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welcome to my NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan

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unboxing this has a completely different naming scheme as you can see I have

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already actually broken the seal once but we had a bit of an error due to a uh

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an errant baby that was running around our video set so we had some

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difficulties with that but we're going to open this bad boy up and I really do

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mean bad boy this is the fastest single

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GPU card on the planet it comes packed

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in beautiful anti-static foam with a

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beautiful bubble wrap that is carefully painstakingly labeled card 4 and then

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more bubble wrap inside for your $1,000

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you get the best packaging that has ever been no I'm just kidding so this is a

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reference board provided by NVIDIA rather than being one that's made by an

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add-in board partner such as uh EVGA or

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ASUS which are going to be the ones for Titan in North

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America so you will get a proper retail package with a proper warranty and all

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of that but this one is just for benchmarking buy yours truly so the

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first thing you're probably going to notice about the Titan is that it is

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absolutely gorgeous it is styled similarly to the GeForce GTX 690 with an

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extruded aluminum casing here noise

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dampened fan just like the GP GTX 680

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and a polycarbonate window that shows you the extended fin stack that is

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actually on top of a vapor chamber

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cooler that covers the GPU itself this card has six gigs of memory now

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something that people have complained about in the past particularly with the

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GTX 690 is not enough frame buffer on

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the high-end cards so NVIDIA wanted to address this because a 690 has 4 gigs of

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memory which is two per GPU so two effective cuz you're running an SLI the

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Titan has 6 gigs so that means that these four display outputs here which

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can be run in 3+ one so three in NVIDIA

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surround and one additional one as an auxiliary display can all be powered at

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Next Generation resolution so this card is capable in a three-way SLI

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configuration of even running games like Crisis 3 at 5760 by 1080 with very high

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details on so let's flip the board over so there's some RAM on this side and to

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fit 6 gigs of memory on a board obviously you're going to have to put

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some memory on the top of it as well so I'm not going to let the baby touch the

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back of the card CU I'm sure that would be a bit of a problem so it has a

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384-bit bus this is similar to previous generation NVIDIA high-end cards such as

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the GTX 480 and what other technology we

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do we get inside so aside from all that there are some

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pretty serious improvements to the main feature that NVIDIA launched with

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GeForce GTX 680 so code named Kepler now

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this is more like Kepler on steroids because compared to around 1,500 caor

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which is what a 680 has the Titan has

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2,688 Cuda cor so in addition to just

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being a Titan and being generally Beast it introduces a new version of GPU boost

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so GPU boost was what NVIDIA was calling their automatic overclocking it was a

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dynamic change of how the card operated

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in terms of its clock speeds its volt and its voltages so according to a power

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Target so they set a power Target for how much power the board was allowed to

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draw NVIDIA went oh okay well as long as you're under that power Target we can

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ramp up the GPU clock so you'd actually get faster performance so NVIDIA started

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rating their cards for a uh a minimum

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speed as well as a sort of typical boost

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clock now the problem with that is that board power is not necess necessarily

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the only Factor there's also temperatures so board temperatures play

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an important role in the reliability of the GPU so NVIDIA went okay well let's

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do GPU Boost 2.0 GPU Boost 2.0 doesn't

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rely on the actual power that the board is drawing it relies on the temperature

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that the GPU is running at so water coolers for example would run their GTX

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680 with a water block on it so it would always be at a very low temperature but

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you'd reach that that uh that power draw

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limit it so what happened was the card would stop boosting up it would stop

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overclocking any further Titan will not

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have that issue if you keep the temperatures low Titan will overclock

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itself very significantly so the base clock for this guy is 836 MHz with a

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typical boost clock of 876 MHz however I've been told that a

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water cooled Titan without any further tweaking without any overclocking like

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manual overclocking would be expected to run anywhere from around 950 MHz to 1

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GHz having done nothing because it will dynamically see that the card is not

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reaching a temperature that's going to bother it and it'll continue to add more

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voltage and more clock speed to the card until you reach that limit now another

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thing about the maximum voltage for the card NVIDIA has completely overhauled

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the way that they handle voltage increases and overclocking you can

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actually go beyond NVIDIA's recommend

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maximum voltage for GPU reliability this has to be enabled by the addin board

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partner but it'll give you a warning an EVGA Precision or MSI afterburner any of

