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this video is brought to you by the Intel Core i5 46 70k unlocked processor add an Intel 520 series SSD to your Haswell system for unbelievable overall performance welcome to my unboxing and first look at the geforce gtx 770 windforce OC version according to gigabyte here from gigabyte this is as you may or may not have figured out by now a geforce gtx 770 it is overclocked and more importantly than the factory overclock it has gigabytes windforce cooler so there windforce cooler uses a triple fan design each of these fans being a 75 millimeters in diameter as well as one of the beefiest come on oh there we go as well as one of the beefiest heatsink designs that I have ever seen but I'm not going to let you feast your eyes on the card just yet I'm going to make you look at oh wow look at them accessories is that to molex to PCI Express adapters Wow 116 one 8 pin so cool next oh it's not a driver disc wing and quick graphics card installation guide although if you don't like gigabytes installation guide then you can check out my installation guide which is a video which is obviously better because videos are awesome alright so the cooler itself there's your 375 millimeter fans all right there is your massive array of heatsink fin so check this out you have a huge block of fins over here on the left a huge block of fins over here on the right you can also see from the side over here there are five heat pipes coming out this side so two of them are eight millimeter heat pipes so these are massive thick heat pipes and then the other four of the heat pipes that are on the card itself are six millimeter heat pipes so you can see which direction they're all going in actually five of them go off this way and then one of them loops around and comes out this side in order to effectively spread the heat away from the GPU itself and then on to the rest of the components now gigabyte has done a couple of unique things to improve the efficiency of the cooler so number one is they have added this triangle shape is what they're calling it it's not quite a triangle because it has a flat top and I hope you guys can see this so if you check this out there's a flattop there and then there are angled angled pieces that are going to cause the airflow to be more directed than you would have normally seen with a wind force cooler in the past so what this will do is it'll take the airflow and it'll bring it in through the fan and then drive it up this way and down this way as opposed to causing an additional turbulence by having it interfere with the airflow from this fan which will then be directed this way and this way this guy over here is kind of on his own but this serves two purposes not only to cool the GPU core itself with all the heat that it's getting from those heat pipes but also to cool the vrm components so that is the voltage delivery our voltage regulation modules or all of the stuff that turns that 12-volt power that comes in from the PCI Express connectors into something that a GPU and memory and all of that can use now speaking of memory it has a full memory plate so that is responsible for cooling the seven gigahertz gddr5 memory that you'll find on pretty much any geforce gtx 770 graphics card and gigabyte has gone with a modest overclock on the GPU core so it is well in excess of over one gigahertz however this is the trick when you have a very solid cooler on one of these graphics cards because of GPU boost 2.0 and the way that it works where it actually monitors your voltage your temperature so bear that in mind for later the power usage as well as the clock speed the cooler you can keep the card the closer to within your temperature limit you can keep it the faster will actually perform which before GPU boost 2.0 was never really true so even though one factory overclocked card might come with clock speed a and one might come with clock speed be the one with the better cooler may actually be running at a higher clock speed more of the time particularly if you are in a hot region now the card is very standard in terms of its shape and size it is a two slot card in spite of its 450 watts of heat dissipation which we saw a demo of at Computex it is real it is actually a thing which I thought was pretty darn cool it's got the standard layout of ports so you've got two DVI ports as well as one HDMI and one DisplayPort port you've also got two fingers for sli up here giving you Pat ability with 2-way 3-way and potentially four-way SLI although NVIDIA doesn't spend much time talking about four-way SLI anymore because the reality of it is it doesn't really scale that well down at the bottom of the card we've got a PCI Express 3.0 16 X connector and then you can see that this is a completely non reference card so it uses gigabytes ultra-durable concept which basically amounts to beefier components and improved efficiency less heat output and all that good stuff that you expect from an aftermarket cooled card up on the top of the card we've got the 6 pin PCI Express power adapter as well as an 8 pin PCI Express power adapter and a pretty cool sort of latticework looking shroud that is attached to the one thing that I'd say it's kind of non-standard about this card and that is the wind force branding up here at the top but as long as you don't have a very narrow case and something like a side panel fan that might interfere with this you're not going to have too much difficulty now I wouldn't be completely finishing this video if I didn't mention some of the things that it comes with so it has adaptive vsync which allows you to take advantage of the benefits of vsync as well as the benefits of not using vsync it also has the GeForce experience which keeps your drivers up-to-date and gives you suggestions for what settings to run your games at and later on is going to be adding shadow play which is pretty cool it just will use the built-in h.264 encoding on your card in order to record the last 20 minutes or less or however much you want of your gameplay so you can save it for gameplay videos later it also supports 3d vision as well as Nvidia surround so that is up to three displays in surround in one exhilarating that is pretty much it don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos and I hope that you have enjoyed this one