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excellent what's up everybody and welcome back to Pauls hardware today i'm bringing it back to tech i've got a tech video for you and i have some brand new video cards that were just launched today or today when you guys are watching this video this is the geforce gtx 750ti the GPU by nvidia very exciting because it's using the new Maxwell architecture although it is still on a 28 nanometer manufacturing process a lot of cool stuff to talk about with these cards but actually I've spent a lot of today already at work doing the sort of general overviews of these cards so I'd encourage you guys to check out our new egg TV youtube channel where I will be giving some gritty details on these specific cards not going to do quite as much of that today because well I wanted to share some benchmarks with you guys first of all so you can kind of get an idea of what type of performance these cards have and then also I wanted to help you guys because if you have looked at these cards and you thought I want one I'm going to get a 750ti there's lots of different options available and when it comes to a lot of similar cards using the same GPU it can come down to some minut details deciding which one to get one over the other so i've got a pretty nice selection here from some of the top-tier manufacturers gigabyte of course msi couple over here from EVGA as well as asus so i'm going to give you guys a closer look at each one of these cards kind of do the pros and cons of each one from my opinion looking looking at these and working with these today but i want to start off with some benchmarks because first of all how do you even know if you want a 750 Ti well performance is a good way to look at that so what I'm going to do right now here some benchmarks from teen red the closest competitor right now is the Radeon r7 260x so I'll be comparing this HS version of that for you guys as well throwing that in along with the gigabyte geforce gtx 750ti the windforce Edition right here MSI's Twin Frozr gaming Edition the Asus dual fan cooling solution that's not the directs you to but still as a dual fan cooler and then we got the EVGA for the win Edition which is there I kind of best of the best as well as a bit more standard EVGA superclocked and I want to point out that all of these cards come overclocked right out of the box so without further ado here's some benchmarks for you so if you guys like those benchmarks and if you couldn't tell the EVGA for the win edition just a beast especially when it comes to overclocking but I'm getting ahead of myself let's start with a closer look at each card and I'm going to be a little bit critical here because again I'm trying to show you guys what I mostly liked or didn't like about each card but this is a windforce addition card I really like gigabytes win for Schouler it stays nice and quiet does a really good job cooling and this one has two downward firing fans big aluminum Finneran giving a huge copper heat pipes eight millimeter heat pipes on either side so it's going to keep things nice and cool but honestly when it comes to cooling performance with the 750 Ti the Maxwell architecture is very efficient so it does not generate much heat so the hottest I saw any of these cards get was about 55 degrees so the cooling is not quite as important in that respect so the things about this card that I wasn't a huge fan of the blue PCB I'm just I really not not a big fan of the blue PCB it doesn't really match with much at least it's not quite the turquoise color that we've seen gigabyte do in the past as well as some other manufacturers but I guess that's one little complaint there the other thing here and I'm going to come back to this with some other cards it's going to be the video outs you need DisplayPort 1.2 in order to do G sync and as you might notice here gigabyte does not give you DisplayPort 1.2 got a couple dual link DVIs including a DVI eye so you got the analog connections there so you've got legacy support then to HDMI s and gigabyte is saying you can do a 4k display at 60 Hertz via two HDMI outs I have not seen a monitor that supports that at this point but I suppose that is something that you might be interested in if you were looking into 4k displays personally I'd rather have the display port which can do 4k natively as well as have again that g-sync support so again solid card very very well performing and this particular card runs at 10:33 megahertz base clock and 1111 megahertz boost clock and when I put a load on it actually boosted up to about 11 88.5 so again very nice overclocking performance out of the box but still not quite as high as the EVGA for the win Edition and again the PCB that's more of an aesthetic complete and the video outs ouch that's just not my favorite now MSI sent us over a few different versions and this is the gaming series there G series it's a bit prettier there's another one they sent over that's not quite as big as this but sighs that's the biggest thing that jumped out of me about this one this one's a full ten and a half inches I believe long you know they forgot to double check and measure it well it's it's about ten at ten inches long the gigabyte one was just about seven-and-a-half so that one keeps things pretty reasonable but this one just really big and it doesn't seem necessary to have it that quite that big so that was one thing I noticed about this you'll see when I get to the EVGA