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not long ago we released this video it was the brief overview and introduction of the gigabyte g1 gaming 980ti at Computex 2015 and at that time we could obviously see the card aesthetically but the effectiveness of the cooling and the performance of the card especially when its various clock speeds were unannounced was a mystery now that we have the card in hand it's time to go over everything in more detail and get the under the hood look at this bad boy to see what it can really do by the way Brannon and I visited an amazing new tech mall in Taipei and took a bunch of fancy b-roll footage and whatnot and we'd like to show you guys what's up with that tech mall because it's honestly kind of fantastic but Lian is rather unsure about it so slam that like button and let them know you want to see it freshbooks is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get organized save time and get paid faster click now to try it for free first up performance hardware gigabytes premier gtx 980ti is rocking a stock base clock speed of the 2,816 CUDA core equipped GM 200 chip of eleven hundred and ninety and a boost clock speed of twelve hundred and ninety-one although this isn't really what you actually get in a good way though don't worry if that's confusing we'll get more into the performance later on by the way there are two modes for this card gaming mode and OC mode even if you're not overclocking just run the card in OC mode gaming mode just nerfs your basement boost clock by about fifty megahertz compared to OC mode and that's just silly gigabyte was a little less aggressive in the memory department running the stock amount of ram at 6 gigabytes at a speed of about seven thousand and ten megahertz the g1 gaming 980 TI is cooled by the same 3 X 600 watt cooling system as the previous g1 gaming 980 but it has some various aesthetic changes which I think look great first up they added some silver coloring to the outside of the coolers front which looks really sharp and a lot more active in the previous all-black design but could also potentially conflict with some color setup builds I think but almost all cases will be fine with it due to the still generally muted color palette then we have the LED backlit windforce logo on the top of the card which isn't technically full RGB but can be set to white yellow blue purple red green or teal to match almost any builds you might have you set these colors through the gigabyte OC guru to utility software which you can download from the support and download section of the gigabyte g1 gaming 980ti website on each side of this backlit logo is a button to stop the fans if you want to move into a silent operating mode and will turn the main logo LEDs off and turn the white LEDs behind said respective buttons on I do have a gripe with this some people might bring up that having a button on your graphics card is not can be all that helpful for most people that will probably have this card inside of a computer case and they don't want to take off their side panel and press the button inside their computer when they can just control it with software but I'm not going to complain about added features when they don't really hurt anything my problem with this is that one of the button says silent and the other button says stop please if you're going to have two different buttons that do the exact same thing at least name and label them the same way anyways moving on this card also comes with gigabytes flex display technology which allows you to plug in up to four monitors at the same time using some various plug groupings you do this by choosing an additional DVID or two additional DisplayPort plugs over your already existing dvi-i DisplayPort and HDMI plugs a great feature for adapting to your various potential display adapter needs the windforce 3x cooler has three fans five eight millimeter heat pipes and one six millimeter heat pipe the fan blades have a special striped design or stripped design that gigabyte claims to increase airflow by 23% compared to traditional fans and also reduces air turbulence other than that we have a fairly expected setup on top of the right-hand side of the card you have your standard set of dual eight pin power connectors SLI fingers on the left side and a black PCB hidden under all of those fancy aesthetic improvements that we mentioned earlier we don't have an acoustic chambered yet maybe in the new office - maybe I don't know either way it wasn't that bad under load and was able to even keep the card quite cool with an ambient temperature of 32 freaking degrees Celsius just before we get into the forward section I'd like to remind you guys that NVIDIA has some tech inside this card including classics like SLI CUDA and GeForce experience and all the new stuff that was introduced with the gtx 980ti like g-sync full screen windowed mode support DirectX 12 underscore one support and V our rendering optimizations for rendering fewer unnecessary pixels which you can learn more about elias's original 980ti launch video by clicking here overclocking the g1 gaming 980 TI was odd but unsurprising i mentioned earlier that it had an eleven hundred and ninety stock clock and whose clock of 1291 but in actuality without any tweaking or changes on my end it was able to achieve a boost clock of 1370 all on its own that's quite an improvement over the already existing boost clock this has been going on for a while now if you haven't noticed yet and we're actually looking into making a video comparing a whole bunch of the same car to see all their various boost clocks on their own but it's a little difficult to round up enough cards to make the sample size actually mean anything so don't hold your breath waiting for that one for actual overclocking manually it did pretty well to a core clock actual of 1480 but one problem I did have was some weird voltage issues my card got upset when I applied any additional voltage to it at all which is a little weird and I would expect most people to get around fifteen twenty five to fifteen fifty with this card as my overclocked power draw and thermals really didn't get that high due to the voltage causing the car to crash prematurely in terms of performance it did really well even beating out the previous king the Titan X add stock speeds and absolutely running away with things when overclocked in every single game that we tested with no outstanding issues anywhere in conclusion the Titan X just got wrecked for gaming we all knew it wouldn't last although I must admit this was a little faster than I had expected having the g1 gaming 980 I walk all over the Titan even when not overclocked was damn impressive and master off so we've got a drop for you guys today visit drag ups slash Linus tech tips and actually this is a deal from our buds over at Sennheiser this is the Gafoor ma 0 I think they mean game but it's leet-speak or something along those lines it's a pretty awesome gaming headset from Sennheiser one of the hallmarks of Sennheiser gaming headsets is they're excellent boom marks boom marks boom microphones and you can get this one for a hundred and seventy nine instead of two hundred and forty nine which is the MSRP as long as at least five people jump on to the drop which is good news for you if you want to get it at that minimum price because as of the time of filming this there's already 15 people on so yeah basically our work is done and we haven't even started what work are we doing well we want to tell you guys about master opcom great site they basically run out and find great products and then they kind of go okay if we can find enough people to buy this thing how low can you go manufacturers and distributors come in and they say okay well if you can get 10 to buy it you get this price if you get this many even get an even lower price and the whole community works together for basically a coordinated group buying so you can visit draw tups slash Linus tech tips for whatever deal it is that we're on about or you can just browse the math drop site where you can find all kinds of cool stuff from gaming headsets to keyboards to knives to well you get my point we picked up an audio recorder they're not that long ago so uh check it out now awesome site become a member it's free until you start buying a bunch of stuff then it's not free that's the trap thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit the like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our Amazon affiliate code to shop at Amazon or buying a cool t-shirt like not this one but other cool ones that we have or supporting us directly through the community forum now that you're done doing all of that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click the little button in the top right hand corner to check out the core FX for D FX haptic gaming best video where I get my chest very unfortunately lightly massage you