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all right well hi my name is Victor and I'm the product manager for the Radeon r9 295x2 we're here at AMD's second extravaganza hashtag AMD extravaganza for those of you who want to follow us on Twitter I'm here today with Hardware Canucks to talk to you a little bit about our product the r9 295x2 it is the fastest graphics card in the market right now undisputed and I wanted to talk to you a little bit about why we did some of the things we did with this product for some of you have been asking a lot of questions you know why did we go water-cooling why did we just go completely all out with this card and I just wanted to step through some of the features of the card and explain a little bit about why we did what we did with it so here we have the case that we've sent out the press I actually have a few of the 290x to a6 here we brought a few loose Asics just so that you can see what the chip looks like underneath the hood I also have a few cards here we've deconstructed them for you so you can actually see the mechanics of what's going on inside here you have the full complete unit and we have the ASA tech pumps here one of them is opened up so you can actually see the impeller inside and where everything hooks up we have a bare-bones PCB here with the Asics actually removed so you can see all the different components the regulator the plx bridge of display connectors over here you can get a close-up of the actual 295 Asics and the back so this is where all the magic happens it's quite amazing that you have all that performance out of these two little pieces of silicon so that is quite an amazing accomplishment and here we have the back side of the integrated cooling solution if you were curious to see what the pumps look like without having to dismantle your card some questions that we've been asked from people in the forum's is you know why did you go with the closed-loop liquid cooling solution and one of the main reasons was you know you're here at Xtravaganza you're gonna go through and look at all the cases almost every single person here has a open-loop liquid cooling solution and then you have other people with just your little like compact PC or HP or you know Lenovo box and we wanted to bring the the people that were apprehensive about doing a full liquid-cooled set up up to the performance and the ability of everybody else who you know kind of has the time to bend tubes and fill their own radiator so like this right out of the box you get the performance of a full liquid cooling solution the other advantage of this is that you don't have to mess around with you know fungicide algaecide mixing coolants and one of the questions that i keep getting asked is well how come you didn't put like quick connects or a lot of people to plug this into their own system one of the main reasons for that is we use propylene glycol and our cooling loop it's the same fluid that you find in most automobile radiators and that way it'll asks for virtually forever because it's an alcohol-based fluid if we were to have opened up the loop and allowed you to hook this into your your own cooling loop there we couldn't guarantee from factory you know if you're using just a pure water setup with a fungicide if you're using ethylene glycol for those of you who are in the automotive field I don't know if you know this but you know you mix coolants they're all color coded so that you don't put the wrong coolant in because when you put one coolant with another and they're incompatible bad things happen you sledge up your radiator and whatnot so you know we didn't want and users have a bad experience and the performance is still very very good from factory a lot of people were kind of surprised when we were managed to put you know 500 watts of power into a single radiator so we have pretty good engineers here at AMD and they were able to do some pretty amazing things with this card as far as aftermarket coolers for people that want to go the step beyond I have a couple of samples here from aqua computer these guys are really big in Europe we have here the the nickel-plated version and the copper version there's also blocks in the market available by ek water blocks Swift Tech and coolants I hope you guys enjoyed listening to our product the 295x2 and there's a ton of people with some amazing case mods in the bland area so I hope you guys stick around and check them out thank you