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hey what's up all you guys JC cents here and I like to call myself a little bit of a GPU snob and really uh too ashamed to admit it after all honesty is definitely a virtue if you guys remember in December I did a review of the gigabyte water force which was there three times 980 GTX water-cooled monstrosity giant thing and I said in that video that somebody should come up with the GTX 980 with a single 120 all in one water cooling unit what they should have done was simply offered a single 980 120 millimeter radiator with much much shorter tubing and let the buyer mount it in a standard 120 millimeter fan slot in their case just like the 295x2 and look how successful that card is but I think if gigabyte relaunched the water force as a single card solution the buzz about it would have been much more positive because I think it would be absolutely successful your guys's comments definitely echoed that now I'd like to think that I had something to do with this but something tells me this was probably in the works before I ever mentioned that video however what we have right here could very well be a community inspired products we're gonna go with that we're gonna say that this was a J's $0.02 community inspired product probably not true at all but I'm going with it the fractal design r5 is so amazing it fits all kinds of cool hardware in there water cooling air cooling and on top of that it's silent and it's awesome like explosions or like any quiet it's good okay Jay so what exactly is a GeForce GTX 980 hybrid well as I said and we saw at CES this thing is really really suction cup look at that it won't open Oh Mike there we go well it's right now it's an open box so it's got products in there here's your manual the usual stuff that comes with EVGA graphics cards driver manual stickers poster but look at that it's got a radiator in it oh my goodness and there's all your get ready for a wild ride guys get all your accessories there but here it is gtx 980 all-in-one water cooling unit now you guys have said you like doing the live benchmarks and the more or less off-the-cuff really live as it happens review so that's what we're doing here first of all the packaging on this is very very amazing and you know one of the things that I had a problem with with the water force and we're going to talk about this as I try and figure out how to get this thing out of the box was the fact that the tubing that they all right editing J you're gonna have to cut this one and she's free now one of the things I said I didn't like about the water force was the fact that it had that terrible terribly ugly fep tubing was that flexible tubing look at this EVGA on this one has gone with a braided rubber tube this is freaking beautiful not only that it's extremely flexible super flexible the thing with the fep tubing is that likes to just kind of flip flop around whichever way it wants to go its own way and that's that now we do have a hundred and twenty millimeter radiator here looks like standard thickness of about thirty millimeters and we do have what appears to be a high static pressure fan branded EVGA I'm not entirely sure which fan they used for this but or who the OEM supplier is on this but frankly it doesn't really matter it seems to have plenty of blade very little gap seems like it's very decent for static pressure now I've not opened this thing up so we're gonna be open see the seals are still uncut so we're gonna open those together just the end of the box and I can say there is one thing on this card which was definitely J's $0.02 community inspired and that was this guy oh look at that it has a back plate finally no if only all their standard SC another 1980s had a back plate on there look at that sexiness right there mmm all right let's get the rest of the plastic off of here what I also like is you guys don't have to figure out where to plug in the fan cuz check it out it plugs into the GPU itself so it's gonna be pulling power from the PCI Express and the supplementary supplemental power that you plug into here which is again a two 6-pin now the PCB on this guy is the same as their 980 SC model which is their superclocked which is a reference PCB so there's two things to mention with that one if you want to get into water-cooled GPU for better overclocking better thermals and lower noise you could pick up something like this and you're up in water-cooled as long as you have a spare 120 millimeter slot to put the fan or the radiator somewhere second of all second of all second lis whatever because this is a reference PCB means you could take this cooler off and put on a high end water block like a UK water block alpha cool cool an Swift tech whatever so you could upgrade this thing in the future which is very very cool now one other thing that they did tell me is that they are selling this kit individually for 75 bucks at least at the time of recording that price could have changed you definitely won't want to look that up but you could add this to a standard air-cooled or a CX version of the 980 and with the people a standard PCB or the reference PCB which this is and you can upgrade your air-cooled card to a water-cooled card like this now all of the clocks on this are pretty much the same as their hydro copper