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the arc MIDI r2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview including some performance numbers of gigabytes geforce gtx 780 a win for sedition overclocked card much like other gtx 780 s this has a 384 bit memory bus it has three gigs of ram it has a gk110 GPU which means in terms of gaming performance this thing is pretty much almost as ballin as it gets it only falls behind the gtx titan in terms of performance and it's really not by that much unless you really need the 6 gigs of iran that you'll find on a gtx titan inside the box we find a little shiny gigabyte logo covering up the card itself now the first time I saw the gtx 780 win force was actually at Computex and gigabyte had an extreme while there's no accessories in here interesting and gigabyte had an extremely impressive demo of their new redesigned windforce cooler running that basically showed that it's about as butt-kicking as possible while maintaining a dual slot form factor so this is a trend that we've seen even a soos backing away from the triple slot form factors that they've had on previous direct cu2 cards well gigabyte has gone ahead and done dual slot as well so they are claiming up to 450 watts of heat dissipation with the redesigned windforce cooler so they're using a triple fan layout in order to achieve that as well as a combination of 8 millimeter and 6 millimeter heat pipes that you can see actually extend away from here I'll try to get you guys a better angle here so you can check that out maybe we'll do this b-roll but that go away from the GPU itself and then carry it out into two slightly different aluminum thin arrays and what's different about them is this this one here at the back of the card has no metal backing so it's a straight path this fan and then the right-hand side of this fan are blowing directly down onto the PCB in a way that is extremely positive because this is right right here where the vrm is so that's where voltage is converted from the 12-volt power that comes in at the back of the card in those two'll from those dual eight pin PCI Express connectors converts that into something that the GPU and the memory and the other components on board can use these components are often the hottest running part of a graphics card even including the GPU so having direct active cooling over top of them is excellent now for the rest of the card check out over here what gigabites done is they've used a sort of like a uni sink type design so they've used a large full cover design that is able to make direct contact with not only the GPU but also the RAM and then they've put what they're calling their triangle cooler concept on here and what this does is a couple of things so it redirects the airflow so air flow from these two fans here is still going down towards the card but because there's direct contact between the heatsink and the components underneath the air doesn't pass right through so what happens is they're using this triangle shape which is kind of shaped like this from the side if you guys can kind of imagine that to direct airflow down towards the PCI Express slot this should help with motherboard cooling a little bit as well as up here away from the card itself now you can see at the back of this card we're going to find our i/o so we've got two DVI ports DisplayPort and HDMI so that supports up to Nvidia 3d vision surround with three displays plus an auxiliary display as well as some ventilation that's not going to be exhausting a whole lot of air with this cooler design this cooler design is going to dissipate the air inside your case so you're gonna want to make sure that you have adequate case cooling in order to take care of that like all gk110 GPUs that use this PCI Express 3.0 16 X at the bottom of the card and then on the back we find that it is I'm not a huge departure from the reference PCB meaning that it is a bit of a chore to remove the stock cooler although you could do it with four looks like about seven or eight screw removals so if you did want to custom cool this card whether it's with water cooling or some kind of aftermarket cooler you could do that but I can't really say that I recommend that given that gigabyte already provides an outstanding cooler on it now in terms of overclocking performance we put it head-to-head against a reference card in order to find out well okay it comes with a higher stock clock by over a hundred megahertz on boost so this is a one gigahertz card when it's running at its boost clocks part of this is because of gigabytes aggressive BIOS tuning and part of it is because of the better cooler that it has them stock verse well I shouldn't say better because the reference cooler is really sexy looking but this one is going to provide better cooling and so what we did is we took them and we put them head-to-head in order to find out okay so yeah it's you know it's quiet it looks great blob of all that stuff but does it actually perform better and when we overclock the card we did get slightly better performance as you can see in some of the benchmark graphs that I'm going to be overlaying here however it's not an enormous huge difference or anything like that but if you're not comfortable overclocking it does come with a significantly higher stock clock as well thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview slash review of the gigabyte gtx 780 win force graphics card don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings like this don't forget to leave a comment under the video tell me what you think is the gtx 780 the go-to card these days for very high performance gaming Titan costs so much more in 770 doesn't perform nearly as well so it's kind of starting to look that way and if so what do you think of gigabytes offering like the video if you liked it dislike if you disliked it I don't care and don't forget to subscribe