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in the video description so the strix 1080 from ASUS is finally here and it's
rocking an allnew aesthetic cover to their beloved Drex C3 cooler design I
think it looks great and I appreciate that they opted to go with a flat black
coloring essentially everywhere which will joking about RGB being an overdone
feature aside complement the addition of
these greatl looking Aura enabled RGB LEDs that support many different
lighting modes and can sync with other Ora enabled devices like your a use
motherboard keyboard mouse Etc as well
for connectivity ASUS decided to switch it up a bit instead of the 1080s
standard setup of three display ports one HDMI connector and one DVI connector
ASUS opted to ditch one of those display ports for an additional HDMI connector
they call this solution vrf friendly HDMI ports which might sound kind of
like SLI ready Edition RAM but it's not
that bad all it means is that you can have an HDMI based VR headset that
connected and some other HDMI device like a monitor or TV without using a
DisplayPort adapter for the flat panel display something that's required with
the HCC Vive on the 1000 series NVIDIA cards due to their shockingly poor
implementation of HDMI over DisplayPort
that's it moving on the STX has a 203
MHz overclock in OC mode over the
founders Edition 1733 MHz boost clock
this results in a freakishly awesome final clock speed of 1936 MHz which
hovers in real games between around
1920 to slightly over
2,63 MHz thanks to GPU boost there is an
elephant in the room here however the OC mode isn't enabled out of the box and
there's no Hardware BIOS switch or anything to turn it on all the 6970 back
in the day it has to be enabled through GPU tweak 2 and a sous software utility
problem number one this utility isn't that easy to find searching for download
GPU tweak 2 does yield an auss download
page but for a horribly out-of-date version of the software no if you want
it you'll need to scroll a little further to the Reddit discussion thread
on how to find it now they aren't hiding it either there's a graphic about it on
the box Ard and honestly it's not that hard to track down if you just go to
your graphics card support page select the drivers button expand exp what
operating system you have then expand the utility section it's right there no
big deal the confusing part is this why if the tool is required to reach the
performance levels advertised are they not in your face about it if this is
what enables the card to be awesome tell me I mean sure in the manual it says to
install the driver's disc but like come on lonus basically made a meme out of
throwing those things away back in 2009 we have a driver disc don't use this
download the L off the NVIDIA website they're inherently outdated and ASUS is
a pretty smart Bunch I'd imagine they know as well as I do that the majority
of people ignore them and go straight to NVIDIA or AMD's website for the most
up-to-date drivers why would they ever find themselves on the ASUS support page
it's annoying too because this problem is so simple to fix MSI has an easy to
find download page for afterburner so apparently it's not impossible and a
surprisingly low number of people are overclocking their cards anyways so
shouldn't you be just giving the performance to them that you're saying
the card can do anyways right out of the
box I mean the card sits at 66°
underload not a big deal and you clearly have a BIOS that will run these speeds
by default there was that whole Scandal where you were sending out cards
pre-loaded with it to reviewers so instead of taking that away from
reviewers FYI our card was reflashed
with the retail BIOS before testing just give it to everyone problem solved maybe
I'm missing something but enough of that let's move on the performance side of
things was actually pretty groovy I experienced performance improvements of
about 3 to 7 FPS across the board which
is rather awesome and that's while these games are running at 4K with everything
maxed out beyond their maximum presets that 3 to FPS was clawed for these were
in very difficult scenarios if if I turned all the settings down so the
average FPS number was higher the FPS that it would have climbed would have
also been higher I don't expect many people to pick the highest possible
performance preset and then crank further beyond that this card is a beast
and will serve you well and all of that while sitting at about
66° and nice and quietly too the card is
a beast that doesn't get too hot and doesn't get too loud that's cool so it's
a rocking performer out of the box just don't expect it to overclock beyond
the GPU tweak OC mode I found this rather surprising I mean to be fair I
did manage to get the card stable at around plus 25 MHz but we're talking
like 1% here for that level of increase
what's the point I just turned it off and to be fair having the card hit 263
mahz or 2 GHz was impressive enough it's
just a little surprising that there was no juice left left in the tank they
really did seem to cut it close you can either be frustrated by this or you
could take that as a good thing they did all the work for you let me know what
your feelings are in the comment section down below so in conclusion despite my
objections to the way it was advertised this is an absolutely stunning card it
looks beautiful in so many ways I love the swap to dual HDMI ports and it is
fast as hell I might see some personal rig potential here so stay tuned for
that today we're highlighting the k7xx
limited edition ruby red headphones which is unlike any of the colors that
is currently on me of course Mast drop still has a bunch of other cool products
which you can check out at the link in the video description hopefully you guys
know about Mast drop already though it's the pretty simple concept where the more
people buy something on mass drop a certain product the lower the price of
that certain product goes the product we're showcasing today is the same spec
wise as the k7xx headphones that lus
reviewed last year can check with that video right up here the only real
difference is that it uses red accents on the ear cups and headband and that's
about it other than the fact that it is a limited edition drop so if you want a
pair you're going to have to act pretty fast so if you want to check them out
and grab a pair of ruby red k7xx headphones head over to the link in the
video description today thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you
know what to do but if it was awesome and you're like wow all that stuff is weird but it's a pretty cool graphics
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Amazon and also Link in the description is our merch store where you can buy
cool shirts and our community Forum where you can talk about stuff like why
don't they have that easier to set up or ra I don't care the cards really good
and I do manual overclocking anyway so I don't need that thing uh I don't know
check out this video to see like the normal GTX 1080 I filmed it in a little
bit of a weird exotic area so check that out