version because it is water-cooled and so we should expect some pretty low noise since the only thing this reference fan or blower style fan actually has to cool is the MOSFETs and the chips which is not going to require very much airflow at all and all of the GPU cooling is being handled here by the 120 millimeter radiator so I guess there's only one thing left to do let's go ahead and get this bad boy in the test bench you know to do that I'm gonna have to take Titan off there which is kind of sucky because it's been there and well at home for a while now the other thing I'd like to mention is that Nvidia said that the other two Titan X's are on the way so we get to do that build in the future and I am so freaking excited I can hardly stand it I might just poop myself a little actually with excitement okay you guys are gonna have to bear with me going forward here I wanted to have two camera angles one pushed in tight on the FPS as we're doing the live benchmarking and then one kind of over the shoulder but unfortunately it looks like mighty - I might have finally bought the farm I knew this thing was dying that's one of the reasons why I went about the 70d but fully charged battery in fact I tried two different batteries here nothing literally dead so why couldn't this have happened before I decided to go full-time self-employed the 980 hybrid is installed over there and it's it's no harder than installing any other graphics card except for you just have to mount the radiator which is just four screws and I love the fact that the power cord for the fan is built into the GPU but it has a three pin power splitter on there so that you can unplug it and plug it in to say a motherboard or something if you want to use PWM control or semi DC control so now the PWM DC control on your motherboard or fan controller and you can do it that way but it moves a pretty good amount of air in fact it's idle it's barely turning in fact even the PCB fan on there's barely turning when you first plug it in and you turn it on you're gonna hear some liquid and stuff bubbling around in there there's some shifting of air in there once you ship it around and stuff but it will stabilize so it's always gonna be a little bit of air in the system so don't be like oh my god it's all in one cooling why that air in it all one coolers have a little bit of air in there now I am going to be doing these tests at 1440p 1080p you know we already know that's a little bit this card is a lot a bit overkill for that but we already know by looking at other standard benchmarks and stuff that going with why did that go for K oh it is 1440 okay we already know that doing other benchmarks and things with the 980 s that it's not really 4k ready a single 980 so we're gonna do 1440 on this thing now the first thing we're gonna do here is we're gonna go ahead and get some baseline readings for baseline temperatures let's do Valley benchmark let's just let that run for a while and then we will get our our baseline figures on that don't go away okay so temperatures on this thing pretty much stabilized at 46 degrees Celsius on the core and so we started applying an overclock here I'm actually going for a 100 megahertz overclock it boosted up to 14 55 all by itself so I've added 100 to the offset and 300 to the memory offset as well as adding plus point 86 87 millivolts to it so pretty standard overclock wasn't even able to get this far but overclock on my three nine ladies that are inside skunkworks so we're gonna do now is just gonna let the benchmark go we're gonna see what the temperatures get up to we're gonna see if it passed this test at this frequency range and then we'll go ahead and see exactly how we are we were doing here I'm interested to see how well the power target handles how the additional power target on this seems like a good idea considering you also have the fan on the radiator pulling from the card as well as the blower style fan we all know that the fans or anything plugged into the board lighting and all that stuff take away from the overall power target of the package of the card so obviously it makes sense that they'd bump that up to a hundred and twenty four percent to make up for the added power draw that's coming from the stuff plugged into the card so we'll see how that plays into overclocking and I'll go ahead and shut up now and we'll just let it go alright well it completed the test I consider that validated we got thirty two hundred and sixty two on the valid benchmark score FPS of 78 minimum thirty-four max 149 so let's see if it held that frequency all the way through and I want to point out too I'm not hearing any coil whine on this thing so that's a big deal this thing set - fifteen hundred and eighty megahertz that's whole that that's higher than any of the three 980 s I have at lunch were able to uh to achieve Wow so let's see oh man I would love it if this thing could hit 16 hundred because then that would put this guy up into the 980 classified range so I just bumped it up twenty more let's see if we can hit 1600 well there wasn't an immediate crash that's a good sign what let's see if this one passes well much to my dismay yes I just said dismay I it it passed so 3275 the score didn't change much minimum FPS actually went down a little bit I think we were 34 before we're