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welcome to a special Linus Tech tips unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 690 so

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yes this is basically like a

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590 like you put it in like a you know

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multiplication machine and you makes two of them so it's pretty much two did I

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say 590 cuz what I meant to say was 680 I'm sorry actually haven't slept very

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much in the last few days and I apologize if that comes through in this

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video but uh hopefully there will be an update in the next little while as to

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why that is and then you will all

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understand I think so this is basically like a 680 * 2 almost it has all the

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same functional units that is shaders ropps as a GTX 680 but the only key

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difference is that it is clocked slightly slower now remember that the

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680 and the 690 by extension have two

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different clock speeds by the way this has a very empty box like you know how I

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normally tell you like the stuff on the box there's like nothing on it they

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expect I guess if you're spending $1,000 on a graphics card that you probably

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have some idea what you're buying otherwise you wouldn't be doing it um

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where was I going with that right right all the functional

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units it is clocked slightly slower but not by much cuz remember 680 and 690

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have two clock speeds there's the base clock clock and the Boost clock so the

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base clocks are a little bit different but the Boost clocks are very very close

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and these cards whenever they are operating within their power envelope

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ARM yourself with EVGA very very cool hey this is cool I have one of these

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it's actually here let's go see it it's over there that's what my GTX uh 590

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came in sweet see got my NVIDIA ammo

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box see very cool anyway sorry guys just

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showing off you know how it is um so as

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long as they're operating within the power envelope set out by the graphics

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card it will operate at that boost clock assuming no overheating as well so in

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Practical terms they are very very close

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a 690 is very close in terms of performance to two 680s in SLI consumes

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less power which is very very cool and is also quad SLI capable without so many

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PCI Express slots being taken out because you can run 680s in Quad SLI as

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well in terms of included accessories we have a powered by EVGA sticker that's

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got a very cool carbon fiber kind of finish on it as well as a driver

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installation disc we've got a little warning about how the card is hot and be

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careful please EVGA signature GTX 690

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quick start guide okay Enthusiast built

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okay very neat couple little stickers user guide as well as a few accessories

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so accessories I'm not expecting too much uh okay oh for please for Pete's

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sakes if you're running one of these cards please do not use the DVI VGA

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adapter get a real monitor okay DVI to

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HDMI that might come in handy next we have a dual six pin to eight pin adapter

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two of those because this graphics card does require two eight pin power

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adapters and my goodness it's heavy holy cow uh here you don't have to come in

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too close just for the moment I'm just going to unwrap it here so you guys will

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see actually something very cool I'm going to leave this here for just a

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second let you guys take kind of a a

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close look at it want to touch it too much

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absolutely gorgeous so we're going to do a quick size comparison against the GTX

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680 so that's one thing you guys will notice it is a bit longer than a regular

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gtx680 but it also Bears a striking resemblance

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to the last generation GTX

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590 which is in similar fashion to GTX X

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580s pretty much but clocked a little bit slower so you can see okay here we

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go so you can see it's a fairly similar design so NVIDIA has two Vapor Chambers

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here with aluminum fins that have Plexi Windows don't worry these stickers come

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off you will be able to see them very clearly um so right aluminum fins on

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either side cooling the two gpus one other thing that they've done is they've

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adjusted the back plate that's under the fan right there so that it doesn't have

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gaps in it anymore this is in theory to reduce turbulence so they just adjusted

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the back plate so it cools the components directly rather than requiring that air flow they have also

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changed the Shroud see this plastic shroud bam aluminum as well as I believe

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I believe one of these components is magnesium and one of them of them is aluminum but you're going to have to

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forgive me I can't remember which is which but the point is that this is

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almost an entirely metal card just

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because we can and it's a $1,000 card so

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I guess they were able to uh to figure out way to not only design it almost

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entirely in metal but also put an enormous glowing GeForce GTX logo on it

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that looks absolutely Beast so we had a glowing logo on the 590 now we have uh

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we have we have increased the size of that their logo by a fair significant

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amount it also looks quite a bit more Sleek some guys like back plates I'm

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personally not an enormous fan of back plates they do look very clean you can

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see the 590 did have a back plate whereas the 690 does not have a back

