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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers Texas dotnet and today we were playing with razor blades we're doing an unboxing and overview video but some news oh tech video cards using the new GM 204 GPU on and videos gtx 980 skew now technically I have a few 970 s here and a few high and 80s here already we're doing some pretty cool testing with that coming up shortly but today we are specifically looking at the extreme series 980 that is in zou tax new amp lineup and the reason we're doing that is because I spoke about them at game 24 there's another video check the sidebar or the channel or one of these buttons on YouTube and we talked about the Omega 970 and briefly overview the Xtreme nine seven nine seventy when I did that video at games twenty four we did not yet have an extreme series card in person and in theory that is what is in this box almost this is a huge joke being played on me I have already test superclocked versus non super clock with EVGA it is on the channel it was not impressive so we're gonna go for a trial number two and see if and see if a pre overclocked card is actually worth the money over the stock card over the reference cooler over the reference clock provided by Nvidia to these manufacturers so we've got two of these I'm just gonna take one out because this is heavy and nerd arms were not built for lifting but despite all of the Don's it's no means that you've all constantly make in all the videos so this is the 980 extreme biotech and a quick overview it is in it is a twelve ninety eight megahertz clock I believe looking at the back of the box here I think it's twelve ninety eight megahertz for the core clock and that is over the stock reference clock by Nvidia of about eleven hundred twenty six megahertz for the gtx 980 so that's somewhere in the 165 to 170 megahertz range for an OC not bad really that's that's pretty good you can definitely do more as an end-user I'm not sure if these are Bend out better or not I'll ask though attack and we'll talk about that in the full review coming up shortly but it's about 170 megahertz overclock will that impact your gaming well with EVGA and super clocking for the 750 Ti and 750 ti SC all other specs identical not a big difference but this is a much different game with a GPU like this it's tremendously more powerful than the 750 Ti so an overclock could potentially have nonlinear gain over what we saw with the 750 Ti which was the earliest possible Maxwell GPU and was quite different in architecture than the ones used in the 980 in the 970 so that's what we've got let me just pull this out of the box here and we'll wrap up the video this card hole this is heavy this card is it uses a different cooler it's got three fans on the central fan is for intake and differently from what I have seen before we're seeing regularly before the outer tube fans are for exhaust so pretty nice box there very fancy if you are a fan of boxes I have a lot of them we have cropped them out of the shot typical pack probably CD and warranty information yep I didn't actually look but that is definitely what's in there and then we've got the video card which the only thing that any of us I actually care about pull that out here and this thing is a monster I believe it takes two and a half slots it is a big video card you're gonna potentially have trouble SLI in it do keep that in mind I'll mention that the full review and let you know if you can do it or not so we've got a backplate here as per Nvidia's design standard issue now but it's modified everything is modified this is a non reference port I should also mention that this video card in particular has two 8 pin pin outs on the board whereas the standard design suggests only two six pin pin outs because stock it is about 165 Watts TDP stock meeting and is reference design and with zou tax it was approaching 180 watts getting up there anyway so that's why they have these extra pins so you can actually power that and so you can overclock more heavily if overclocking is your thing after I test it in theory this would be able to provide the power required for that the 980 extreme also has an LED up here that turns red or green based on use you will see that in my next video red being more intensive use normally 3d gaming green being sort of idle and things like that now normally your video card mounts like this with the LED facing down this was something pointed out by Nick Blackwell who is an awesome case monitor you should check them out if you have not and he's a friend of mine he pointed out that the LED is facing down and suggested that the LED in the future perhaps be installed in the back plate now that would be pretty cool I'd love to see it but not today but what I can tell you just by looking at this without taking it apart that we've got as I said intake fan exhaust exhaust what happens here is ZOTAC is expecting and I noticed because the EVGA has had issues with this in the past they're expecting that if you have all these intake it's not really gonna do a whole lot more because you're gonna run into issues with the air sort of getting trapped in there and having no way out so this pushes it in with one fan centrally hits the GPU I believe the vrm is over here and so is the DRAM DRAM somewhere in this area where the card sticks up a bit more so what's happening air goes in here it gets pulled by both of these fans and then spit out all sides of the card and out the back of course at the back of the case and that should exhaust hot air faster we will see and testing and how well that works the whole card has kind of a carbon fiber gunmetal look to it which is sort of cool definitely then we got a bit of a 1980s cartoon robot look which is what I will say for the t-word so I don't have to say it because it might have some kind of YouTube infringement attached to it so 1980s cartoon robot look that's what we've got going on here I'm not sure if I'm a fan of it but it doesn't really matter because if you're buying the card it's up to you so you take a look you decided you're a fan um you know in the comments below what you think of the aesthetic so that's the video card power-boost on here is based these are just caps on top of solid capacitors these are just branding caps and yeah they'll tell you that they'll help keep the capacitors cool is that for reals I don't really know it's that's probably a non-issue in general but they do use solid caps I know that for sure so should get a bit more life out of it the OC plus tool is actually a sort of cool micro USB just like you would use for your phone connector you plug that into your motherboard using a micro USB to USB connector which they provide and then you can look directly through though tags what they call fire strike software and see your OC performance check your voltage levels and all that in real time in theory a bit more directly and accurately than if you use in something like hardware monitor afterburner things like that so that is no tax at new 980 extreme video card in the amp series it's about 160 570 megahertz overclock on the core clock it's 177 megahertz overclock on boost has a standard issue 4 gigabytes of video RAM on board here gddr5 of course with the 256-bit memory interface as issued with the GPU by nvidia none of that's really change just the clocks I should mention it has a 190 megahertz memory clock OC so it's going from 70 10 megahertz effective to 7,200 megahertz pretty big jump so between the core OC boost OC and memory OC we've got some testing to do I'll have fun overclocking this will let you know how it works please comment and tell me what you think of the design because I'm curious and we will see you all next time peace