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this video is brought to you by the Corsair Vengeance k70 and k95 these fully mechanical keyboards are designed for performance gaming visit Corsair comm slash Vengeance gaming to learn more welcome to what amounts to basically an unboxing and a second look at the geforce gtx 770 directs you to from asus now i call it a second look because i've already had this card out of the box and i have actually already had a chance to benchmark it so okay i'm gonna spoil the surprise a little bit it's a geforce gtx 770 which means it's based on the same GK 104 core as the gtx 680 a fully enabled core to be more cleared so okay fill its the gtx 680 no because it's clocked higher this one in particularly because it's an OC level card and it also has seven gigahertz gddr5 memory as opposed to the six gigahertz gddr5 memory that we found on the original gtx 680 now the first things we find inside are a nice black a susan box with some gold printing on it as well as a bunch of accessories that we didn't get with our reference card that came direct from nvidia so it's interesting to see what Asus includes so they've got a QuickStart guide as well as some drivers and GPU tweak software that you do well to download directly from the Asus website and finally last but not least a dual six pin two single eight pin PCI Express power adapter next up is the card itself now the first thing you're gonna notice about it in all likelihood is going to be the cooler the direct cu2s cooler gets its name from the copper heat pipes as well as the direct contact that they make with the GPU itself this improves thermal efficiency as well as improving overall performance of the card especially in an overclocked environment there are two fans on it each of which is sealed against dust making it dust proof and adding to the longevity of the card and allowing them to cover a wider area of the card itself providing more airflow not only to cool the Jeep you itself because it's connected with these nice fat heat pipes to all of these fins but also the other components under the heatsink fins all over the entire PCB of the graphics card on the back of it we find not a whole lot that you can see except for a backplate this contributes to the rigidity of the card which is especially important when cards are get longer and heavier and they're installed in chassis that only really fasten them at the screws at the top here as well as the PCI Express slot and the last thing that we see are a couple of diagnostic LEDs right under the six pin and eight pin PCI Express connectors that tell us if there's any kind of a power problem causing the card to be non-functional Direct see you tube coolers are also well-regarded for their quiet operation and we did indeed have the same experience with this card so I can happily say that it sits proudly with the other directs YouTube cards that we've had the opportunity to play with here's a cool feature for liquid coolers and tweakers and just generally guys who are willing to push the limits of their hardware sort of no matter what the no matter what the risk by simply removing four screws on the back of the card you can remove the entire direct cu2 cooler this allows it to be cleaned or just completely removed and replaced with something else should you see fit although most people probably aren't gonna bother with that you will have to break a seal in order to get the cooler off however that risk is entirely up to each individual user and check that out it comes apart just like that to reveal the way that the card is cooled so we get thermal goop on the GPU itself no thermal pads present on the memory because of what I mentioned before the way that the directs you to cooler provides so much airflow to the rest of the card you don't really have to worry too much about that we can see the entire eight plus two phase power design this is compared to okay so eight plus two phase digital power design compared to the five plus one phase analog power design that you're going to find on a reference card and I dedicated heatsink for the MOSFETs themselves that allows that that's the hottest part of the power delivery that allows them to stay cool now there's more to a custom PCB design than just designing the PCB you also have to use higher quality components if you're going to get any benefit out of it whatsoever so that's where a sous is SAP or super alloy power components come in most of the power delivery circuitry actually is comprised of these specially designed components that a sous has engineered in order to deliver better overclocking better efficiency cooler operation longer life time and this is sort of this hits pretty close to home for me les coil line because oil line is just annoying and then mind you so our dead cards and cards that consume more power for no reason but that was the rationale behind redesigning it in order to use their own components it was to achieve all of those things but how did it all work out in the end my final word on this card is going to be about GPU tweak and the actual results that we were able to achieve because all of this is fine in theory but what does it yield in the real world our direct see YouTube card overclocked higher than our reference card take that for what it is this is a very small sampling but in our experience we did manage to get a slightly higher sustainable boost clock okay so it was only 35 or so some odd megahertz higher than this particular card but there you go higher is higher and we did get better performance out of a direct to YouTube card than we did out of a reference card also using GPU tweak was a fairly good experience I've never used it before at least not extensively but it does have some special features that allows it to work better with Asus cards particularly the ones that use their custom vrm designs that are pretty different from all the other things that are out there on the market and with the integrated GPU zedd utility as well as the ability to set up monitoring as a widget it's pretty handy thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look at the gtx 770 direct so you too from Asus don't forget to subscribe to honest tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos