{"video_id":"QN8VB7R41eA","title":"Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 SOC White Edition Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":499,"segments":[{"start_s":7.439,"end_s":16.119,"text":"now we're finally seeing an influx of custom GTX 680s well okay I shouldn't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.12,"end_s":22.439,"text":"say influx because there's just plain not nearly enough of them but uh we are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.68,"end_s":28.359,"text":"finally seeing some custom GTX 680s so custom means Custom pcbs Custom coolers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.84,"end_s":36.6,"text":"nonreference design cards so this is the Galaxy GeForce G GTX 680 s so so s so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":33.6,"end_s":38.399,"text":"stands for presumably super overclocked","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":36.6,"end_s":43.96,"text":"okay 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has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":421.72,"end_s":428.16,"text":"the whitest PCB that I have yet seen I have seen products with white pcbs in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":426.24,"end_s":433.72,"text":"the past such as sapphires pure motherboard back on the 690g chipset for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":430.44,"end_s":436.28,"text":"AMD this is much whiter this is like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":433.72,"end_s":441.319,"text":"white white as opposed to like yellow white so an example of a build that this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":438.44,"end_s":447.08,"text":"would look absolutely fantastic in is one like this where the inner guts are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":444.599,"end_s":451.84,"text":"predominantly black and white so I would love to replace the Radeon graphics card","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":449.759,"end_s":457.759,"text":"in here with a uh suitably White GeForce graphics card","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":455.639,"end_s":463.199,"text":"so check this out see white and black theme you go ahead","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":460.56,"end_s":467.879,"text":"you throw one of these in there how Beast would that look would barely even","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":466.199,"end_s":472.599,"text":"fit too even though this is an arc mey this is a long graphics card uh you know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":471.24,"end_s":477.24,"text":"what I think I have a tape measure here yep let's measure how long it is because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":474.36,"end_s":483.479,"text":"this must be close to 12 in all right so from the back of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":481.039,"end_s":488.12,"text":"there so 11 1/2 in so make sure you have a case that is capable of housing an 11","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":486.36,"end_s":491.12,"text":"1/2 in graphics card before you go ahead and install one of these so thank you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":489.759,"end_s":496.12,"text":"for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":494.72,"end_s":500.84,"text":"don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"now we're finally seeing an influx of custom GTX 680s well okay I shouldn't say influx because there's just plain not nearly enough of them but uh we are finally seeing some custom GTX 680s so custom means Custom pcbs Custom coolers nonreference design cards so this is the Galaxy GeForce G GTX 680 s so so s so stands for presumably super overclocked okay comes with a three-year warranty 2 gigs of memory custom cooling a force a bracket and it has a pretty cool custom PCB but I'm not going to give that away until we get in a little bit further so let's have a look what they have to say for themselves maximize your performance with GPU boost so that is the GTX 68 ability to dynamically adjust its clock according to the available power thresholds okay enjoy smoother game PL with adaptive vertical sync which either turns on vsync or turns it off to give you an FPS boost when you're below the refresh rate of your monitor and smoother gameplay when you're above the refresh rate of your monitor in terms of your FPS richer visual so you can surround yourself with multim monitor gaming on a single card so NVIDIA has added that to their repertoire against the red team which had a bit well they were the only ones doing it for the longest time I've even gotten like old 5870 iin 86 Edition in that system that uh could do six displays off a single card which was totally not that useful for gaming because it didn't have nearly the power to drive it take control with extreme tuner plus so that is their overclocking software very very cool all right do more with multi-display that was here okay uh Windows Demands a real GPU this much is true although I can't say it Demands a 680 I think it'll be a while before Windows demands a 680 ultimate home theater with 108p Blu-ray and hdcp support if you game you need a Galaxy graphics card okay Galaxy turn it all on on okay well let's go ahead and have a look at the card because I think when you guys see the card you are going to get pretty excited about this so This GTX 680 is the cream of the cream for NVIDIA attention customers thank you thank you thank you for buying it and don't forget to