1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:08,240 We're back from CES and I'm back to graphics card reviews. The 980 Hall of 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:10,800 Fame Edition from Galaxy or Galaxy or 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:14,400 Galaxy apparently galaxy now for whatever reason has made a bit of a 4 00:00:12,559 --> 00:00:19,760 splash for being very fast out of the box and having a beautiful all-white 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:23,039 design including their PCB. Also, for those of you that were enjoying the 6 00:00:21,279 --> 00:00:28,580 affordable motherboard showdown video, never fear. I'll be working on the next 7 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:33,760 episode very soon. 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,600 Cooler Master's Casemod World Series is your opportunity to show off your 9 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:44,800 modding skills and win great prizes. Entries close February 7th, 2015. Click 10 00:00:42,239 --> 00:00:49,440 now to learn more. To begin, we have to take a look at the heart of this card. 11 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:55,920 It's performance hardware. Galaxy sets you up with a stockbased clock speed of 12 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:58,879 the 20048 CUDA core equipped GM204 chip 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:04,320 of 1304 MHz and a boost clock speed of a whopping 1418 MHz, which is an 14 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:11,280 impressive 202 MHz over the reference 980. The card's standard setup of 4 GB 15 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,600 of 256 gigabit GDR5 memory is nudged up 16 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:18,560 a little bit, understandably much less exciting, 10 MHz, resulting in an 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:23,520 effective 7,10 MHz compared to the reference card's 7,000 MHz. The job of 18 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:29,360 cooling all this performance is given to two 80mm fans and one 90 mm fan on top 19 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:33,759 of a seven nickelplated heatpipe aluminum fin array. Three of the heat 20 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:40,079 pipes are 6 millimeter and four of them are 8mm girth showoffs. Hiding away back 21 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,240 here is also uh a integrated MOSFET heat 22 00:01:40,079 --> 00:01:45,840 sink that Galaxy put in as well. And last but not least, there is an 23 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:50,479 absolutely beautiful anodized aluminum back plate, which admittedly doesn't do 24 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:53,920 a whole lot for performance, but really ties the whole card together 25 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:58,079 aesthetically and does offer structural support to help the card not bend under 26 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,159 the weight of that heat sink. This cooling setup kept the card at a 27 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:06,560 relatively cool 73°ish while overclocked and under heavy 28 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,759 load on our open test bench, and we don't have an acoustic chamber, but I 29 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,599 also wouldn't say that it was unnecessarily loud, even in our most 30 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:17,680 stressful tests. Now, I'm going to take a moment before moving on to essentially 31 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:22,879 buy some time while you guys get a look at this card and appreciate what Galax 32 00:02:20,239 --> 00:02:27,360 has done here aesthetically. again with the latest additions of their Hall of 33 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:32,400 Fame series. There's lots of sweet tech inside, including classics like SLI, 34 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,959 CUDA, GeForce Experience, and all the new stuff that was introduced with GTX 35 00:02:34,239 --> 00:02:40,959 980, like MFAA, dynamic super resolution, and delta color compression, 36 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:46,239 which you can learn more about in Lionus's original 980 launch video by 37 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:50,400 clicking it. Now, back to the aesthetic. The only drawback I see here is the 38 00:02:48,239 --> 00:02:55,599 slightly beige color of the otherwise great dual 8pin power connectors that 39 00:02:52,879 --> 00:03:00,959 lead to the buff eight-phase power design with eight phases for GPU and two 40 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:05,280 for memory. Moving on, the Galax 980 sticks with reference IO configuration 41 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:10,959 with three full-size display ports, one HDMI, and lastly one DVI port. And also 42 00:03:08,319 --> 00:03:15,200 back here, you may notice the at first seemingly random button near the IO. 43 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:19,760 While it isn't labeled, and I couldn't easily find anything about it in their 44 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:24,879 manual, as they use a reference card for their examples, I was able to eventually 45 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:29,280 identify it as the hyperboost button, which essentially increases fan speed 46 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:33,760 and maximum power delivered to the GPU just by pressing it in. If you've 47 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:38,319 decided that you just have far too many famous things and you simply need 48 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,480 multiple halls of fame in your computer, the SLI fingers at the top of the card 49 00:03:40,159 --> 00:03:46,640 will happily accommodate two, three, or even four GPUs all linked together. 50 00:03:44,959 --> 00:03:50,480 Also, at the top of the card, there is a large backlit hall of fame logo whose 51 00:03:48,799 --> 00:03:54,080 brightness and lighting pattern can be controlled through software. And 52 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:58,720 finally, we have one last little switch on the far end of the card, which is, 53 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:02,879 you guessed it, a dual BIOS switch, which should enable you to try out new 54 00:04:00,239 --> 00:04:08,080 firmware updates and customize things relatively risk-f free. As we have done 55 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:11,680 a whack ton of general overview style reviews on the GTX 980 already, I 56 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:15,519 decided to go with a slightly different route for the benchmarking on this one 57 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:21,120 and went for a 4K gaming shootout between our EVGA classified 980, our 58 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:27,040 Galax Hall of Fame 980, and our Sapphire Vapor X290X 8 GB cards. Overclocking was 59 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:30,960 simple enough. Thanks to this card coming with such an aggressive stock 60 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:35,120 clock, you won't actually have to push it all that hard to get a very 61 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:40,000 respectable overclock. My personal settings were max core voltage and power 62 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:45,600 limit combined with a core clock increase of 90 MHz and a memory clock 63 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:51,520 increase of 300 MHz which resulted in an effective in-game core clock speed of 64 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:54,479 1533 MHz. While this isn't quite as high 65 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:58,880 as our EVGA classified 980s overclock of 1570 MHz, it is important to remember 66 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:02,960 that some of this could easily be attributed to the silicon lottery 67 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:06,479 because not all chips are created equal. As with all of our GPU reviews, we're 68 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,639 using our standard test bench, the specs of which you can see on the screen 69 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:14,479 you're looking at right now. And all of the graphics cards used for this test 70 00:05:12,479 --> 00:05:18,479 are overclocked and you can find them and all of my settings for them linked 71 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:22,160 in the description down below as long as Nick gets his crap together and includes 72 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,919 a link for a change. Otherwise, you can find them on the forum. With the fun 73 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:30,160 performance stuff out of the way, let's get to the only question left, which is 74 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:34,080 what's in the box. The answer may shock you. a quick installation guide, a 75 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:38,639 user's manual, two eightpin PCI power adapters, one DVI to VGA converter, and 76 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:42,639 finally, clearly the most important inclusion is a do not disturb door 77 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:47,199 doornob hanger. 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