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Corsair RM series power supplies are optimized for silent operation click now to learn more welcome to my review of the manliest video card that we've ever seen ok no but seriously the brand is called manly na NL I not with a y at the end I'd never heard of them before either so as soon as you guys if if you guys hear me like modest I've never heard of this before don't worry you're not the only one but this right here is their ultimate class GeForce GTX 770 so just like any other gtx 770 you've got support for GPU boost a 2.0 you've got wicked fast 7 gigahertz gddr5 memory this particular one happens to have 4 gigs of gddr5 memory which definitely gives it an advantage over other gtx 770 s particularly when running at higher resolutions you've got support for physics you got support for 3d vision the new geforce experience which basically optimizes your game settings downloads latest drivers for you all without much user intervention at all other than installing it in the first place and of course the extremely exciting upcoming Nvidia shadowplay which will allow you to record your gameplay videos on the fly and just grab only the ones that you want although sorry that's not actually quite released yet but it should come at some point ok so how does a graphics card manufacturer differentiate from the others ok so number one is they can add more RAM Manly has done that here this is a four gig card number two is they can overclock the card ok so Manley has done that here as well however around here we believe in manual overclocking anyway so we don't care too much about the clock speeds that cards ship at but what we do care about particularly on GPU boost 2.0 cards which rely on the temperature of the graphics card in order to keep the clocks high we do care about cooling so they can put better coolers on them the cooler on this card not only uses a couple of 92 millimeter fans but they also have a little bit more depth to them than some of the fans that you find on graphics cards and they don't whine or tick whether they're running at high speed or low speed so we did observe that they are they're actually quite quite excellent fans now you can also make esthetic tweaks or cable management tweaks so it uses the stacked PCI Express connector design that we were familiarized with on the gtx 680 as opposed to the side-by-side one that we find on most 770's and uses a metal shroud around the cooler rather than a plastic strap which you do find on some cards it also has five heat pipes carrying heat all around the card so you can actually see the copper heat pipes through the top of the shroud here it uses a standard PCI Express 3.0 16 X interface down here it has two sli connectors so it supports two a three-way and four-way SLI little four-way SLI really isn't recommended it has two dual link DVI ports as well as an HDMI port and a display port port and what's this is that a gold blingtastic accent on the cart that looks fantastic I actually love it it would go perfectly with my old audigy 2zs which also had a gold backplate which I also loved on the back of the card we find ah so it's it's almost as if they mated this like the Linus Edition card between the gold accents and that gorgeous matte black PCB that has like no shine to it at all that looks fantastic and then you can also see of course the extra memory modules on the back which should be what I'm interested in but I'm all about dead matte black PCB that looks fantastic so it requires a six pin and an eight pin PCI Express connector I don't think I mentioned that even when I was showing you the stack design and it is quite a long card now another way that they can differentiate is in terms of warranty support and or product quality so check this out guys Manley is offering a three year warranty which is pretty good it's above average and then they're also offering this is interesting a 24 hour testing guarantee so that means every card gets burned in for 24 hours this is kind of similar to what MSI is doing on their OC certified so things like their empower boards where they're actually burning them in prior to shipping which should pretty much negate the possibility of having a defective card although anything can happen in shipping trust me guys so without further ado let's get into the performance numbers is it better than a reference card yeah actually we found it did perform a little bit better than a referee card we don't know if this is entirely due to being running at slightly higher clock speeds because we were able to achieve slightly higher clock speeds or whether it was due to the GPU being able to run at higher clock speeds because of the better cooler design now with that said better should have an asterisk here because I love the cooler design on the stock 770 it looks so good but it doesn't remove heat from the GPU quite as well should be noted that blower design removes heat from the case a little bit better whereas this one will exhaust air into your case but at any rate yes in our small cross-section of games we did get better performance with Manley's ultimate card I should also probably show you the accessories it comes with it comes with a completely useless driver installation DVD you should run the latest drivers off the nvidia website as well as probably a QuickStart guide who cares DVI to VGA adapter and then two adapters dual molex to 6-pin and dual 6 pin to eight pin however my usual thing on all this is if you're using a VGA adapter or power supply adapters you should probably think about upgrading your monitor and/or your power supply to go with your wicked new card so thank you for checking out this unboxing and overview of the Manley ultimate geforce gtx 770 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it and leave a comment if you're still sitting there scratching your head going 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