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hey what's going on guys J is two cents here and we're going to go ahead and continue on our discussion of the gtx 960 it's been out for a few weeks now and people have been definitely blowing up your inbox with it but we're going to go ahead and take a look at it because well i'm a graphics card whore and i really love to play around with the GPUs stuff but today we're going to be taking a look at the EVGA gtx 960 super super clocks i don't even hope they made an SC but we got an SSC sitting right here with its improved radiator support and legendary noise optimization the new define are five from fractal design is a pc builders dream come true click the link in the description to learn more ok so here it is the EVGA gtx 960 super super clocked I don't know if they made a standard SC model but they did send me a super super clocked and they have a for the wind model now this as you can see does have a backplate on there but I installed this they sent the backplate with the card so we went ahead and put this on it does actually offer a little bit of passive cooling for the back of the PCB there's a couple of portions around the GPU that it touches as well as the memory that is located on the back of the PCB so you do get a little bit of passive cooling that is assisted with any of the air flowing over the back of the card as a lot of cases now offer either side panel fans or nice directional fans on mid plates in the cases so you would get active cooling technically passive but with air blowing over it you would get some cooling to the RAM that's on the back that's why I like back plates they do offer not only an aesthetic improvement but the back of the PCB does generate a lot of heat go and play your game you've got massive cooler on the front touch the back and watch how much heat is actually being generated there so if you have thermal pads on here that are touching parts that generate heat it does increase the surface area give you better cooling that's why I love back plates spec wise it's no different than any other gtx 960 1178 megahertz core clock it's got 1,024 cuda cores it's a GM 206 chip it's got 128-bit memory bus for 112 gigabytes per second of bandwidth as well as 7,000 megahertz clock speed of the two gigabytes of gddr5 vram on here so for the output you do have three DisplayPort 1.2 one HDMI 2.0 and a DVI dual link DVI on here so that's going to be pretty decent for connectivity it's pretty standard and then we do require a single 8 pin PCI Express power connector on here because this is a six phase which is bumped up from the standard three-phase which is on the reference model so you are going to have to make sure that you have at least one 8 pin PCI Express which all modern PSU is pretty much have now for the cooler it's the AC X 2.0 which is through pretty much going on every single one of their cards 11 swept fan blades reverse well they look like they're reverse but they're actually spinning they're moving air a little bit differently it's a little bit quieter the fans won't turn on until they get to a standard or regular 64 degrees Celsius I believe so yeah pretty basic stuff it's the same on all of their maxwell cards so we're going to do today is we're going to include a couple of extra gaming benchmarks on here that you guys have requested we've included far cry 4 in the test because you guys said that the game was working good i want to make sure the game didn't have any massive hardware bugs in there so it's working good as you guys said almost drop my phone we've added watchdogs back in there because well we're now looking at cards that would not necessarily be hitting the FPS cap so we put watchdogs back in there and we've also included csgo so those are the three titles we've added based on your guys's recommendations csgo actually a perfect example of where a card like this sets in fact the Nvidia demonstration that I went to they had csgo going on 144 Hertz 1440p monitor showing just how powerful this card can be for lesser demanding titles like counter-strike so there you go guys we're gonna go ahead and take a look at this thing right now let's go ahead and roll that transition get this thing benchmarked and see exactly where it sits transition alright guys Jays two cents here we're back we've done a lot of benchmarking on this over the last well spent pretty much the first whole half of this day doing the benchmarking and here it is the gtx 960 now i was able to achieve almost fifteen hundred and 80 megahertz on the overclock but i didn't make it through all of my testing and all of my games without a couple of driver crashes specifically in battlefield 4 if you guys own that game you know it's very picky with overclocks and then fire strike 3dmark fire strike was getting a couple of crashes and wasn't making it through the entire loop so with that I bumped it down to about fifteen hundred and thirty megahertz and we were solid all the way through now it did boost up to