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plate the reason for that is because the 690 is using higher density gddr5 memory

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modules these are Samsung modules that are running at 6 GHz there are none on

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the back because they're higher density so you no longer need those back plates

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in order to cool them one thing that's really cool about the 690 is that it is

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significantly overbuilt so it actually uses a very similar overall layout as

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the 590 in terms of the PCB in terms of the power delivery so they've made some

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tweaks but what's cool about that is the fact that these

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dual uh the Dual Graphics cores on this

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car do not require nearly as much power

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as the cores that were on the 590 so even though we've got all of this power

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delivery built into the card we don't actually need it so NVIDIA has

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effectively overbuilt the card in a significant way so what that allows you

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is a little bit more room for overclocking although NVIDIA doesn't

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want people overvolting these I don't know if you guys remember but there were

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some horror stories where the GTX we had some GTX 590s die due to people

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overvolting the snot out of them and the fact that they are pretty much a Balls

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to the walls Take It to the Limit design from the get-go so that was that was a

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bit of a problem I wouldn't expect that to happen with the 690 though just because it is so overbuilt now speaking

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of overbuilt let's have a look at what all it's got here in terms of the build

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so we've got three DVI ports two dvii one DVI D so this is not

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going to work with an analog adapter although you shouldn't be using analog anyway um so if you're going to run

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NVIDIA surround you can run these three um that would be my recommended

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configuration you've also got a dis a mini DisplayPort which I believe can be used in surround as well but for

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Simplicity of configuration I would definitely suggest sticking with three

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DVI ports um especially because if

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you're going to want to run 3D Vision you will have to use the DVI ports now

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we've also got two 8 Pin PCIe power connectors just like with the 590 and

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let's just have a you know like a bit of a closer look at the overall design of

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this card it looks absolutely amazing I mean even this not plastic

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guys made of metal this metal metal

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metal we've got like these like aircraft riety looking things holding the whole

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thing together I mean this is the kind of card that I wouldn't even want to

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water cool because it looks so amazing

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with the uh with the stock cooler on it and I've never said that before I'm a

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huge water cooling Advocate now something to bear in mind is if you do

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buy one of these you're going to want to make sure you have an adequate case for

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uh for ventilation because a significant amount of the heat that it outputs is

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going to go directly into your case towards the front of the case which is

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not the natural way that air flow goes through your system you can also look at

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redesigning the air flow in your system so you can bring okay so so you guys

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Envision this for me okay so you got it installed in your system you can change

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your CPU to an intake and then the front to an exhaust which isn't necessarily

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ideal in the sense that heat rises etc etc but it may actually help keep things

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a little bit cooler and then the rest of it is going to be exhausted out the io

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plate out the back of the system I'm not sure what else there is

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to say about it so yeah in terms of length it is pretty much exactly the

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same as the GTX 590 it just looks way

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more slick I mean check this out they even put a metal piece on the fan just

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because it looks amazing never seen that before but there you go and then it is a

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little bit longer looks to be about an inch longer than the GTX 680 so uh true

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to NVIDIA's form even with their dual GPU cards they try to keep lengths

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reasonable without letting them stretch out to be you know 11 in long like the

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uh the radon 6990 did I think that pretty much covers it

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in terms of performance what can you expect well single GPU performance is

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going to be about you know 95 to 98% of

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one of these and dual GPU performance will be about 95 to 98% of two of these

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except the key difference is that you got it on one

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card you save a little bit of power and yeah it's expensive but so is two of

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these and that doesn't stop people from buying them so there you go thank you for checking out my unboxing and first

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look at the gForce GTX 690 which is

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without a doubt the fastest graphics card ever built and I'm going to put a

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little asteris right here at the time of filming this video because as you guys

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all know technology is always moving

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forward yeah I let you guys down hardcore it has 4 gigs of RAM see I told

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you I was tired 2 gigs dedicated per GPU

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which means that you've essentially effectively got 2 gigs of RAM which

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should be plenty for triple 1080p but you might not be able to run like the

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latest games in triple 2560 x600 or something like that for that I would

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probably be looking for like a custom 680 SLI configuration with two 4 gig

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cards just something for you guys to bear in mind so 4 gig card 2 gigs

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per GPU