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now while you may see something like this on my test bench and assume that

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this is going to be a video about three-way SLI scaling on the GTX 670

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that is not actually the topic of this video that will be a separate video

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where I'm going to do GTX 670 3-way

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versus Radon hd6970 3way because the

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performance of these cards is pretty close so I am very interested to see who

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scales better at a large at a high resolution like 2560 x600 but no this

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video is about temperatures power

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consumption and noise yes those three things of the

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GTX 670 compared to its immediate competition that is the GTX 680 the 7970

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the 7950 the 7870 and the card that it replaces the

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GTX 570 so one of the points I just

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wanted to make to open this one up that's why I have three cards on the

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bench right now is that even with these three

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cards we are drawing less than 100 Watts

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from the wall at idle this is with an overclocked 4.4 GHz

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um 3930 3630

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K 3930 sorry guys it's like 4 in the

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morning and I'm really tired so it's a 3930k at 4.4 GHz with all the power

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saving features turned off 16 gigs of RAM SSD boot Drive big old XL ATX

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motherboard three GTX

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670s and this is running off of a 1250

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wat 80 plus gold power supply so what that means is because this is a 1250 W

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power supply is extremely inefficient at only 10% load so in terms of actual

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power consumption this system is probably in the neighborhood of about 80

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Watts at idle which means these cards are pulling next to nothing at idle this

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GTX 670 is very power effici I'm going to show you some graphs and charts as

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well as some audio clips comparing its cooler and its uh cooling

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characteristics as well as its power draw to its competition now I showed you

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guys in the introduction that the system is drawing less than 100 Watts at the

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wall so what that means is that when we have a single card drawing 70 Watts from

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the wall those two additional cards running in three-way SLI when they're

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idling are basically almost completely shut down which is very very cool it

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makes for a much more efficient Computing experience because you're not

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always going to be loading up all three cards with the latest 3D game sometimes

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you have to check your email and it's great if you're not sucking a ton of

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power back and paying an immense electricity bill on account of your uh

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your massive gaming rig and this is this is totally labeled incorrectly so I

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apologize for that this is uh

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uh Power in watts and and then less is

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better in case you guys didn't know that okay so what else we got here so you can

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see that the GTX 670 is very competitive in terms of its performance per watt

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because it does outperform the hd7950 and it performs a little bit less

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than the 7970 so it falls right into where it's supposed to be um the idle

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power is very very very exciting as well and you can see it draws just a little

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bit less power than its older brother the GTX 680 which stands to reason when

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you compare it to the previous generation product it smokes it not only

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in terms of performance but also in terms of both gaming load power as well

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as Idle power so how did I measure gaming load power using this guy right

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here and then I would stand next to a particular car in Battlefield 3 in the

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uh in the underground parade where I was getting very consistent power readings

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from all the cards that were pretty near the peak that I was seeing during gaming

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just glancing at my power meter the whole time so that's how I'm measuring

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the maximum power no it's not 100% scientific but does give you a pretty

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good idea of what you're going to be able to expect from any of these given

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cards and the way I was measuring idle power was just with my spreadsheet here

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open and nothing else happening so all of these new fangled cards are so

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efficient at idle um that we only really start to see some separation once they

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really get loaded up now let's talk temperatures now these are going to be a

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little bit tough to compare because the 7950 data especially is not going to be

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very similar to the other data because this is not using a reference cooler

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this is using a sapphire dual fan cooler that does a as you can clearly see

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significantly better job than the than the reference cooler that's on the 7970

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right there even accounting for the fact that the 7950 does not run as hot so

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bear that in mind these numbers are not directly comparable between the 670 and

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the 7950 so the 670 runs pretty much the

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same temps as its older brother I measured these using pretty much the

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same method so I'm taking the idle temperature once it's idled at the desktop for you know 5 minutes or

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whatever and it's pretty much settled into a very flat line and load temps are

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taken when I'm looking at that same car so that's after I've been benchmarking for about 15 minutes already with the

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games beforehand and then I get onto Battlefield 3 and I'm seeing at that

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point as well a very very flat line so that's when the temperatures have

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completely equalized so this gives you some idea what to expect from a

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reference card however even at launch for GTX 670 there are non- reference

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cards available already and I'm having trouble finding it right now but I have

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one lying around here somewhere there you go galaxy has a pretty sweet

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non-reference card at launch that has like a glowing GeForce GTX 670 logo

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thing going on and dual 92 mm cooling

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fans and it looks just like beastly and everything so so bear that in mind guys

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this is just based on reference cards based on a non- overclocked card and I

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guess that's pretty much all there is to it they run about what you would expect

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compared to similar competition like the hd7970 a little bit cooler at idle a

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little bit hotter under load now guys you're going to see some

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clips of just you know close-ups of the video cards like

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this these are once again not scientific these are not meant to evaluate the

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exact you know deciel level noise level of these cards they are meant to give

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you an idea of the idle and

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load um signature of the noise so

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whether it's a low growl or whether it's kind of a high pitch squeal um that is

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what you guys can evaluate with these clips it should give you some idea of

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the of the loudness of the cards but it's not you know it's not scientific so

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just bear that in mind

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oh