EVGA Hadron Hydro, GTX 780 Ti K|NGP|N Edition & Torx X10 Mouse - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCIX.com, your source
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for great technology, selection, and service along with Corsair Memory and
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Western Digital. Welcome to the EVGA suite where they've got, of course, some
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graphics cards, but also some not graphics cards. So, we're going to start
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with the Torque mouse. It's available in a couple of different configurations.
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I'm holding the carbon fiber one, which has carbon fiber on the side versus
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there's a regular more like plastic one. It's got the usual gaming grade
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features. So, you've got RGB lighting that you can customize using their
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software. It's got, you know, side buttons on either side. So, it's got an
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ambidextrous design. It uses an 8200 DPI sensor, but there's some other cool
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stuff as well. The top has a removable plate. There's no confirmation one way
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or the other. It looks like at launch it won't be swappable for something else
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for a custom look, but what it does give us access to is the weight system
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underneath. So, you can add and remove weights at will.
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Not as common of a feature, but something we've seen before is ah yes,
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adjustability. So you can use a screw at the back and you can actually adjust the
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back of the mouse or the butt of it up a little bit higher or a little bit lower
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depending on what is most comfortable for you. There are of course slippy pads
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on the bottom covering almost the entire bottom of the surface. And the mouse overall is I'd say about an average
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weight. So once you added some weight to it, you could make it quite hefty if
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that's what you preferred. Next up, we've got, of course, there's the GTX
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780 Ti Classified back there, but no, no, no, no, no. The one we're going to
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be focused on here is the GTX 780 Ti
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Classified Kingpin Edition. So, instead of a 12-phase power design, this one has
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a 14phase power design. In addition to its otherwise amazing sexiness, it has
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three BIOSes, which are accessible using a BIOS switch on the top of the board.
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It also has two 8pin and one six pin power connector. Now, to be clear, guys,
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this card is not like a lot of products you see where it's like, okay, yeah,
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it's got like two eight pin CPU connectors on a motherboard. Um, but
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like realistically, you could never run that kind of power through the socket.
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This is actually designed for hardcore
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liquid nitrogen overclocking. Quite frankly, if you're just a regular user,
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you aren't going to benefit from it other than the extreme bragging rights
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that come along with owning a product like this. It does support their EVBOT
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uh you their EVbot dongle so you can make adjustments to the settings of the
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card on the fly even when it is powered on. And up at the top you've got
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comprehensive voltage checkpoints that can be used to monitor voltage using a
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multimeter if you don't necessarily trust software or if you want something
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that you can monitor even when you don't have your software fired up. It uses a
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dual fan design and yes that clear shroud is the final design. So, the
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Kingpin edition will have a very different look than the normal 780 Ti
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classified. And personally, I am waiting for someone to figure out a way to get
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some crazy custom LED lighting going on
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on this very unusual looking ACX cooler
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from EVGA. It's got the usual output, so dual DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. And of
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course, it is a non-standard length, non-standard height, non-standard card
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in every possible way. designed to squeeze the last bit of possible
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performance out of the GTX 780 Ti GPU. Now, speaking of squeezing the last bit
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of possible performance, NVIDIA Greenlight has limited in many ways what
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board partners can do in terms of allowing their customers to overclock
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the cards balls to the walls. And EVGA hasn't quite figured out what they're
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going to do yet, but they will find a way somehow to make this card
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unfettered. So, you're not going to be limited by those pesky power limits and
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things that just cause the card to shut down in the middle of everything. So,
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I'm excited to see where they're going with this. And now we're here with the
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Hadron Hydro. Now, we actually did a review of the Hadron Air not that long
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ago, and what we liked about it was it was extremely compact. It has a 500 watt
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power supply. It is capable of holding a GTX 780, 780 Ti, or GTX Titan in it. And
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it is a microATX case that actually once you build in it doesn't have bad cable
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management. You got to be a little bit careful. You got to kind of tuck things away. But when you're working with
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extremely small enclosures that can house extremely powerful hardware,
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that's just kind of something you have to deal with. Now, the Hydro adds a
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little bit of extra height, but is otherwise basically the same case. That
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extra height is being put to very good use. And instead of two 120 mm fans in
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the top, we're getting two fans and a 240 mm radiator. Now, you can put your
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own water cooling stuff in, but EVGA also has an option for you to buy their
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water kit for somewhere in the sort of $170 to $200 range. I'm not sure if it's
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100% finalized yet, but that kit is actually fairly reasonably priced. It
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comes with a CPU block, one I've never seen before, but I mean it even the
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worst CPU block these days is probably only going to be five, six degrees
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better or worse than, you know, the best one. So, it comes with a CPU block. It
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comes with a pump and reservoir. It comes with a radiator. It comes with
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tubing and fittings, including these special fittings at the back that are uh
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that are hard fittings just be for a better aesthetic as well as less risk of
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damage or catching them on something. And finally, it comes with enough extra
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tubing and fittings for you to plum in your own graphics card after the fact
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using whatever water cooling solution you want for that. Guys, don't miss any
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of our CES 2014 coverage. Thank you very much for checking out this video from
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