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this video is brought to you by the Corsair obsidian 350d micro ATX case exceptional expansion and cooling flexibility for compact high performance PCs visit Corsair comm / obsidian to learn more welcome to my unboxing and first look at something where am I just trolling you guys this is no no don't worry what's actually in here is not an 8800 GT this is the geforce gtx 770 from nvidia so this is a new generation product a 700 series product but what you'll notice is it actually shares a lot in common with the last generation gtx 680 so it has the same GK 104 core so that is it to say that it has a 256-bit memory bus the stock card has two gigs of ram but there are non-reference cards that are going to be available with up to 4 gigs of ram however the ram is where the really special part of this video card really comes into play because this is the first graphics card on earth to ship with 7 gigahertz gddr5 what that means is more memory bandwidth and we've actually already done a fair bit of testing on this card so what i can tell you right now is that yeah the higher clock speeds versus the gtx 680 yeah this is a 70 class card that is pretty much a replacement for the last generation flagship gtx 680 except that it's actually even faster so yeah it's got higher clock speeds but particularly at higher resolutions so greater than 1080p that extra memory bandwidth helps a lot for it to really pull ahead of the gtx 680 it also supports some other new cool 700 series features such as GPU boost 2 so GPU boost 2 allows this card instead of relying just on information about voltage clock speed and then the overall power target of the board now is able to compensate for temperature as well so if you tell it GTX 670 I am comfortable with you running at 90 degrees it'll kind of go okay roger-dodger and then if you put a water block on it so it's running it you know 45 degrees no matter what you do then it will continue to strive to turbo itself up to the absolute maximum clock speed that it can sustain all the time no matter what now the GeForce experience came out of beta with GTX 780 and obviously it supports the GTX 770 as well what that means is you've always got the latest drivers and you've got recommendations for the settings that you should run in the various games you have on your computer so that you're never running it wrong I mean honestly my little brother's a great case of this I hope he's not watching this video but I gave the kid a GTX 275 this was a couple years ago back when that was like you know a pretty decent card and I go over and he's running some Call of Duty game at low details at like 1280 by 800 or something ridiculous like that on his 1080p monitor I'm just I'm looking at the kid I'm like really you're not like it's running it like 300 frames per second you can actually turn the details out I turn the game up and he's like oh that's what it's supposed to look like yeah that's what it's supposed to look like so GeForce experience maybe isn't for you but viewer right now maybe it's not for you at all maybe you don't care maybe you want to dial in your own settings personally I do but maybe it's for someone that you're recommending a card for where you know that they're just not capable of remembering to upgrade their own drivers or choose their own settings so there you go I hope my brother's not watching this also in video is going to be introducing a new feature in GeForce experience called shadow play which is going to allow you to use the built-in h.264 encoder on your card for a dab nominal performance hit maybe about 5% to record your gameplay up to the last 20 minutes of gameplay on the fly all the time so you never miss a moment when you're making up your gameplay videos or or whatever else very cool stuff all the usual and video technologies are supported sli up to 3 way now Nvidia yeah they have cards that support forward but they're really not talking about 4 Way SLI anymore it really doesn't scale very well to a sli scales great on this card 3 Way SLI is going to scale ok at higher resolutions 4 Way SLI tends to not scale that much so it does support all the slis whichever ones you want it has a 6 pin and a pin power adapter the TDP of this card is slightly higher than the GTX 680 that it comes in and replaces but don't worry because the price is lower which is what's going to make this card so attractive is that not only do you get that gtx 680 performance but i've seen a lot of speculation that from the leaked pictures of GTX 670 that Nvidia was building not quite the same level of quality of a cooler that they put on the titan and the 780 with its aluminum construction and polycarbonate window on the aluminum fins with the noise dampened fan that's actually got an updated profile that makes the card not only run fast but also incredibly quietly and illuminated GeForce GTX logo on the top all of that is false this features the same level of quality of cool cool the same cool cooler that has a high level of quality that's what I meant to say and it looks absolutely outstanding in your regen now you can mean I have heard people buy titans because they love the way it looks now you can get the look and a lot of the performance for a significantly lower cost with that said no this card is not gk110 based it is not in the same league as tighten and gtx 780 but what it does do is it comes in an attractive price point and it is able to deliver better performance than the outgoing gtx 680 particularly at higher resolutions you've got full support for nvidia 3d vision surround allowing you to have up to three plus one display so three in surround with one auxiliary display and of course stereo 3d on supported 3d vision enabled monitors pci express 3.0 interfaces down here on the bottom and most of the exhaust from this card is going to go out the back of your case while some of it will go out these fins here and that's going to help cool some of the voltage regulation modules on the PCB itself I think that pretty much does it for my GTX 770 overview don't forget to check out my review content for this card as well where we walk you through the nitty-gritty of its performance thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos