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We're back from CES and I'm back to graphics card reviews. The 980 Hall of

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Fame Edition from Galaxy or Galaxy or

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Galaxy apparently galaxy now for whatever reason has made a bit of a

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splash for being very fast out of the box and having a beautiful all-white

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design including their PCB. Also, for those of you that were enjoying the

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affordable motherboard showdown video, never fear. I'll be working on the next

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episode very soon.

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now to learn more. To begin, we have to take a look at the heart of this card.

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It's performance hardware. Galaxy sets you up with a stockbased clock speed of

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the 20048 CUDA core equipped GM204 chip

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of 1304 MHz and a boost clock speed of a whopping 1418 MHz, which is an

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impressive 202 MHz over the reference 980. The card's standard setup of 4 GB

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of 256 gigabit GDR5 memory is nudged up

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a little bit, understandably much less exciting, 10 MHz, resulting in an

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effective 7,10 MHz compared to the reference card's 7,000 MHz. The job of

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cooling all this performance is given to two 80mm fans and one 90 mm fan on top

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of a seven nickelplated heatpipe aluminum fin array. Three of the heat

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pipes are 6 millimeter and four of them are 8mm girth showoffs. Hiding away back

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here is also uh a integrated MOSFET heat

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sink that Galaxy put in as well. And last but not least, there is an

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absolutely beautiful anodized aluminum back plate, which admittedly doesn't do

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a whole lot for performance, but really ties the whole card together

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aesthetically and does offer structural support to help the card not bend under

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the weight of that heat sink. This cooling setup kept the card at a

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relatively cool 73°ish while overclocked and under heavy

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load on our open test bench, and we don't have an acoustic chamber, but I

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also wouldn't say that it was unnecessarily loud, even in our most

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stressful tests. Now, I'm going to take a moment before moving on to essentially

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buy some time while you guys get a look at this card and appreciate what Galax

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has done here aesthetically. again with the latest additions of their Hall of

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Fame series. There's lots of sweet tech inside, including classics like SLI,

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CUDA, GeForce Experience, and all the new stuff that was introduced with GTX

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980, like MFAA, dynamic super resolution, and delta color compression,

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which you can learn more about in Lionus's original 980 launch video by

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clicking it. Now, back to the aesthetic. The only drawback I see here is the

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slightly beige color of the otherwise great dual 8pin power connectors that

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lead to the buff eight-phase power design with eight phases for GPU and two

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for memory. Moving on, the Galax 980 sticks with reference IO configuration

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with three full-size display ports, one HDMI, and lastly one DVI port. And also

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back here, you may notice the at first seemingly random button near the IO.

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While it isn't labeled, and I couldn't easily find anything about it in their

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manual, as they use a reference card for their examples, I was able to eventually

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identify it as the hyperboost button, which essentially increases fan speed

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and maximum power delivered to the GPU just by pressing it in. If you've

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decided that you just have far too many famous things and you simply need

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multiple halls of fame in your computer, the SLI fingers at the top of the card

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will happily accommodate two, three, or even four GPUs all linked together.

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Also, at the top of the card, there is a large backlit hall of fame logo whose

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brightness and lighting pattern can be controlled through software. And

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finally, we have one last little switch on the far end of the card, which is,

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you guessed it, a dual BIOS switch, which should enable you to try out new

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firmware updates and customize things relatively risk-f free. As we have done

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a whack ton of general overview style reviews on the GTX 980 already, I

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decided to go with a slightly different route for the benchmarking on this one

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and went for a 4K gaming shootout between our EVGA classified 980, our

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Galax Hall of Fame 980, and our Sapphire Vapor X290X 8 GB cards. Overclocking was

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simple enough. Thanks to this card coming with such an aggressive stock

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clock, you won't actually have to push it all that hard to get a very

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respectable overclock. My personal settings were max core voltage and power

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limit combined with a core clock increase of 90 MHz and a memory clock

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increase of 300 MHz which resulted in an effective in-game core clock speed of

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1533 MHz. While this isn't quite as high

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as our EVGA classified 980s overclock of 1570 MHz, it is important to remember

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that some of this could easily be attributed to the silicon lottery

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because not all chips are created equal. As with all of our GPU reviews, we're

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using our standard test bench, the specs of which you can see on the screen

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you're looking at right now. And all of the graphics cards used for this test

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are overclocked and you can find them and all of my settings for them linked

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in the description down below as long as Nick gets his crap together and includes

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a link for a change. Otherwise, you can find them on the forum. With the fun

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performance stuff out of the way, let's get to the only question left, which is

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what's in the box. The answer may shock you. a quick installation guide, a

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user's manual, two eightpin PCI power adapters, one DVI to VGA converter, and

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finally, clearly the most important inclusion is a do not disturb door

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guys, thanks for watching. and I'll see you next time.