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know is a very luxury line graphic card it's got all the bells and whistles you'd expect from the rog gamer line bringing you basically no compromise gaming so I'm ago I hand it over to JJ here and let him talk about what we're taking a look at and then well we'll go from there so JJ what are we looking at here to clarify it's actually a dt x 784 the 780 Ti okay so ninety I yeah 780 I we do actually have a full non-reference part that is launching in about a week and that won't be though under our standard directs you to lines so that's still a 100% full non-reference based design but the Poseidon will be coming out in both at GTX 770 and a 780 version and this one right here that we're demonstrating is gonna be the 780 now really what makes this card special and unique is the fact that it's a combination type card so historically either if you want to go water cooling you're gonna go with either a non reference water block you're gonna put that on the card but it's only gonna work on there a water cooling situation now some users sometimes a little bit tepid they're not necessarily sure if they want to jump in to water cooling due to that right maybe the complexity the other concerns but they know that they want that card the other concern too is that sometimes and a non reference design there's not always going to be non reference water block designs that available right we've worked really closely with companies like ek to make sure that like when we come out with a DC to DC to card you can get non reference blocks but this is kind of like a unified so that as an enthusiast you don't have to think about it out of the box at 100% work you're gonna get better than reference based temperatures it's gonna be cool and quiet under operation but if you're looking for even better performance you know amping up that GPU boost clock get better temperatures then of course you go ahead and switch on and go ahead and take advantage of the water cooling that's integrated sine is a brand new series for us so it's never been out before so we definitely are trying to give people more clarity as to what the advantage is so the first kind of baseline is that if you're familiar with our dc2 line you know that they kind of set the bar in terms of the non-reference design quality right everything from you know the VR m to the power topology to the pwm components all that that's all been transposed on here so you get that classic stuff that you'd expect like 10k rated capacitors right so that's 5x which you would normally have on a normal graphics card right no ultra high tolerances for temperature is ultra low time tolerances for temperature you got the sealed molded alloy based inductors or what people refer to as chokes so from a gamer standpoint you can not have coil wine but you also get really high power amperage power delivery so you get improved stability when you're overclocking so all that stuff is in there but really what hallmarks this card is being as Poseidon is the water element which is the integrated support for water cooling so one cool thing that you're gonna see here though is that we've given you the same type of flexibility that we developed on our Maximus 6 formula board where instead of having an integrated type barb type connection right we give you open threaded connections so that you can go ahead and put in whatever you want to work with and so these are G quarter threads that's correct so you can go ahead and just essentially unscrew this right here and you can go ahead and put on whatever you want so we maintain that OpenID and flexibility that the enthusiast community appreciates right but we've made it simpler for the user to be able to take advantage of so that they don't have to strip the whole thing off worried about maybe nicking one part of the PCB cracking the die you know so that's always a little bit of a sensitive process when you fully dismantle a whole card you know that here it's gonna be a lot simpler for you because if you want better performance than already what the DC to type cooler is gonna be providing you here you just go ahead and switch and you take about that yeah that's great because I know a lot of my fans because I'm a very water oriented channel and they're usually afraid of taking the cooler off of the PCB which JJ mentioned so you retain air cooling here I'm assuming to the VRMs and the chips and this is not a full cover water block this is going to cover just the GPU that's correct it's just gonna be just for the GPU yes okay yeah so yeah it knows this is still just a standard double slot card yeah dual slot 2 slot profiles so that's an advantage we haven't necessarily moved away from triple slot you know a lot of people have hallmark ace use cards in their high performance category of being triple slot but you know we're right now working on a balance to try to do different things you know one of the big things that we implement it on a couple of the current generation cards like those larger 10 millimeter heat pipes that we've had in as well as more advanced what we refer to as curved heat pipe design we're actually elongating the amount of surface area plus the overall surface mass the actual thinned area that you can go ahead and dissipate temperature across is larger in many situations for our cards you're looking at sometimes two two and a half x the actual surface area of a reference card design so that all in combination helps us to keep really good low temperatures now we're about power requirements on this it's pretty straightforward it's gonna be an 8 pin and a 3 pin base connection so I mean so it's not even a dual 8 pin yeah yeah I mean a lot you know that's a really always interesting topic because I got that's probably one of the most common questions I get asked not only in GPUs but on motherboards right when a motherboard doesn't have like dual 8 pins they go why doesn't have that a lot of it is always about efficiency and designing something right we're not in the business of putting marketing specs on a board and trying to sell that we're more interested in making sure that when we design a product that it's a hundred percent designed to be able to get the best performance possible and we're not going to over spec it a key example of that is like our our G motherboards you know we've now for years literally years only done eight phase power designs while you've seen a lot of other competitors you know do 2032 and try to amp up all these different things and that you've continued to look at the top of the performance category but we've been able to do we've shown that eight phase when designed right and we're picking the absolute best components gets you all the performance you can possibly get right so it's all about the correct design the efficiency in the design rather than throwing more specs at it which which he had to say yeah and definitely it's not to mean that we've compromised on the quality of the card because all those elements have definitely been improved upon right we're not keeping any reference elements in there and all those subtle design touches that were always bringing to the cards are still present whether it's you know even little things like the LEDs on the back of the card to let you know that you're actually getting signaling power right or you know the SAP cap capacitors that are on the back I'm sure by now you've seen mimicked by some of my other competitors right with similar type designs or even the dust proof fan design where we actually seal the internal hub assembly so that dust doesn't get in inside there so that the fan blade can continue to rotate whereas you know some other competitors try to you know do these exhaust and fan techniques and things like that when really what's more important than that is going to be the inside of the hub assembly because that's what affects the rotation you know right now I can already hear my fans screaming availability when can we expect to see this come to market both the GTX 770 and the 780 are gonna be targeting about one week time frame release so within about a week you'll be able to you know pop over to you know Amazon Newegg or your brick-and-mortar retailers and be able to pick up the cart well there you go guys by the time you're watching this video it may already be out so make sure you check out the GTX 780 Poseidon here from Asus on the Republic of gamers line it's definitely a tried and trued product line that I've used you've used and if you're in a serious gamer you definitely know all about the rog line JJ thank you very much for showing us that as always guys make sure you follow us on Twitter to get the most coverage that we're bringing to you here at CES 2014 and as always I'll see you in my next video