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to learn more welcome to my review of
the uh manliest video card that we've ever
seen um okay no but seriously the brand
is called manly m l i not with a y at
the end I'd never heard of them before either so as soon as you guys if you
guys are lus I've never heard of this before don't worry you're not the only
one but this right here is their ultimate class GeForce gtx770 so just
like any other GTX 770 you've got support for GPU Boost 2.0 you've got
wicked fast 7 GHz gddr5 memory this
particular one happens to have 4 gigs of gddr5 memory which definitely gives in
an advantage over other GTX 770s particularly when running at higher
resolutions you've got support fizx you got support for 3D Vision the new
GeForce experience which basically optimizes your game settings downloads
latest drivers for you all without much user intervention at all other than
installing it in the first place and of course the extremely exciting upcoming
NVIDIA Shadow play which will allow you to record your gameplay videos on the
Fly and just grab only the ones that you want although sorry that's not actually
quite released yet but it should come at some point okay so how does a graphics
card manufacturer differentiate from the others okay so number one is they can
add more RAM Manley has done that here this is a 4 gig card number two is they
can overclock the card okay so Manley has done that here as well however
around here we believe in manual overclocking anyway so we don't care too
much about the clock speeds that cards ship at but what we do care about
particularly on GPU Boost 2.0 cards which rely on the temperature of the
graphics card in order to keep the clocks high we do care about cooling so
they can put better coolers on them the cooler on this card not only uses a
couple of 92mm fans but they also have a little bit more depth to them than some
of the fans that you find on graphics cards and they don't whine or tick
whether they're running at high speed or low speed so we did observe that they
are they're actually quite quite excellent fans they can also make
aesthetic tweaks or cable management tweaks so it uses the Stacked PCI
Express connector design that we've were familiarized with on the GTX 680 as
opposed to the side by-side one that we find on most 770s and uses a metal
shroud around the cooler rather than a plastic shroud which you do find on some
cards it also has five heat pipes carrying heat all around the card so you
can actually see the copper heat pipes through the top of the Shroud here it
uses a standard PCI Express 3.0 16x
interface down here it has two SLI connectors so it supports two-way 3-way
and four-way SLI although fourway s really isn't recommended it has two dual
link DVI ports as well as an H HDMI port
and a DisplayPort port and what's this is that a gold blingtastic accent on the
card that looks fantastic I actually love it it would go perfectly with my
old ay2 Zs which also had a gold black
back plate which I also loved on the back of the card we find ah so it's it's
as almost as if they made it this like the Linus Edition card between the gold
accents and that gorgeous matte black PCB that has like no shine to it at all
that looks fantastic and then you can o see of course the extra memory modules
on the back which should be what I'm interested in but I'm all about that matte black PCB that looks fantastic so
it requires a six pin and an 8 Pin PCI Express connector I don't think I
mentioned that even when I was showing you the stack design and it is quite a
long card now another way that they can differentiate is in terms of warranty
support Andor product quality so check this out guys Manley is offering a
three-year warranty which is pretty good it's above average and then they're also
offering this is interesting a 24-hour testing guarantee so that means every
card gets burned in for 24 hours this is kind of similar to what MSI is doing on
their OC certified so things like their M Power boards where they're actually
burning them in prior to shipping which should pretty much negate the
possibility of having a defective card although anything can happen in shipping
trust me guys so without further Ado let's get into the performance numbers
is it better than a reference card yeah actually we found it did perform a
little bit better than a reference card we don't know if this is entirely due to
being running at high slightly higher clock speeds cuz we were able to achieve
slightly higher clock speeds or whether it was due to the GPU being able to run
at higher clock speeds because of the better cooler design now with that said
better should have an asterisk here because I love the cooler design on the
stock 770 it looks so good but it doesn't remove heat from the GPU quite
as well it should be noted that blower design removes heat from the case a
little bit better whereas this one will exhaust our into your case but at any
rate yes in our small cross-section of we did get better performance with
Manley's Ultimate Card I should also probably show you the accessories it
comes with it comes with a completely useless uh driver installation DVD you
should run the latest drivers off the NVIDIA website as well as probably a
quick start guide who cares a DVI to VGA adapter and then two adapters dual Molex
to six pin and dual six pin to8 pin however my usual Fang on all this is if
you're using a VGA adapter or power supply adapters you should probably
think about upgrading your monitor uh Andor your power apply to go with your
wicked new card so thank you for checking out this unboxing and overview
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