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more now I've heard a whole lot of claims about non-reference cards running

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cooler and overclocking better and blah

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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

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but this time prior to doing the unboxing this is not the first time

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we've taken this card out of the box we have validated it

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so this right here is the ASUS GTX 760

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direct cu2 OC and if that name wasn't long enough for you then I can put some

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other stuff in there 2 gig direct power super alloy power Windows 8 ready 20%

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cooler vastly quieter what does it all amount to let's

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go ahead and open up the card so there you go inside you find a dual PCIe 6 pin

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to PCIe eight pin adapter and you find a graphics card you also find a speed

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setup which I think is their way of saying quick start guide alsoo throw me

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away download the drivers off of the ASUS website or ra better yet off of the

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NVIDIA website and yeah actually NVIDIA

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website and then get like all the cool

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utilities and stuff that you need off of the ASUS website so let's check out this

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card so there's the usual ASUS advantages so they've redesigned the

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cooler as well as the PCB so physically

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custom PCB so they're using their sap super alloy power mosfets 5K rated caps

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as well as alloy based inductors they're using their new direct power feature I'm

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going to go ahead and turn this over so you guys can read that right side up and this basically acts like a powered super

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highways I think the way that they described it in their literature but I'm

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going to explain it in a way that might be a little bit more meaningful think about this when you have a super thin

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extension cord and you try to run something like a space heater off of it

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what happens the cord gets hot that's bad that's terrible actually

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whereas when you have a nice thick power cord the resistance of that cord to the

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electricity flowing in it is less therefore it stays cool even with high

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draw components on the other side that my friends is what direct power is all

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about so instead of relying on simply the traces inside the PCB themselves to

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transfer power to the GPU and from the GPU this direct power feature goes nope

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we're going to go around that and it provides well okay it's a power Super

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Highway fine so we go back to ASUS's way of describing it so it reduces impedance

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and reduces GPU temperatures both of these are good things the direct cu2

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cooler uses direct contact copper heat pipes there are four nickel plated

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copper heat pipes two of which are thick style heat pipes going out to the outer

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parts of the aluminum heat sink fin stack and then two of them are thinner

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heat pipes that are going out to the well the aluminum heat sink fin stack

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and it's also got two especially tuned dust proof fans so tuned fan F basically

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means they have the right static pressure to air flow ratio and dust

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proof means they are double sealed so that you're not going to have dust build

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up getting inside the bearings itself reducing the lifespan he su figures

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these are good for about an extra 10,000 hours of Lifetime versus a standard fan

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you've also got a mosfet vrm heat sink which hopefully I can find somewhere in

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there yes I can I'm actually just going to have to take the PCB off we'll do a

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b-roll shot of that but don't worry too much about it basically better cooling

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for the hottest part of the card now in terms of raw specs like all GeForce GTX

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760's it uses a GK 104 core slightly

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overclocked so 1.6 GHz base clock and then 171 MHz

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boost clock and it's got 2 gigs of gddr5 it's 6 GHz so eight pieces four on the

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back four on the front presumably Yep they're on there 256-bit memory bus just

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like all leather 760's PCI Express 3.0 interface two SLI fingers for up to

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three-way SLI and on the back four connectors two dual link DVI one HDMI

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and one DisplayPort giving you full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision surround

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off of a single card of course with gaming cases being as windowed as they

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are these days if the card didn't look good you probably wouldn't even be

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considering it and the good news is that it does it's got a nice shroud plastic

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shroud mind you with a matte black overall theme with some glossy black as

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well as glossy red accents I personally think the direct su2 cards um

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I I personally think they look great they look very functional to me whereas

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you have fancier cards out there like for example a reference GTX 770 is very

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very fancy but this will actually keep the card running cooler which because it

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supports GPU Boost 2.0 is important

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because the cooler the card runs the more often it will be running in its

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boost State I also really like the way that ASUS has done the penis EXT I mean

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uh PCB extension on the back of the card many of these modern cards have little

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like plastic extender pieces no ASUS says we're going to do a metal extension

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it's going to have aluminum heat sink fins and it's going to not look cheesy

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even though the card itself is quite small and quite compact this extension

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is four functional reasons and the reason is that well you need to fit lots

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of cooling on the card even though it's a small PCB so this allows them to have

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the fan not just be hanging off into the middle of nowhere one unique thing about

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this card is it uses a single 8 Pin PCI Express power connector first time I've

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seen this and I've always I've wondered for a long time why we continued to see

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mid power cards with dual six pins as opposed to a single eight pin and I

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guess ASUS sort of was asking themselves the same thing because that is done

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software wise make sure you grab GPU tweak it's specifically designed for

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ASUS cards allows you to use all the functionality in terms of overclocking

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that you can and don't forget guys that with their oh GPU hot wire that's what

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it's called and supported ASUS motherboards you can actually directly

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overvolt the GPU in ways that are technically not really all owed by

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NVIDIA but I see I don't even think I don't even think they talk about it

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that's the funny thing about it so certain certain boards particularly

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their Rog boards do support that feature yeah they're not even talking about it

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it's like well no you know you can do it but we're just going to keep it very

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quiet and uh right so let's get down to Performance overclocking is always in

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theory better on these non-reference cards but in our experience this card

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did overclock better than our reference card so we only ran a couple of

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benchmarks just to show you guys sort of what you can expect we used our standard

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graphics card testing test bench so 3960x 4 GHz 16 gigs of RAM 128 gig SSD

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th000 wat power supply etc etc etc our stock 760 ran at about 1.15 GHz on the

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core 3.34 GHz on the memory and our direct CO2 ran at 1280 MHz on the core

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much better and 3456 on the RAM very cool so what did

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this amount to in the real world well basically a couple perc performance

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Improvement so we ran Crisis 3 and I'm

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not going to spend too much time on these slides but we also ran Far Cry 3

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and we saw however small remember these

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are the same cards running the same drivers essentially performance

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improvements so it costs a couple percent more than a reference card and

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performs a couple percent better I guess you can't ask for much more than that

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thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look at the GeForce GTX 760 direct

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cu2 OC from ASUS don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips more

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really does