Manli GeForce GTX 770 Ultimate Unboxing & Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,166 words · ~5 min read
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Corsair RM series power supplies are optimized for silent operation click now
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to learn more welcome to my review of
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the uh manliest video card that we've ever
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seen um okay no but seriously the brand
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is called manly m l i not with a y at
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the end I'd never heard of them before either so as soon as you guys if you
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guys are lus I've never heard of this before don't worry you're not the only
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one but this right here is their ultimate class GeForce gtx770 so just
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like any other GTX 770 you've got support for GPU Boost 2.0 you've got
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wicked fast 7 GHz gddr5 memory this
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particular one happens to have 4 gigs of gddr5 memory which definitely gives in
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an advantage over other GTX 770s particularly when running at higher
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resolutions you've got support fizx you got support for 3D Vision the new
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GeForce experience which basically optimizes your game settings downloads
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latest drivers for you all without much user intervention at all other than
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installing it in the first place and of course the extremely exciting upcoming
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NVIDIA Shadow play which will allow you to record your gameplay videos on the
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Fly and just grab only the ones that you want although sorry that's not actually
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quite released yet but it should come at some point okay so how does a graphics
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card manufacturer differentiate from the others okay so number one is they can
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add more RAM Manley has done that here this is a 4 gig card number two is they
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can overclock the card okay so Manley has done that here as well however
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around here we believe in manual overclocking anyway so we don't care too
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much about the clock speeds that cards ship at but what we do care about
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particularly on GPU Boost 2.0 cards which rely on the temperature of the
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graphics card in order to keep the clocks high we do care about cooling so
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they can put better coolers on them the cooler on this card not only uses a
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couple of 92mm fans but they also have a little bit more depth to them than some
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of the fans that you find on graphics cards and they don't whine or tick
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whether they're running at high speed or low speed so we did observe that they
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are they're actually quite quite excellent fans they can also make
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aesthetic tweaks or cable management tweaks so it uses the Stacked PCI
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Express connector design that we've were familiarized with on the GTX 680 as
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opposed to the side by-side one that we find on most 770s and uses a metal
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shroud around the cooler rather than a plastic shroud which you do find on some
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cards it also has five heat pipes carrying heat all around the card so you
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can actually see the copper heat pipes through the top of the Shroud here it
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uses a standard PCI Express 3.0 16x
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interface down here it has two SLI connectors so it supports two-way 3-way
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and four-way SLI although fourway s really isn't recommended it has two dual
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link DVI ports as well as an H HDMI port
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and a DisplayPort port and what's this is that a gold blingtastic accent on the
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card that looks fantastic I actually love it it would go perfectly with my
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old ay2 Zs which also had a gold black
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back plate which I also loved on the back of the card we find ah so it's it's
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as almost as if they made it this like the Linus Edition card between the gold
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accents and that gorgeous matte black PCB that has like no shine to it at all
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that looks fantastic and then you can o see of course the extra memory modules
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on the back which should be what I'm interested in but I'm all about that matte black PCB that looks fantastic so
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it requires a six pin and an 8 Pin PCI Express connector I don't think I
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mentioned that even when I was showing you the stack design and it is quite a
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long card now another way that they can differentiate is in terms of warranty
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support Andor product quality so check this out guys Manley is offering a
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three-year warranty which is pretty good it's above average and then they're also
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offering this is interesting a 24-hour testing guarantee so that means every
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card gets burned in for 24 hours this is kind of similar to what MSI is doing on
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their OC certified so things like their M Power boards where they're actually
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burning them in prior to shipping which should pretty much negate the
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possibility of having a defective card although anything can happen in shipping
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trust me guys so without further Ado let's get into the performance numbers
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is it better than a reference card yeah actually we found it did perform a
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little bit better than a reference card we don't know if this is entirely due to
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being running at high slightly higher clock speeds cuz we were able to achieve
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slightly higher clock speeds or whether it was due to the GPU being able to run
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at higher clock speeds because of the better cooler design now with that said
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better should have an asterisk here because I love the cooler design on the
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stock 770 it looks so good but it doesn't remove heat from the GPU quite
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as well it should be noted that blower design removes heat from the case a
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little bit better whereas this one will exhaust our into your case but at any
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rate yes in our small cross-section of we did get better performance with
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Manley's Ultimate Card I should also probably show you the accessories it
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comes with it comes with a completely useless uh driver installation DVD you
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should run the latest drivers off the NVIDIA website as well as probably a
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quick start guide who cares a DVI to VGA adapter and then two adapters dual Molex
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to six pin and dual six pin to8 pin however my usual Fang on all this is if
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you're using a VGA adapter or power supply adapters you should probably
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think about upgrading your monitor uh Andor your power apply to go with your
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wicked new card so thank you for checking out this unboxing and overview
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