WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.319 this video is brought to you by the Corsair obsidian 350d microatx case 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:11.360 exceptional expansion and cooling flexibility for compact high performance 00:00:08.360 --> 00:00:13.040 PCS visit Corsair.com obsidian to learn 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:19.000 more now I've heard a whole lot of claims about non-reference cards running 00:00:15.559 --> 00:00:22.199 cooler and overclocking better and blah 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:25.119 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:29.000 but this time prior to doing the unboxing this is not the first time 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:34.000 we've taken this card out of the box we have validated it 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:36.559 so this right here is the ASUS GTX 760 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:40.239 direct cu2 OC and if that name wasn't long enough for you then I can put some 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:45.039 other stuff in there 2 gig direct power super alloy power Windows 8 ready 20% 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:49.000 cooler vastly quieter what does it all amount to let's 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:56.239 go ahead and open up the card so there you go inside you find a dual PCIe 6 pin 00:00:53.280 --> 00:01:01.480 to PCIe eight pin adapter and you find a graphics card you also find a speed 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:07.600 setup which I think is their way of saying quick start guide alsoo throw me 00:01:05.320 --> 00:01:12.920 away download the drivers off of the ASUS website or ra better yet off of the 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:16.040 NVIDIA website and yeah actually NVIDIA 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:17.479 website and then get like all the cool 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:22.720 utilities and stuff that you need off of the ASUS website so let's check out this 00:01:20.759 --> 00:01:27.920 card so there's the usual ASUS advantages so they've redesigned the 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:30.119 cooler as well as the PCB so physically 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:35.560 custom PCB so they're using their sap super alloy power mosfets 5K rated caps 00:01:33.399 --> 00:01:38.439 as well as alloy based inductors they're using their new direct power feature I'm 00:01:37.320 --> 00:01:44.719 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 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:47.360 highways I think the way that they described it in their literature but I'm 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:53.399 going to explain it in a way that might be a little bit more meaningful think about this when you have a super thin 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:58.520 extension cord and you try to run something like a space heater off of it 00:01:55.719 --> 00:02:02.000 what happens the cord gets hot that's bad that's terrible actually 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:07.240 whereas when you have a nice thick power cord the resistance of that cord to the 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:11.039 electricity flowing in it is less therefore it stays cool even with high 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:16.160 draw components on the other side that my friends is what direct power is all 00:02:13.480 --> 00:02:21.280 about so instead of relying on simply the traces inside the PCB themselves to 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:26.360 transfer power to the GPU and from the GPU this direct power feature goes nope 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:30.760 we're going to go around that and it provides well okay it's a power Super 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:34.920 Highway fine so we go back to ASUS's way of describing it so it reduces impedance 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:40.319 and reduces GPU temperatures both of these are good things the direct cu2 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:44.000 cooler uses direct contact copper heat pipes there are four nickel plated 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:48.560 copper heat pipes two of which are thick style heat pipes going out to the outer 00:02:45.959 --> 00:02:53.080 parts of the aluminum heat sink fin stack and then two of them are thinner 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:58.040 heat pipes that are going out to the well the aluminum heat sink fin stack 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:01.720 and it's also got two especially tuned dust proof fans so tuned fan F basically 00:03:00.440 --> 00:03:06.159 means they have the right static pressure to air flow ratio and dust 00:03:04.239 --> 00:03:09.560 proof means they are double sealed so that you're not going to have dust build 00:03:07.640 --> 00:03:13.560 up getting inside the bearings itself reducing the lifespan he su figures 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:19.640 these are good for about an extra 10,000 hours of Lifetime versus a standard fan 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:22.840 you've also got a mosfet vrm heat sink which hopefully I can find somewhere in 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:25.799 there yes I can I'm actually just going to have to take the PCB off we'll do a 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.799 b-roll shot of that but don't worry too much about it basically better cooling 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:35.239 for the hottest part of the card now in terms of raw specs like all GeForce GTX 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:37.280 760's it uses a GK 104 core slightly 00:03:35.239 --> 00:03:45.599 overclocked so 1.6 GHz base clock and then 171 MHz 00:03:42.760 --> 00:03:51.200 boost clock and it's got 2 gigs of gddr5 it's 6 GHz so eight pieces four on the 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:56.159 back four on the front presumably Yep they're on there 256-bit memory bus just 00:03:53.519 --> 00:04:01.079 like all leather 760's PCI Express 3.0 interface two SLI fingers for up to 