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the coarser carbide air 540 higher flow cube case is great for air cooling or liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview of the geforce gtx 780 direct cu2o see from a soos so let's go ahead and see what they have to say for themselves on the front of the box anyway a 20% cooler vastly quieter and this we believe because like the last asus card overview we did we have already taken it out of the box and we've already run it through the paces so yes we believe it OC edition okay it's not overclocked much but the advantage isn't necessarily in the factory overclock but rather in the fact that because of the design of this particular card it runs more efficiently and runs cooler which allows GPU boosts 2.0 which remember reacts not only to power thresholds as well as clock speed but also to temperature so it allows GPU boost to to dynamically increase the clock speed of this graphics card it's using a fully custom PCB so that includes their digi+ power so that's their vrm design as well as their s AP components of super alloy power components this gives effectively better overclocking when you use their GPU tweak software which works with any asus graphics card particularly this one because we found it works very very well so one of the things that asus has done with this card is they have moved away from something that's been a bit of a staple for them well that was fun um and that is the triple slot design of their very high-end cards this is a dual slot card but hold on I'm getting ahead of myself it comes with an sli bridge it comes with a dual 6 pin 2 8 pin adapter and it comes with their GPU tweak and driver which you should ignore and download the latest often video comm and a Seuss's on website as well as a QuickStart guide so let's look at the card physically now it'll be obvious to anyone who's seen a reference 780 that this isn't one but let's go through a few of the things that make it non reference number one it has a backplate so this backplate doesn't contribute much to cooling let's be honest with ourselves what it does do is it looks cool and other than that it prevents sagging so it actually makes the card more rigid and less likely to flip down like we've seen with heavy graphics cards in the past now I mentioned already the dual fan configuration and dual slot configuration but there are some other special things about it so number one is check this out this is their new cool tech fan design so instead of just being focused on blowing air down into the heatsink fins you can see a soos has built up the cooler around the outside edges of the fan so you can see there are aluminum fins here and yeah and this fan is designed to not only blow down but also out so that means you're able to take to make better use of the heatsink fins that are all around the fan now the secondary cooling found the one that doesn't sit directly over top of the GPU uses their more traditional style now the cooler itself in order to even get any benefit from more airflow and cooling Japan different from where floor whatever I'm trying to segue here all right so the cooler itself has another unique feature check this out that right there my friends is a 10 millimeter heat pipe this is the largest I have ever seen on a graphics card MSI's old super pipe marketing that I don't really see them using much anymore referred to eight millimeter heat pipes of which this card has two so there are two eight millimeter heat pipes 110 millimeter heat pipe and then it looks like two six millimeter heat pipes so there are five total heat pipes carrying heat away from the GPU core to the massive cooler on the rest of this card now speaking of massive coolers there is a very very very small PCB extension right here but it doesn't add a significant amount of overall length to the card not like we see with cards like the GTX 780 X 670 where it has like a massive plastic overhang that isn't actually part of the components there are LED indicators for the PCI Express slot so you can actually diagnose if there's any kind of a power delivery issue with the board itself and it has full support for VGA Hotwire so this right here is a PCI Express 3.0 interface nothing to do with VG hotwire except that if you put that interface into a supported asus motherboard generally speaking it's there rog boards you can actually over volt the GPU and various components on the video card in ways that nvidia never really intended a seuss doesn't advertise this feature on their boxes because nvidia doesn't like it but there you go the feature is there I have confirmed it it is supported now speaking of supported features it's got support for 3d vision surround with two HDMI outputs and two HDMI to DVI outputs an HDMI output and a DisplayPort output you're going to get a little bit of exhaust out the back of the case but generally speaking this is an internal exhaust card so you're gonna want to make sure you have good case airflow it has two sli connectors with full support for nvidia sli up to three or even four way however four-way just really isn't that recommended these days at the back of the card you've got two PCI Express connectors one of them is a six pin and one of them is an eight pin and then other than that that's it for connectivity what more did you guys really want were you expecting it to have like you know an anchor port so that you could actually use it as an anchor because it's quite heavy and there's a good reason for that because in terms of the actual overall heatsink mass available for dissipating heat this thing has about double what a stock gtx 780 does now we were a little bit worried about the complexity of removing the graphics card cooler from this card but part of what a soos I mean just looking at all these little screws that it seems like we can access but part of what Asus takes pride in with their directs to you cards is this easy disassembly four screws on the back of the GPU right there and that reveals the direct contact copper heat pipe so you can actually see the nickel plating isn't even on this part direct copper to GPU you can see that 10 millimeter heat pipe those two eight millimeter heat pipes as well as those two six mil heat pipes all branching out to various parts of the cooler itself here alright so you can see why that primary fan is considered the primary fan as well because most of where asus is carrying the heat ten mill pipe is right here under the primary fan this eight and this six mill are sitting right under the primary fan as well as any heat that is carried through conduction directly by this block of copper and aluminum here will sit directly under that fan as well so the secondary one is only really getting some of the ten Mills heat as well as one six and one eight both of which are carrying heat quite far away from the GPU which does reduce their effectiveness now that we've got the cooler off we can also see part of what makes this card tick now this is an overclocked card a reference gtx 780 only gets a clock speed of around 863 slash 904 boost and this one's at 889 941 however there's more to it than that because of sears of erm heatsink as well as their super alloy power components but the advantage that this card gets is because it's more efficient and stays within its power limits more effectively it actually is able to achieve around 1032 megahertz typical boost clock on average from what asus has seen without any overclocking that means even at stock speeds this card should be faster than what they're really saying about it on the box which is very very cool let's go ahead and show you the rest of the components that are on the PCB itself first of all mat PCB so a soos two thumbs up good job guys you guys Rock three gigs a six gigabyte I'm six games six it three gigs not six gigs I was head Titan on the brain they're three gigs of six gigahertz gddr5 memory so that's pretty much the same as any other gtx 780 however it is also getting the benefit of their digital power delivery in much the same way that the GPU itself does so I think that pretty much wraps it up except what does all this mean in the real world I just gave you a whole bunch of Asus marketing speak but does this card actually overclock better than a reference card boom here's a couple graphs so in our experience yes we were actually able to overclock the direct cu2 card better than we were able to overclock our reference card your mileage may vary it's possible we got a fantastic direct CO 2 although asus tells us ours is pretty average it's possible that we've got a bunk GTX 780 scarred however when NVIDIA seeds those cards to reviewers I don't think they kick all the bunk ones to send to reviewers so take it with a grain of salt but that's what we think about it leave us a comment under the video what do you hear is what I want to know what do you think Asus could have improved about the GTX 780 directs you to for me they've addressed the triple slot issue which was a problem for me they've I mean yeah okay what could be improved also like the video guys share the video and as always don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips