Water Cooled 980 Ti Out of the Box! - Zotac 980 Ti Variants & EN970 ZBOX
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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thank you to MSI for sending us here to computex this year and also thank you to
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linda.com First up at Zotac we have a new ZBOX mainly designed behind their
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steam machine that we actually saw at PAX East but now with more
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customizability in mind with the steam machine it was all one package this one
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is customizable also instead of the like white and silver design of the old steam
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machine ZBOX well old is a kind of weird name cuz it's not even out yet uh it is
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now an all blackout design also something to note that led ring around
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the power button on the front can be turned off in the BIOS just in case you
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don't want that light there also it's called an En 970 for now but it'll have
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a better name going in the future so I'm not entirely sure what it will be called
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the pro model will have 8 gigs of RAM and 128 GB SSD inside of it but the more
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barebones version will have two 2 and 1/2 in Drive slots two uh like laptop
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style sodm memory gdr3 slots one m.2
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slot it will come with an i5 Broadwell 5200u processor uh an NVIDIA 970m with 3
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G gab of ddr5 and enough cooling to hopefully keep it from throttling in
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terms of IO on the front we have an SD card reader a microphone Jack a
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headphone jack and two USB 3.0 ports on the back you have a Wi-Fi antenna four
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HDMI 2.0 ports 2 GB Ethernet ports two
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USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports plus
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the power plug then we get to graphics cards they have four different versions
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of the 980 TI and I I know that's a lot but we'll go fairly quickly don't you
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worry about it the first one is the 9980 ti amp just their standard edition this
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is only $10 more than the reference card so pretty good deal for a triple fan
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cooler it's the same cooler that we've seen in the past so I won't spend too much time on that but the back plate on
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here is a wraparound so it looks kind of cool and the 980 TI doesn't have a back
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plate by reference so that's actually pretty nice the amp Omega Edition is the
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same kind of overall cooler no major differences other than the fact that
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it's 2 and 1 half slots and the fans have dual blades on them last but not
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least of the more Standard air coolers is the amp extreme which has more or
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less the same cooler as the amp Omega but it has lights on the front and
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lights on the top and then in terms of overclocking it's a freaking Beast its
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base core clock is 1253 with a boost clock of
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1355 and a memory clock of
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7,210 and then we get to the Arctic Storm which is probably just as cool as
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it sounds it has the same uh wraparound back blade as the previous ones but now
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it has a kind of cool Arcy styled Art Deco on it it's really really heavy due
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to the fact that it's a water cooled or air cooled card and therefore comes with
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a support bracket which is not currently shown as they don't have it here but
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it'll enable you to screw it onto the end of the card and then fix it to
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either the bottom or top of your case to help support it as again it's a really
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heavy card you don't want it to droop and potentially crack now the Arctic
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Storm doesn't have much of an overclock on it by default now you might have
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expected more in this realm but they're expecting you to want to overclock this
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card yourself as it's kind of like a water cooled hybrid card thingy I don't
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really necessarily blame them for that all right guys let me know what you think about things in general I know I
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covered like five things at this booth so just let me know what you think about
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stuff in the comments down below or on Twitter at lukor LFR don't forget to
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subscribe follow share favorite like
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dislike any of those things just do all
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of them although like and dislike is a variable so pick one also thank you to
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MSI for sending us here this year we would not be at compex 2015 without them
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so they were a huge help in the link in the video description down below that's
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the bitly link you can see all the productss that they launched at computex
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this year including Broadwell enabled laptops also thank you to linda.com
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linda.com computex if you go there you can get a 10-day free trial and start
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