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now we're finally seeing an influx of custom gtx 680 s and locations and influence because there's just plain not nearly enough of them but we are finally seeing some custom gtx 680 so custom means custom PCBs custom coolers non-reference design cards so this is the galaxy geforce gtx 680 s OC so SOC stands for presumably super overclocked okay comes with a three-year warranty two gigs of memory custom cooling a 4 ser bracket and it has a pretty cool custom PCB but i'm not going to give that away until we get in a little bit further so look what they have to say for themselves maximize your performance with GPU boost so that is the gtx 680 s ability to dynamically adjust his clock according to the available power thresholds ok enjoy smoother gameplay with adaptive vertical sync which either turns on vsync returns it ought to give you an FPS boost when you're below the refresh rate of your monitor and smoother gameplay when you're above the refresh rate of your monitor in terms of your FPS richer visuals so you can surround yourself with multi monitor gaming on a single card so NVIDIA has added that to their repertoire against the red team which have had benefits while they were the only ones doing it for the longest time they've even gotten like old 5870 1986 edition in that system that could do 6 displays off a single card which was totally not that useful for gaming because it didn't have nearly the power to drive it take control extreme tuner plus so that is their overclocking software very very cool all right do more of multi display that was here ok windows demands a real GPU this much is true although I can't say it demands a 680 I think it'll be a while before Windows demands a 680 I'll to the home theater with 1080p blu-ray on HDCP support game you need a galaxy graphics card ok galaxy turn it all on ok well let's go ahead and look at the card because I think when you guys see the card you are going to get pretty excited about this so this the GTX 680 is the cream of the cream for NVIDIA attention customers thank you thank you thank you for buying it and don't forget to register your card it is their highest performing single GPU card probably their highest ball okay their highest performing single GPU card and it is really really really really really fast all the latest features all that good stuff HDMI to DVI adapter mini what mini HDMI to HDMI adapter okay to duel me lacks two six eight pin power connectors okay I haven't actually like looked at this card that quickly other than like what I think is cool about it so okay be sure to visit bobble bla to get the latest extreme tuner this is great okay here's a disc but be sure to visit the website download the latest thank you galaxy you have done it correctly sirs and Madam's because that is exactly how we roll here on tech tip here's the CD oh yeah look at that custom white PCB which would go really well with a black and white bean system or in just any system I tweeted a picture on my Twitter account of the Russian showing off one of these galaxies super overclocked cards in a Vesta g2 system it looked absolutely ballin out with the green lighting effects on the back of the card that looks so good just admiring it what this means that's Hall of Fame on the back of the card I mean I can understand this being a Hall of Fame I mean just look at it but I don't know why they had to label it as such okay so on the back of the card we can see very clearly this is a custom PCB it is a very very very custom and is much longer than the standard gtx 680 PCB it also has dual 6 PR 8 pin power connectors so it is designed presumably with beefier vrm and you can even see that there's a lot more built onto the card then the stock card it also has a much more substantial cooler so this is triple ninety-two millimeter cooling fans on an impressive I mean this thing is really heavy this is a heavy card on an impressive copper with five heat pipes and then aluminum fin array that goes the entire length of the card and then some so you can see here where all the heat pipes are running - this is uh oh okay so this is a plastic or than if it's a plastic shroud but here we go so the GPU is right about there right in between these two fans these fans are covering almost the entire surface area of the card as well blowing down not only on the GPU in the memory itself but also on the other components so the memories covered in heat spreader and you can see where these heat pipes are heading off to so a couple of them go pretty close and then the farthest out one carries heat over here the next farthest out one carries heat here and the furthest out one on this side carries heat right to the end there so if we look at the positioning of the heat pipes and the fans each fan is blowing down directly onto fins that are right near heat pipes so we should have heat being directly delivered it's too bad they weren't able to put in one more heat pipe right here but I guess you can't really ask for too much in terms of outputs oh this is interesting okay so we've got DisplayPort and three mini HDMI that is a very strange output configuration I wonder why they did that um okay well I guess I'd probably opt for a DisplayPort out of the three just because mini HDMI is not not the best thing in the world for outputting at 120 Hertz at 1080p for 3d so hold on just a minute guys well galaxy does whatever they please when it comes to outputs it turns out I mean they're MDT cards from the last generation we're a great example of that where they were like oh and video says we can only do two displays at a time well we can do three haha so there you go they've gone with DisplayPort and three mini HDMI connections you've also got an open sort of second PCI bracket so what that means is this is very much an internal airflow card so you're gonna exhaust a little bit out the back of the case but you better make sure you have a case with good airflow which I hope if you're buying a GTX 680 sort of figured out now of no is the fact that okay so two things I've note is the fact that you see how easy it is to access the screws that hold these fans on can you see that that's really cool take out three screws pop the fan off you can easily clean out your graphics card get all the dust out of it completely having removed the fans from it and I think that's a very cool feature and the second thing of note other than the fact that it has PCI Express 3.0 and two sli fingers for up to three or four-way configurations is the fact that this has the widest PCB that I have yet seen I have seen products with white PCBs in the past such as sapphires pure motherboard back on a 690 G chipset for AMD this is much whiter this is like white white as opposed to like yellow white so an example of a build that this would look absolutely fantastic in is one like this where the inner guts are predominantly black and white so I would love to replace the Radeon graphics card in here with a suitably white the GeForce graphics card so check this out see white and black theme you go ahead you throw one of these in there how beast would that look would barely even fit to even though this is an arc media this is a long graphics card you know what I think I have a tape measure here yeah let's measure how long it is because this must be close to the 12 inches alright so from the back of the there so 11 and 1/2 inches so make sure you have a case that is capable of housing an 11 and a half inch graphics card before you go ahead and install one of these so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the galaxy geforce gtx 680 SOC don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our boxing's reviews about the computer video