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thanks to msi for bringing us here this year we would not be here without them you can check out all their products that they're launching at this show and then description the video down below also thank you to lynda.com all right guys welcome to the Asus booth or we will be checking out the Asus GTX 980 TI Strix and the RGB Claymore keyboard so what's special about the Strix well it's featuring new Direct Cu cooling 3 instead of direct Co cooling 2 which has three fans instead of two fans so if they seek keep going with this for a while they'll end up with six fans on Direct CU 6 but anyways regardless doesn't matter for heat pipes they've got two 10 millimeter heat pipes 2 6 millimeter heat pipes and one eight millimeter heat pipe cooling it and a new design on those fans but we'll probably talk about those more later if we get one of these for review back at the office in terms of performance there's some interesting stuff going on here at first I read the little card it was like a GPU clock speed to be determined in memory clock speed to be determined but then they had their overclocking software open so I was able to figure out their temps and everything but they said it's okay so I'll talk about it here in OC mode they're running at 12:47 on the core clock in gaming mode they're running at 12:28 and in silent mode they're also running at 12:28 the reason why the difference between gaming Asylum mode is nothing is because in silent mode your fans are going to run a little bit slower and your temperature will be a little bit higher but the performance should be more or less the same also their memory is running at an unsurprising 7010 megahertz and with GPU tweak 2 you have a few options I know I already said something about OC mode and gaming mode and silent mode but if you go out of the kind of simple area of GPU tweak to which you can still see what everything's currently running at the charts on the left hand side but if you go into the like I think it's called professional tab you can control things like you would and say afterburner or GPU tweak 1 or precision or whatever the heck software you decide to use to overclock your graphics card now you might also notice that the cooler is pretty big it's a little bit longer than the actual standard PCB and it's a fair amount taller but it isn't any thicker so this is a dual slot card not a triple not a two and a half none of that kind of stuff so you'll feel the fit fine with two slots but please do note it is taller and it is longer when you're looking for case compatibility now that's all I can really say outside of a full proper review of the card but one more thing I want to point out is their auto Xtreme technology this is an industry first 100% automated production process and material design they've got a cool little demo here where you can see the difference between what was probably soldered by a human and what was soldered by a machine pretty cool combination next up is the Claymore RGB and IO I know I know another freaking keyboard video from Luke but it's fairly interesting trust me okay so it's an RGB keyboard but this is the first as far as I know RGB keyboard that is using cherry's RGB switches that Corsair helped develop that isn't a Corsair keyboard fairly interesting I think they have finally loosed into their iron grip on those switches now also it's it has it looks like a ten kilos here but there is another 10 key module they just don't have it available that 10 key module will have a volume slider on it and will be able to be plugged in independently so it doesn't actually need to be plugged directly into the keyboard if you wanted to use it on a laptop or whatever you could do that if you put that 10 key add-on on the right side of the keyboard it's a normal numpad if you put that 10 key add-on on the left side of the keyboard however it's a crazy macro pad for a huge amount of macros that you can use a really interesting way of having that 10 key add-on set up not interesting enough for you put wait there's more if you have an ROG motherboard you can sync your motherboard and keyboard together and you can control your CPU fan speed based on a function key on the keyboard or you can even have the RGB Ness of your keyboard reflecting the temperature of your CPU which is pretty freakin cool also you can sync a whole bunch of things together so you can sync your keyboard and your mouse together to make all the breathing effects sync together which is cool I asked if this can also work with the breathing effect of the LED on your motherboard considering you can control other stuff along with your motherboard they weren't entirely sure so I'll have to stay tuned for that let me know what you guys think about the graphics card or the keyboard in the description down below or on twitter at luke underscore LAF are also thanks to msi for sending us here this year we totally wouldn't be here without them check the link in the description down below that's the bitly link to see all of their products that they're releasing here at the show including a refresh of their laptops featuring Broadwell processors also thank you to Linda come check out lynda.com slash Computex for a ten day free trial so you can start learning right now while you're in the comments down below or checking out those links in the description don't forget to like just like favorite subscribe share all that kind of stuff if you want to see all the rest of our Computex 2015 videos stay subscribed to Linus tech tips thanks for watching I'll see you next time