Gigabyte Waterforce GTX 980 Liquid Cooled Behemoth - CES 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom glass visit
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as well as hyperx sometimes building the most
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extreme ridiculous thing is more important for whatever reason then pure
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practicality and this is the Gigabyte water Force something I've only ever
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seen in pictures and videos before and let me tell you it looked impressive
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there it looks much more impressive here the way it works is you you actually get
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an entire kit for $33,000 so this is not for the faint of
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heart but you get an entire kit that includes an SLI Bridge with illumination
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three GTX 980 graphics cards all of
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which are overclocked a support brace for the three graphics cards you get
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this front panel pass through over here and you get these six tubes and power
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module that run to this massive like
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cooling unit that sits on the top of your computer so it's held on with
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little clamps here and uh it's got a
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little fan in the or it's got a little dial in the front where you can go ahead and you can like adjust your fan RPMs or
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something I don't know what I'm adjusting yeah select fans turn those up
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and you can adjust your pump RPMs uh you can set a Target temperature for your
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graphics cards pretty freaking cool stuff and it even opens up so you can
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pull off the front pull up the top and you can see
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that each of the graphics cards inside here actually gets its own single 120 mm
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radiator and then all those tubes come into the system and then the radiators
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are cooled by 120 mm fans that you can see I've actually lifted up off of the
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top of the RADS here so I'm going to put it back together since it's not actually
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going to be cooled very well if I take the fans all off the RADS but I guess uh
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what is there to say about this other than wow speaking of things that are
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more about the extreme than the Practical this my friends is the x99
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super overclock Champion board they're just launching this here at the show and
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it's got a whole bunch of features that most people are never going to care
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about and it actually lacks some of the features that your more mainstream user
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might find important for example it only has four ddr4 dim slots instead of the
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standard eight that you'd find on an x99 motherboard why you might ask well
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because it isues spending up that space on the PCB for more dim slots in favor
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of much more robust power delivery things like putting six times the gold
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plating that would be standard inside the CPU socket dim slots and PCI Express
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Lanes and building in some crazy overclocking features that the guys
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behind us are taking advantage of with liquid nitrogen cooling trying to set
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some World Records overclock some x99 chipsets and some you know fifth
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generation eight core processors as far as they can and that is basically the
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point of this is this the most practical thing for you know your average guy
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who's going to drive 60 70 mph on the freeway no but if you want to feel like
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you could open it up and go 200 mph then I guess this might be for you and it
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comes with a cool color scheme to match guys thank you for checking out our look
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