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welcome back to check yes City it's finally time to give you guys a review of this beastly gtx 980ti which is just insanely beastly beast ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech yes it is Brian coming back to you guys today with a long awaited review of this in o3d 980ti now I've actually never tried a card from you know 3d before and a lot of you guys as well when I posted the picture up on Twitter you guys were like yeah I've never tried a card so I can't wait for the review so today I'm gonna be going over what the card features gonna be running it through some benchmarks doing some temps tests and also testing out of the box settings versus overclock settings which especially is where this card shines so anyway let's take a look at the card so looking at the connectivity of the card you get one joule DVI port there you also get three display ports and you also get one HDMI 2.0 there so you've got some good connectivity there and then you look over at the front of the card you have this gunmetal gray black sort of matte theme going on here even though the black bits are kind of semi-gloss and then it has three custom fans here which have a no 3d stickers on them also another good thing about these fans are is that they are very quiet on idle and we'll get onto a noise test after the benchmarks and you'll be able to hear just how loud it gets but at idle they're very quiet though when they speed up man can these things push some air it's incredible like I'm sitting a meter away from my computer and I can feel the air from these fans so they put some really good fans on them even though they do get a little bit noisy when you put on up to like a hundred percent which I've never seen a gravis card have fans that go up to a hundred percent also a nice little touch on the front of the card is the fact that they've gone with this mechanical look and then they're further added to that by putting on some allen key bolts here and eight of them in total which in my opinion does give it this nice tough look it's a real manly man beastly beast look and I'm kind of impressed by it now looking over the rear of the card you get this semi-gloss backplate which is made of metal and honestly it does add to the feel of the car does make it feel solid and way more rigid now another good thing about it is that it does actually do or has some input on cooling because when I felt this card during gaming it was getting pretty hot so I imagine if he put a fan on it it might be able to help with cooling somewhat though it does have the Hercules II design logo there and it does keep things simple which do appreciate a simple clean look looking over the back of the card there you can see it's got four heat pipes there which run through the whole card so continuing on to the side here you have an eight plus six pin design here which is the standard reference design besides that you've got a heat sink there covering the memory banks and the vrm and you've got an eight phase-- vrm on this card which is also the standard reference design and for what it's worth on an air-cooled overclock it does a fine job of delivering power it also exhibits no coil wound or this card in particular doesn't so let's get on to the pod that you've all been dying for and that's the benchmarks now I had to actually tune my CPU down because I've only got a 630 white gold power supply and when I had the CPU overclocked and the graphs got overclocked I was hitting like 880 Watts from the wall yeah that's crazy right so anyway with that being said I did manage to tune the CPU down a little bit which didn't affect the benchmarks I already confirmed it and I managed to get the graphics card as high as it can go so I got like an extra 200 megahertz on the core anyway I'll put that information down in the description below let's get on with the benchmarks so I'm just gonna do a noise test for you guys and I'm gonna go through the main levels that I've noticed with the scraps car both out of the box and overclocked also I'm sitting about 70 to 80 centimeters away from the card which is where I usually sit when I'm playing games so that's pretty real-world I think so anyway the first setting is 32 percent and now this will be when you're on the desktop or you're playing really easy to play games that aren't too graphically intensive so here's what this sounds like so you can see that whisper quiet and you probably hear the case fans if anything overpowering the three fans now will ramp it up to about 48 percent which is where I notice it goes on the out-of-the-box settings so you may be able to hear that I mean I can hear it on my end it's a little bit a little bit noisy it's not too bad so out of the box settings it's pretty quiet it's pretty good now if you're going to overclock this graphics card I've noticed that it can go as high as about 80% or 78 percent 79 percent that's where I noticed that it lapped up too so I'll put that on now so as you can see when you're overclocking the graphics card the fans really step up and they do become noisy so if you got headphones on the isolated headphones won't be a problem though if you are a noise freak and you do want to over close this graphs card then you're gonna kind of be out of luck but anyway the cool thing I do like about this grab scars is the first thing I've seen this is first time I've seen it the fans can actually go to a hundred percent so will that's 80 that's around 80% let's see what a hundred percent sounds like yeah that sounds like a jet like it's really cool it's the first time like I can literally feel the air flow coming to me from where I'm sitting down it's crazy so these fans can really ramp up and they do get loud so we'll go back through it 80% and that's its high 80 percents about as high as it goes when you're overclocking it and the overclocks were really impressive but let me go back down to 48 percent again there we go so it's pretty quiet so out of the box is gonna be pretty quiet and then of course on your desktop it's gonna be whisper quiet both on overclocked and normal settings so hey that's the noise test done let's move over to the next part so in conclusion what can I say about no.3 DS custom cooled Hercules x3 980ti well actually a lot of good this thing surprised me I mean the performance figures right so we'll talk about the 980ti first for a 980ti it's a beast card it's absolutely huge I mean you guys probably saw those overclocked figures this thing can handle 4k if you don't mind turning down a few little settings and it will do it so well you'll get an absolutely amazing experience it'll do 1440p 144 Hertz as well phenomenal card now let's talk about the actual card itself in terms of internet 3ds solution and this is kind of where I'm like I'm for both I mean I'm really impressed that it came in at the cheapest it was the cheapest card I could get it was like $100 cheaper than MSI's twin fros oh and was 150 dollars cheaper than gigabytes g1 and it was about $80 cheaper than a reference design where I live and this is what it's all about it's about where you live and what you can get this graphics card for so if you can get this card a lot cheaper than other competitors cards then I would definitely go for it though for me personally if I had the choice and I don't know if there's any cards right before I say this I don't know even know if there's any cards that are huge like the like the 780 lightning that I had if I had the choice to pay an extra 30 or $40 for say a 1.5 kilogram cooler then I would because I had the 780 lightning in the past even overclocked to the max that thing was like whisper quiet and the surface temperatures were really cool this thing when you overclock it it starts to get loud and the surface temperatures do start to get pretty hot I've measured about 60 degrees with my IR gun and so it's kind of like you know you've got that trade-off there it's a 1 kilogram cooler it's just shy of one kilogram and I think it's kind of not enough if you want to overclock and have low noise though if you're on a reference clock and you're just happy playing a reference clocks which I don't recommend because there's a lot to be gained from overclocking then you'll be happy you'll be absolutely fine with this card it'll stay quiet pretty much all the time and do a good job of cooling this graphs card and giving you a great experience there for me since the overclocked gains are just so big I would want to get a bigger cooler just to keep the noise down so anyway that being said though the fans are phenomenal and it's the reason why I could overclock so high even though they get noisy they push so much friggin air like from where I was sitting down I could feel the air from a meter away it's some of these are some of the best fans I've seen in my life they push so much air even though they get noisy so anyway let's get on with the review so know I'm going to be giving this thing four and a half stars out of five it came in like a hundred dollars cheaper than the nearest competitors products and with that being said I don't even know how the competitors products perform they could get noisy when overclocked as well I haven't tried them so I can't tell you but for me this thing honestly it hits that point it's a beautiful 4k gaming card also when I over clock it I'm usually wearing my headphones so it washes out the background noise anyway and then at idle it remains whisper quiet so if you guys are in the market for a graphics card that is a beast and you know its drawbacks and that is it gets a little bit noise and when you're overclock it then I can highly recommend this card so guys if you have any questions or comments about the inno 3d hercules x3 then be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and i'll get back to you as soon as i can and also if you like these videos and please give it a thumbs up and if you have it then if you 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