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hey everybody and welcome to Paul's hardware today I'm taking a closer look and I'm gonna be running some benchmarks too on this video card right here this is the Asus Poseidon Platinum GeForce GTX 780 so you take an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 you have issues design a custom PCB for it and they also design a crazy custom hybrid water cooler that includes both air cooling and water cooling and I actually had the chance to sort of set up a really kind of gimmicky hack together water cooling loop for this just to test out the difference between the air cooling and the water cooling so I'm gonna give you guys a close-up look at the card run over all the specs show you guys sort of my water cooling setups that I did and then also share some benchmarks so stay tuned so the retail box is pretty it's got rog red and black on it and unlike the video card inside though it is no good for rendering 3d games there is a peekaboo window under the flap and there's info on the hybrid cooler being awesome and the VRMs being awesome and the awesome red LED lights and gee 1/4 threaded fittings which is actually pretty nice system requirements are here note the 600 watt recommended power supply and here is an exploded view of the card since I do not plan on exploding it myself today next up are the specs including the three gigabytes of vram on a 384 bit interface running at 1500 and 2 megahertz the GPU as well which has a one thousand six megahertz boost clock and will actually get up as fast as 1058 also a three year warranty from Asus and the IO listed next including the introduction of a rule link DVI which quite frankly I was not expecting inside the box you've got your padding the video card a peg double six pin two eight pin power adapter ROG case bed for impressing your lady friends driver disc and manual the card itself is about 11 inches long and features a beautiful metal shroud in red and black plaits jaunty angles ROG and Poseidon branding and two 90 millimeter fans on the back is an attractive brushed metal backplate which they always seem to do a good job on with the high-end asus carts then down at the end you have some voltage Reed points as well as VG a hot wire connections the card is of course fully PCI Express gen3 compatible and here's about the closest look I can give you to the GPU itself which sports 2,304 food of course to SLI fingers means you could do up to four-way SLI but NVIDIA has limited the seven ATS driver support to 3-way SLI for a reasons I cannot fathom so probably 3-way is your best bet here if you want as many of these cards as possible here are the connection points for water cooling they come capped and can accept P one-quarter fittings of your choosing you'll also notice some heat pipes that help keep that vapor chamber cooled down particularly when not water cooled and the long metal piece just below the PCB which is the edge of that vapor chamber assembly your eight pin and 6 pin PCI Express power connectors are down at the end and praise the maker they put the catches on top which makes it much easier to plug in and remove them for IO you have a couple dual link DVI outs the bottom one has analog and an HDMI 1.4 as well as DisplayPort 1.2 moving on here is a speed through of my hack together water cooling loop which I'm very proud of because I threw it together the last minute using parts from Home Depot I integrated a random reservoir that I've had sitting around forever and a cooler master glacier 240 L which provided me with a very strong pump and a 240 millimeter copper finned radiator and looked very funny hanging off the in windy frame that is our primary test Bend with the water cooling loop in place I was able to overclock the GPU to one thousand one hundred and sixty megahertz boost block which actually topped out at one thousand two hundred and forty one megahertz while benchmarking speaking of benchmarking let's take a look at some here's the Asus GTX 780 Poseidon Platinum running at the out-of-the-box speeds on air overclocked on water and for comparison I have a reference GTX 780 and from my recent 4k video there's the overclocked GTX 780 Ti and the overclocked and water-cooled AMD Radeon r9 290x enjoy so there you have it guys the asus poseidon platinum gtx 780 a fantastic car definitely one of the coolest cards i've played with in quite some time when it comes to who this card might be designed for or who would really get the best use out of this card I really see it being somebody who is building a system right now looking towards the higher end since we're talking about a GTX 780 and wants to invest in an air cooling solution right now but potentially upgrade to water cooling say the next three to six months because really if you're looking longer than that then you're probably looking at a next generation of cards coming out you look if you're looking shorter than that we'll just do water clean loop right now but the water block on this card the whole water cooling loop setup excellent performance overall so I can't say I have a whole lot to compare it to because I haven't done a ton of water cooling of graphics cards myself but at 20 degrees C plus difference going from the air point to the water cooling is a pretty huge difference and that's also taking into account that the air cooler was already performing a good 10 to 15 degrees C below what the stock air cooler for the seven-day he does so pretty cool all around but so I'll post a link to the video card here I new make that common in the video's description if you guys want to check it out while you're down there don't forget to the like button maybe leave me a comment on how much you liked this video or how crazy or how where do you think this card actually is and whether you might actually buy one because I'm interested are you guys interested in a card like this or so just one of those sort of elitist top-of-the-line cards that you maybe read about or watch a video about but never really actually that interested in buying let me know in the comments below thanks for watching and we'll see you all next time