about fourteen hundred 1392 was where this card boosted all on its own without any MSI Afterburner or precision X or any of that so out of the box you're going to get really decent clocks as it is but if you guys are willing to do a little bit of tweaking then you can definitely get it to go a little bit higher now when it comes to the gtx 960 since it's been out for a little while there's been a lot of debate about well is it the right card to get is it worth getting I mean it's only got two gigabytes of vram it's got 128-bit memory bus it surely can't be a good card with those specs well right now 2015 with this card at this spec range it was able to handle everything I threw at it with a minimum of 60 FPS I think one test was 59 but 60 FPS which is like that magical number all gamers shoot for at 1080p this card can do it now whether or not it can do that say 2 years in the future well that's always going to be the kind of thing you need to ask yourself what type of games do you play because that's kind of the typical upgrade cycle is every 2 years at least for most people not a whole lot of us are fortunate enough to be able to do annual upgrades or sometimes even biannual upgrades or twice a year so if you're looking for a card that's going to last at least 2 years I think you're going to be ok with this I kind of wish EVGA or an EVGA but Nvidia would have gone to 3 gigabytes on this because of games like Skyrim and shadows of Mordor having high res texture packs as 4k and 1440 are becoming much more regular standard a lot of people are really pushing the resolutions of their textures which is going to eat that 2 gigabytes up really really quickly so I would have liked Nvidia to have done 3 gigabytes I mean that's the only thing I think that makes me hit little hesitant on the future proofing of a GTX 960 I mean nothing's future proof but the longer your money will last the better but if you're only looking at buying a $200 graphics card if you guys are diligent and save all year long you could theoretically do an annual upgrade now if you guys are sitting on something like a GTX 760 depending on the model model you're on the 960 in the 760 does trade blows with each other depending on the test so don't go shooting yourself or you know kicking yourself for buying a 760 if it's in recent 760 is still going to do just fine especially at 1080p now other than that I don't know what there is really to say about it I mean it performs well and temperatures are really good with this loop running right now it's still bouncing back and forth between 61 and 62 and this loop has been running for about 20 minutes now more demanding titles like battlefield 4 or things like fire strike where it really stresses the GPU as hard as it can the ACX 2.0 cooler on the factory fan curve was able to keep it all the way down to 72 degrees Celsius in a room that was sitting about 77 degrees Celsius or not Celsius holy crap 77 degrees Fahrenheit we're like on the Sun apparently no 77 Fahrenheit guys I'm sorry I don't know what the conversion is on that standard temperatures for PC is always in Celsius I don't know American I don't do those conversions but anyway it was a decently warm day today and so the room did get warm it got up to 72 once I did my fan curve where I put it on the OC bios and then messed with the fan curve a little bit and overclocked it I was as you can see right now able to keep it sitting right here at 61 degree Celsius we can't see it but I'm telling you 61 degrees Celsius perfectly fine temperature if you asked me in an open test bench you put a case in there with good airflow you'll get similar results alright so there you go it's a very very well thought out very well built 1080p card if you're in it if you're a team green player and you guys like EVGA it's definitely a card worth looking at that $200 range obviously pricing right now is very interesting volatile we're both red and green are definitely trading blows when it comes to getting a grasp on that $200 market so you really going to have to ask yourself what it is you're after and what it is that you want when it comes to a $200 graphics card but I think the gtx 960 is a pretty solid card as far as I'm concerned I have no problem putting this in a lower budget build whatsoever so there you go guys JC says take a look at the gtx 960 super super clocked before the wind model i would have liked to have tested that one to kind of see what the max offering was from EVGA but nonetheless this card performed very very admirably I'm happy how well it actually did today and all the titles that I threw at it so if you guys want to discuss this a little bit further you have any questions head over to forum JC CENTCOM and sign up there if you guys don't want to do forms there's always Facebook and Twitter and if that's not your thing and of course there are the comments down below fortunately those are really hard to respond to there's an awful lot of them so there you go guys gtx 960 hope to see you in the next