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what's going on guys Jase two cents here and I promised this video was coming even though it's not new to market its new to me anyway we're gonna talk about it because it's still worth talking about damn it and that being set fires r9 285 ITX compact graphics card now this is the only r9 285 ITX 4 factor graphics card you are going to find except for this one this one exists and then there's other ones that they made that exist but you know what I'm you know what I'm saying I think it's not like this was the only card made and then they shut down the assembly line and I'm the one that has it that's not the case although that would be kind of cool the octane gaming gear combo from Coolermaster features seven backlighting colors turbo mode a vago 3050 optical sensor along with four levels of dpi adjustment now you can po noobs without boning your wallet click the link in the description to learn more okay so the r9 285 ITX compact is with our two doubt compact it lives up to its name in fact it's only a little bit longer than the PCI Express slot on the bottom of the card okay we'll just kind of do a quick gloss over of the specs since I'm sure somebody out there is never seen an R 9 285 or maybe you're even considering buying this card it is the 28 nanometer processor from AMD it has 1792 stream processors in it and a nine hundred and twenty eight megahertz GPU core now that magic 1 gigahertz number is kind of nice to see of course we did overclock this thing and we'll talk about how that thing went or how that went a little bit later in the video now if we're cooling this tiny little guy you can see we've got a single fan that fills up most of the top of the card followed by a heatsink that runs the entire length tons and tons of fins very heavy coupled with a four heat pipe copper heat pipe design so you've got a lot of thermal transfer happening here in this block when it comes to power it does require a single 8 pin PCI Express power and then it does have a PCI Express 3.0 interface now on the top here you'll find the Sapphire button which is for going between legacy BIOS and UEFI BIOS and then on the back for IO this is a little bit interesting we do have a dual DVI and HDMI 1.4 a I don't believe this is hdmi 2.0 and if I'm wrong I will definitely stand corrected but all I could find was that it's hdmi 1.4 a and it's got too many display ports and if you don't have a mini DisplayPort adapter or a mini DisplayPort monitor it does include an adapter to a standard-sized of DisplayPort on the back of the card there is no backplate I really wouldn't expect to see one at this card's price point and you know where it sits in the market and where it's placed it does have a nice matte PCB and everything about the card is very attractive the black with the aluminium on here looks very very nice but of course let's just go ahead and see how it stacks up just a quick note before we roll that transition is that all of these benchmarks were done at 1080p considering this fact the fact that this is a 2 gigabyte card this card is designed for 1080p gaming and so all the benchmarks you're going to see are at 1080p and whatever the settings were at a settings were what the type of AAA used I made sure I noted that in the benchmarks but you're not going to see this card put it up against any other cards either AMD or Nvidia because the benchmarks that I'm using this time around are brand-new titles their titles I haven't benchmarked any other card in this office with yet well with the exception of Grand Theft Auto 5 and in the future we're gonna start doing a complete list of where cards line up with my benchmark suite we'll start doing a complete list of graphics cards and then placing them in performance order so before you guys start telling me I should do comparative saying why how does it stack up against such and such you got to give me time it takes hours upon hours to do these benchmarks and overclocks and stuff so anyway I just wanted to save you guys the time of typing that but probably you guys have probably already typed it even though the benchmarks aren't up yet anyway roll the transition all right so as you saw this thing packs a hell of a punch you know it becomes a little bit of kind of a mind play when you see such a tiny card and you start to judge the card by its size and and I know not everybody does that I think a lot of people do that I think a lot of people like to see a nice big beefy graphics card with tons of fans and it just got pipes everywhere and cables everywhere and lights everywhere because that's what you think gives you the power it's like adding horsepower to a car by having body kits and stickers and spoilers and all the things that really don't make it faster sapphire has done a hell of a job of designing this card from the ground up really the only thing AMD about this card is the GPU core which they're utilizing everything else about this card is completely designed in-house by sapphire and I think they've done a fantastic job especially since so many builders these days are going more towards portability efficiency temperature or low temperatures and small form factors like especially the ITX being such a a popular thing over the last couple of years temperature-wise I expected the same to get hotter but it only got 273 degrees Celsius in the most demanding tests now what's cool about that is it was still practically silent I say practically silent because the fan did ramp up too I think was 52% I don't remember exactly what was it move it was 52% and it barely got louder than the slow spinning fans that I have on the test bench now those temperatures of course are in an open air test bench and the reason why I do that is because that means the only thing limiting the cooling of the card is the card itself if I put it into an enclosure or a closed case and I don't provide adequate air flow to it then it's going to make the cards seem like it's performing worse because the case environment is performing worse so we do open-air test benches because that gives us the only bottleneck for cooling would be the cooler itself so as you can see 73 degrees Celsius in open air in a vertical format rather than horizontal which horizontal bleeder not actually gives sometimes some better cooling performance this thing that a fantastic job I think sapphires got a hell of a card on their hands here especially to anyone who's looking at building a powerful 1080p portable small form-factor gaming rig now this thing probably could play mini titles at 1440p not 4k just not enough vram but 1440p would be possible on medium to low settings depending on what you do but you're going to start hitting sort of a VRAM limit especially in modern titles with the two gigabytes of vram now we did overclock the vram from its effective 5500 from 1375 which is technically where it's at remember AMD is that number times 4 where in videos that number times 2 some people get confused about that so we were able to take it up to 14 hundred megahertz times 4 so that was where my overclock was on that and it did a pretty fantastic job no coil whine whatsoever zero coil whine on this thing and really I can't say enough good about it small form-factor graphics cards are not very common in fact the only other ITX card that's on the market is by MSI and it's an Nvidia brand and it's not an AMD I think a lot of people were afraid to take AMD GPUs and try and squish them down like this because a lot of times you need the massive cooler to keep the GCN architecture or the Tahiti or Hawaii GPUs extremely hot GPUs to cool them down you need a massive cooler but sapphire took the efficiency of the 285 which was one of the really major selling points of AMD's 285 GPU and was able to build a small form factor that doesn't overheat doesn't get loud and performs very very well really I can't think of any cons for this card whatsoever and that's pretty rare maybe having the power plug point up instead of out the back I don't know I mean this kind of makes sense although when you have the power plug coming out the back it does add a little bit of link that you might not be considering this thing's only 171 millimeters long 110 millimeters high 35 millimeters thick so it's extremely tiny I mean look look at look at it compared to my hand I mean I don't even have that big of a hand so I think maybe having the plug point up might have made a little more sense but I don't know so then you have the additional length of the plug you have to consider if you're looking at doing a really small form-factor that's really the only thing I can come up with to say that I might have considered differently with this card but again that's just me so what do you guys think about this card I know it's been out for a while we finally got around to doing this review and I'm interested to see how you guys feel about these small form-factor ITX cards would you like to see more cards and small like TX form factor you know rumor has it that this might be the size of some of the newer 300 series cards coming out from AMD that are featuring the HBM or 3d stacked memory and we don't have confirmation on any of that and even if I had information on and I wouldn't be talking about it but since you don't have to have the RAM flanking the GPU the RAM is on the GPU which means you can save a lot of space you could end up having top-tier high-end you know top-of-the-line cards from AMD that are no bigger than this which then kind of circles back to the mental game of thinking I want a giant GPU because big GPUs mean more power and if it's small it can't possibly be good right alright guys there you go Jase do sense thanks for watching we really hope you guys have enjoyed today's video make sure you guys tune in on Thursdays at 5 p.m. Pacific time where Jerry aka barnacle ease and I we do our Tech Talk not always about tech usually it's just us hanging out and I 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