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the Coolermaster Glaser 240 L CPU cooler delivers the convenience of an all-in-one and the performance of a custom water cooler click now to learn more we've actually got a double feature today a gtx 750ti with a reference design from nvidia and a spoiler alert' by the way kick-ass a soos designed one but first the introduction the gtx 750ti is not on the surface the most exciting card from Nvidia that we've ever reviewed performance is solid sure and power consumption is extremely low due to the GM 107 GP or GPU cores use of invidious all-new Maxwell architecture but it's not exactly a Titan challenger in terms of raw horsepower know this product is for Tier one PC upgraders small form-factor enthusiasts folks who are upgrading from older something 5-0 class cards like the 550 ti or basically anyone who's looking to get solid 1080p performance in modern titles without expecting to crank the details up to maximum now NVIDIA spent a fair bit of time in their press briefing talking about the technologies around the card like g-sync game stream and GeForce experience with shadowplay gameplay recording and streaming to twitch and these technologies are great and a key differentiator for Nvidia compared to their competition but we've covered most of the stuff in a fair bit of depth in the past so I will refer you instead to our decent video our shield streaming latency test and our GTX 780 Ti review which I have all linked below if you can't click on the annotations where you can learn more about all of that stuff one other interesting thing to note about G sync in particular that technology is that neither of the cards in our showcase today support it due to their lack of DisplayPort output but don't worry there will be 750ti cards that do instead today I want to focus on what exactly NVIDIA has done in order to achieve a 4x improvement in efficiency over three generations with only one process shrink instead of using a single control logic block for all 192 cores in its SMS or streaming multiprocessors NVIDIA has created smaller control logic blocks for 32 cores each that makes the task of routing and scheduling traffic easier for each control logic block and allows Maxwell to improve performance per core by about 35% leading to in videos best performance per watt GPU ever it is so efficient it needs only a tiny little cooler for at 640 CUDA cores and 2 gigs of 5.4 gigahertz gddr5 vram running on a 128-bit bus and it doesn't even require a 6 pin PCI Express power connector due to its 60 watt TDP the second focus point for me is overclocking the way NVIDIA has locked down overclocking over the last few generations with respect to maximum voltages and power limits has been frustrating so it's refreshing to see them come out and say this card is a great overclocker and I'm excited that we get to show your results from both of these cards at the same time because they represent two very different approaches to graphics card design the reference card is very very small and requires no power connector so it'll be compatible with pretty much any PC with the PCI Express slot a Seuss's non-reference benefits list continues to be the same as ever ten extra bucks gets you slightly increased stock clock speeds a better eyalet out although no DisplayPort still a better cooler better PCB design with a Seuss's si P super alloy power components promising cooler operation longer life time better efficiency and reduced coil lines but there's more this time the 750 Ti normally doesn't have that connector while the assess one has a PCI Express 6 pin connector however weird the positioning of this connector might be unless you're installing in a small form-factor PC where that's closer to the power supply on the back of the card it'll be interesting to see how more power affects a card like this when it comes to overclocking and performance spoiler alert a lot stay tuned for exactly how much these 280 bitty graphics cards pack quite a punch they come on top of both my Far Cry 3 and BioShock Infinite benchmarks and you can tell by looking at these numbers that that a soos after market card does gain a lot by having that additional six pin power on top of there if you want to see how much it helps you can check out my overclocking dock in the description of the video down below where you can see all of my settings for both of the cards and their core clock actuals so you can see exactly how fast they are running maybe you're someone who wants the additional power and wants to be able to overclock it even more this card has tons of headroom and even if you don't want that additional power maybe just want to go with the reference design it still has a bunch of headroom there this is a very easy card to overclock I got a run guys as it is 4 a.m. Tuesday and I've been up since Sunday morning working on different forum stuff and whatnot this video has to be edited uploaded and released by 6:00 a.m. so we're going to see how I can accomplish that but we will see if you like and favorite and dislike the video and share and subscribe to channel and all of those things and in addition I'm not giving up yet I want that second place position for organizations check out the PC gaming section of the Linus tech tips com forum look at the star system thread and join the organization we will be number two we can make it I'll talk to you guys later you