register your card um it is their highest performing single GPU card probably their highest well okay their highest performing single GPU card and it is really really really really really fast all the latest features all that good stuff HDMI to DVI adapter uh mini what mini HDMI to HDMI adapter okay um two dual moax 28 pin power connectors okay I haven't actually like looked at this card that closely other than like what I think is cool about it so okay be sure to visit blah blah blah to get the latest extreme tuner this is great okay here's a disc But be sure to visit the website to download the latest thank you Galaxy uh you have done it correctly sir and madams because that is exactly how we roll here on Tech tips here's a CD download the latest oh yeah look at that custom white PCB which would go really well with a black and white themed system or in just any system um I tweeted a picture of this on my on my Twitter account of the Russian showing off one of these Galaxy Super overclocked Cards in a Vesta G2 system it looked absolutely balling out with the green lighting effects on the back of the card that looks so good just admiring it I wonder what this means it says Hall of Fame on the back of the card I mean I can understand this being Hall of Fame I mean just look at it but I don't know why they had to label it as such okay so on the back of the card we can see very clearly this is a custom PC it is very very very custom it is much longer than the standard GTX 680 PCB it also has dual six P or 8 Pin power connectors so it is designed presumably with beefier vrm and you can even see that there's a lot more built onto the card um than the stock card it also has a much more substantial cooler so this is triple 92mm cooling fans on an impressive I mean this thing is really heavy this is a heavy card on an impressive copper with five Heat pipes and then aluminum fin array that goes the entire length of the card and then some so you can see here where all the heat pipes are running to this is a oh okay so this is a is this plastic or aluminum it's a plastic shroud but uh here we go so the GPU is right about there right in between these two fans these fans are covering almost the entire surface area of the card as well blowing down not only on the GPU and the memory itself but also on the other components so the memory is covered in a heat spreader you can see where these Heat are heading off too so a couple of them go pretty close and then the farthest out one carries heat over here then next farthest out one carries heat here and the furthest out one on this side carries heat right to the end there so if we look at the positioning of the heat pipes and the fans each fan is blowing down directly onto fins that are right near a heat pipe so we should have heat being directly delivered it's too bad they weren't able to put in one more heat pipe right here but I guess you can't really ask for too much in terms of outputs oh this is interesting Okay so we've got DisplayPort and three mini HDM ni that is a very strange output configuration I wonder why they did that um huh okay well I guess I'd probably opt for a DisplayPort out of the three just because mini HDMI is not uh not the best thing in the world for outputting at 120 HZ at 1080p for 3D so hold on just a minute guys well Galaxy does whatever they please when it comes to outputs it turns out I mean their MDT cards from the last generation were a great example of that where they were like oh NVIDIA says we can only do two displays at a time well we can do three ha um so there you go they've gone with DisplayPort and three mini HDMI connections um you've also got an open sort of second PCI bracket so what that means is this is very much an internal airflow card so you're going to exhaust a little bit out the back of the case but you better make sure you have a case with good air flow which I hope if you're buying a GTX you already had sort of figured out now of note is the fact that okay two things of note is the fact that you see how easy it is to access the screws that hold these fans on can you see that that's really cool take out three screws pop the fan off you can easily clean out your graphics card get all the dust out of it completely having removed the fans from it and I think that's a very cool feature and the second thing of note other than the fact that it has PCI Express 3.0 and two SLI fingers for up to three or four we configurations is the fact that this has the whitest PCB that I have yet seen I have seen products with white pcbs in the past such as sapphires pure motherboard back on the 690g chipset for AMD this is much whiter this is like white white as opposed to like yellow white so an example of a build that this would look absolutely fantastic in is one like this where the inner guts are predominantly black and white so I would love to replace the Radeon graphics card in here with a uh suitably White GeForce graphics card so check this out see white and black theme you go ahead you throw one of these in there how Beast would that look would barely even fit too even though this is an arc mey this is a long graphics card uh you know what I think I have a tape measure here yep let's measure how long it is because this must be close to 12 in all right so from the back of the there so 11 1/2 in so make sure you have a case that is capable of housing an 11 1/2 in graphics card before you go ahead and install one of these so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 so don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}