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hey what's going on guys Jase two cents here and today we're going to bring you another video about a graphics card if finally gotten my hands on EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC a CX 2.0 graphics card underneath oxygen to get through this video as you guys know back on September 18th Nvidia launched its next-gen graphics card on the maxwell platform with the 980 and a 970 now we've already take a look at the 970 and as you guys know i'm really fond of EVGA and it's taken a while to get this card in my hand but we are taking a look at the a CX 2.0 version of the GTX 980 now this is EVGA is custom cooler and obviously as the name would pretty much indicate it is version 2.0 of their original ACX cooler right here now without putting you guys to sleep I'm not going to bore you when it comes to a lot of the specs on this in fact it does feature a thirteen hundred and 80 megahertz boost clock in fact in my testing that I have already performed on this card I was able to actually reach fourteen hundred and ninety-four megahertz that's pretty good couldn't jump into the into the deep 1500 megahertz range like I was hoping but still you can't really complain about being just under 1500 megahertz now for IO it has one DVI port three DisplayPort and one HDMI I would have liked to have seen another DVI but hey I guess everything starting to move towards DisplayPort especially with 4k becoming so much more affordable now one thing I want to focus on in this video today is a little bit more about the cooler itself because that's really what the star of the show is today we'll talk about benchmark numbers but we'll put those up a little bit later now as you guys may notice the fans clearly look a little bit different in fact at first glance you might think that it was actually pulling air through the card and exhausting it out the fan but that's not the case in fact EVGA has decided to give something a shot here by having backwards spinning fans and it's actually going to be more or less spreading the air out and pushing it you using the smooth edge of the fan blade rather than the blade edge of the fan blade to kind of give it a bit a little bit better noise signature a little bit less noise volume and hopefully decent cooling now when it comes to the heat pipes and stuff it pretty much features the exact same thing as the a CX 1.0 but it does also have a little bit beefier block that is actually a heatsink on top of the heat pipes where it goes from each side of the bait of the heatsink there in fact on this one if you look inside will show close up there is no heatsink on that bridge of heat pipe if you will now one thing I am disappointed to see is that they did not include a backplate now I did inquire about this with them for this review they did say that back plates will be available later but as a separate add-on or separate purchase that you could install onto your card they did that with the 600 series in the six 80s and six 70s if you recall but I I don't really like that idea because one it means the user then has to take off the screws and install it themselves and a lot of people may not be comfortable with that and - there's a lot of other brands that are already including them with their cards which is a decent selling point it's a lot nicer and more attractive to look at a backplate than it is to look at a bare PCB and not only that the bare PCB tends to be a pretty because of the rough texture tends to be a pretty decent dust magnet where back plates are a lot safer to wipe with you know an electrostatic brush or you know electronics brush so I don't know I'm I wish there was a back plate on this but you know what can you do now the a CX 2.0 also features LED lighting which the ACS 1.0 did not and it does work with all of your geforce experience LED controls and it's actually pretty nice to be able to go in here and adjust the brightness and whatnot it would have been awesome if it was RGB and maybe they could have included that with their own precision tuning software but maybe in the future RGB is kind of the thing now with all the different builds and RGB keyboards that would have been a nice feature to see so hopefully in the future we'll see something like that I mean even the little SC logo here on the back lights up which is really cool so guys let's go ahead and get this inside and let's see how the performance numbers actually are all right so as you guys can see I went ahead and included a few extra titles I asked you guys in my skunkworks video the 3-way performance video what titles you guys wanted to see me do benchmarks on and you guys overwhelmingly said shadow of Mordor so I went ahead and did that and a huge thanks to Ryan Valley on Twitter for providing me with that key huge thank you buddy I was able to include that in this video because of that key now I just want to comment real quick on shadow of Mordor I did not a couple of things actually I did not use the HD texture pack because one I want to do a separate video on the HD texture pack and sort of round up a few cards and see how it's kind of hammering those cards when it comes to VRAM so I didn't want to just do the nine ATAC X 2.0 performance on it I will include the 982 a CX 2.0 in that video so don't worry we will circle back to that now this card has absolutely overkill for 1080p like Beyond overkill it's not meant for 1080p it's it's designed to be a little bit more future-proof when it comes to 4k becoming more mainstream and affordable don't want to go ahead and talk about DSR for a second here now I did turn it on I did try it in a few games but you know I wanted to go ahead and do performance on native resolution I'm looking at buying a new panel in the future perhaps a 4k panel just for benchmarking and you know I saw some benefit to it some things looked really really clear obviously performance was hit hard when you trick the system into thinking you have a 4k panel going in fact I don't know maybe the performance was right where it would have been with 4k but I noticed a little bit of glitchyness in there at least in my setup now I did run MSAA at max on all of these the new the new MFA a is not really ready yet when it comes to the 980 in fact the 970 is also not ready at the future update coming to Maxwell cards so what do you guys think about this card the a CX 2.0 fantastic cooler it actually works really really well temperatures never exceeded 67 degrees Celsius while overclocked in a room right now that's sitting at about 80 degrees so it was actually pretty impressive when it came to keeping temperatures nice and low so guys this has been the EVGA GTX 980 SC a CX 2.0 I think card manufacturers are starting to want to see who has the longest name at least it starting to feel that way but anyway that reverse pretty much is just a backwards fan seems to work pretty well and the noise signature of the card is way different than the a CX 1.0 and it's actually a lot easier on the ears it's a lot less choppy sounding and it's much more smoother more of a kind of a mellow whirring if you will in fact I didn't find it at truth intrusive or obnoxious to listen to whatsoever in fact I did include ramping up the fan profile to where the fan would go up to 40 percent in fact on all of these tests overclocked 68 degrees Celsius ish right around there bounced around a little bit between 67 and 68 was all at 40% fan speed we've reached the point here guys where you reach your max overclocks on your card well before you hit your thermal limit and that's a big deal guys has been Jays two cents following Twitter if you have any questions hope you get my hand on a few more of these if you guys know what I mean anyways see on that social media guys and as always I will see you in the next one oh and don't forget to subscribe this is a verse the one you've ever seen that me that would be awesome to see you next