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this video is brought to you by the Corsair obsidian 350d micro ATX case exceptional expansion and cooling flexibility for compact high performance PCs visit Corsair comm / obsidian to learn more now i've heard a whole lot of claims about non-reference cards running cooler and overclocking better and but this time prior to doing the unboxing this is not the first time we've taken this card out of the box we have validated it so this right here is the Asus GTX 760 direct cu2o C and if that name wasn't long enough for you then I can put some other stuff in there to Gig direct power a superalloy power windows 8 ready 20% cooler vastly quieter huh what is it all amount to let's go ahead and open up the card so you go inside you find a dual PCIe 6 pin 2 PCIe 8 pin adapter and you find a graphics card you also find a speed setup which i think is their way of saying Quick Start Guide also throw me away download the drivers off of the Asus website or better yet off of the Nvidia website and yeah actually NVIDIA website and then get like all the cool utilities and stuff that you need off of the assist website so let's check out this card so there's the usual Asus advantages so they've redesigned the cooler as well as the PCB so physically custom PCB so they're using their SAP superalloy power MOSFETs 5k rated caps as well as alloy based inductors they're using their new direct power feature I'm gonna go ahead and turn this over so you guys can read that right side up and this basically acts like a powered superhighways I think the way that they described it in their literature but I'm going to explain it in a way that might be a little bit more meaningful think about this when you have a super thin extension cord and you try to run something like a space heater off of it what happens the cord gets hot that's bad that's terrible actually whereas when you have a nice thick power cord the resistance of that cord to the electricity flowing in it is less therefore it stays cool even with high draw components on the other side that my friends is what direct power is so instead of relying on simply the traces inside the PCB themselves to transfer power to the GPU and from the GPU this direct power feature goes no parity or around that and it provides well that okay it's a power superhighway fine so we go back to a Seuss's way of describing it so reduces impedance and reduces GPU temperatures both of these are good things the direct co2 cooler uses direct contact copper heat pipes there are four nickel plated copper heat pipes two of which are thick style heat pipes going out to the outer parts of the aluminum heatsink fin stack and then two of them are thinner heat pipes that are going out to the well the aluminum heatsink fins stack and it's also got to a specially tuned dustproof fans so tuned fans basically means they have the right static pressure to airflow ratio and dustproof means they are double sealed so that you're not going to have dust buildup getting inside the bearings itself reducing the lifespan ease whose figures these are good for about an extra 10,000 hours of lifetime versus a standard fan you've also got a MOSFET vrm heatsink which hopefully I can find somewhere in there yes I can I'm actually just going to have to take the PCB off we'll do a b-roll shot of that but don't worry too much about it basically better cooling for the hottest part of the card now in terms of raw specs like all geforce gtx 760 s it uses a GK 104 course lightly overclocked so one point zero zero six gigahertz base clock and then 1071 megahertz boost clock it's got two gigs of gddr5 at 6 gigahertz so eight pieces four on the back four on the front presumably yep they're on there 256-bit memory bus just like all other 760 s PCI Express 3.0 interface to SLI fingers for up to three Way SLI and on the back four connectors to dual link DVI one HDMI em one DisplayPort giving you full support for Nvidia 3d vision surround off of a single card of course with gaming cases being as windowed as they are these days if the card didn't look good you probably wouldn't even be considering it and the good news is that it does it's got a nice shroud plastic shroud mind you with a matte black overall theme with some glossy black as well as glossy red I personally think the directs YouTube cards um I personally think they look great they look very functional to me whereas you have fancier cards out there like for example a reference gtx 770 is very very fancy but this will actually keep the card running cooler which because it supports GPU boost 2.0 is important because the cooler the card runs the more often it will be running in its boost state I also really like the way that Asus has done the penis extent I mean PCB extension on the back of the card many of these modern cards have little like plastic extender pieces not only sue says we're gonna do a metal extension it's going to have aluminum heatsink fins and it's going to not look cheesy even though the card itself is quite small and quite compact this extension is for functional reasons and the reason is that while you need to fit lots of cooling on the card even though it's a small PCB so this allows them to have the fan not just be hanging off into the middle of nowhere one unique thing about this card is it uses a single 8 pin PCI Express power connector first time I've seen this and I've always I've wondered for a long time why we continued to see mid power cards with dual six pins as opposed to a single eight pin and I guess Asus sort of was asking themselves the same thing because that is done software wise make sure you grab GPU tweak it's specifically designed for Asus cards allows you to use all the functionality in terms of overclocking that you can and don't forget guys that with their GPU hot wire that's what it's called and supported asu's motherboards you can actually directly over volt the GPU in ways that are technically not really allowed by Nvidia but I see I don't even think how I would think they talked about it that's the funny thing about it so certain certain boards particularly there are og boards do support that feature yeah they're not even talking about it it's like well no you know you can do it but we're just going to keep it very quiet and right so let's get down to performance overclocking is always in theory better on these non-reference cards but in our experience this card did overclock better than our reference card so we only ran a couple of benchmarks just to show you guys sort of what you can expect we used our standard graphics card testing test bench so 30 960 X 4 gigahertz 16 gigs around 128 gig SSD thousand watt power supply etc etc etc our stock 760 ran at about 1.1 five gigahertz on the core 3.34 eight gigahertz on the memory and our directs you to OC run at 1280 megahertz on the core much better and 3456 on the RAM very cool so what did this amount to in the real world well basically a couple percent performance improvement so we ran Crysis 3 and I'm not going to spend too much time on these slides but we also ran Far Cry 3 and we saw however small remember these are the same cards running the same drivers essentially performance improvements so it costs a couple percent more than a reference card and performs a couple percent better I guess you can't ask for much more than that thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look at the geforce gtx 760 directs you to OC from a soos don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos let me know what you think of this card in the comments and guys please do like the video it helps me out a whole whack load of a ton it really does