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gaming gear no not Game Gear gaming gear

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like the stuff you need for gaming can be confusing to buy with all the

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marketing fluff that gets thrown at Gamers in fact soon we'll be helping

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Gamers narrow down their chair choices but today something a little bit more

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traditional lineus Tech Tipsy gaming graphics card

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shopping ensure Swift Victory with Corsair's highly respons lightweight

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gaming mouse the saber RGB click now to learn

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more now often the most obvious difference between one video card and

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another is the cooler and this can have a tangible impact on the noise from your

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PC the lifespan of your card and even

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the performance of your gaming rig thanks to the way that modern graphics

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cards turbo up their speeds when they're running nice and cool and throttle them

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back down when they're overheating now there are marketing names for the

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coolers used by the various card makers windforce Vapor X direct CU etc etc and

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some of them are bound to be a little bit better or worse than others but today's video is going to tackle this

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from a broader perspective how does the OEM style rear exhaust blower design

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that you'll find on a reference video card one with a cooler design by AMD or

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NVIDIA and then simply produced and rebranded by the manufacturer compare to

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the open air designs that are typical of

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a a nonreference video card where they blow the air kind of around in the case

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versus blowing it out the rear panel so

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let's walk you guys through the test we'll be using we wanted to examine this

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from the perspective not necessarily of the most extreme PC Enthusiast but

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rather a more typical PC Gamer so instead of using a Corsair 900d case we

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went with a bit Phoenix Shadow a midtower chassis with decent but

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decidedly unexceptional cooling with 12

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20 mm fans at the front and at the rear on the inside we didn't do any special

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cable management we installed a quad core core i7 non overclocked on a

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passively cooled ASUS motherboard and we installed our power supply fans side

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down so it would intake its own fresh air and exhaust it directly out the back

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without affecting the other components in our test for our cards we chose a

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GeForce GTX 780ti wind force from Gigabyte and a reference GTX 780 Ti that

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we got directly from NVIDIA we chose these cards because as a high-end card

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the 780ti generates a fair bit of Heat giving us a worst case scenario where

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the difference in the results will actually be measurable and because our

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780ti windforce uses the same PCB design

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as our reference card eliminating board efficiency as a variable we also

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overclocked our reference card to put it roughly in line with the rated clock

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speeds of the wind Force card now we tested each configuration at idle and

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and under load with Crisis 3 no unrealistic synthetic benchmarks here

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and took temperature readings with our kype probe at the front intake rear

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exhaust and inside the case near the stock CPU Cooler then we also took CPU

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GPU motherboard and motherboard vrm

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temperatures with aa's AI Suite monitoring software and MSI afterburner

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now normally when we Benchmark graphics cards we do it on an open air test bench

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for the ease of swapping them in and out but it appears that we may need to

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re-evaluate this practice at some point in the future because while we did still

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observe lower temperatures and therefore marginally higher boost clocks on our

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open air graphics card just like we do on an Open Bench the internal

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temperature of our case and therefore the temperature of every other component

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inside went up significantly we're talking an increase in the neighborhood

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of about 5 deg and on top of all this

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the noise advantage that we normally observe with open air cool

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was nowhere to be found our windforce

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card was actually noticeably louder well the entire system was noticeably louder

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with our windforce card than with our reference card so there you go

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non-reference coolers might let your GPU run a little bit cooler but the rest of

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your system will run hotter and possibly even louder unless you take the

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appropriate precautions because remember this test scenario was designed to show

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maybe not quite the worst but a very bad bad case scenario a mid-range GPU with a

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lower TDP will not affect your case temperatures to nearly the same degree

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degree like degrees of temperature sorry and adding more cooling fans or using a

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better ventilated case like a fractal Arc series Corsair graphite series or

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Cooler Master half series would help as well so the real Point here is make sure

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that you use open air coolers responsibly and work to keep the rest of

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your case temperatures down let us in

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the comments if you thought this was interesting and if you'd like to see us tackle this topic again with maybe a a

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different overall system configuration

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and speaking of overall different system configurations how about ones that are

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super hyper compact for free yes okay

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not everyone gets one for free but this is the Intel kncd

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54250 wyk wow that is a bit of a tongue

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twister and if you're not familiar with the KN these things are freaking cool

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they're little tiny PCS like so small you can fit them in your hand but

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they're actually fully featured PCS so you can install sodum memory in them

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they've got Intel onboard Graphics they've got Intel CPUs they've got

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support for USB 3 they've got support for HDMI and DisplayPort out this

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particular one has mini DP and mini HDMI

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out for up to dual displays and supports gigabit Lan and finally also has you

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know your built-in sort of sound and all that stuff so basically they're useful

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for a ton of different things if you just just need a little tiny PC for

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basic light use it'll do for that if you need a media center PC this kind of

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thing makes a ton of sense compared to building up a full-size Tower next to

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your TV when you can just hide it in the back or hide it in a corner or really

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hide it wherever you want because the thing is actually passively cooled and

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will be completely silent wherever you run it to the other thing that they can

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be really great for is has a stream PC okay yes this is very similar to Media

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PC cuz it would also be hooked up on your TV but because of the Intel onboard

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graphics builtin h264 decoder if you

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have a gaming PC somewhere else in your house you'll be able to decode using

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steam and home streaming and run your games with actually very little latency

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completely separately without building up a separate gaming machine so they're super cool they're actually surprisingly

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