one just how small these 750d eyes can actually be and again with the GPUs not getting that hot thanks to the efficiency as well as just but the fact that it's not a super high end GPU that generates a lot of heat you're the heat dissipation really isn't quite as much of a factor so it's an excellent cooler again it's going to stay nice and quiet it's going to do a really good job but the size of this one was just it's it's going to be an issue in certain systems especially if you're looking for mini ITX or something along those lines and then apart from that again oh my gosh video outs again msi has gone with a DVI D so that's digital only right there and analog VGA out and I know they're keeping that there for legacy support but I just hate these I don't like VGA so you might as well at my opinion you could have done a DVI a DVI I with the VGA adapter and been just fine but then finally they also got the HDMI out so again you're not going to have G sync support with this card and to me that's that's a big issue if you're investing in a new card you want access to those new features apart from that again really solid card from an aesthetic standpoint you got the msi kind of really dark brown PCB so it's not quite as egregious as the blue of the gigabyte one oh and I should say again the base clock on this one 10:59 boost clock eleven thirty seven and when you put a load on it actually gets up to about twelve fifteen so again a nice overclock out of the box from this card but just a couple of things that I feel like could have really elevated the feature capability next up we have the Asus this one's maintaining the design aesthetic of the directs you to cooler although this is not a direct cu2 cooler because although it does have the two fans it does not have the direct copper contact but again cooling not a huge issue with the 750 t is this one will stay nice and cool even without that direct copper connection or any heat pipes involved you got a pretty decent sized aluminum Finnair a right there which expands out to provide plenty of surface area so again this card was staying nice and cool nice and quiet the card measures in at about eight and a half inches long which isn't huge but again could be smaller the size of the cooler extends a few inches beyond the length of the PCB right there they have this really wonky positioning for the 16 connector that I thought was also a little bit weird it's right up there by the bracket usually you'd see it down on that end which would make more sense when you're running your cabling and everything so I guess that's something to consider at first I thought I didn't have a six pin because the 750ti doesn't need a six pin the MSI for example I forgot to point that up at the MSI it doesn't have a six pin at all which is one of the pluses from that card but apart from that again nice dark dark brown PCB so aesthetically looks pretty nice but then one more time down here with the display outs and I can't quite figure out why they're doing this one this one has four but they split off the the analog connectors here so they got to digital dual link DVIs a standalone VGA I'm guessing you cannot use all four of these at the same time you can probably use three of the four and then an HDMI so plenty of connectivity there and you can do 3d surround or not 3d well yeah I think you can do 3d surround but you can do invidious around for triple display which is cool although you'd have to play it really low settings to do that with the 750ti but yeah again no DisplayPort so no g-sync compatibility there so that's something to keep in mind and I've seen that with several of these 750ti cards so keep an eye out for that guys because if you are looking to take advantage of g-sync you're going to want a 750ti card or will any Nvidia card for that matter that maintains a DisplayPort out so you can use g-sync apart from those complaints though a very nice card and again this one is also overclocked out of the box base clock 1070 to boost clock 1150 and when under load I saw getting up to about 1215 megahertz Maxim pee-yew so quite nice and now a couple EVGA s and if you guys hadn't already noticed I save these for last because yes these are going to be my personal pics from the cards the 750ti is that I've seen so far so this is a gtx 750ti superclocked or SC from EVGA although this one is overclocked almost as much as the for the win Edition this one comes in at eleven seventy six base clock 12:55 boosts clock and under load without you doing anything it's going to get up to about 1320 pretty impressive for a card this size they are not using a supplemental six pin connector so that is one of those cool things that will allow you to use this card with a lower wattage power supply for example or simply not have to have that extra extra cable to plug in so that's pretty cool you got one big old fan it stays pretty quiet not too loud definitely and just the overall design I really liked for this card you got a black shroud a black PCB stays very very short here so this is this is going to fit in tons and tons of systems I keep forgetting to measure these before I put this in there but look six inches like less than six inches measured from the bracket so this is going to fit in just about any case I was actually so happy because when I had this installed I was able to reach the little release catch on this without even have to having to get a poke or anything so I don't know if just just the