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:05.239 three-way SLI and on the back four connectors two dual link DVI one HDMI 00:04:03.799 --> 00:04:10.239 and one DisplayPort giving you full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision surround 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:14.760 off of a single card of course with gaming cases being as windowed as they 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:18.160 are these days if the card didn't look good you probably wouldn't even be 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:22.639 considering it and the good news is that it does it's got a nice shroud plastic 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:27.520 shroud mind you with a matte black overall theme with some glossy black as 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:31.720 well as glossy red accents I personally think the direct su2 cards um 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:35.360 I I personally think they look great they look very functional to me whereas 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:40.759 you have fancier cards out there like for example a reference GTX 770 is very 00:04:38.479 --> 00:04:46.160 very fancy but this will actually keep the card running cooler which because it 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:47.680 supports GPU Boost 2.0 is important 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:51.199 because the cooler the card runs the more often it will be running in its 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:56.199 boost State I also really like the way that ASUS has done the penis EXT I mean 00:04:53.440 --> 00:05:00.360 uh PCB extension on the back of the card many of these modern cards have little 00:04:58.039 --> 00:05:04.680 like plastic extender pieces no ASUS says we're going to do a metal extension 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:09.360 it's going to have aluminum heat sink fins and it's going to not look cheesy 00:05:07.280 --> 00:05:13.759 even though the card itself is quite small and quite compact this extension 00:05:12.039 --> 00:05:16.800 is four functional reasons and the reason is that well you need to fit lots 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:21.720 of cooling on the card even though it's a small PCB so this allows them to have 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:25.840 the fan not just be hanging off into the middle of nowhere one unique thing about 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:29.759 this card is it uses a single 8 Pin PCI Express power connector first time I've 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:34.400 seen this and I've always I've wondered for a long time why we continued to see 00:05:31.880 --> 00:05:37.840 mid power cards with dual six pins as opposed to a single eight pin and I 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:42.520 guess ASUS sort of was asking themselves the same thing because that is done 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:46.759 software wise make sure you grab GPU tweak it's specifically designed for 00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:51.120 ASUS cards allows you to use all the functionality in terms of overclocking 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:54.759 that you can and don't forget guys that with their oh GPU hot wire that's what 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:58.479 it's called and supported ASUS motherboards you can actually directly 00:05:56.520 --> 00:06:02.560 overvolt the GPU in ways that are technically not really all owed by 00:06:00.039 --> 00:06:05.400 NVIDIA but I see I don't even think I don't even think they talk about it 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:08.960 that's the funny thing about it so certain certain boards particularly 00:06:06.919 --> 00:06:12.599 their Rog boards do support that feature yeah they're not even talking about it 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:16.160 it's like well no you know you can do it but we're just going to keep it very 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:19.360 quiet and uh right so let's get down to Performance overclocking is always in 00:06:17.919 --> 00:06:24.800 theory better on these non-reference cards but in our experience this card 00:06:21.919 --> 00:06:28.880 did overclock better than our reference card so we only ran a couple of 00:06:26.440 --> 00:06:32.160 benchmarks just to show you guys sort of what you can expect we used our standard 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:38.000 graphics card testing test bench so 3960x 4 GHz 16 gigs of RAM 128 gig SSD 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:43.759 th000 wat power supply etc etc etc our stock 760 ran at about 1.15 GHz on the 00:06:41.039 --> 00:06:49.720 core 3.34 GHz on the memory and our direct CO2 ran at 1280 MHz on the core 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:55.199 much better and 3456 on the RAM very cool so what did 00:06:53.360 --> 00:07:00.879 this amount to in the real world well basically a couple perc performance 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:02.080 Improvement so we ran Crisis 3 and I'm 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:08.080 not going to spend too much time on these slides but we also ran Far Cry 3 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:09.440 and we saw however small remember these 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:12.960 are the same cards running the same drivers essentially performance 00:07:11.080 --> 00:07:16.080 improvements so it costs a couple percent more than a reference card and 00:07:14.479 --> 00:07:19.360 performs a couple percent better I guess you can't ask for much more than that 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:24.680 thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look at the GeForce GTX 760 direct 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:27.360 cu2 OC from ASUS don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips more 00:07:26.039 --> 00:07:32.000 unboxings reviews and other computer videos let me know what you think of this card in the comments comments and 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:38.440 guys please do like the video it helps me out a whole whack load of a ton it 00:07:35.479 --> 00:07:38.440 really does