Gadgetory

hey what's up everybody Jays $0.02 here and if you've been following my social media then you knew we had some more topics coming regarding this guy gtx 980ti which i'm sure that a lot of you are sick about hearing are sick of hearing about whatever the midea kept this thing under wraps which meant that there was no day one custom PCB options for the 980ti as i'm waving it around like a freaking chopping axe a lot of you guys were like hey the 92 TI is pretty awesome but i kind of want to wait for some custom PCB options well guys we're taking a look at our very first custom PCB here for the 980 TI on the channel that is going to be the g1 gaming from gigabyte this is a card that many of you specifically were waiting for so let's go ahead and see how this thing stacks up the new EVGA silent series power supplies offer excellent silence and efficiency through their new EVGA Eco mode technology and also features a seven year warranty for worryfree gaming click the link in the description to learn more well here she is it's a she I've dubbed it a she it's she it's surely or call her surely you might notice right off the bat it looks a little bit different than your standard g1 gaming cooler well that's because they've added some aluminum accents to the front and to the back so that kind of makes it a little bit different than the previous g1 gaming that you found on the 980 and the 980 or the 970 now of course the g1 gaming is built custom from the ground up by gigabyte using invidious GM 200 core now obviously this is the 980 TI so it's got 20 816 CUDA cores versus tight nexus 3072 but you know it when it comes to core clocks and it just overall Headroom with that 256 cuda cores it's not hard to get nipping at the heels of Titan X performance on cards that have less CUDA cores because they can get much better over clocks out of these things remember the tight next card companies like gigabyte and EVGA ZOTAC and all of them are not able to build custom cards they can come up with custom coolers but they cannot come up with custom cards and custom PCBs to improve upon the design that is completely managed in-house by Nvidia so that's why the 980 TI was so exciting to so many people because we new cards like this going to be coming to the market now it's not a whole lot different about this cooler on the 980ti versus the 980 and we've got the color accents on there you've got the same legendary i/o I mean I many people are still using DVI DVI cables are able to give you up to 144 Hertz if you're using a dual link DVI anyway but you got your two DVI is the DVI I a DVI d3 display ports and an HDMI 2.0 so you've got so much connectivity on this card it's freaking amazing now it is a single BIOS card there's no second BIOS on this thing so that's a little bit of a sacrifice there but considering what you get overall with this card that's a sacrifice I think that's worth making most of the time the second BIOS isn't going to matter to you unless you're doing custom BIOS flashing and the second BIOS on most cards usually it's just a different fan profile it doesn't give you any better overclocking now unlike the reference model this thing does require two eight pin PCI plugs or PCI Express power plugs on there that's because this thing like I said goes in PCB that you guys didn't know is gonna say that again okay so let's just take a second here to talk about the cooler the cooler on this thing is absolutely massive and beefcake this card is heavy that's because it's got five massive copper heat pipes running the entire length of the card you have a ton of fins on this thing and you have a copper base that's covering not only the core but also all of the RAM as well as active cooling for the V RMS Thank You gigabyte I don't know why some companies just don't seem to think vrm cooling is very important so this thing is absolutely beefcake this is heavier then even the 980 if I'm not mistaken it might be the same weight but man compared to the 1970 and the 1960 versions of this this thing is freaky it's like I mean I could be doing curls with this thing and I would get tired but last but not least they did give us a multi color changing LED on the top of the graphics card this thing's got seven different colors that you can choose from it's not RGB meaning you can't like pick it from a spectrum of color you can't customize the color in terms of you know the 18 point 6 million or whatever it really is you get seven colors to choose from and so now you're not gonna be stuck with that blue LED that was on all the other windforce in g1 cards you now can customize this to your build needs that's cool because now the g1 gaming card is an option for people doing like red builds or yellow builds it's even a yellow LED on this thing maybe they were thing about skunk works I don't know but that is freaking amazing thank you guys it's the little things like that that make these cards so exciting and then of course the same amazing backplate that it comes on all of the g1 gaming cards so enough about that let's go ahead and put it on the test bench and let's compare it to the 980ti reference and the Titan X to see exactly how this thing is performing well there you go guys the gtx 980ti g1 gaming from gigabyte is still one of the top dogs when it comes to just being one some of the best GPUs that you can buy gigabyte puts so much effort into this line of product it just really goes to show that their enthusiasm for gamers and they're just willingness to be non compromising when it comes to the amount of quality that they put into these cards is really one of the best that you can get on the market I mean they're what they call their GPU gauntlet which is their own personal bidding process of making sure that you get the best GPUs possible or cores inside these GPUs it definitely is apparent I mean I was able to get this thing up to fifteen hundred and twenty nine megahertz now I know some folks are going to be like will the tests weren't fair because the Titan was only at 1400 well truth be told that sample of the Titan won't go any higher than 1400 anything above that and it continues to crash so you know unfortunately the ones and skunkworks are getting much higher they're getting up to about fourteen hundred and fifty but that fifty megahertz isn't going to make a huge difference but as you can see for much less in the price of a Titan you can get something like the g1 gaming which is going to match the Titan in performance be quieter in fact let's let's go ahead and take a quick test here of how the sound is of the reference card on the Titan the 1980 I and the g1 gaming from gigabyte you well unless you the kind of gamer that likes to listen to a vacuum cleaner while you're gaming obviously the reference blower cooler is not going to be for you so fortunately there are going to be a lot of different custom coolers available a 980ti trim coming out in the future but g1 gaming here pretty much beaten out most of the other aftermarket coolers and custom PCB options don't forget this is a custom PCB is not referenced it is completely built from the ground up by gigabyte giving you fantastic overclocking amazing temperatures amazing noise level 72 degrees Celsius while overclocked maintaining this whisper noise level is absolutely fantastic and then on top of it all they've listened to us finally and stop giving us just the blue LED and now you have seven colors to choose from when it comes to LEDs I mean you've got white red blue yellow green teal purple I mean it's like they pretty much any build aesthetic that you've got now you can accommodate that with the card with the LEDs and now just have that clashing blue LED which a lot of people complained about so stepping up the game the g1 gaming from gigabyte definitely is a card to be reckoned with so there you go guys I'm going to be at e3 this week that means unless I can find a way to get a mobile tech talk station going while I'm out at e3 on Thursday Tech Talk this week will probably be postponed again simply because I'm not going to be here I'm going to be at the LA Convention Center visiting and looking around at what's going on at e3 it's actually my first time going to e3 I've seen e3 I've watched live events I've never actually been to it so this is going to be kind of fun anyway guys thanks for watching let me know what you think about this card it will be available soon you're probably not going to find it at Amazon or Newegg or anything yet it's gonna be available soon there's only been a couple of samples sent out so give it some time they've got to actually make this stuff it takes time to manufacture it so there you go as always guys follow on social media if you want to have some fun conversations or make fun of me or get irritated with all the cycling stuff I put up whatever whatever the case may be you guys thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one you