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those utilities that says look this will affect the long-term stability of your

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card are you sure you want to do this and if you say yeah go for it it'll let

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you push it harder and further than NVIDIA has ever really allowed their

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customers to do in the past past that

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reliability point so uh oh yes

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customizability so not only that that but GPU boost 2 actually enables some

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further customization so you can control everything from the fan profile to the

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maximum voltage to the clock speed so what that means is you can say look I'm

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comfortable with 90° I'm going to set a Target temperature of 90° and unlike a

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power based uh like a power-based Target

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it's not approximate anymore the fan will ramp up as soon as it hits that 90°

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Target or 80° which is what it ships at or even 70° this allows the card to say

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okay that's the temperature the user wants to run at so it can dynamically

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adjust the clock speed and the voltage of the card to make sure it runs at that

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temperature so what's the application of this well you could do a couple things

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you could say okay I'm comfortable with the GPU having less performance and I

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want it to run at 70° and I want it to be silent so that means what it'll do is

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it'll set your fan to spin very very very slow until you hit 70° and then at

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70° instead of ramping up the fan and compensate like previous generation

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cards would have done it will actually ramp down the voltage and down the clock

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speeds to bring it into a lower thermal output in order to make sure that it

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stays silent or you could say okay look no no I'm comfortable with a loud card

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I'm going to move my fan curve all the way down so as soon as it hits 80° it's

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already running at you know 70 80% so

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that's going to give the GPU more Headroom to crank up voltages and crank

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up clock speeds because you're giving it more fan to work with so this is going

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to be pretty much the most customizable card on the planet when it comes to

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tuning the frequency you want it to run at the voltage the GPU will run at

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including setting you know voltages for it that it can crank up to that are

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higher than the reliability would dictate and the Acoustics that you can

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get out of it GTX Titan is actually faster and quieter than GTX 680 by a

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long shot it's also the most complex largest GPU ever built bu with 7.1

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billion transistors for context something like a core i7 3960x has 2.3

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billion transistors and I think that pretty much

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covers it oh yes Lick's uh wanting me to show a couple of things here so it uses

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a PCI Express 3.0 16x interface which is

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as fast as it gets these days the bottom of the card which he hasn't seen yet is

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also absolutely gorgeous on the top of the card there's some more cool things

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so there's an eight pin and six pin PCI Express connectors right there two SLI

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fingers for three-way or four-way SLI and check this out the light on the top

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actually glows just like the 690 and you can set it to either glow less or more

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or even adjust the level of glowing with

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the GPU load itself so you can be like oh okay I want it to only glow when I'm

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playing games you can set that which I personally think is very very cool from

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a modding perspective the last thing NVIDIA is added to the driver is the

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ability to overclock your monitor so if you have a monitor That's rated for 60

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htz uh oh say hi sayy hi you joining us

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for this unboxing yeah if you have a monitor That's rated for 60 HZ sometimes

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that monitor is actually capable of running at 70 80 90 htz so you might

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have the most powerful single GPU graphics card on the planet and it might

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be able to run your game at 120 FPS but if your monitor is only outputting 60 HZ

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you're only going to see 60 of those frames per second so this has been kind

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of a driver hack up till now Titan unlocks it now as with any overclocking

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nothing is guaranteed so there's no no one's promising that your 60 HZ monitor

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will run at 80 HZ or that your 120 HZ monitor will run at 150 HZ who knows

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nobody knows no one knows not a guarantee however NVIDIA is giving you

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the option in the driver now with Titan to check and see if your monitor is

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capable of overclocking this may affect the longterm of your reliability for the

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monitor itself and it may void your warranty for the monitor so guys

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exercise caution with any overclocking Endeavor however at least now we have

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the option so it is pretty much the most customizable gaming card on the planet

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supports all those Kepler features such as adaptive vsync and adaptive vsync

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does work in conjunction with the monitor overclocking so you might go

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okay I'm I've got I've got 90 Herz on my monitor now now I can set 90 FPS and I

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can use adaptive vsync so it's going to allow that car to go vsync when you're

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at 90 FPS so you don't go above and get tearing and then it'll turn vsync off as

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you go below it so maybe you dip down to 85 FPS

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so yeah pretty much I think that's it at

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