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what's going on everybody Jays two cents here and welcome to the very last 960 review you will find on this channel today we're taking a look at the msi gtx 960 gaming 2g coolermaster skin smart world series is where you will find the most custom computers on the planet and Ahmad Coolermaster dot-com for more details breather now if I said I wasn't a fan of MSI for years and years then I think that you could go ahead and call me a flat-out liar because I love MSI graphics cards I always have I love their coolers I love how much effort they put into the cooling design the aesthetic design and when it comes to gamers they make something that's not overly flashy but just looks really freaking cool and the next generation twin froze are like we're looking at here which they debuted obviously on the 900 series cards I love the way that these look and I also love the fact that they carried that lineage all the way down to the 960 which is obviously a lot harder to make a profit on for companies like this when they start putting in their top two your coolers and such even on lesser expensive cards now I'm going to point out because you guys know how to fill back back plates that there is no back plate on this card but I'm not going to hold it against companies that don't put back plates on cards like nine 60s and nine 50s if there was such a thing I know 750ti is kind of like the 950 but at this price point I don't expect to see back plates I expect to see them on top to your cards like nine 70s and nine 80s so I'm not going to hold it against MSI but it is worth noting that there are brands that have back plates on their cards like the I believe the Strix has one as well as the gigabyte g1 gaming has one so those are nice little extras but it's not a huge deal on cards like this at the entry level definitely be nice to see but again it's not something I'm going to hold against them at that price point but speaking of the Twin Frozr cooler this one here actually touches the GPU itself it doesn't touch any of the ran chips it doesn't have any sort of a plate on here like the EVGA cards have where there's a plate that runs the entire length of the PCB that kind of heat spreads heat that comes off the VRMs and the the memory chips so there is no memory cooling on this one whatsoever they're exposed and then there is a small like kind of a billet heatsink that they put on the vrm here up on the front but then again these cards do not get hot the VRMs do not get too hot so it's okay that there's a little bit less or cooling option for the PCB and the vrm now there are three heat pipes on here that are keeping this thing nice and cool along with two I believe these are 100 millimeter fans which are only going to turn on when needed which in this case is above 61 degrees Celsius and then they will turn off when they get down to a predetermined temperature just like all the other Maxwell cards and then you can customize that if you want to now it's not a whole lot to talk about here I mean it's pretty much a standard 960 it's got your DVI dual link it's got your hdmi 2.0 and it's got three DisplayPort 1.2 s so I guess really all there is to do is go ahead and plug this thing into the system run our gambit of benchmarks and they'll talk about this card and where it comes in on the price point and why I think this is really the best of the bunch that I've reviewed on this channel so without further ado let's go ahead and run that transition a lot of people a lot of people like the little minion guy I like him he's kind of cool and you now obviously the aesthetics of this graphics card are very very pleasing if you're into this more aggressive looking gaming style in fact I mean obviously it's called MSI gaming 2g for a reason but it even has a white glowing MSI and dragon logo on the top which faces the right way so in your standard case with a side window you are going to see a nice glowing emblem in there that will match any color bill because it's white like the gigabyte graphics card with blue the EVGA graphics card didn't light up at all but this one will fit any single build aesthetic granted I guess if it's a red build aesthetic since it's red and black card but the LED at least is white which is going to be nice as well something else that makes this card impressive is the fact that even though it has only that one PCI Express 8 pin connector it still is able to deliver just as high of an overclock of over 1500 I think 1524 megahertz is what we got out of this plus 300 megahertz on the memory we were able to get the same FPS in fact a little bit higher average fps in some titles than the other graphics cards we looked at and have more phases there you go guys Jason is looking at the GTX 960 from MSI I promise this is the last 960 we're going to look at even if someone else offers someone else offers one up to the channel I'm going to turn down enough 960 coverage we know we get it besides something new maybe coming around the corner because NVIDIA has sent out invites to the graphics cards or Nvidia's GPU conference in March that's 10 that was when the Titan was launched two years ago so maybe we'll be looking at something new here I don't know I got the invite unfortunately I can't go so I'll be getting the information on the side if you will we get a little real side platter going on there alright guys thanks for watching this I know that gtx 960 coverage has been a bit heavy this go-around but we'll get back to some good gaming content some good overclocking and other hardware stuff some more how to's and I'm heading up to Seattle on Wednesday the 18th of February which is only a few days away hanging out with Barnacle E's nerdgasm up there we're going to go on a PDX land if you guys are going PDX land make sure you come and say hi to us take some pictures we love to meet our fans and we're gonna see what kind of shenanigans we can get up to get into up there in a Seattle I'm afraid is going to be cold let me shoot it's been in the 80s here in Southern California alright see you guys in Seattle