at thirty two point eight now max FPS one forty eight point two average seventy eight point three so we gained 0.3 on which one I want to say that on the average so let's go ahead and see if boost held or if it started throttling 1600 megahertz max temperature is achieved on this fifty-one degrees Celsius so it's actually keeping the thing damn cool the fans are not ramping up or getting louder our actual power percentage though on this is only hitting a hundred and seven percent so we have power Headroom in this thing you know it's extremely annoying to want to play a game like FarCry just to have it launched steam in an update steam and then lunch you play thank God I actually remembered my you play password and then you say play and you play and then it brings back up steam is this where we are in PC gaming alright now I do have the FPS counter on here in the left corner so you guys can see and as you can see this card's just a little overkill for the menu 2500 FPS so as you can imagine the inductors right now are screening over there because you know the higher the FPS the more inductor noise there is you know 3,000 fps you know go go 3,000 FPS or go home refresh rate 60 it just locks us there vsync is off graphics quality we'll put that on ultra alright there we go yes I want to keep the settings so let's resume all right so the FPS that you are seeing right here is far cry at 1440 you did very pretty oh god yes I know yeah so we're sitting in the 60s here very smooth I'm not seeing any stuttering when I go to turn so these guys say they're not gonna hurt me I believe them it seems pretty legit don't want to talk to me I get it these guys seem very trustworthy oh it's been a misunderstanding let's go get this guy sorry you were in the way of my knife sir oh yeah hello peekaboo well your friend was trying to kill me sir did you go no don't kill me alright I'm dead so as you can see the FPS was sitting there nicely locked in the 70s so let's try something else looking at the performance history though we did go to 1600 megahertz and it pretty much stuck there did throttle down to 1575 a little bit at one point power limit and everyone above 112 percent it's set to 124 memory clock 3801 you know times 2 but yeah it's temperature never went above 54 it's always a little more demanding in games than synthetic benchmarks things are looking really really good with this graphics card red light metro red light benchmark you know we're gonna go ahead and run it at the 1440 extremely demanding benchmark so let's go ahead and run that and see how it does well there we go the 1440p benchmark on Metro last light is seventy four point six six average that's actually really good for 1440p but what I want to point out too is how quickly this card cools off we're all the way back down to 36 degrees Celsius and an idle this thing sits in the low 30s high 20s so yeah I'd say this card is performing exactly as I thought it would now I'm not entirely sure 1600 megahertz is gonna be achievable for everybody but this card was able to do it and kept it at 54 degrees Celsius at the hottest now my custom loop with the 3 980 s and a 560 rad is also capable of getting up to 50 degrees or 52 degrees Celsius so you can see the cooling on this is not a whole lot needed for Maxwell especially at GM 204 they're extremely efficient I mean this thing chews through the heat like fat kids to through cake and I can say that because I'm fat myself so so there you go guys if you are looking for a fantastic overclocker one that looks great implements very very well aesthetically and performance wise noise on this thing and doctors are super quiet on this hardly any coil whine whatsoever under normal circumstances yeah when the menu is at 3,000 frames per second of course you're gonna hear something might actually be your EP growing just a little bit seeing that FPS even if it was just a loading screen or a menu but the braided the braided tubes on this is just like the little touches on this look fantastic one thing I didn't test was unplugging that fan to see if it gave us any more overclocking ability doubt it would have mattered since we weren't even going over a hundred and seven percent on the power limit so yeah I mean everything about this card is just fantastic I knew it was gonna be a good card when I saw at CES and I'm really glad I got a chance to take a look at here today there you go tell me what you guys think of this card I know I didn't benchmark or do a lot of that this was more a video about overclocking in performance of the cooler itself and the temperatures what I was most interested in there's plenty of 980 benchmarks out there you guys can go look at I wanted to emphasize today on the things I like which is overclocking and temperatures so there you go follow on social media if you guys have any questions about this cooler go and check it out an EVGA website brand-spanking-new just launched so it's gonna be a little bit before you start seeing more benchmarks on this thing but I give this thing definitely a thumbs up it performs very I'm not kidding it performs better than the ones in skunkworks that's kind of a depressing thought I wasn't going with three Titan X's I'd probably be mad but I'm not alright guys thanks 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