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I've seen some pretty crazy stuff in my time but it's not every day that your

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shiny new graphics card comes with a freaking cane to find out why the Zotac

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980ti comes with a cane and more about

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this card in general stay tuned if you guys would like to see a video on a

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graphics card is actually pretty standard outside of its wacky cooling

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setup which we will talk about in a moment its various clock speeds have

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been untouched sitting at the GPU core

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base clock speed of 10,25 and a boost of

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1114 it's 6 GB of gddr5 memory is

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running at 7,010 mahz which is yet again

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stock that being said we'll see what the GPU decides to do later on with GPU

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boost for your standard fixings you've got HDMI triple DisplayPort and DVI in

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the io Department in terms of connectivity the card connects to the

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motherboard through its fairly standard PCI 16x gen 3 connector power through

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one 18 pin and one six pin PCI power connector and two other potential

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graphics cards through two available SLI fingers on the top leftand Corner the

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back of the card features a beautiful and unique back plate design which

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features some kind of cool artwork Zotac branding the Arctic Storm branding logo

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and the phrase push the limit the back plate also does a little bit of

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wraparound reaching to the top of the card on the front of the card we get

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more into the cooling Powerhouse that runs this thing Zotac strapped on a

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generous offering of three large fans a whole wack ton of aluminum heat sink

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fins and a plethora of heat pipes but the card is barely running at a lower

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temperature than the stock cooler when under a load scenario of staring at The

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Crisis 3 Skybox so what gives well when cooling on air the heat from the GPU has

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to pass through the water block which doesn't have water in it not exactly an

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ideal situation Zotac makes up for this with their beastly air cooling setup but

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yeah anyways next up is that big heavy copper water block which we were just

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talking about it's been nickel plated but how does it perform quite well

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actually well enough that under looking at the Skyrim Skybox or I mean Crisis 3

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Skybox it's running at 54° C the idle

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temperatures of this thing when air cooled are 50° C that's a huge

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Improvement load it's running at 73° but that's still quite solid all this

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cooling adds quite a bit of weight how did Zotac handle this the cane what the

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hell this thing is ridiculous like okay cool you identified a problem came up

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with a solution that's great and with certain motherboard orientations you

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won't need it but the most common motherboard orientation you will now I

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prefer this idea over the cards just drooping like crazy and possibly having

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issues at this weight I would have torn it apart for being so freakishly droopy

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once installed it's scary and they fixed

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that problem so high five for that but what if I want to install two graphics

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cards what if the height of my case is kind of weird this pole only installs

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one way and it's with the bottom of it being at a fixed height I'm sure you

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could mod it to work better by drilling through the top and screwing into the

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top of your case or something and letting it hang than sawing off the

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bottom but damn that's probably a

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terrible idea honestly I'm being hard on them for this and it's a great idea I'm

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happy they implemented it but it maybe could have used some additional thought

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and some additional tooling to be more friendly to various situations now for

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performance when looking at these graphs please note that there are three

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separate entries for this card depending on whether it was tested with stock

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clocks and air cooling stock clocks and water cooling or overclocked with water

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cooling performance is rather unsurprising although I was hoping for

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GPU boost to do a little bit more than it did when it was with the added

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benefit of being underwater this just reinforces how much I'd like to test a

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whole bunch of the same graphics card to see how big of a variance GPU boost

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really is it overclocked just fine and

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as previously mentioned it kept its overall load Temps while overclocked at

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a totally acceptable 73° but it barely

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beat out the G1 gaming card in terms of overclocked performance there may have

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been a little bit more overclocking Headroom but I'm talking maybe 10 to 15

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MHz anything above that and the driver was crashing and artifacting all over

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the freaking place in conclusion it's an interesting card with some fun Concepts

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behind it the cane is a great general idea that could have maybe had some

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better implementation procedures behind it the idea of water and air cooling a

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card is great for longevity because you can use it in your main computer and

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water cool the hell out of it for now and when you retire it later there's no

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complication and you don't really need to worry about the potential of losing

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your stock cooler as you don't have to store it anywhere because it's on the

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freaking card one interesting tidbit before I go though uh I found one place

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