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what is going on guys Jays two cents here and I hope that you guys have had a great holiday season and I hope that you guys have gotten all of the PC hardware goodness that maybe you were hoping Santa would leave under the tree but if he didn't or maybe you were on the naughty list don't worry I have a huge announcement coming up in the near future so you don't want to miss that make sure you stay tuned but today we're gonna be talking about EVGA is brand-new gtx 970 SSC that stands for super super klux for when one super Geist isn't super enough with the new Silencio performance optimized fans to Coolermaster Neptune 240m delivers the perfect balance of noise and performance click the link in the description to find out more now the general public might find this particular product to be a little bit confusing because really on the surface it looks exactly like the GTX 970 SC which EVGA already has and launched back in September so it really might leave someone wondering what's the extra s4 well guys there's actually quite a few changes that have been put into this graphics card on EVGA Spartan some of it is due to direct feedback from the general public consumers and review forms now the specs on the GTX 970 SSC is eleven hundred and ninety megahertz base clock a thirteen hundred and forty two megahertz boost clock and it has six phase power delivery so that's what already makes this a little bit different over the standard SC it also has an additional 33% power limit over the reference design which means you can get higher voltage for your core you can also get higher fan speeds without hitting that power limit which means you can get better overclock sand better temperatures but this one also features a dual BIOS which now really the only difference between the dual BIOS on this card is one has that factory default where the fans won't start turning until sixty degrees Celsius which means the oven completely silent GPU when you're an idle or doing 2d things that don't get very hot on the GPU and the other BIOS on this actually has a different power or fan curve so really there's no difference when it comes to power delivery like the GTX 980 classify it actually has different voltage limits and ln2 mode but this does gives you give you the ability to flash a custom BIOS to this without fear of breaking your card if you want to be a little bit you know on the wild side or maybe a little bit dangerous but you can't actually brick this thing with the dual BIOS so that's really nice but this thing also features a completely redesigned internals of the cooler now you guys may or may not know when this card originally launched there was a little bit of a controversy where some of the heat pipe or the third heat pipe didn't actually touch the heat spreader of the GPU therefore making a pipe that really kind of wasn't doing a whole lot and EVGA said this wasn't really an issue but reddit and other forums said yeah this is a pretty big issue especially when you're dealing with other cards that are getting much cooler temperatures so EVGA basically went back to the drawing board they redesigned the cooler and they also put on here a heat dissipation plate that goes on the MOSFETs as well as the RAM or the G Ram on here or the vram G Ram whatever B Ram on this card and so it gives you much better cooler or temperatures at least that's what they're advertising now I wasn't gonna just take EVGA 's word for it as much as I do like them as a company I want to see them see the changes firsthand so I went ahead to rip this cooler open and it does indeed have a very different design when it comes to the actual heat pipes it has a copper plate on there now which is evenly dissipating the heat to 3/8 millimeter copper heat pipes there's straight heat pipes with their advertising are better for temperatures now it does have a very massive heatsink that runs along the length of this thing but as you can see it does not have a backplate which was a little bit confusing considering the pictures they put up did show a backplate but I have a feeling there's gonna be a future announcement regarding that now I do think a backplate on this would have made sense because as you can see there are four Ram modules on the back of this thing which are not being cooled whatsoever however the other four Ram modules on the other side of the PCB are being touched by that plate on there which is actually giving a bit of dissipation to the cooling or to the heat for better cooling so I would have liked to have seen them do that considering now you are gonna have some dealt to temperature differences between the RAM especially if you start to overclock the RAM or it starts to overclock itself as Maxwell does when it comes to V RAM and power target and power limit overhead it will start to allocate that to the RAM and self overclock where needed where there's additional power it's a great design but I think we should not have Delta temperatures between both sides of the RAM and both sides of the PCB that's just me you guys know how I feel about back plates doesn't have it anyway this is a graphics card review so enough talking about that stuff let's go ahead stick this thing on the best bets Beth - tensed the test bench and let's just see how well it does you guys can tell this video is not scripted today is it no it's not so you guys get all of the bloopers along with this video so the GTX 970 SSC SuperDuper clocked from EVGA how did it perform as you guys saw in the benchmarks this thing is a killer when it comes to 1080p edge it massively destroys 1080p even an ultra settings there all of my benchmarks guys with the max settings we're talking max anti-aliasing and max depth of field max everything and as far as the sliders can go to the right that's the way I do my test bench results when it comes to graphics cards cuz I want to see exactly what they're capable of so you guys know what the worst-case scenario is when it comes to performance so you pull some of those sliders down performance goes up but the GTX 970 guys I said it back when the series first launched in September that although the 980 is fun and it's super powerful and having three of them in one rig is just so overkill for what I use it for it's not even funny the GTX 970 is still the clear winner when it comes to the Maxwell series because of the fact that it's so much performance such low temperatures such low wattage needed and it's so much cheaper than the 980 s it really is the best bargain of the series as far as I'm concerned I'm grana we don't know what the 960 is gonna bring when that launches but right now the 970 we're coming in at under $400 giving you you know nearly 780 Ti type performance and maxing the r9 290x and many tests in meeting it and some makes this card by far as far as I'm concerned the the best future-proof card at the moment yeah I said future proof but this card would last you easily four to five years as far as I'm concerned now when it comes to the benchmarks as you guys saw it did a fantastic job even at 1440 and for K now for K yeah we were seeing 30s and 40s on the FPS but even the 980 classified was doing thirty and forty forty-one FPS and this thing actually performed very near the 980 when it comes to 4k so again it's just an amazing job for the 970 now it's not the coolest cooler I've tested that still belongs that that title still belongs to the gigabyte g1 gaming but then again that card has three fans a much longer heatsink on this thing but it doesn't feature the dual BIOS like this one and this one still came in 70 FPS or 70 degrees Celsius max in a closed-off room when I just let Valley benchmark loop for an hour 70 degrees Celsius max while overclocked to 1500 and 53 megahertz Wow I was also running the RAM at 8000 megahertz so yeah this thing's pretty freakin awesome and the dual BIOS is really cool that way you guys could play around most switching up your BIOS or putting some custom BIOS on there which are now on the market you guys can find over at like overclock net and not have any risk of breaking your card you can always recover it with that dual BIOS so there you go I think this thing is a fantastic card all the 970 as hard as far as I'm concerned but I'm really glad to see the EVGA addressed the public concern over the cooler redesigned the way the base plate works on the die itself as well as adding the heat spreader across the PCB which are helping keep things nice and cool keep those VRMs cool you can overclock farther keep the GPU cooler you can overclock farther and raising that thermal or that with a power limit also means you can run the fans harder faster keep things cooler and not actually reduce your overclocks so there you go guys GTX 970 super super clocked not the super super super super clock that one actually comes out in the spring tell anybody now you guys may have noticed on my desk in front of skunkworks earlier in this video that I had this little mini fridge now I'm just kidding this is actually my node 304 for fractal design and I built a mobile rendering PC in this and I will be doing a video on very shortly on the channel so you want to make sure you stick around for that I've got a lot of hardware crammed into this little bitty case right here and this is going to be going with me to CES that I'll be using to render the videos for you guys while I am there at least some of them some of them will be rendered there some will be rendered back here afterwards but if you guys want to see what's in here and how it performs make sure you guys stay tuned on the channel now as always if you guys want to interact with me check me out on Twitter or Facebook those are the easiest platforms to get a hold of me I really love interacting with you guys you guys make doing this every single day so much fun hope you get hopefully you guys have a nice safe New Year's holiday and there's always guys I hope to see you in the next one