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your hardware conducts 2014 CS coverage is brought to you by NCIX technology connected so we're here with South fire in the beautiful Radha hotel and resort and they wanted us to take a look at one very very beautiful and specific GPU today they're showing off a custom cooler for the 290x the r9 290x now this is the XXX cooler that has some pretty innovative and awesome features and they're right underneath here so this cooler is absolutely beautiful it features triple 92 militant they say hey there's only three that's because they're running well basically horizontally through the card rather than vertically which actually has a pretty cool application to it now the old style of heat sink used to have copper heatpipes that would basically protrude underneath the fans so they wouldn't actually receive any air flow or any air pressure so they wouldn't actually touch it so it's kind of wasted dispensation but with this specific type of design all the heat pipes are hit by the fans so you're going to get better dispensation now one of the really cool things if you can see it right here is the center pipe is 10 mil that's the first I just want to do as a sink that ends it's absolutely massive it's a huge heat pipe as well one thing to mention is that the 10 millimeter heat pipe is forty percent more efficient at dispensation heat than the eight millimeter heat pipes which is a huge jump in performance now this is a reference PCV however we have heard that there is a possibility that other ones will be in development but we can't really speak of exactly which model under which branding but what we can tell you is that this Triple X cooler is absolutely beautiful now one of the cool features about this specific sapphire card is that it does still feature the dual BIOS but it doesn't actually switch between uber mode and silent mode it actually switches between a UEFI bios setting and a legacy setting so you're going to be able to get into the bios with whichever setting it you need to use for your specific system so wrapping up about this card is that it is full of innovation even though it's got just a reference PCB it does have a lot of possibilities for integrating custom PCB options and further improving what we think is going to be fantastic performance in conclusion there are five heat pipes in this specific card now one of the drawbacks to the original reference design was well the blower fan it didn't really do a great job of dissipating the heat but one of the things that this specific cooler does is that it keeps the card twenty percent cooler which means you're going to get more stable clogs you're not going to have it throttling now it does this because it keeps the card on average unload at around 70 degrees which is relatively impressive if you consider the fact that it is just a slight factory overclock another piece of news actually has to do with firepro so this card right here basically is a representation of what's a fire has been able to do and that has become the worldwide distributor for channel so in other words basically anything that you see in store that you see that has a or any card that you can buy with fire pro that is a fire pro card is going to be distributed by sapphire which is another big piece of news so guys this has been our sapphire sweet tour because well we're in a beautiful vrata suite here at CES 2014 I like it'll like the video if you liked it don't dislike it because what you can dislike it if you want but it doesn't really matter it's you're engaging with us and that's all really really care about so make sure you subscribe like the video and keep on falling back for more hard-hitting CES 2014 coverage