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welcome to Jay's two cents exclusive insider coverage of CES 2014 our trip this year is brought to you by aqua tuning your global source for PC modding and cooling components and why sennheiser the pursuit of perfect sound and of course by generous viewers like you so strapped in with Jays two cents as he takes you on a wild ride through CES 2014 hey guys Jays two cents here CES 2014 and I'm standing here with mark from msi and they've got a lot of really cool stuff that they're going to be showing you this year at CES and right off the bat we're going to take a look here at some graphics cards they've got some stuff you've already seen some new stuff and what I'm gonna do right now is I'm just going to hand it over to mark I'm gonna let him tell me what we're taking a look at here what's new for this year and what you guys can expect as gamers when it comes to these awesome graphics cards so mark well hi um let me start off with what's we've been doing so good for 2013 that we want to continue on for 2014 especially with the segment of of a theme you know the Blue is for mainstream the red is for the gaming series and then the yellows for overclocking and we want to continue this trend and hopefully will carry us on for 2014 well let's start with the high end stuff that we have new available which is the r9 290x lightning which is this one the r9 290x lightning now you guys have been begging for aftermarket cooling on the 290 because you know they run hot from the factory so not only did msi come out with their aftermarket cooling solution but it's the lightning edition on top of that which correct me if i'm wrong we're talking about unlocked voltage overclock huge overclocking gains on this Oh Alan too now what are we talking about temperature wise on these temperature wise right now I don't have that specific information but I'll say mmm probably around 70 to 80 but you know I could be wrong right I haven't really tested these cars these are still like new hasn't released yeah I mean this is the first time the world is seeing these cards but I'm you guys know if you've checked out any of the 290x coverage I mean these things were running 90 95 degrees Celsius with reference cooling so we're talking now 70s even 80s is acceptable when you talk about unlocked voltage and you're talking about overclocking looks like some of the power requirements here we're looking at what 28 pins required for with the 28 pins but the spent at the end is actually optional and you only use that if like let's say you want to do a more extreme overclocking and it just increase the power more ok so the six pin is only required if you're going to be doing extreme overclocking with the card giving it more exhilarating this looks great now thickness is this still a duel associate thicker than the 780 lightning that that's because the 780 lightning was out first um the design was the first generation so this is actually something we change it up a little bit we took out a couple of the heat pipes um but the r you take it out you know of course how we know retained cooling you know so did we expanded the the heat the heat sink were here right you've beat the heat sink itself is larger now explain the smaller fan in the middle I know you guys use it on the 780 as well but go ahead and expand that each individual fans have the own control so that's why we design it like that so it will be easier for end user to control on fan the speed of it and how fast you want it to spin does this feature the same boot up reverse spinning technology that the gaming cards are using yes it does yeah well that is abby's how long is this card no I don't have that information it looks long I mean at least 11 and a half size well the lengthwise should be the same size 780 lightning okay so about the same size it's emanator yeah Wow well this now I see some some plugs here on the back do you know what these are look like available fan ports on the back yeah this should be the oh yeah the V checkpoint sorry what okay that's fine and brand new stuff I mean it's expected so okay so Vee checkpoint we got all right so that's pretty awesome there so you're not relying on software to tell you what your voltage inputs are on this thing if you're wanting to do extreme overclocking I mean you can hook up a multimeter to it and just check actual voltage on a multimeter and and forget software all together okay so what else are we looking at over here new this year is also the gtx 760 gaming ITX just the first ever 760 i text there's no other in the market right now available and the good thing about this is that it retained the clock speed and performance as this reference 760 so which is uh but in a smaller form factor yeah so you're talking extremely compact card here perfect for your ITX builds or home theater pcs or or wherever you need a small form factor but you're not sacrificing any of the speeder performance by going smaller now what about the cooling on this cooling this is the first ever also with the right a red X cooling fan basically it the way blows it blows out different directions so it has a better airflow okay yeah so it definitely make sure you have adequate case cooling with that but the design of this we're looking at sea in the past we've had cards get extremely large as you can see here but at the same time if you want to build a small form-factor case you're able to retain a very good amount of power here in a small form-factor what i like about this is you debuted at the same time that you provided me with the ITX the z87 ITX gaming motherboard and it fits on the board perfectly without extending past the board so depending on the type of case you're using you're able to maintain a nice compact fit and still have power supplies that don't interfere with the motherboard depending on which case you go with so there you go guys we've got a lot of different video cards here but the main things we're focusing at here 290x lightning it's a massive beast and then flipping it on the other side we've got the 76 ITX video card here small form factor with no real compromise so in Jays two cents CES 2014 here with Mark thank you very much for showing me those graphics cards and make sure you follow us on Twitter for all of the CBS CES coverage and as always I'll see you in my next video I love you guys