aftermarket PCB and aftermarket cooler

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say that on the forums below and you'll get more interaction there which is great and as always subscribe to lus

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Tech tips and if you're on the Forum check out the PC gaming section where the star SE and group is we have now

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become official and we want to hit those upper echelons we're currently the 16th

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in the world for largest star seien team we want to get up there a little bit more so see you guys

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there

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he