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yesterday's video which you can watch here covered the ins and outs of the

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specs of the GeForce GTX 960 and how it Stacks up in the landscape of other

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single GPU graphics card configurations for gamers today's video is two things

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it's a look at the overclocking results and performance of gigabytes G1 gaming

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Edition 960 a higher priced but perhaps

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higher performance alternative to ausus stxs 960 and second it's an

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investigation of the sensibility of running 9 60s and SLI versus buying a

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single 970 on the subject of sensibility

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now to learn more so we'll start with a brief rundown of the gtx960 with a

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particular emphasis on gigabytes implementation G1 gaming is their top

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tier of card and aside from being overbuilt with a six-phase power design

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and dual six pin PCIe connectors it features a chip that's gone through what

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Gigabyte calls the GPU Gauntlet sorting

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to guarantee higher overclocking capabilities and given that we got ours

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running stable at 1565 MHz throughout our test Suite we

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either got lucky or what they're doing is working the cool ER plays a role here

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as well though with the windforce 3x's quad 6 mm heat pipe triple fan design

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doing a great job of staying quiet and keeping our chip cool underload at a

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maximum of 67° C even with the card

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overclocked to the max the way that we do for our GPU testing and it managed to

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stay completely silent at idle and under light loads with a Neato LED indicator

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next to the illuminated windforce logo that tells you if the fans are off and

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the cart is running in silent mode something that more and more cards are

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able to do these days but hey it's a feature that's on here thought I better

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mention it I'm not sure why though that we need the LED indicator because I

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could just look at the fans if I wanted to know if they were stopped but whatever Gigabyte onto the rest of the

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card it's got a PCIe gen 3 16x slot on the bottom a single SLI connector on the

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top for support of up to two-way SLI it's got the same Technologies as other

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GTX 960s so that's h265 encoding and

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decoding Dynamic super resolution mfaa

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anti-aliasing with which we used for our testing thanks to its similar appearance

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and smaller performance hit compared to msaa and great power efficiency with

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this card drawing only 250 Watts total

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from the wall for the entire system when overclocked under load in Crisis 3 but

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it also has one other special Tech something that Gigabyte calls Flex

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display technology which is basically an onboard active DisplayPort to DVI

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adapter that affords users a little bit more flexibility especially those using

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an older DVI based display just pay attention to the coding on the back of

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the io shield for which ones you can plug in at the same time now aside from

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the stuff that I covered so far and different stock and boost clock speeds

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at their hearts all GTX 960s are essentially the same with 2 gigs of

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gddr5 memory on a 128bit bus a fully

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enabled Maxwell architecture GM 206 processing core with all the Cuda cores

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and smx's that go along with that and a price in the 200 to $230 range so you

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might be questioning the point of doing a review of one 1960 yesterday and

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another one today which is why we spent a little bit of extra time and not only

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through our windforce 960 at its maxover clock the full OC spreadsheet by the way

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is linked in the video description below onto our standard 5960x test bench but

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we also ran it an SLI with our stricks card to see how two $200 cards stack up

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to a single one of their $350 big brothers the

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gtx970 so our single card testing didn't reveal any great you know Revelations it

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turns out that when you clock one gtx960 slightly faster than another one it

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performs ever so slightly better whether this and all the pros and cons of one

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card versus another is worth another $15 or not to you is entirely your deal but

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our SLI 960 versus 970 at 4K results

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were ever so slightly more interesting in spite of the 960s much lower memory B

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bandwidth and half-sized frame buffer remember two 2 gig cards is 2 gig

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effective vram in SLI it scaled well in SL considering the price of this

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solution compared to a single 970 except in wow where it didn't at all so I think

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that pretty much wraps it up for the Gigabyte G1 gaming gtx960 and also our

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gtx960 coverage in general we used to do a lot more videos about the different

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variants of a particular Graphics core but unless something really exciting and

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unexpected happens this will likely be our last word on this one if you're

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looking for a quiet and efficient single GPU solution it's a great choice if heat

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power consumption and noise are non-issues for you the r9290 for as

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little as $40 more compared to a card like this Stomps it and if you're

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looking to pair up two graphics cards then I would personally go with a single

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GTX 970 over 2960s for the 4 Gig frame

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buffer and the more consistent performance across a variet of games

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