simple joys in life that make me happy they've even done some nice little little pointers like they've put kind of a black powder coating on the radial aluminum fin things there in the middle which is pretty nice and then they also have a black powder coating on the rear bracket again just a nice little touch they got those extra wide gaps there to allow air to escape and then oh my gosh video outs these are maintaining closer to the Nvidia reference specs so you got a dual link DVI with analog connection points there so with the DVI to vga adapter you could use that with an older monitor hdmi right there and then oh my gosh full-size DisplayPort that means you've got all the goodness of DisplayPort 1.2 including support for g-sync hooray good job EVGA if you guys are looking for a small card that doesn't need up too much power has some really nice performance check out the 750 Ti SC and I didn't include this one in the benchmarks but you can pretty much look at the stock benchmarks that I showed look at the for the wind benchmarks and assume this is going to land somewhere in between but closer to the for the win edition and lastly the EVGA for the wind edition geforce gtx 750ti and as you can see here they have an ACX cooler on this thing so that's just nice to get right out of the gate the ACX cooler from EVGA is quite a nice cooler stays very cool very quiet duel fans and I know I've been kind of complaining size-wize about some of these cards and how they're longer or larger than they need to be this one measures in at 9 inches but personally I feel for the performance that you get if it's it's acceptable in this particular area because this one comes out of the box base clock 1189 boost clock 1268 gets up to 13 45 under load without you touching anything and because this already starts so high and because precision x1 that gives you about 135 points of GPU at extra GPU frequency I was actually able to get this thing up to where it was boosting to 1435 which is pretty insane for a single GPU so some really excellent performance gains from that as you probably saw in the benchmarks but apart from that's again nice black PCB let'em extra extension here to protect the fin ra on the ACX cooler as well as some extra ventilation all the goodness of that AC X cool you can see the aluminum fins right there in the middle there are some copper heat pipes as part of that AC X clue you can see the termination ends right there those just go straight across and make contact with the GPU down there but a very nice looking card that's going to fit nicely in anyone's case you get the EVGA logos properly there on the side you do have a 6 pin connector for this one but again I felt for the overclocking potential that was warranted in this particular circumstance and if you really don't need all of the extra oomph that you get from the for the win Edition then just go with that smaller superclocked Edition and they'll be all set right there you don't need the extra 6 pin and it's overclocked almost as much and I didn't quite see how much Headroom I could get on that one but you know I had a limited amount of time today so there you go and then finally again the black the black PCI bracket here at the back full size display port HDMI as well as dueling DVI so all the support for all the Nvidia goodness that you could want so a great entry card I'm going to think for people who are building a basic computer right now you want your display for it get your system set up get it a get a get a g-sync capable monitor plug that in and then hey maybe in the future upgrade to a faster card if that's your bag if that's what you're feeling you need but a great way to start right here so there's a closer look at the EVGA geforce gtx 750ti for the win so there you go guys and if I haven't made it abundantly clear already my favorite from amongst this group and the cards that I've seen so far which is not all of them by the way I'm not looking at every card from every manufacturer is definitely the EVGA for the win Edition right here just had that really nice combination of the top level performance that gives a really reasonable design and then again EVGA stickin with the DisplayPort 1.2 connectors on board wasn't quite sure why the other cards did not to go with that because it seems to me like a really good upgrade path you know you can start off with the 650 Ti right or a 750 Ti right now maybe you don't have quite enough cash for that pair that up with maybe your shield if you want to do some streaming set that up with with the G sync monitor because that's something that's really exciting for even for people who aren't investing in a top-end graphics card just having that type of gameplay and it's going to be very very very popular so I'm DisplayPort 1.2 and all the capabilities for the win definitely my top choice amongst this group but of course lots of great options as well from these the other manufacturers if you're interested in those if you like the look or the design or something specific about that hey go for whichever one best suits your needs but I'd love to hear your feedback on my conclusions after looking at these cards let me know if you think that that was definitely the best one to go to go with or if you thought one of these other cards was also an excellent contender thank you so much for watching this video though stay tuned for more just like it don't forget to subscribe to my channel we'll see you all next time you