GTX Titan Xp STAR WARS EDITION SLI Test & Classic Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,157 words · ~5 min read
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so spec wise they're not really saying a whole lot here because i don't really
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know how much they've changed about the cooler i've only seen this
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in footage from NVIDIA's teaser
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so is it all cosmetic or are there
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actual changes to the design of the card i love the case
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this is the kind of thing where you feel like an idiot for uh
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for pulling it out but the thing about collector's edition computer hardware is
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that unless it ends up being a very very
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iconic piece of hardware like an original mac
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i would say in terms of bang for the buck you're better off taking it out of
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the package and enjoying it because it's not going
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to go up in value for not breaking the seal
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i am actually kind of liking this i thought the the aged finish that they
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put on it looked kind of tacky in the video but in person
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that actually looks not half bad like they've got a pretty convincing effect
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on here i'm not quite sure how they did this like it must be uh
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it must be a paint application but it looks really good
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what's this is this a thing that you're supposed to
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instructions not included got a penis stuck in the little port on the top no
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no it doesn't it doesn't look like that's the thing you take off so the back plate this is a funny thing they
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actually printed the star wars logo as though
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it's going to stay in the case forever what a weird thing because the text is
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going to be upside down when you install this in a case that is some that is some
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classic you know video card mistake stuff right
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there so the cooler doesn't look fundamentally redesigned they've got uh
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oh this is interesting they've got this cover over the fan that looks like it
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would make it hard to install two of them side by side not that i think too
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many people would order like a bunch of these and put them in a system
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but that heat sink looks pretty similar oh
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there's no dvi port on the back
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how interesting all right so let's go ahead and uh
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throw this onto our zenith extreme test bench here
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oh come on i'll unplug the cord
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dang it
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then we can have a look at the lighting effects
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okay time to fire it up
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yeah did not think that one through with respect to the uh
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positioning of our power cable here
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that is looking not too shabby so they've got led lighting all around the
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fan they've got led lighting under the
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grille here oh look at the way you can actually see
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the way they've wired it in so they've just got a little a little tiny like
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hard pcb led strip going on there and
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then they've just got it wired up inside the heatsink
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so there it is unigine superposition running on the titan xp collector's
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edition but wait
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there's more ah yes
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so i don't have to speculate that the galactic empire one looks
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better i get to actually find out in
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person oh
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this i'm excited about
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i mean as excited as i can be about NVIDIA totally getting it wrong
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jedi order and galactic empire
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are not i mean yeah they're like good guys and
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bad guys but they're like from different eras of the
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star wars universe what is the deal with that
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i don't know what it is maybe it's just the fact that it like doesn't look so
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banged up gives it more sex appeal
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maybe it's just that i actually like in most cases
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i hate the glossy black
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but man does that ever work here with the glossy black on the titan x
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glossy black around the fan you've got the i've always liked the
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dark nickel coating on the fins on the vapor chamber cooler
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like this card just looks so
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good i had actually thought from the video
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that the heatsink designs were more different but this one this one just is
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better check this out this is a metal piece
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on the galactic empire one check this out check this out
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so this is metal on here and it's just like a plastic plug
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on the jedi order one all right let's shut her down
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and let's do the unthinkable NVIDIA sli
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on a high-end AMD platform
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running galactic empire and jedi order graphics cards
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could anything be more wrong than this moment right now
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the answer's no oh it's beautiful
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it's like christmas it's like my christmas
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cause cause it's because it's black and green like christmas
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also because it's exciting also it's like mid-november so it's clearly
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christmas if you go to a store updating led firmware
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since when does an led have firmware
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i mean i guess you need firmware if your led looks like that
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all right fine fair enough ASUS
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boop now let's get some sli go in here
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i gotta snap a picture of this for the instagram
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i should have known this was going to happen this
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this is what you can expect when you put the light side and the dark
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side together okay look at this
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it's like it's like a half the horizontal
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resolutions it's broken okay
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let's uh let's try this again why don't we try plugging the HDMI cable into
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what is clearly the dominant card which
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apparently is the dark side
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all right i don't have to stall for time anymore it's done
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maximize 3d performance all right let's try again
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and
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no no that's the tv that's not the computer working
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that's a that's a tv screensaver what
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you got to be kidding me
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why why is my life hard
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okay be clear i love my life but this is the kind of crap that i deal
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with this is supposed to be the simplest thing ever plug in two graphics cards
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and be like ah the jedi order and the galactic empire they're working together
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i mean i guess this is kind of funnier anyway this is not the last time you've
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seen these cards what i want actually is your guys's
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for what you want to see us do with them so leave those in the
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comments and uh maybe you will see your idea executed
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by being flung out of a window mace windu style